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HAMPTON, GA — Atlanta Motor Speedway, site of Sunday's Golden Corral 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race, is only 1.54 miles long, but it boasts some of the top speeds of the past decade. Daytona International Speedway in Florida (2.5 miles) and its sister, Talladega (Alabama) Superspeedway (2.66 miles), were built for raw speed, with steeply banked turns (31 degrees at Daytona, 33 at Talladega). Bill Elliott holds the series' all-time fastest qualifying speed, 212.809 mph in May 1987 at Talladega. Earlier that year, he ran 210.364 to win the Daytona 500 pole. But since 1987, NASCAR has required restrictions that have kept speeds below the 200-mph-plus levels. Geoffrey Bodine ran 197.478 mph in time trials for the NAPA 500 in November 1997, the first event after the Atlanta track was revamped and slightly stretched from its original 1.5-mile oval configuration. http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=105079
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From what I've heard it's Talladega...Talladega is also the most "dangerous" track in NASCAR. 'Course, I didn't do my research too well so I could be wrong, wrong, wrong.
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