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Heartland Park Topeka is a multi-purpose motorsports facility located south of Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas

Topeka is the Capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat and most populous city of Shawnee County, Kansas. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States United States....
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When it opened in 1989
1989 in sports

Artistic Gymnastics*1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships:**Men's all-around champion: Igor Korobchinsky, USSR**Women's all-around champion: Svetlana Boginskaya, USSR...
, it was the first brand-new auto racing facility to be built in the United States for 20 years. Its facilities include a road-race course with 4 possible configurations (ranging from to in length), a ? mile clay oval, off-road course and a ¼ mile drag strip. After several years of neglect, owing to continual financial difficulties, the track surface and other facilities had deteriorated badly and the very survival of the track was in doubt.






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Heartland Park Topeka is a multi-purpose motorsports facility located south of Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas

Topeka is the Capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat and most populous city of Shawnee County, Kansas. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States United States....
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When it opened in 1989
1989 in sports

Artistic Gymnastics*1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships:**Men's all-around champion: Igor Korobchinsky, USSR**Women's all-around champion: Svetlana Boginskaya, USSR...
, it was the first brand-new auto racing facility to be built in the United States for 20 years. Its facilities include a road-race course with 4 possible configurations (ranging from to in length), a ? mile clay oval, off-road course and a ¼ mile drag strip. After several years of neglect, owing to continual financial difficulties, the track surface and other facilities had deteriorated badly and the very survival of the track was in doubt. In 2003, it was bought by Raymond Irwin, former owner (2007) of Blackhawk Farms Raceway
Blackhawk Farms Raceway

Blackhawk Farms is a 1.95 mile private circuit racetrack located in South Beloit, Illinois, USA, on a farm on the border between Wisconsin and Illinois....
, who has instituted a program of major renovations to the facility.

The drag-strip is used by local clubs and the National Hot Rod Association
National Hot Rod Association

The National Hot Rod Association is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and host events all over the United States and Canada, with over 80,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA is considered one of the largest motorsports sanctioning bodies in the world....
. The road-course is mainly used by the SCCA and marque-clubs. The track was the home of both the SCCA's National Championship Runoffs and the The Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships from 2006 to 2008. In the past, it has hosted ARCA, ASA
American Speed Association

The American Speed Association is a sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States formed in 1968. The Association was based in Pendleton, Indiana, Indiana and currently is headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida....
, IMSA
International Motor Sports Association

The International Motor Sports Association is an United States auto racing sanctioning body based in Braselton, Georgia. It was started by John Bishop, a former employee of SCCA , and his wife Peggy in 1969 with help from William France Sr....
, AMA
American Motorcyclist Association

The American Motorcyclist Association is an United States not-for-profit organization of more than 300,000 motorcyclists that organizes numerous motorcycling activities and campaigns for motorcyclists' legal rights....
 and NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 Craftsman Truck Series
Craftsman Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is a racing series owned and operated by the NASCAR. It is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks and is one of the three national divisions of NASCAR, together with the Nationwide Series and the top level Sprint Cup....
 events.

Craftsman Truck Series race winners

  • 1995 - Ron Hornaday
    Ron Hornaday

    Ronald Hornaday, Jr. is a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver. He is the father of former NASCAR driver Ronnie Hornaday, and son of the late Ron Hornaday, Sr., a two time Winston West Champion....
  • 1996 - Mike Skinner
    Mike Skinner (NASCAR)

    Mike Skinner, born in Ontario, California, is a NASCAR driver from Susanville, California, California now living in Daytona Beach, Florida, Florida....
  • 1997 - Joe Ruttman
    Joe Ruttman

    Joe Ruttman , is an American former racecar driver in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and Camping World Truck Series and is a 13 time winner in the Truck Series, the seventh most wins by any driver in the Truck Series....
  • 1998 - Stacy Compton
    Stacy Compton

    Stacy Compton , is a NASCAR driver. He is Co-Owner of Bobby Hamilton Racing-Virginia in the Craftsman Truck Series, and is a former racing analyst for ESPN full-time....
  • 1999 - Mike Bliss
    Mike Bliss

    Michael Bliss is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #1 Miccosukee Indian Gaming Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing in the Nationwide Series. He began racing at age 10....


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