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Daytona International Speedway Track Tours

• Address: 1801 West International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona Beach, FL 32114
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Daytona International Speedway All Access Tour

On the 60-minute All Access Tour, guests will a unique opportunity to explore the 2.5-mile Speedway from a variety of vantage points. Take a ride through Daytona International Speedway’s infield, witness the 31° high banks and pass through the NASCAR garages as you learn about the history of Daytona International Speedway. Travel along pit road and discover how NASCAR’s top drivers prep for the largest motorsports event of the year.

*All tour dates and times are subject to change without notice and tours may be altered or closed due to facility operational requirements or event preparations. The start/finish line and pit road experiences depend on-track activity and will not occur if events are scheduled. Visit the Modified & Unavailable Tour Dates section at www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com/tours . Discount is only applicable for tickets purchased at Daytona International Speedway. Tickets purchased in advance are not eligible for a discount.

Note: For kids aged 5-12 discount is 20%. Ages 4 and under are free.

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Daytona International Speedway Tour - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)

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The museum is open to the public every day from 10 am to 5 pm except major holidays. It includes a 250-seat big screen theater. You can order tickets in advance at 1-800-PIT-SHOP.

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Admission to the museum is included with every Daytona International Speedway track tour. All tours include a digital photo package. You can also purchase museum-only tickets. This is especially convenient during times when there are events at the track like the Daytona 500 and Rolex 24 at Daytona. Tours are not available during event weekends (check schedule), but the museum is open. Whether you purchase a tour ticket or museum-only, your visit also includes access to the track’s Gift Shop.

• Each tour has a limited capacity and is sold on a first come, first serve basis. Tours leave promptly at their scheduled time, so please be sure to arrive early.
• Advance purchase for Tours dates & times are available by clicking here. Any tickets not sold in advance will be available for purchase at the Ticket Office. All ticket sales will be cut off five minutes prior to each tour time.
• If you or someone in your party has special needs, please let your ticket agent know so we may be able to best assist you.
• The Start/Finish line and pit road experiences are dependent on track activity and will not occur if there are events scheduled. Please click on the Modified Tour Dates tab for more information.
• The track tour is conducted on an open-air tram and will continue to run in the rain. There is a chance you could get wet.
• Tours will NOT continue if there is lightning within five miles of the track. Rainchecks may be issued but no refunds will be offered.
• Coolers are NOT allowed on tours or within the museum. However, guests can take one beverage on the tour with them if it has a lid or is resealable.

The museum is wheelchair accessible and has appropriate restroom facilities. There are vending machines with snacks and beverages for our guests’ convenience.

Tours begin at 9:30 AM daily and depart continuously with the final tour departing at 3:00 PM. Tours last about 60 minutes. Tickets for the Speedway Tour are  $26  for Adults,  $21  for kids aged 5 to 12, and  free  for kids under 4. Doors to the museum and Gift Shop close at 5:00 PM.

• Tours are available most days except major holidays and when there are major events at the track.
• The museum is open every day of the year except major holidays, typically Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. You can call 1-800-PIT-SHOP to be sure.

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Tickets for the Motorsports Museum and Hall of Fame are  $13  for Adults,  $8  for kids aged 5 to 12, and  free  for kids under 4. Doors to the museum close at 5:00 PM.

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Speedway president meeting with Jaguars officials this week to discuss hosting home games

DAYTONA BEACH − The president of the Daytona International Speedway meets this week with Jacksonville Jaguars officials to discuss the possibility of the racing complex hosting the team's home games during a potential two-year stadium reconstruction.

"The meeting is scheduled and will be in Jacksonville," said track president Frank Kelleher. He declined to say what day it will take place or who else will be in the meetings. "I can tell you that I will be there."

Kelleher spoke to the News-Journal on Saturday about the potential for such a deal as well as some of the challenges it presents.

"This opportunity is something the France family (which owns NASCAR) and the entire Daytona International Speedway staff is excited to explore," he said. "But we need to first sit down with them (the Jaguars) and understand what their needs are."

How Speedway compares with the other venues

Kelleher spoke with The News-Journal after a national sports industry trade journal, VenuesNow.com , in a Friday article quoted Jaguars team president Mark Lamping as saying that the NFL team is considering the Speedway as one of several potential venues to serve as its temporary home during the two years it is expected to take to complete a proposed $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion makeover of the TIAA Bank Field stadium in Jacksonville.

