Rallycross, which puts backwoods-style rally driving on a closed track, makes it possible to have a race just about anywhere — in suburban Long Island, for example.

And last weekend, Red Bull Global Rallycross, an independent American race series, held an event in the parking lot in front of the Nassau Coliseum, with high-horsepower turbocharged subcompacts racing and sliding on a track that had been purpose-built for the weekend. It had striped asphalt curb strips, impossibly tight turns and a large mound of dirt that allowed the cars to jump as they sped over it. And it had all been built in eight days, Colin Dyne, GRC’s chief executive, said in an email.

“The type of track that was seen in New York is prototypical of what we see as the future of Global Rallycross, where we can and are building temporary circuits in city urban areas, making the races accessible to the fans,” he said, adding that the series’s target demographic is 18- to 35-year-old male action and sports fans.

Patrik Sandell, a Swedish rally driver who competed in the race on Sunday for the Olsbergs team, offered rides in his racecar on Friday to journalists. The cars are limited by regulations to 2,866 pounds and the 600-horsepower engine in Sandell’s Ford Fiesta could propel it up to triple-digit speeds in a short distance. According to GRC’s website, cars competing in the series are capable of going from zero to 60 m.p.h. in less than 2 seconds. Mr. Dyne said the tracks are usually a half mile to a mile long.