Kansas Speedway

Kansas City, Kansas

Throughout a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series weekend at Kansas Speedway, Americrown, who handles all concessions, catering and merchandise for the track, sells more than 31,600 gallons of soda. How far could a NASCAR stock car go on 31,600 gallons of fuel? It could circle the earth 16 times before it had to make a pit stop. That's 129,272 laps around the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway.

Race fans eat 14,504 hot dogs on a typical race weekend at the track. That's enough wieners to cover 437 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup stock cars from nose to tail.

About 25,000 hamburgers, which equals about 6,615 pounds, are eaten over the course of the weekend. That much meat adds up to 49 Mark Martins, the lightest driver on the NEXTEL Cup circuit at 135 pounds.

Around 26,203 gallons of beer is sold. That's enough to fill a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup stock car gas tank 1,191 times.

Nearly 250 yards of bratwurst are sold.

About 23,200 orders of French fries are sold.

Kansas Speedway specialty food: Chicken Spiedini; Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue, a must-have of Bill France's when he comes to town; and Boulevard Beer, a beer brewed right here in Kansas City.

About 17 semi-trailers full of bagged ice is used by guests and teams during the NASCAR event in 2001. That's enough pallets of ice to load on 320 fork lifts at one time.

Some 2,500 Americrown employees log 100,000 hours to feed the thousands of race fans during a typical weekend at the track.

Kansas Speedway seats nearly 82,000 spectators in the grandstands, but will eventually expand to 150,000. The facility has fan friendly access to 65 rows of seating, with a unique ground level concourse that allows spectators to walk down 30 rows (on grade) or up 35 rows (on structure).

More than 11 million cubic yards of dirt was moved to construct Kansas Speedway. That's enough dirt to fill 1 million dump trucks or an NFL stadium five times.

The Sears Tower in Chicago could be laid end-to-end 45 times to equal the amount of storm sewer pipe used in Kansas Speedway's infrastructure.

The size of Kansas Speedway's trioval equals the size of eight football fields. The sod covering trioval was transplanted entirely from a field in Lawrence, Kan.

The Banquet 400 race logo painted on the infield grass is about the size of a football field.

Grass seed in Kansas Speedway's infield was planted at 600 pounds per acre - about three times the normal rate. The grass combination includes a hearty mixture of fescue, bluegrass and perennial rye blended especially for Kansas Speedway.

From start to finish, it takes Kansas Speedway's groundskeeping supervisor roughly 70 hours to cut the pattern in the trioval grass.

On a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race weekend, Kansas Speedway becomes the fourth-largest city in the state of Kansas. (Wichita is No. 1 at 344,000; Overland Park is No. 2 at 149,000; Kansas City is No. 3 at 146,000.)