CamoDesigns: Amazing race amazing experience so upset Jimmie wrecked. Larson knocked Down the wall. I could hear it from the opposite side of the stadium. Brad hit here too. Glad they’re okay.
The_Tigg: Stands not stadium, this is racing not no ball and stick game.
- via Shoutbox, 21st Jan 2022.
Betteridge's Law is an one of those lovely laws of customs; which says "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word, 'No.'"
Is Daytona A Stadium? No.
If it is not, then what is it?
Firstly - what it is not.
Stadium is derived from the Greek stadion (στάδιον); which is a is a unit of measure - which is about 600ft.
Daytona International Speedway is a speedway which is officialy stated as being 2.5 miles long.
2.5 * 5280 = 13,200
13,200 / 600 = 22
Daytona is about 22 stadia long.
A Greek venue is a Theatre (θέατρον - theatron) or possibly a Circus (κρίκος).
Even that big thing which we call the Colosseum is named after the statue of the Colossus which stood out the front but the Romans would have called it the "amphitheatrum" (both sides theatre).
Daytona International Speedway is properly a Circus because it is round.
The_Tigg: Stands not stadium, this is racing not no ball and stick game.
- via Shoutbox, 21st Jan 2022.
Betteridge's Law is an one of those lovely laws of customs; which says "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word, 'No.'"
Is Daytona A Stadium? No.
If it is not, then what is it?
Firstly - what it is not.
Stadium is derived from the Greek stadion (στάδιον); which is a is a unit of measure - which is about 600ft.
Daytona International Speedway is a speedway which is officialy stated as being 2.5 miles long.
2.5 * 5280 = 13,200
13,200 / 600 = 22
Daytona is about 22 stadia long.
A Greek venue is a Theatre (θέατρον - theatron) or possibly a Circus (κρίκος).
Even that big thing which we call the Colosseum is named after the statue of the Colossus which stood out the front but the Romans would have called it the "amphitheatrum" (both sides theatre).
Daytona International Speedway is properly a Circus because it is round.