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The NASCAR championship race goes to start out rotating throughout a number of venues in 2026, beginning with Homestead-Miami Speedway, and will even embody a championship spherical that function three races to determine the titlist.
There isn’t any scarcity of tracks owned by NASCAR and Speedway Motorsports that might be included:
Homestead-Miami SpeedwayCharlotte Motor SpeedwayPhoenix RacewayDarlington RacewayNashville SuperspeedwayMartinsville SpeedwayLas Vegas Motor SpeedwayTexas Motor Speedway
What you’ll discover is not any superspeedways or highway programs and NASCAR Government Vice President and Chief Racing Innovation Officer Ben Kennedy defined why:
“By no means say by no means, however I feel we’ve unanimously agreed that it must feel and appear like what we might anticipate conventional NASCAR racing to feel and appear like,” Kennedy mentioned. “Quick tracks, intermediate tracks, mile tracks are all on the board. Superspeedways, I feel all of us really feel like proper now we wouldn’t contemplate that as a championship venue, not that Daytona isn’t a championship caliber venue.
“There are numerous story traces that come out of these occasions, and we wish to ensure that, after we go to Homestead, Miami, or Phoenix or wherever it may be sooner or later, that there’s a lot of technique and that numerous our championship drivers are additionally contending for the victory on the finish of that race.
“We talked about that. We’ve talked about highway programs as properly. Once more, by no means say by no means, however highway programs are in all probability decrease on the checklist as we take into consideration championship venues. So we’re actually going to hone in on brief tracks and I might say mile-and-a-halfs for now.”
