Arizona officially welcomes the world's first aluminum-surfaced velodrome on Wednesday, November 12, with owners holding a ribbon cutting ceremony on the infield at 6:30 p.m. local time. The Tucson Velodrome is a 250-metre Olympic-sized track with 42-degree banks, designed by Canadian Peter Junek, of Junek Velodromes who has 50 years experience with cycling track development.
The facility is also Arizona's first Olympic-style velodrome, located in south-eastern Tucson on the rounds of the Musselman Honda Circuit, an outdoor track with 13 turns used for go-karts and other motor vehicles. The Southern Arizona Kart Club, Inc. developed the velodrome with the ownership group named Tucson Velodrome, Inc.
