Earlier this week Nascar announced a raft of schedule changes for the 2021 Cup Series (hope you like road courses!), but with SO many changes, a few fell through the cracks. Here’s a look at further changes to the 2021 schedule that you may have missed:
—The race at Auto Club Speedway will be immediately followed by a demolition derby in order to destroy the track in preparation for its forthcoming redesign into a short-track. So far Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is the only driver confirmed.
—Kansas traded a race date with Martinsville, who then immediately traded it back. You know, just to mess with people.
—In order to maintain the heritage of Dover International Speedway, Nashville’s race will have a mandatory hour-long red flag period in order to fix broken concrete.
—Much like he trademarked the term “Roval” for Charlotte Motor Speedway, Bruton Smith is expected to officially dub the dirt track at Bristol “Sorry We Screwed Up Resurfacing the Track”.
—With Circuit of the Americas and Road America both getting Cup dates, expect Nashville Fairgrounds to make a play for a race date in 2022 under the name Nashville America Speedway.
—In the time it took you to read this, an idiot has whined online about how taking a date from a track they’ve never been to will somehow ruin the sport.