Atlanta Motor Speedway — known for sponsorship reasons as EchoPark Speedway since June 2025, and formerly the Atlanta International Raceway from 1960 to 1990 — is a 1.540-mile (2.478 km) quad-oval intermediate speedway owned by Speedway Motorsports, LLC. The facility opened in 1960 and for its first three decades hosted exclusively oval racing. After Bruton Smith purchased the track in October 1990 for $19.8 million and renamed it Atlanta Motor Speedway, he announced an ambitious programme of investment that included not only grandstand expansion and repaving but also the creation of a new road course layout.
Work on the road course began in late 1991. Smith announced the project within his first year of ownership, with the new infield section designed to connect to the main oval's frontstretch and backstretch at two separate points, producing a loop that wound through the facility's interior before rejoining the oval banking. The road course held its first races in September 1992, making Atlanta Motor Speedway one of the earliest major American ovals to add a roval configuration. The resulting layout measured 2.522 miles (4.059 km) — longer than the oval itself — combining the high-banked sweeping character of the main track with the tighter, slower infield sections.
The venue in its current form also retains a 0.250-mile (0.402 km) oval on the frontstretch, added as part of the 1997 reconfiguration of the main track, which is used for legends car racing rather than major-series events.
The road course configuration at Atlanta Motor Speedway has hosted events for a variety of road racing series since 1992. The facility's primary racing calendar has continued to be dominated by NASCAR oval events, with the road course available as an alternative layout for smaller events and testing. Atlanta Motor Speedway's oval hosted its most significant modern reconfiguration in 2021, when a repave increased banking from 24 to 28 degrees and narrowed the racing surface to produce pack racing comparable to Daytona and Talladega; the road course layout was not affected by this change to the oval.
Atlanta Motor Speedway sits on approximately 850 acres adjacent to U.S. Route 41 and U.S. Route 19 in Henry County, and as of 2015 had a reported seating capacity of 71,000. The facility includes Tara Place, a nine-story condominium complex completed in 1994 with 46 units, and has served as an evacuee centre during multiple major hurricanes affecting the southeastern United States. The road course configuration, while not a regular host of premier-series events, forms part of a multi-layout complex that reflects Atlanta Motor Speedway's role as one of the most versatile major racing facilities in the American South.
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