NASCAR Race Facing Major Date Change
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A new report suggests that NASCAR may have found a new spot for its 2027 Fourth of July race weekend, though a few key aspects of the event still stand in the way of a final decision.
NASCAR’s search for a new consistent home for its Fourth of July race weekend has taken the sport the better part of the decade.
Starting with the 2020 season, the sport opted to move the traditional Fourth of July race at Daytona to late August, with the race taking place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway instead.
Still, this lasted just one season, as NASCAR then shifted that weekend to Wisconsin’s Road America for 2021, and then the Chicago Street Course from 2023 to 2025.
This year, with the Chicago Street Circuit on pause, NASCAR officials opted not to make any dramatic moves regarding the race, instead keeping the weekend tied to the Chicago Street Circuit’s replacement race at Chicagoland Speedway.
While there are rumors that the Chicago Street Circuit could return to the schedule, the race would not be on the Fourth of July, again opening the door for NASCAR to find a long-time home for one of its most important race weekends.
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A new report from Bill Center of The San Diego Union-Tribune suggests that at least one NASCAR executive thinks the sport has found a potential spot for the Fourth of July next year, with the sport looking to come back to Naval Base Coronado in 2027.
Per Center, Amy Lupo, President of NASCAR San Diego, says that officials are working with the Navy on a return for 2027.
Still, her comments suggested that the Fourth of July would be far from a guarantee, with a handful of possible dates should the sport return.
The idea of returning to the race in 2027 saw quite a bit of talk this past weekend, with Adam Stern of Sports Business Journal sharing on X that NASCAR would like to turn the race weekend “into a multi-year event.”
This interest was again backed up after Sunday’s race at Naval Base Coronado, this time by NASCAR COO Ben Kennedy when he said that the sport “would love” to come back, but that they are “cognizant of the fact that this is an active military base, and we want to be mindful of that as well.”
This week in particular, Kennedy noted that NASCAR and Navy officials will sit down to discuss the success of the weekend and what future changes could look like if the race is held once again.
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Naval Base Coronado would be a fitting match for the sport. In fact, this season, many fans were shocked that the race was not held on Fourth of July Weekend, given the removal of Chicago from the schedule.
This match, if it were to go long-term, could also give NASCAR a new home in Southern California, with or without the Fourth of July tagline, something the sport has searched for since the closure of Auto Club Speedway in Fontana in 2023.
Of course, there would be detractors from this idea, as the idea of a return to an oval race for the long term is something many fans support.
While the race is at Chicagoland this year, with changes to NASCAR’s post-season format, there are suggestions that NASCAR should return the event to Daytona, which typically hosted a race during the weekend starting in 1959.
If Daytona were off the board for one reason or another, some have suggested moving the race to Atlanta’s EchoPark Speedway, which has great superspeedway-style racing and would limit a massive shift in the schedule, given the close nature of the track’s current summer race to the weekend.
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