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Dacosa Speedway is a
paved, highly banked tri-oval. It has 16 degrees of
banking in the turns and 6 degrees of banking on the
backstretch and tri-oval. The track is 30 feet wide in
the straights
and 1138 feet long in the center of the track.
In the turns, the track is 40 feet wide. Measuring at just over 1/5 of a mile, but just short of 1/4
of a mile, Dacosa Speedway offers pavement racing that you
cannot find anywhere else, except at NASCAR tracks such as
Talladega Superspeedway and Daytona International Speedway.
People have said
that if you close your eyes at the start of a race, you
practically feel like you are watching a NASCAR race first
hand. You can hear the engines get up to full song,
but it takes about a lap to get the karts completely up to
speed.
The track plays host
to kart racing year round with a number
of big events throughout the year. The track has
lights for night-time racing. We have also installed
"soft-walls" in critical areas of the fence to provide
safety to all competitors.
No sport survives without putting effort into replacing the
veteran talent with the young. Dacosa Speedway was built by
parents for their kids and that is something that has not
been forgotten. That is why we put bonus money on top of
the purse of all plate classes. We also put effort into
seeing that new racers receive as much practice time as they
feel they need. We see to it that all kids have fun while
they are here by giving gifts and prizes to some that attend
as well as to class winners. It is our philosophy that a
happy child will not burn out doing what they enjoy. It is
our goal that a child not walk away from Dacosa without
asking, “When are we coming back here?”. This is what gives
a child the passion to want to continue. Without the future
of motorsports having passion…we are doomed to watch them in
ball sports all year! Our long-term outlook is centered on
the development of the youth driver and introducing new
people to the sport of karting. |