• BMS is brightening up with more than 1.5 million lights and 150-plus displays this year for Speedway In Lights.

• This year's route is 4.3 miles long and starts at the South entrance.

• BMS workers begin bringing Speedway In Lights to life soon after the August NASCAR events.

• BMS crews have installed more than 300,000 new lights for this season to add to the dazzling displays.

• Speedway In Lights uses 6 million watts of electricity.

• The 142 miles of wiring used for Speedway In Lights could stretch from Bristol past Knoxville, Tennessee.

• The longest display in Speedway In Lights is the toy solder that shoots a cannon ball that travels more than 1,200 feet before it hits the ground and explodes.

• This is the third year for the York Ice Skating Rink, located near the Bristol Motor Speedway main entrance, where skaters of all ages can test their skills. Last year more than then 30,000 skaters visited the rink.

• One of displays, the dinosaur and volcano display, features six dinosaurs, including a 64-foot-long brontosaurus, and an erupting volcano with continuous flames and lava flow, and bursts of real fire from the volcano crater.