Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (Brownsburg, Indiana)

 sports venue, National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), auto racing track

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Opened in 1960, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (formerly Indianapolis Raceway Park, O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, and Lucas Oil Raceway) is an auto racing facility in Brownsburg, Indiana, United States, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Downtown Indianapolis. It includes a 0.686-mile (1.104 km) oval track, a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) road course (which has fallen into disrepair and is no longer used), and a 4,400-foot (1,300 m) drag strip which is among the premier drag racing venues in the world. The complex receives about 500,000 visitors annually.

The oval was the scene of the mostly forgotten USAC Fast Masters Challenge in 1993. This was an attempt by ESPN to recreate the success of the Senior PGA golf tour. A number of retired & semi-retired drivers raced each other in heat races that summer as part of ESPN’s televised “Saturday Night Thunder” racing anthology. The net result was a number of destroyed and quite expensive ($750,000/ea.) Jaguar XJ220s. The experiment has not been attempted since...