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Other venues under consideration include the University of Florida's 88,548-seat Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, the 60,219-seat Camping World Stadium in Orlando, the 11,000-seat City of Jacksonville-owned 121 Financial Ballpark (home of the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp Minor League Baseball team), and the University of North Florida's 12,000-seat multi-purpose Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville.

While the two Jacksonville venues are the closest, retrofitting either would likely cost at least $125 million, according to the publication.

Daytona International Speedway could offer a less costly alternative.

One of the reasons why NASCAR completed its $400 million "Daytona Rising" makeover of Daytona International Speedway in 2016 was to host "major non-motorsports sporting events," said Kelleher. "We demonstrated that we could do that last summer when we hosted the Daytona Soccer Fest (the international professional soccer competition held July 2nd and 3rd, 2022)."

The year after NASCAR announced its Daytona Rising project, the Speedway's then-president Joie Chitwood attended a practice with the Jacksonville Jaguars where he mused in an interview with reporters about the motorsports, track someday hosting football games.

The motorsports track already has a 'football field'

Forbes magazine raised that possibility again in a 2019 article that recalled Chitwood's visit with the Jaguars. The article also noted how the 60-yard-wide crescent-shaped strip of grass between pit road and the Speedway's start-finish line was already referred to by NASCAR officials as "the ball field."

That's exactly where the Speedway could temporarily host home games for the Jaguars, said Kelleher.

"If you think where the start-finish line is, imagine it as the 50-yard line," he said.

For Soccer Fest, turf was laid on a portion of pit road to create a wider playing field.

While the mile-long grandstands at the Speedway can accommodate up to 101,500 spectators, Kelleher acknowledged not all those seats would be suitable for watching a football game.

"The number of grandstand seats with good visibility would probably be more in the 45,000 to 50,000 range," he said.

But that's not counting the several VIP suites the Speedway already offers. Or the possibility of erecting temporary seating on the other side of the "football field" where Victory Lane is located.

The Jaguars in 2022 had an average attendance of 66,459 fans at its home games, according to ESPN.

Another plus for the Speedway is the fact that its grandstands already have plenty of food venues, restrooms, and other amenities as well as ample parking.

In addition to cost considerations, Kelleher said the Speedway would also need to consider how to fit NFL games into its schedule. The motorsports stadium hosts a variety of events throughout the year, including the recent four-day Welcome to Rockville heavy metal music festival that drew 170,000 people.

Of course, there are also the races to consider including the Daytona 500 in February, the Coke Zero Sugar 400 in late August, and the Rolex 24 in late January.

"If the stars align where we could host one (Jaguars) game or multiple games, we would be very proud," said Kelleher.

NFL games in Daytona would be 'incredibly impactful'

Nancy Keefer, CEO of the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce, said having the Speedway host Jaguar home games "would be incredibly impactful to the community. Businesses in the area would benefit greatly," she said.

NASCAR owns the One Daytona entertainment/retail complex across the street from the Speedway. The mixed-use development was built a few years ago specifically to complement the Speedway by providing both visiting race fans and tourists as well as locals with things to do when they aren't at the track.

In addition to restaurants, stores, and the CMX Daytona Luxury12 movie theater, the complex is also home to two hotels.

Lamping, the Jaguars team president, described the Speedway as "an interesting solution, but (one that) would also require significant investment in terms of infrastructure. It can accommodate a big crowd, it would be a little wonky, but it's worth considering. After the (Daytona Rising) renovations, it's nice."

The Jaguars decided to pursue a makeover of its existing stadium as opposed to building a new one elsewhere after conducting a three-year-long study of its options. One of the two general contractors that assisted the NFL team with its study was Barton Malow, the general contractor for the Speedway's "Daytona Rising" project as well as the new 11-story headquarters for Brown & Brown Insurance in downtown Daytona Beach.

Renovation of TIAA Bank Field could begin as soon as the end of the Jaguars' 2025 season .

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Local recalls playing football at the Speedway in the '70s

Lynn Thompson , who retired two years ago as vice president of athletics at Daytona Beach's Bethune-Cookman University, said on Saturday that he "absolutely" believes the Speedway could host football games.

Thompson said he personally knows both Kelleher and Lamping through his involvement with the Florida Sports Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes sports events throughout the state.

