The World Of Auto Racing
Auto racing has been around for many years. From dirt track to asphalt, oval to road course, from sprint cars to stockcars. As you can see the world is full of all kinds of racing. Racing has been around for an extremely long time. The Romans had chariot races to entertain Caesar and his people. Over the years racing has evolved from chariots to cars that keep getting safer and faster. The fans are also growing dramatically from race to race. Small racetracks can be found all across North America. Set in the small village of Delaware Ontario is Delaware Speedway an 5/8 of a mile oval asphalt track. Delaware Speedway is making money and moving forward into the future with new technologies to ensure their future in racing. These technologies help Delaware Speedway and also have a positive effect on the small town of Delaware. It helps gas stations, restaurants, and other small businesses that racing fans pass on their way to the track. Delaware Speedway has a tremendous effect on the surrounding area businesses. In downtown Delaware Ontario there is an ESSO gas station and garage, which is located on Highway #2. This highway is the main road through Delaware, and half of the people going to the t
Delaware Speedway not only helps the surrounding businesses but they have created many jobs for the area residents. The raceway is an ideal place for students to work, as there is a concession stand that they can help run. The track also employs a safety crew consisting of fourteen people that have their St. Johns Ambulance requirements and are always there to make sure the evening runs smoothly. There must also be people to run the gate, sell tickets, and announce the evening's event. The Lions Club is the local community club that runs the beer tent every Friday night. The racetrack in return gives them a share of the money earned so it is an excellent fundraiser. So it is undeniably shown that the Speedway is giving back to the community. rack pass this gas station on route to the Speedway. A regular night at the track usually features three different classes of racing : street stock, modified, and CASCARS. A street stock car the lowest class in racing. It would roughly cost seven thousand dollars to run this type of car for one racing season. A modified car is an open wheel vehicle that is incredibly faster than the street stock by about forty mph. A CASCAR is the most elite car that races at the Speedway. To run a CASCAR for a season is roughly twenty thousand dollars and these cars reach speeds up to one hundred and thirty mph. J&J Mann and Motors will pump anywhere from two thousand to five thousand more liters of gas on race night. So for example a regular night they might pump thirty-five hundred liters of gas but when race night rolls around this number increases to nearly eight thousand. It all depends on the price of gas at the time since sometimes gas prices go up right before the weekend. During big racing weekends when the Cascars are battling for three hundred laps attendance at the track
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