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Walt Disney World Speedway

Index Walt Disney World Speedway

Walt Disney World Speedway was a racing facility located on the grounds of the Walt Disney World resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, Florida. [1]

95 relations: Arie Luyendyk, Autoweek, Bay Lake, Florida, Bradley Motorsports, Brian Tyler (racing driver), Buddy Lazier, Buzz Calkins, Cheever Racing, Chevrolet, Christmas, Civil engineer, Dale Earnhardt, Inc., Dallara, Davey Hamilton, David Besnard, Davy Jones (racing driver), Disney Transport, Disney's Polynesian Village Resort, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Eddie Cheever, Eliseo Salazar, Epcot, Florida, Florida A&M University, Florida Highway Patrol, Florida State Road 536, Florida State University, Ford Motor Company, Formula Ford, Formula Lightning, Glossary of motorsport terms, Grand Prix of Long Beach, Green–white–checker finish, Gridlock, Hemelgarn Racing, Hurricane Erin (1995), Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indy Lights, IndyCar Series, Joe Ruttman, Kettering University, Labor Day, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Lamborghini Gallardo, Lyn St. James, Magic Kingdom, Marathon, Mari Hulman George, Mickey Mouse, Mike Bliss, ..., NASCAR, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, New Year's Eve, News 13, Ohio State University, Oldsmobile, Oldsmobile Aurora, Open-wheel car, Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Florida, Panoz, LLC, Paralysis, Parking lot, Portmanteau, Reynard Motorsport, Richard Petty, Robbie Buhl, Robby McGehee, Ron Hornaday Jr., Roush Fenway Racing, SAFER barrier, Sam Schmidt, Street circuit, Super Bowl XXXV, Tampa, Florida, Team Menard, The New York Times, The Walt Disney Company, Tony Stewart, Tri-oval, Tunnel, U.S. Route 192, United States, United States Auto Club, United States dollar, Walt Disney World, Walt Disney World Monorail System, 1996 Indy Racing League, 1996–97 Indy Racing League, 1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, 1998 Indy Racing League, 1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, 1999 Indy Racing League, 2000 Indy Racing League, 2001 Indy Racing League. Expand index (45 more) »

Arie Luyendyk

Arie Luijendijk (anglicised as Arie Luyendyk; born 21 September 1953) is a Dutch former auto racing driver, and winner of the 1990 and 1997 Indianapolis 500 races.

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Autoweek

Autoweek is a car culture publication based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Bay Lake, Florida

Bay Lake is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Bradley Motorsports

Bradley Motorsports was a racing team in the Indy Racing League owned by Colorado convenience store owner Brad Calkins.

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Brian Tyler (racing driver)

Brian Tyler (born October 27, 1967 in Albion, Michigan) is an American auto racing driver.

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Buddy Lazier

Buddy Lazier (born October 31, 1967) is an American auto racing driver, best known for winning the 1996 Indianapolis 500 and the 2000 Indy Racing League season championship.

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Buzz Calkins

Bradley "Buzz" Calkins Jr. (born May 2, 1971 in Denver, Colorado) is a former Indy Racing League driver.

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Cheever Racing

Cheever Racing was an auto racing team founded in 1996 by Eddie Cheever as Team Cheever in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series.

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Chevrolet

Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

From 1998 to 2009, Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (DEI) operated as a NASCAR-related organization in Mooresville, North Carolina, United States.

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Dallara

Dallara Automobili is an Italian chassis manufacturer for various motor racing series, being most notable for its near-monopoly in Formula Three since 1993.

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Davey Hamilton

David "Davey" Jay Hamilton (born June 13, 1962 in Nampa, Idaho) is a race car driver in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series and Stadium Super Trucks.

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David Besnard

David Besnard, (born 21 January 1977 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired professional racing driver.

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Davy Jones (racing driver)

Davy Jones (born June 1, 1964) is an American racing driver.

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Disney Transport

Disney Transport is a mass public transit system of the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida.

