Phoenix Tickets Finder

NASCAR loves Phoenix. And that is good because Phoenix loves NASCAR right back. It’s a regular XOXOXO fest here folks. Anyway, there are several NASCAR events every year at the Phoenix International Raceway and they always end up selling out (or getting mighty close anyway.) Here are the places you should look online if you need tickets to one of these upcoming eventsand the box office doesn’t have the seats you hoped for:

StubHub has all kind of tickets starting as low as $19.
We Have Seats will sell you anything from cheap general admission seats to the warm up events at $5 to fancy seats on Sunday for hundreds
TicketsNow is worth taking a gander at as well while you’re at it

Here is some trivia about Phoenix International Raceway for you to chew on as well:

Location - Avondale, Arizona
Track length - 1 miles (1.6 kilometres)
Track shape - “D”-shaped Tri-Oval
Banking - Turns 1 and 2 - 11°
Turns 3 and 4 - 9°
Backstretch - 9°
Frontstretch - 3°
Major events - NASCAR Nextel Cup, NASCAR Busch Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Capacity - 76,800
Address - P.O. Box 13088, Avondale, AZ 85002

Phoenix International Raceway, or just PIR, is a one mile tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. It opened in 1964, as the new home of major open-wheel racing in the Phoenix area, replacing the track at the Arizona State Fairgrounds as an automobile racing venue. Unfortunately, due to a change in focus by the track’s current owners, ISC, the Phoenix area’s long history of hosting Indy-style racing (only Indianapolis itself and Milwaukee have had more) came to an abrupt end in 2005, when PIR failed to host an Indy Racing League event for the first time. Ironically, stock car racing’s top series, NASCAR’s Nextel Cup, didn’t even run at PIR until 1988. Their inagural race was won by the late Alan Kulwicki, who debuted his Polish Victory Lap) here after taking the checkered flag.

PIR has a unique tri-oval shape, with a curve in middle of its backstreatch between turns two and three, commonly referred to as “the dogleg”. This exists because the original builders were constrained by both the rocky hills located on the property and their incorporation of an extenal road course and dragstrip into PIR’s design. Once nearby Firebird International Raceway became a regular stop on drag racing tours, PIR’s dragstrip was rarely used. The external road course, which was used mainly for private testing and as parking lot access roads during oval events, was later replaced by the current infield road circuit. Prior to construction of a tunnel under turn four in 2004-05, the only access to the PIR’s infield during events was via crossovers, where the old external road course and dragstrip intersected the oval. Once the tunnel was built, the crossovers were permanently sealed off.

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The infield road course, originally built for IMSA was most recently used by the Grand American Road Racing Association.

The oval also remains home to what was traditional called the Copper World Classic, a weekend of predominently open-wheel comptition with USAC midget and Silver Crown cars as well as modifieds. From 2002-04, the event was incorporated into early-spring the Indy Car Series / Indy Pro Series weekend, but with the departure of IRL, the Copper World event has returned to its original late-winter date on PIR’s racing schedule.

In 2005, the track hosted a second NASCAR Nextel Cup race event, replacing the spring race formerly held at Darlington Raceway, in South Carolina.