The Gateway Motorsports Park, currently known as the World Wide Technology Raceway, is a Motorsports complex located at Madison, Illinois, on the east side of the Mississippi River, only 13 minutes away from downtown St Louis, Missouri, and 6 minutes away from the Gateway Arch. The motor park started back in 1967 with a drag strip built by Wayne and Ruth Meinert. The construction of the new 1.25-mile (2.01-km) NASCAR oval track finished by 1996. There is also a 1.6-mile (2.57-km) road course inside the oval track, which has hosted AMA Superbike Championship and IndyCar events. The Saint Louis area tends to be temperate and humid, so check the weather forecast before racing on this track.

The counterclockwise inner road course at Gateway Motorsports Park looks like a spiral when seen from above. The Start/Finish Line sits immediately before turns number 1 and 2 on the high-banking southern corner of the oval track. There are 17 more turns inside the NASCAR oval, snaking left and right with several tight angle corners and a majority of fast-paced sweepers. The average speed in the road course of the Gateway Motorsports Park is 77 mph (123 km/h), with an average lap time of 1:14.3.