{"id":34098,"date":"2021-05-21T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=34098"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:01:14","slug":"echopark-automotive-texas-grand-prix-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/echopark-automotive-texas-grand-prix-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoPark Automotive Texas Grand Prix By The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy of Speedway Motorsports Communications Department<\/em><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Circuit of The Americas remains a world-class motorsports facility, but the challenging road course required several enhancements to accommodate NASCAR\u2019s three national series for the May 21-23 tripleheader weekend in Austin, Texas. The information below includes many of those NASCAR enhancements along with several interesting numbers about the sprawling motorsports and entertainment venue.<\/p>\n

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13,000 \u2013 Tires used to create 2,800 tire safety packs around the circuit.<\/p>\n

5,000 \u2013 Gallons of paint used throughout the layout, including the signature stars and stripes. That\u2019s enough paint to cover approximately 35 football fields.<\/p>\n

1,000 \u2013 Measurement of the total acreage of the COTA property.<\/p>\n

900 \u2013 More than 900 camping sites occupied by guests this weekend for the NASCAR races, the most in history for an event at COTA.<\/p>\n

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340 \u2013 Turtles, also known as \u2018rumble strips\u2019 or speed bumps, were added to Turns 4, 5 and 6. The Turtles were provided by Charlotte Motor Speedway\u2019s ROVAL.<\/p>\n

133 \u2013 Change in elevation measured in feet from the start\/finish line to the top of Turn 1.<\/p>\n

112 \u2013 Extension in linear feet of pit road to accommodate NASCAR.<\/p>\n

52 \u2013 Measurement in feet of the maximum area of racing surface for the COTA road course.<\/p>\n

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40 \u2013 Cameras added to rooftops to shoot pit stalls for NASCAR officiating.<\/p>\n

23 \u2013 Timing\/scoring loops added throughout the layout.<\/p>\n

20 \u2013 Total number of turns in the COTA road course layout.<\/p>\n

18 \u2013 Caution lights added.<\/p>\n

11 \u2013 Number of left-hand turns on the COTA road course.<\/p>\n

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10 \u2013 Difference in inches between pit road wall width, from eight to 18, for the NASCAR event.<\/p>\n

9 \u2013 Number of right-hand turns on the COTA road course.<\/p>\n

3.41 \u2013 Miles for a single lap around the COTA road course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Courtesy of Speedway Motorsports Communications Department AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Circuit of The Americas remains a world-class motorsports facility, but the challenging road course required several enhancements to accommodate NASCAR\u2019s three national series for the May 21-23 tripleheader weekend in Austin, Texas. The information below includes many of those NASCAR enhancements along with several interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,11],"tags":[39,830,16],"class_list":["post-34098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circuit-of-the-americas","category-nascar","tag-circuit-of-the-americas","tag-echopark-automotive-texas-grand-prix","tag-nascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5324-scaled-e1621634251175.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-8RY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34109,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34098\/revisions\/34109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}