The 2026 NASCAR playoffs will not have a road course<\/p>\n
New for the 2026 season, NASCAR is reverting to the old format. The playoff eliminations are no longer. In it\u2019s place, a 10-race playoff and \u2018The Chase\u2019 is making a return.<\/p>\n
NASCAR championship format has been revised for 2026<\/a><\/p>\n In 2018, Charlotte Motor Speedway made their road course debut. However, it\u2019s been reported by Jordan Bianchi<\/a> that The Roval will be removed from the schedule.<\/p>\n Of the 10 playoff tracks, none of them will be run on road courses. <\/p>\n Instead, both races at Charlotte Motor Speedway will be hosted on the oval. That makes sense given the Next Gen car provides a great product on 1.5-mile tracks.<\/p>\n The drivers are welcoming the change\u2026<\/p>\n Carson Hovevar reacted, \u201cW\u201d<\/p>\n Ricky Stenhouse Jr added, \u201cDon\u2019t be getting our hopes up.\u201d<\/p>\n Dale Earnhardt Jr: \u201cThe Roval will always be there when they want to bring it back. The oval has been solid recently. No reason not to take advantage of that. One may complain about the lack of road courses in the chase. It makes zero difference to me either way.\u201d<\/p>\n The Chase Schedule<\/p>\n Sunday Sunday Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Links<\/p>\n Charlotte Motor Speedway<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NASCAR playoffs will not have a road course New for the 2026 season, NASCAR is reverting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[91441,49,48,717,13751,95285,95286,95482,91585,3140,634,3628,8354,62952,8662,10031,22865,3468,36547,91991,95483,82,95484],"class_list":["post-434918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-bank-of-america-roval-400","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-motor-speedway","tag-charlotte-nc","tag-charlotte-north-carolina","tag-charlotte-road-course","tag-charlotte-roval","tag-cup-series","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-playoff","tag-nascar-playoffs","tag-ncs","tag-north-carolina","tag-playoff","tag-playoffs","tag-roval","tag-roval-400","tag-sports","tag-the-roval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434918","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=434918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
September 6
Darlington Raceway
USA
5:00pm ET<\/p>\n
September 13
World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway
USA
3:00pm ET<\/p>\n
September 19
Bristol Motor Speedway
USA
7:30pm ET<\/p>\n
September 27
Kansas Speedway
USA
3:00pm ET<\/p>\n
October 4
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
USA
5:30pm ET<\/p>\n
October 11
Charlotte Motor Speedway
USA
3:00pm ET<\/p>\n
October 18
Phoenix Raceway
USA
3:00pm ET<\/p>\n
October 25
Talladega Superspeedway
NBC
2:00pm ET<\/p>\n
November 1
Martinsville Speedway
NBC
2:00pm ET<\/p>\n
November 8
Homestead-Miami Speedway
NBC
3:00pm ET<\/p>\n