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Texas Motor Speedway isn't just another cookie cutter mile and a half track on the NASCAR circuit.  TMS is built for speed and all the drivers will tell you that this track is tough to tame.  The track runs so fast that in 2001 they had to cancel a Champ Car race because the drivers were experiencing over 5 G's.  That much G force could cause someone to black out and drivers zooming around the track incapacitated at 230 mph isn't exactly a safest idea.

Stock cars don't quite make it to 200 mph  but with 43 cars on the track it becomes a speed infested free-for-all.  After TMS was repaved in 2006, it became the fastest track on the modern NASCAR circuit.  Faster times have been recorded at active tracks but the speeds were recorded before NASCAR took measures to limit horse power for safety reasons.