Here’s something to choke on while you cheer on your favorite driver.

By the Numbers: the Kansas Speedway 

Here’s something to choke on while you cheer on your favorite driver.

With the Kansas Speedway the site of the Banquet 400 on Sunday, we crunched the numbers on the race's environmental impact. Here's the damage, on average, which may just make you want to slap that No. 3 decal on a Prius.

100 — Gallons of gas used per car

1,956 — Pounds of greenhouse gases released by each car

217— Number of Chihuahuas equal to the weight of greenhouse gases produced by each car

84,108 — Pounds of greenhouse gases released by all 43 cars in an average Nextel Cup race

14,018 — Number of Chihuahuas equal in weight to that greenhouse gas production

12,000 — Pounds of greenhouse gases released per year by an average U.S. driver

84 — Number of months the average motorist would have to drive to equal the greenhouse gases produced by the average NASCAR race

65,000 — Number of parking spots at the Kansas Speedway

780 million — Pounds of greenhouse gases those cars will produce in a year

130 million — Number of Chihuahuas equal to that greenhouse gas production

  • Here’s something to choke on while you cheer on your favorite driver.

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Keep looking at all the negative that the KC Speedway does, dont look at the tax dollars that are raised, the money that is generated in the entire area by fans buying gas, hotel rooms, meals, drinks, and buying other stuff from KC Kansas and MO. As for green house gases I believe you have wasted a lot putting together this article when you drove to work and clocked in. To think that someone actually pays you to write articles like this is beyond me, where can I apply.

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Posted by Paul on 10/02/2007 at 7:42 PM

Keep looking at all the negative that the KC Speedway does, dont look at the tax dollars that are raised, the money that is generated in the entire area by fans buying gas, hotel rooms, meals, drinks, and buying other stuff from KC Kansas and MO. As for green house gases I believe you have wasted a lot putting together this article when you drove to work and clocked in. To think that someone actually pays you to write articles like this is beyond me, where can I apply.

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Posted by Paul on 10/02/2007 at 4:42 PM

They've changed the sponsor for Sunday's race... it's now the LifeLock400...

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Posted by Sam on 09/27/2007 at 3:57 PM

They've changed the sponsor for Sunday's race... it's now the LifeLock400...

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Posted by Sam on 09/27/2007 at 12:57 PM

We get it. You don't like NASCAR, and you think a Chihuahua is a unit of measurement.
You're not the brightest bulb in christmas tree.

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Posted by Old Fart on 09/27/2007 at 12:21 AM

We get it. You don't like NASCAR, and you think a Chihuahua is a unit of measurement. You're not the brightest bulb in christmas tree.

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Posted by Chichi kicker on 09/26/2007 at 9:21 PM
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