"I think it would be great," he said of the idea of the Speedway hosting NFL games. "NASCAR and the Speedway are the world's best at putting on world-class events. If anybody could do it, it would be Frank Kelleher and his team."

Thompson also speaks as someone who actually played football games at the Speedway.

"The reason they call it the 'football field' is because we played there in the '70s," said the former B-CU Wildcats star.

The Speedway hosted home football games for Bethune-Cookman, not once but four times in the mid-1970s.

Thompson attended all four. The first time was when he was still a student at Mainland High School. As a spectator, he watched the then-Bethune-Cookman College Wildcats defeat the Florida A&M University Rattlers 6-0 on Nov. 23, 1974. It was the fourth-ever football game played at the "World Center of Racing." Daytona Beach's Father Lopez Catholic High School played three home games at the Speedway in the fall of 1959, just a few months after the motorsports track opened.

Thompson attended Bethune's next three games at the Speedway in 1975 as a player when he became a freshman punter and part-time quarterback for the Wildcats.

The showdown between the Wildcats and Mississippi Valley State University's Delta Devils on Sept. 20, 1975 was the first college game Thompson ever played. As a punter, he made four punts averaging 60 yards, and was credited with being one of the keys to the team's 21-6 victory.

Bethune-Cookman played at the Speedway games on the grass field next to the start-finish line for the Speedway's race track, he recalled.

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"It was one of the greatest moments of my life," recalled Thompson who later was signed to play professionally as a punter for the Green Bay Packers but wound up getting injured and never played for the NFL team.

Thompson said he would love to see more football games at the Speedway.

"I think it would be a tremendous shot in the arm for our community," he said. "I'm in support of it."

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‘world’s most famous beach’ ramp closes for 10-month-long facelift ahead of summer season, county officials said the project is expected to be done by spring of 2025.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla – The beach access ramp on International Speedway Boulevard in Daytona Beach closed on Monday for the start of a county project to make improvements.

Business owners around the ramp said they’re preparing to take a big hit, though, with constructions starting right at the beginning of the busy summer tourist season.

“I think this isn’t an appropriate time to be blocking down and shutting down the I.S.B. because people need business,” said Emma, a Daytona Beach resident, “It’s great for beachgoers but it’s not so great for the businesses when they make their major money in the summer.”

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Once it’s done there will be new bathrooms, bike parking, landscaping, and crews will move the ‘World’s Most Famous Beach’ sign and add lights.

Volusia County officials said the project is expected to be done by Spring of 2025.

This project is being done in conjunction with FDOT’s East International Speedway Boulevard improvements. The corridor, which is the city’s main gateway to its beachside, is getting a major facelift with landscaping, repaving, new medians and FDOT is widening the sidewalks to also hopefully improve safety.

That project is expected to be done in the fall.

Some businesses said the beach ramp’s closure is adding an extra hit on top of what they’re already facing with this construction.

“We’ve lost our parking here and there,” said Dawn Johnson, a bartender at Spanky’s 33 Tavern.

The business is on the corner of International Speedway Boulevard and A1A.

Johnson said the project will make the area easier on the eyes but said it is taking away their front parking spots with the wide sidewalks taking over.

“It’s going to be a big change. We will lose our front parking which is usually our motorcycle parking. Hopefully, the city lets us keep parking on the side but with the sidewalk coming across, I don’t know if they’ll even be able to park there,” she said.

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635th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

635-й зенитно-ракетный полк

Military Unit: 86646

Activated 1953 in Stepanshchino, Moscow Oblast - initially as the 1945th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment for Special Use and from 1955 as the 635th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment for Special Use.

1953 to 1984 equipped with 60 S-25 (SA-1) launchers:

• Launch area: 55 15 43N, 38 32 13E (US designation: Moscow SAM site E14-1)
• Support area: 55 16 50N, 38 32 28E
• Guidance area: 55 16 31N, 38 30 38E

1984 converted to the S-300PT (SA-10) with three independent battalions:

• 1st independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Bessonovo, Moscow Oblast) - 55 09 34N, 38 22 26E
• 2nd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion and HQ (Stepanshchino, Moscow Oblast) - 55 15 31N, 38 32 23E
• 3rd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Shcherbovo, Moscow Oblast) - 55 22 32N, 38 43 33E

Disbanded 1.5.98.

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Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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