NASCAR races postponed until May 3

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NASCAR races postponed until May 3

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https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/n ... s/4758469/
NASCAR has extended its postponement of races due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) through May 3.

The expanded postponement now covers race weekends at Texas Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Richmond Raceway, Talladega Superspeedway and Dover International Speedway.

Usual health and safety line yadayada
It's starting to encroach on the Indy 500 race weekend if it goes beyond that.
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Let’s hope they’re able to get back, NASCAR has said they’ll reschedule those races (some double headers) if this is all the delays, although I wouldn’t think they’d run a double header Talladega or else some teams are gonna have a lengthy repair bill after that weekend. NASCAR is running Indy during Independence Day weekend this year after swapping the dates with the Daytona race (another tradition they broke, :sad:).

This is the first time since the inaugural season in 1949 that no races will run in April.

In the last 25 years there’s only been previously 2 postponed races. The 1998 Pepsi 400 was moved to October due to huge wildfires in Florida, and the 2001 Race at New Hampshire was moved to be the last in the season after they decided they weren’t racing the same week as 9/11.

Racing goes to Dover in August, so that might be a double header, Texas is the third last race in the schedule meaning it’s in the playoffs, Richmond and Bristol are also in the playoffs, but I can see them modifying that to add races in at the end of the season after Phoenix, Ironically the 2 initial races postponed Homestead and Atlanta are the 2 previous season closers (except for 2001 as mentioned above).

There’s also a possibility of running mid week races where tracks are close together, it seems the races which are postponed are fairly close.
Bristol (Tennessee), Atlanta (Georgia) and Talladega (Alabama) all border one another.

Dover (Delaware), Richmond (Virginia) are close.

Homestead-Miami could be paired with the second Daytona race.

Texas could be added in a scheduled off weekend in the last week of July, although races either side of it are along way away from Texas, or remove the all star race a week before Charlotte and go there. Travel is only really a problem with midweek races, for example in early June the schedule goes from Michigan, to Sonoma California and then back to Chicago, then a hop later in the season from Bristol to Las Vegas and then back to Talladega.
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