World's Fastest 1/4 Mile Oval | |
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Location | Slinger, Wisconsin |
Capacity | 10,000 |
Opened | 1948 |
Major events | Slinger Nationals |
Oval | |
Surface | Asphalt |
Length | 0.25 miles (0.40 km) |
Turns | 4 |
Banking | Turns: 33° |
Race lap record | 9.908 seconds (Jeff Bloom, , 2010, Xtreme Sprint Series) |
The Slinger Speedway (also known as Slinger Super Speedway) is a quarter-mile paved oval automobile race track with 33-degree banked corners located in Slinger, Wisconsin. The track is billed as the "World's Fastest Quarter Mile Oval." The current track record was set by Jeff Bloom in a 410 extreme winged sprint car on August 21, 2010 at a time of 9.908 seconds.[1] This is the first lap record under 10 seconds on a quarter mile oval track of any type, breaking Anderson Speedway's 10.28 second lap record.[1] Bloom's lap eclipsed the track record set by USAC midget car driver Tracy Hines on May 17, 2008 at an elapsed time of 10.845 seconds.[1] The lap was the fastest ever midget car lap on an asphalt quarter mile track.[2] He eclipsed the long-standing mark of 11.095 seconds set by Tony Strupp's late model on June 12, 1994.