Which New Tracks Could NASCAR Add in 2027?

What’s Happening?

NASCAR is reportedly looking at several new venues to add to the 2027 schedule. As exciting as this is, fans are now left wondering which track could play host to NASCAR’s top division come the new year?

.@NASCAR is exploring "a couple of potential new venues" for the 2027 schedule and beyond, per @BenKennedy33, and it's also planning a major renovation to @TALLADEGA. https://t.co/euPMsZAk10

— Adam Stern (@A_S12) February 9, 2026

Monday, in a report from Adam Stern of Sports Business Journal, NASCAR Holdings Executive Vice President Ben Kennedy claimed that NASCAR was looking at “a couple of potential new venues” for its future schedules, including the 2027 season.

At this point, conversations like these are about as common as those surrounding new manufacturers entering the sport, with NASCAR often shifting its schedule throughout the 2020s.

But, even though fans hear talk of new tracks annually, the conversation never gets old, as rumors and reports surface throughout the year, dropping clues and hints at what tracks, regions, and markets the sport could be looking towards for the future.

With nothing set in stone and official announcements likely still months away, what can the 2025 rumor mill tell us about where NASCAR may be looking to go after 2026?

Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

During a press conference in June 2025, Kennedy confirmed what NASCAR fans already knew. The sport was engaging in discussions about race in Canada.

While nothing has been confirmed, anytime there’s a rumor of new tracks, almost every NASCAR fan thinks of Canada.

NASCAR is seemingly looking at a number of tracks, with Kennedy telling Cian Brittle of Blackbook Motorsports, they had spoken with tracks in “a few different locations,” one venue will always stand out among the rest to race fans.

Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is likely the most well-known track in Canada, as the 2.710-mile track hosts Formula One’s Canadian Grand Prix for the better part of 40 years.

As of 2026, the Cup Series has yet to race at Gilles Villeneuve; however, the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series took to the circuit for a major race weekend from 2007 to 2012, serving as a fan favorite of the series schedule.

While NASCAR could look to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve as the home of its first race in Canada, there are other options, such as Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, and the NTT IndyCar Series’ new street circuit in Markham, Ontario, Canada.

Denver Street Race

NASCAR’s lawsuit with two of its teams, 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, that lasted throughout the 2025 season may be over, but this chapter is not entirely closed.

Throughout the lawsuit, many documents, messages, and ideas that went through the front offices of NASCAR went public, including detailed plans for future race plans and tracks from 2019.

Among the proposed venues in the charter was a dirt race in the Meadowlands, a road course in Toronto, and, to the eye of many fans in the western United States, a road course in Denver.

NASCAR has somewhat abandoned the northwestern United States in 2026, with the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series not returning to Oregon’s Portland International Raceway. But with NASCAR looking for a new home in the region, Denver could be that place.

Of course, while the stretch of I-25 that runs through Colorado Springs and Denver has two ovals, Pikes Peak International and Colorado National, this area, of course, has no road course.

For several years now, there have been rumors that NASCAR is looking at a street race in the city. As a bonus, the area is no stranger to races, as Denver hosted seven CART and Champ Car races from 1990 to 2006.

Grand Prix of Long Beach

If NASCAR wants to keep a foothold in the west, it could continue with its suggested venues from that 2019 meeting and join the NTT IndyCar Series for the 2027 Grand Prix of Long Beach.

The Long Beach Street Circuit might be the United States’ most iconic street race, with Long Beach having hosted Formula One, CART, Champ Car, or IndyCar, nearly every season since 1976.

NASCAR is set to debut its first race on the streets of California this season at San Diego’s Naval Base Coronado. While this is a breakthrough for the series, they have yet to announce plans to return to San Diego in 2027, leaving the door open for another California street race.

This year, NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series is set to share the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, with the NTT IndyCar Series, and if that event is a success, it could very well lead to more combined events on the streets of other markets.

Grand Prix of St. Petersburg

While the joint race weekend between the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and the NTT IndyCar Series at St. Petersburg could be a test run for future collaborations elsewhere, fans are already wondering if NASCAR could consider taking the Cup Series to St. Pete in the near future.

Now, this is a “new” venue, but it would be new to NASCAR’s top series.

A Cup Series race at St. Pete would work for a number of reasons, as the series, much like IndyCar, is still getting its wheels under it around that time of year, and the weekend could serve as a reason to keep the series in Florida another week.

It would undoubtedly be a fun moment as the Cup Series’ first street race in the southeast, and the first true example of NASCAR’s top division entering IndyCar’s territory for a weekend. However, the idea begs the question of when and where.

If this were to happen, NASCAR would have to make major changes to the calendar, reshuffling how the sport kicks off its season.

Nonetheless, a race at St. Pete could fall perfectly into the fold as, from 2027 onward, the Daytona 500 is being pushed back a week, meaning the schedule is already facing major changes.

Philadelphia Stadium Race

Last year, the Clash and its future location were a hot topic among race fans, and this year will be no different.

Since 2022, the race has been held on .250-mile ovals inside stadiums, first at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 2022 to 2024, and the past two seasons, at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem.

If the race moves again in 2026, there could be a surprise option on the table, one somewhat overlooked towards the end of the 2025 season.

In June 2025, in an interview with Mason Smith of the Pocono Record, then recently anointed NASCAR President Steve O’Donnell claimed that NASCAR was interested in racing in Philadelphia, saying that the sport had looked into hosting a race at Franklin Field.

Franklin Field, the home of the Ivy League’s Penn Quakers, would be a solid fit to host the clash, continuing the trend of staidums hosting the event.

While nothing is confirmed yet, at the time, O’Donnell didn’t exactly rule out racing at Franklin Field or Philadelphia in the near future.

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