{"id":436955,"date":"2026-01-27T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436955\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:21:07","slug":"charlotte-motor-speedways-shift-away-from-roval-the-latest-fan-favored-move-by-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436955\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Motor Speedway’s shift away from Roval the latest fan-favored move by NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reaction from fans on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval road-course being replaced by the track\u2019s 1.5-mile oval<\/a> for this season\u2019s NASCAR schedule is going to be \u201chighly favorable,\u201d according to Jeff Gluck of THE ATHLETIC. The move is NASCAR\u2019s latest \u201ccommon-sense\u201d change, continuing a \u201ctrend that could hardly be better to start 2026.\u201d The playoffs are \u201cgone\u201d in favor of a Chase-style format<\/a>, horsepower levels have been \u201craised for 20 races this season and now the oval is replacing the Roval in the fall.\u201d Removing the Roval from the schedule was \u201cnot only a logical call,\u201d but one that will \u201cactively improve the season — particularly when it really counts during the Chase for the Cup.\u201d Three-quarters of fans polled in 2024 by The Athletic indicated that they \u201cpreferred the oval to the Roval.\u201d Since the 2024 poll, Speedway Motorsports President Marcus Smith has likely noticed how some fans were \u201cincreasingly speaking with their wallets, as the Roval\u2019s crowds were a far cry from earlier editions.\u201d The oval news \u201cshould boost attendance,\u201d as it is \u201ca reason to be excited about the race in a genuine, non-gimmicky way.\u201d That fits \u201cexactly what NASCAR is doing so far this season: A return to the roots with its \u2018Hell Yeah\u2019 campaign and injecting some authenticity back into a sport that had been struggling to find its way in recent years\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 1\/27<\/a>). <\/p>\n

BACK TO THE ROOTS: SI\u2019s Toby Christie wrote the 10-race Chase being \u201ccomprised of ovals will hearken back to the true spirit of NASCAR,\u201d which was \u201cprimarily an oval racing series with a sprinkle of road races added into the schedule.\u201d Traditional fans, who had \u201cgrown weary of the growing number of road course events\u201d with each series in NASCAR, will \u201clikely be pleased to see the 10 races that will decide the Cup Series champion will not include tracks with right turns.\u201d While some fans did enjoy the Roval layout, the \u201cvast majority of the NASCAR fanbase craved a return to the 1.5-mile CMS layout for both of the venues facilities, especially with how good of races the Next Gen car has put on at intermediate oval tracks since it was debuted in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2022\u201d (SI, 1\/26<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reaction from fans on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval road-course being replaced by the track\u2019s 1.5-mile oval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,12716,634,82],"class_list":["post-436955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436955","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=436955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}