{"id":34533,"date":"2025-07-30T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34533\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:41:10","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-teases-major-nascar-schedule-news-following-return-to-chicagoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34533\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. teases major NASCAR schedule news following return to Chicagoland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> schedule is beginning to take shape. Last week, it was the news of NASCAR bringing all three of its national series to Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jordan_Bianchi\/status\/1950533486583980396\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic<\/a> then reported Wednesday that NASCAR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/nascar-wont-return-to-mexico-city-in-2026-chicagoland-expected-to-fill-date\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won\u2019t return to Mexico City next season<\/a>. Chicagoland Speedway, which last hosted a Cup Series race in 2019, is expected to take its spot on the schedule. Dale Earnhardt Jr. may not be an insider, but he\u2019s hearing things.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this ain\u2019t the last big domino to fall I hear,\u201d Earnhardt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DaleJr\/status\/1950551310069367220\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego street course and Chicagoland are replacing the Chicago Street Race and Mexico City, respectively. NASCAR previously announced that the season finale will take place at Homestead-Miami Speedway, switching places with Phoenix Raceway. The season-opening Clash exhibition is returning to Bowman Gray Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, NASCAR has explored the possibility of bringing its show to Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal has also been rumored for a return to the schedule, at least in the Xfinity and Truck Series. <\/p>\n<p>NASCAR 2026 schedule looking to have several changes<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR unveiled the 2025 schedule in late August of last year, so we\u2019ll know pretty soon the full 38-week schedule. For now, fans can look forward to the return of the 1.5-mile Chicagoland oval. The Next Gen car generally pairs well with intermediate tracks such as Chicagoland, and its return should be popular among drivers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s awesome; it\u2019s such a cool track,\u201d Joey Logano said last month.\u00a0\u201cWe bring everything else back these days, let\u2019s bring that one back. That\u2019d be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicagoland hosted an annual Cup race from 2001-2019.\u00a0Tony Stewart\u00a0won the race three times (2004, 2007 and 2011), and four drivers won the race twice. Those four drivers are\u00a0Kevin Harvick\u00a0(2001, 2002),\u00a0Brad Keselowski\u00a0(2012, 2014),\u00a0Martin Truex Jr.\u00a0(2016, 2017) and\u00a0Kyle Busch\u00a0(2008, 2018).\u00a0Alex Bowman\u00a0won the last race in 2019. The 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NASCAR schedule is beginning to take shape. Last week, it was the news of NASCAR bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-34533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}