Texas Motor Speedway


 * Not to be confused with Texas World Speedway.

The Texas Motor Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.414-km) quad-oval speedway located in Fort Worth, Texas. It replaced the Daytona International Speedway as the season-opening track for the ARLA Elite Series. It also ran the eighth race in the 2010 ARLA Elite Series season.

The track also hosted the 2008 Round of Texas in the TM Master Cup.

2012 Hanmore Formula Overdrive season finale
The track hosted the 2012 Hanmore World Championships as the season finale of the 2012 Formula Overdrive season. The race was catastrophic as there were two serious incidents with the first one that involved Tiffany Matthews, Tyson Lautenschlager, Alessandro Rossini, Cody Keaton and Garry Carter. Rossini was sustained with a fractured vertabrate but expected to be okay for 2013. Carter was having back issues, but was later announced that he was devastatingly paralyzed. Unfortunately Matthews, Lautenschlager, and Keaton would succumb to their injuries. The second serious incident included Peter Kreamer and Gordon Sting. Sting would climb out of the car under his own power, but Kreamer couldn't. He also was transported to a local hospital in Fort Worth, but, he too, unfortunately passed away from his injuries. It was reported later that Sting also was DOA at the hospital, cementing the race's place among the worst tragedies in racing history.

There were several people wondered if Formula Overdrive would even continue after the tragedy that took place. Those were the first deaths in Formula Overdrive competition.

The track was planned to return in 2013, but was later replaced by Auto Club Speedway due to safety concerns as a result of the disaster.