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Disney's Polynesian Village Resort

Disney's Polynesian Village Resort (formerly the Polynesian Resort from 1985 to 2014) is a Disney owned and operated AAA Four-Diamond Award–winning resort located at the Walt Disney World Resort.

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Dreyer & Reinbold Racing

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing is an automotive racing organization that competed in the open wheel IndyCar Series from 2000 to 2013 and currently competing in the Global Rallycross Championship.

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Eddie Cheever

Edward McKay Cheever Jr. (born January 10, 1958) is an American former racing driver who raced for almost 30 years in Formula One, sports cars, CART, and the Indy Racing League.

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Eliseo Salazar

Eliseo Salazar Valenzuela (born 14 November 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean racing driver.

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Epcot

Epcot (originally named EPCOT Center) is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida A&M University

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Florida Highway Patrol

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) is a division of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the primary law enforcement agency charged with ensuring the safety of the highways and roads of the state.

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Florida State Road 536

State Road 536 (SR 536), named World Center Drive for its entire length, is an east-west state highway that extends from Interstate 4 (I-4) near the Epcot theme park to SR 535 in Lake Buena Vista, with the road continuing east to SR 417 (The Central Florida GreeneWay) and International Drive.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Formula Ford

Formula Ford is an entry-level class of single seater, open-wheel formula racing.

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Formula Lightning

Formula Lightning was an electric type of single-seat open-wheel formula racing.

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Glossary of motorsport terms

The following is a glossary of terminology used in motorsport, along with explanations of their meanings.

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Grand Prix of Long Beach

The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is an IndyCar Series race held on a street circuit in Long Beach, California.

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Green–white–checker finish

In North American motorsport, a green–white–checker finish is one in which no yellow caution flag is shown during the final laps.

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Gridlock

Gridlock is a form of traffic congestion where "continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting streets, bringing traffic in all directions to a complete standstill".

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Hemelgarn Racing

Hemelgarn Racing is an American auto racing team owned by Ron Hemelgarn.

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Hurricane Erin (1995)

Hurricane Erin was the fifth named tropical cyclone and the second hurricane of the unusually active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is an automobile racing circuit located in Speedway, Indiana (an enclave suburb of Indianapolis) in the United States.

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Indy Lights

Indy Lights is an American developmental automobile racing series sanctioned by IndyCar, currently known as Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires for sponsorship reasons.

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IndyCar Series

The IndyCar Series, currently known as the Verizon IndyCar Series for title sponsorship reasons, is the premier level of open-wheel racing in North America.

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Joe Ruttman

Joe Ruttman (born October 28, 1944), is a retired American stock car racing driver who competed in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and Camping World Truck Series.

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Kettering University

Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute of Technology) is a private cooperative education and experiential learning-based university in Flint, Michigan, offering bachelor's and master's degrees in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and business fields.

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Labor Day

Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September.

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Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Lake Buena Vista is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Lamborghini Gallardo

The Lamborghini Gallardo is a sports car built by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini from 2003 to 2013.

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Lyn St. James

Lyn St.

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Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando.

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Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance race, completed by running, walking, or a run/walk strategy.

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Mari Hulman George

Mari Hulman George, born Mary Antonia Hulman, (December 26, 1934) is the daughter of Anton "Tony" Hulman and Mary Fendrich Hulman, prominent Indiana philanthropists and business owners.

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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

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Mike Bliss

Michael D. "Mike" Bliss (born April 5, 1965) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

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NASCAR

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (formerly the NASCAR SuperTruck Series presented by Craftsman and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series) is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, and is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks.

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New Year's Eve

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve (also known as Old Year's Day or Saint Sylvester's Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on 31 December which is the seventh day of Christmastide.

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News 13

News 13 (also officially known as Spectrum News 13 as of September 24, 2017) is an American cable news television channel that is owned by Charter Communications.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.

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Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile was a brand of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors.

