NASCAR: Every track from the 2010s that is no longer on the schedule
By Mark Kristl
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a 14-turn, 2.71-mile (4.361-kilometer) road course on Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which hosted the Xfinity Series from 2007 to 2012.
In the six races held there, there were no repeat winners. Current Xfinity Series driver Justin Allgaier won the last race hosted there in August of 2012.
After hosting the Xfinity Series for six years, track officials and NASCAR were unable to come to a sanctioning agreement. As a result, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was removed from the schedule after the 2012 season.
Per sources, track officials deemed hosting NASCAR races there was unprofitable. They wanted to host a Cup Series race. NASCAR was reportedly unwilling to allow that to happen and therefore track officials decided not to host the Xfinity Series anymore.
NASCAR replaced the Xfinity Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve with a race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. That road course has hosted the Xfinity Series annually since then and is set to continue to do so, and the the ARCA Menards Series is also slated to race at the track in 2020.
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve still hosts an annual Formula 1 race. Lewis Hamilton has dominated there, winning seven times in 12 starts, including the 2019 edition.