Its dirt, infant!
Michigan is losing one race therefore is Texas Motor Speedway, which will host a playoff event on Oct. 17, but is taking over the All-Star race from Charlotte on June 13.
Thats the motto for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway next March that will see the half-mile oval transformed into a dirt track in one of numerous shakeups concerning the 2021 schedule.
Bristol will likewise hold a playoff race on pavement on Sept. 18.
In other moves, NASCAR has actually dropped Chicagoland and Kentucky from the schedule, while adding the Road America and Circuit of the Americas courses in Wisconsin and Texas. Its likewise ending the Brickyard 400 after 27 races and switching to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway infield road course for a doubleheader weekend with the Indycar series on Aug. 15.
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Bristol covered its concrete in clay for World of Outlaws and assistance races in 2000 and 2001, however never ever for NASCARs top series.
The race will be the first Cup Series race hung on dirt given that Richard Petty won the 1970 Home State 200 at the State Fairground Speedway in Raleigh, N.C.
The NASCAR season will observe a two-week break during the Tokyo Olympic Games spanning the weekends of Aug. 1 and Aug. 8.
Nashville Superspeedways first-ever Cup Series race is set up for June 20 and Atlanta and Darlington will have 2 weekends each, the latter beginning the playoffs with the Southern 500 on Sept. 5.
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All of the races will be hung on the weekend due to the fact that of frustrating TV scores for the mid-week races that happened this year, the Associated Press reported.
Heres a look at the full tentative 2021 schedule, which includes a number of other race date changes:
Feb. 14 – Daytona 500Feb. 21 – Homestead-Miami SpeedwayFeb. 28 – Auto Club SpeedwayMarch 7 – Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayMarch 14 – Phoenix RacewayMarch 21 – Atlanta Motor SpeedwayMarch 28 – Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt LayoutApril 10 – Martinsville SpeedwayApril 18 – Richmond RacewayApril 25 – Talladega SuperspeedwayMay 2 – Kansas SpeedwayMay 9 – Darlington RacewayMay 16 – Dover International SpeedwayMay 23 – Circuit of the AmericasMay 30 – Charlotte Motor SpeedwayJune 6 – Sonoma RacewayJune 13 – All-Star Race at Texas Motor SpeedwayJune 20 – Nashville SuperspeedwayJune 26-27 – Pocono Raceway doubleheaderJuly 4 – Road AmericaJuly 11 – Atlanta Motor SpeedwayJuly 18 – New Hampshire Motor SpeedwayAug. 8 – Watkins Glen InternationalAug. 15 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseAug. 22 – Michigan International SpeedwayAug. 28 – Daytona International SpeedwaySept. 5 – Darlington RacewaySept. 11 – Richmond RacewaySept. 18 – Bristol Motor SpeedwaySept. 26 – Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayOct. 3 – Talladega SuperspeedwayOct. 10 – Charlotte RovalOct. 17 – Texas Motor SpeedwayOct. 24 – Kansas SpeedwayOct. 31 – Martinsville SpeedwayNov. 7 – Phoenix Raceway
28 – Daytona International SpeedwaySept. 18 – Bristol Motor SpeedwaySept. 26 – Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayOct. 17 – Texas Motor SpeedwayOct. 24 – Kansas SpeedwayOct.
