NASCAR: Four tracks now seeking new race dates

With NASCAR’s second installment of the return to racing schedule released, there are still four tracks seeking new race dates.

NASCAR revealed the second installment of the return to racing schedule earlier this week, and it includes five more Cup Series races from Sunday, May 31 to Sunday, June 21 to follow the four Cup Series races scheduled to take place from Sunday, May 17 to Wednesday, May 27.

Even after this announcement, there are still four tracks seeking new race dates, all of which in the regular season.

The initial round of postponements brought on by the coronavirus pandemic included races at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Richmond Raceway, Talladega Superspeedway, Dover International Speedway and Martinsville Speedway.

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The four races scheduled to take place from Sunday, May 17 to Wednesday, May 27 include two races at Darlington Raceway and two races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. One race at Charlotte Motor Speedway was originally scheduled while the other three races are scheduled to replace the regular season races at Richmond Raceway, Chicagoland Speedway and Sonoma Raceway.

Meanwhile, the five races scheduled to take place from Sunday, May 31 to Sunday, June 21 include one race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway and Martinsville Speedway, which are five of the tracks that saw their races postponed originally.

With all of these changes, the 2020 schedule now consists of 32 races, including nine regular season races following Sunday, June 21 and the originally scheduled 10 playoff races, as opposed to the original 36. But NASCAR’s goal is still to run a full 36-race schedule; in fact, they are reportedly “close” to announcing that new schedule.

Four tracks are still seeking new race dates, including two that saw their races originally postponed. Those two tracks are Texas Motor Speedway and Dover International Speedway, which had been scheduled to host races on Sunday, March 29 and Sunday, May 3.

The other two are Kansas Speedway and Michigan International Speedway, which were slated to host races on Sunday, May 31 and Sunday, June 7 before the second round of the return to racing schedule was released at Bristol Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway were slotted in as their replacements.

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Each of these four tracks already have second race dates on the 2020 NASCAR schedule, so it is no longer a matter of completely wiping tracks off the schedule, which is what happened with Chicagoland Speedway and Sonoma Raceway (Richmond Raceway has a playoff race scheduled).

Dover International Speedway and Michigan International Speedway are both scheduled to host regular season races in August while Texas Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway are both scheduled to host playoff races in October.

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