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Oldsmobile Aurora

The Oldsmobile Aurora is a mid-size luxury sports sedan made by Oldsmobile from 1994 to 2003.

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Open-wheel car

An open-wheel car (formula car, or often single-seater car in British English) is a car with the wheels outside the car's main body, and usually having only one seat.

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida and the Central Florida region.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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Panoz, LLC

Panoz, LLC is an American manufacturer of high performance sports automobiles.

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Paralysis

Paralysis is a loss of muscle function for one or more muscles.

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Parking lot

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Reynard Motorsport

Reynard Motorsport was at one time the world's largest racing car manufacturer.

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Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed The King, is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

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Robbie Buhl

Robbie Buhl (born September 2, 1963) is a former Indy Racing League competitor and current team-owner, with the Dreyer & Reinbold Racing team in the IRL's IndyCar Series.

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Robby McGehee

Robby McGehee (born July 20, 1973) is an Indy Racing League driver from St. Louis, Missouri.

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Ron Hornaday Jr.

Ronald Lee "Ron" Hornaday Jr. (born June 20, 1958) is a retired American professional stock car racing driver.

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Roush Fenway Racing

Roush Fenway Racing, originally Roush Racing, is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, and the Xfinity Series.

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SAFER barrier

The Steel and Foam Energy Reduction Barrier (SAFER Barrier), sometimes generically referred to as a soft wall, is a technology found on oval automobile race tracks and high speed sections of road and street tracks, intended to absorb and reduce kinetic energy during the impact of a high speed crash, and thus, lessen injuries sustained to drivers and spectators.

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Sam Schmidt

Samuel "Sam" Schmidt (born August 15, 1964, in Lincoln, Nebraska) is a former Indy Racing League driver and current Verizon IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights series team owner.

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Street circuit

A street circuit is a racing circuit composed of temporarily closed-off public roads of a city, town or village, used in motor races.

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Super Bowl XXXV

Super Bowl XXXV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Baltimore Ravens and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2000 season.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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Team Menard

Team Menard was an auto racing team in the NASCAR Cup Series, Indianapolis 500 and Indy Racing League owned by John Menard, Jr. From 1991 to 1996 they modified their own Buick V6 engines for racing.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Tony Stewart

Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed Smoke, is an American former professional stock car racing driver and NASCAR team owner.

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Tri-oval

A tri-oval is a shape which derives its name from the two other shapes it most resembles, a triangle and an oval.

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Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through the surrounding soil/earth/rock and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end.

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U.S. Route 192

U.S. Route 192 is an east–west route of the United States Numbered Highway system in central Florida.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Auto Club

The United States Auto Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Walt Disney World

The Walt Disney World Resort, commonly known as Walt Disney World, or often just as Disney World, is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida.

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Walt Disney World Monorail System

The Walt Disney World Monorail System is a public transit monorail system in operation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando.

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1996 Indy Racing League

The 1996 Indy Racing League, the first in the history of the league, consisted of only three races, as the season concluded in May with the 80th Indianapolis 500.

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1996–97 Indy Racing League

The 1996–97 Indy Racing League was a result of the league abandoning the concept of ending each season with the Indianapolis 500.

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1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

The 1997 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series was the third season of the Craftsman Truck Series, the third highest stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States.

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1998 Indy Racing League

The 1998 Pep Boys Indy Racing League was one of relative stability compared to the previous two seasons.

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1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

The 1998 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series was the fourth season of the Craftsman Truck Series, the third highest stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States.

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1999 Indy Racing League

Greg Ray won his second Drivers' Championship (second straight title) while Kenny Bräck finished second in the championship. The 1999 Pep Boys Indy Racing League was highly competitive and parity was the order of the year.

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2000 Indy Racing League

The 2000 Indy Racing Northern Light Series was another season that saw a high level of parity, as only one driver, champion Buddy Lazier, won more than a single race.

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2001 Indy Racing League

The 2001 Indy Racing Northern Light Series saw the addition of five races and loss of one to bring the total to 13.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Speedway

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