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'''Portland International Raceway''' is located in [[Portland, Oregon]]'s Delta Park complex on the former site of [[Vanport, Oregon|Vanport]], just south of the [[Columbia River]]. | '''Portland International Raceway''' is located in [[Portland, Oregon]]'s Delta Park complex on the former site of [[Vanport, Oregon|Vanport]], just south of the [[Columbia River]]. | ||
Revision as of 08:55, 30 June 2007
Portland International Raceway is located in Portland, Oregon's Delta Park complex on the former site of Vanport, just south of the Columbia River.
The track hosts a Champ Car race every year and ICSCC and SCCA road racing and Autocross events. The facility includes a drag strip and a motocross track.
The road course is almost perfectly flat and runs clockwise. Two track configurations are possible. One includes a hard chicane at the end of the front straight and involves twelve turns at length of 1.967 miles (3.17 km). Without the chicane, the track has nine turns an a lap length of 1.915 miles (3.08 km).
It is just west of a light rail station and less than a mile west of Interstate 5.
Champ Car race history