Kansas Speedway

Kansas Speedway opened in 2001 as part of NASCAR's intermediate-oval expansion era and has hosted Cup Series racing every season since. The 1.5-mile asphalt tri-oval in Kansas City, Kansas, was reconfigured in 2012 with progressive 17-to-20-degree banking and a wider racing surface, and the track has since used regular PJ1 traction-compound applications to encourage multi-groove racing. Kansas typically produces some of the best side-by-side competition on the intermediate-track schedule, with drivers genuinely able to find time running the top lane in long runs. The track hosts two Cup races each year, with the playoff event in the fall regularly serving as a Round of 12 cutoff and producing some of the most consequential late-season finishes on the calendar.