NASCAR Staying Close To Home During Reopening

Above, NASCAR Headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

One thing I discovered when I attended the 2013 Mad Monster Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina with Haruo Nakajima was that the city is the headquarters for NASCAR.

As the country slowly moves our of lockdown and stay-at-home mode, so is NASCAR by staying "close to home".

According to Racer.com:

NASCAR officials are looking to keep races close to home for the foreseeable future. 

“Outside the first four Cup events, the goal for us is the next, I’d say three events, we’d like to be within driveable conditions,” said NASCAR vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell. “Once you get beyond that, we do have states that have said, ‘Hey, we’re good to go,’ and ‘We’re good to go racing.’ But our goal was to get at least seven or so events under our belt, driveable, learn where we go, and not have to put people on planes if we could avoid that.” 

“Once we get beyond those seven events, we feel like we’ll be ready to continue to look at races where we may be able to travel.” 

NASCAR announced a May schedule on Thursday with racing resuming May 17 at Darlington Raceway. The NASCAR Cup Series will run two races at both Darlington and Charlotte Motor Speedway, with the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series also returning to action.

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