NASCAR Looks At Street Courses To Freshen Up Series

The NASCAR schedule is often criticized as redundant, as it regularly includes the same tracks at the same times of year, every year, without much flexibility. But new report indicates that may change as soon as 2021, and that NASCAR could toss in some street courses and temporary purpose-built tracks.

The story comes from Sports Business Journal, which cited unnamed sources in reporting that NASCAR wants races in new markets, especially in metropolitan areas. SPJ reporter Adam Stern tweeted that NASCAR is looking at putting races in major cities as soon as 2021, with the possibility of street circuits or purpose-built temporary tracks near stadiums.

MDarringer - 11/27/2019 11:16:20 AM

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NASCAR needs to return to being "stock car" racing. Race real cars and not the fake, tube-chassis monrgrels of real cars.

PUGPROUD - 11/27/2019 11:35:23 AM

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Right on.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 11/27/2019 3:44:36 PM

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100%

Dutchman - 11/29/2019 12:10:59 PM

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hopefully its all left turns, otherwise they are Fucked...

TomM - 11/29/2019 2:21:26 PM

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Hard to believe but we actually had a Nascar race track in what was then Madison Township NJ - ANd Kyle Petty's GRANDFATHER - LEE- was one of the competition.

Nascar has lost its smaller track local appeal - leaving a lot of smaller tracks abandoned in the process. THat will not come back easily or quickly. These tracks - like Bethlehem - are gone.