I-70 Speedway

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I-70 Speedway
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Location Odessa, Missouri
Races 2012 Zoopy Juice 100 (ARLA Tornado Alley Truck Series)

I-70 Speedway is a racetrack near Interstate 70 east of Odessa, Missouri, USA. The track opened in 1969 and was open every year until it closed in 2008. In 2006, a new 3/8 dirt track was built on the site. The asphalt track is a long 1/2 mile (0.54 mi) with high 30-degree banking in the turns. The back stretch has a small dog-leg. It is regarded as one of the fastest and highest banked short tracks in the nation. When the track was being built in the late sixties, a crane was used to pave the turns from outside the retaining wall because nothing was capable of paving embankments that high at the time. It was also one of the first tracks to feature a very early version of the soft-wall.

It was subsequently reopened in 2011, and will host the 2012 Zoopy Juice 100 for the ARLA Tornado Alley Truck Series.