Everyone in the NASCAR community is hopeful that the year 2021 will be a huge turn around for the sport in general. NASCAR might like a one-weekend late-summer break in 2021. NASCAR ratings tail off as the end of the season, the ginned-up playoffs, collide with the NFL and college football. The Clash will transfer from the Sunday one week prior to the Daytona 500 (scheduled for Feb. 14 in 2021) to Tuesday, Feb. 9, and will run at night. Ben Kennedy, NASCAR vice president of racing development, said further announcements regarding the full 2021 schedule were still to be announced.“The news that NASCAR will bring a Cup race to Wilson County and the greater Nashville region in 2021 is a positive move for the sport of NASCAR and for NASCAR fans,” Smith said. In any case it’s very close to being ready. Dover Motorsports Inc. built the 1.33-mile concrete track in Lebanon, Tennessee, about a 40-minute drive from downtown Nashville.Dover International Speedway has hosted 100 Cup Series events since it opened in 1969, and the 1-mile Delaware track has had two annual dates on the premier series schedule since 1971.“Thanks to the collaboration of Dover Motorsports and our broadcast partners, we are excited to bring NASCAR racing back to Nashville, a place where the passion for our sport runs deep,” NASCAR President Steve Phelps said in a release. The Daytona 500 has capped a two-weekend series of events known forever as “Speedweeks.” So, either Speedweeks will clash with the Super Bowl, or it will just be a Speedweek. Schedule [edit | edit source]. “In recent years, we’ve made it very clear that we think Nashville is a place where NASCAR should be for the future and not just the past. Throw in a couple of two-race weekends, as there is in 2020 at Pocono, and perhaps a midweek Cup race or two in the summer, and a 30-race season would be possible. “The Nashville market is a vital one for our sport, and bringing NASCAR Cup Series racing to Nashville Superspeedway will be an integral building block in helping us further deliver on our promise in creating a dynamic schedule for 2021.”Dates for the new Nashville event and Dover’s race weekend were not announced. The move follows NASCAR’s recent rekindling of its relationship with the Music City, which played host to the NASCAR Awards banquet and Champion’s Week activities last December.
But the schedule squeeze finally might be underway. ET kickoff, so auto racing could be squeezed in, too. I think we’ll be up and running in first-class fashion come next June.”Kennedy said the channels of communication remain open between NASCAR and SMI regarding the fairgrounds venue.“Know they’ve certainly been very close to the project over the past few months,” Kennedy said. The season will begin with the events leading into the Daytona 500 in February 2020 and close with the Championship Round of the NASCAR playoffs in November.
It’s all part of a new-look Speedweek for 2021. “It’s an important track for us on the ARCA side as well. Bolded races indicate a NASCAR Major also known as a Crown Jewel race; Changes [edit | edit source]. The NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2021 and the winner of the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR will be exclusively announced during a special presentation of NASCAR … NASCAR might like a one-weekend late-summer break in 2021.Here is the intriguing and fun part. A revised remainder of the 2020 NASCAR schedule has not been released, but Dover was originally set for a tripleheader weekend Aug. 21-23 with the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and ARCA Menard Series East at the “Monster Mile.”Since its last NASCAR event in 2011, the Nashville Superspeedway has sat idle except for occasional rentals for stock-car driving experiences or for car storage by Nissan, which has an assembly plant located in nearby Smyrna, Tennessee.