Memphis Motorsport Park Tickets

Memphis Motorsport Park

Memphis Motorsports Park is located in Millington, Tennessee. The Multi-track facility was built in 1988, owned by Dover Downs Entertainment, Inc., having a seating capacity of 38,000 and the track is a 0.75 mile tri-oval. Memphis Motorsports Park is just 15 minutes from Graceland and world famous Beale Street in Memphis. The 400-acre facility includes a 3/4-mile paved tri-oval that hosts the NASCAR Busch Series and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series; an NHRA championship 3/4-mile drag strip; a 1.7-mile championship road course; and a dirt oval. Memphis Motorsports Park is home to more than 215 events a year. Memphis International Motorsports Park is a 1.8 mile facility with virtually no elevation change.

The .7 mile front straightaway is the entire drag strip plus shutdown areas, so cars with good straight line speed traditionally do well here. The pavement is moderately grippy and very smooth with the exception of a fairly serious bump exiting turn 8, where the asphalt joins the concrete at the beginning of the drag strip burnout area. It all started in 1986, as a multi-track facility run by a group of investors headed by Ed Gatlin. Gatlin and his business partners dealt in a no nonsense business style that allowed Memphis Motorsports Park to survive the up-and-down Memphis sports market and become the model of perseverance among Mid-South sports entities. Gatlin and his group went through some learning pains, but the group took their failures and setbacks and went to work, piece by piece, starting with what has becomes the area's signature race, now known as the Pennzoil Nationals presented by AutoZone.

Following the 1996 Pennzoil Nationals the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach, one of the major players in American motorsports, bought Memphis Motorsports Park from Gatlin's group. In 24 years, the organization founded by Chris Pook, has developed one of the major events in CART-FedEx Champ Car Car circuit--the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Now they have reached out to Mid-America in a big way. Memphis Motorsports Park is on of the nation's most versatile motorsports facilities. It has Modern grandstands and luxurious skybox suites. Memphis was designed to represent a sample of several types of race circuits. Turns 1 & 2 ("the carousel" - actually one long sweeper) are slightly banked. They and the front straight emulate an oval track. Turns 3 and 4 ("the kink" and "the M's"; actually a left - right - left - right - left chicane) are like a traditional road (some say autocross) course. Turns 5 & 6 (the "double 90's") represent an airport course. Turns 7 & 8 ("Grant's Tomb", and "the wall") imitate a street circuit with their concrete walls and sequential 90 degree rights.