Daytona International Speedway

Daytona International Speedway is a superspeedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is a 2.5 mile (4 km) tri-oval race track facility with a seating capacity of 101,500 spectators. It hosts races of motor vehicles of various kinds, including go-karts, dirt bikes, motorcycles, sports cars, pickup trucks, and stock cars. The facility also includes a 3.56 mile (5.7 km) road course and a 180-acre infield, including the 29-acre Lake Lloyd.

Course history
NASCAR was founded by Bill France Sr. at Daytona Beach, Florida in 1947. The original premiere event in the series was held at the Daytona Beach Road Course. France began planning a new track for the premiere event in his fledgling series in 1953. On August 16, 1954, he signed a contract with city officials to create this new track that would become famous as the Daytona International Speedway. The ground was broken on November 25, 1957. The speedway opened on February 22, 1959, with the first-ever Daytona 500, to a crowd of 41,000 people.

The NORA Championship's most important race, the Daytona 500, is held annually at Daytona International Speedway. It is a 200-lap, 500-mile (805 km) stock car race.

The NORA holds some of it's most important races here including the Summit Late Model Series's Kobalt Tools 100.

The racing season begins at Daytona starting with the testing sessions. The year's racing begins with the Kobalt Tools 100 then the Daytona 500.

It also contains an attraction called Daytona USA, where the winning car is placed for a whole year.

Deaths at the speedway
In the history of the Daytona International Speedway (as of 2005), many people have been killed at the speedway. Marshall Teague became track's first fatality, in a practice crash in 1959. Slick Johnson died from injuries in an ARCA race in 1990. Bruce Jacobi, Ricky Knotts, Friday Hassler, and Talmadge Prince were killed in qualifying races. Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr were killed in practice sessions for the 1994 Daytona 500; Dale Earnhardt; the first person ever to be killed in the Daytona 500; was killed on the final lap in 2001: Ray Paprota struck and killed track worker Roy Weaver in 2004 during the IPOWER Dash Series 150.

Current races

 * NORA Summit Late Model Series - Kobalt Tools 100

Summit Late Model Series

 * colspan="1" align="center"|2020| colspan="1" align="left"|Ousmane Hamid| colspan="1" align="center"| 1 | colspan="1" align="center"| 7 | colspan="1" align="center"|Eagle Motorsports| colspan="1" align="center"|Pontiac

Records

 * Summit Late Model Series Qualifying: Ousmane Hamid, 21.529 sec. (41.804 mph, 67.277 km/h), February 28, 2020
 * Summit Late Model Series Race: Ousmane Hamid, 67.392 km/h (41.876 mph), February 29, 1980