It’s a track located in Illinois and a race called the Enjoy Illinois 300.

But everyone refers to the area as St. Louis, the track was originally named after the nearby metropolis, and later given the St. Louis nickname of Gateway.

But nowadays, the Illinois track’s naming rights belong to World Wide Technology, a giant services provider headquartered across the Mississippi River in the nearby Missouri town of Maryland Heights.

Man, talk about a geography test!

World Wide began hosting Cup races two years ago and, so far, the two winners have come from Las Vegas (Kyle Busch) and Connecticut (Joey Logano).

Remember them?

Those are a couple guys who would like to win anywhere right about now. Maybe the positive St. Louis vibes, with a liberal dash of Illinois, will be the right tonic.

Let’s sail up the Big Muddy, tie up on the eastern bank and get to know one of the Cup Series’ newer playgrounds …

∎ Worldwide Technologies Speedway was originally called St. Louis International Raceway and later was known as Gateway International Raceway. What it’s never been called is a property in Missouri, much less St. Louis.

∎ The track is located on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, in Madison, a town of roughly 3,000. It’s such a small place, neither of two Amtrak passenger trains passing through makes a stop there.

∎ The track’s road course opened in 1985 and the oval in 1997. The oval measures 1¼ miles with turns banked at 9 and 11 degrees. The property originally opened as a drag-racing facility in 1967.

∎ In June, 1972, Evel Knievel arrived in Madison and landed his private plane on the drag strip. On back-to-back days, he jumped 10 cars with his Harley.

∎ NASCAR’s Cup Series began racing there in 2022, but the Xfinity Series raced there from 1997-2010 and the Trucks raced there from 1998-2010 and every year since 2014.

∎ Dale Earnhardt Jr. won in Madison in 1998 and ’99 en route to his back-to-back Xfinity Series championships.

∎ The speedway has been host to practically every national racing organization in North America, including AMA Superbikes, though just once, in 1995, on an August day when the temps topped out at 97.

∎ The Dover Motorsporsts group took ownership of the speedway in 1998 and closed it in 2010. A year later, St. Louis developer Curtis Francois purchased the track and quickly put it back in play for various racing series.

∎ The bleachers in Turns 1 and are named the Wallace Grandstands, in honor of NASCAR brothers Rusty, Mike and Kenny, who grew up nearby.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR track FYI: 'St. Louis track' actually in Madison, Illinois