{"id":606210,"date":"2026-04-15T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606210\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:07:08","slug":"nascar-seeks-return-to-nashville-fairgrounds-speedway-cars-tour-serves-as-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606210\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR seeks return to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, Cars Tour serves as example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">NASCAR President Steve O\u2019Donnell appeared as a guest on the \u201cDoor, Bumper, Clear\u201d podcast\u202fon April 14 and said that \u201che wants to see NASCAR return to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway more than ever\u201d and that the zMAX Series \u201cwas proof NASCAR belongs in Nashville,\u201d according to Mike Organ of the Nashville TENNESSEAN. However, O\u2019Donnell said that the effort to get NASCAR back to Nashville \u201cis an \u2018uphill battle.\u2019\u201d At the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, NASCAR HOFer and JR Motorsports co-owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran in the\u202fTootsie\u2019s Music City Showdown\u202flate model stock car race before a \u201ccapacity crowd.\u201d The\u202fzMAX Series CARS Tour race, in which Earnhardt finished 12th and his teammate Caden Kvapil won, served as a \u201clitmus test for O\u2019Donnell on what NASCAR\u2019s return to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway would be like.\u201d The effort to bring NASCAR back to Nashville for the first time since 1984 has \u201cfaced resistance from some local residents and advocacy groups\u201d since it was first proposed in 2021 by Speedway Motorsports President and CEO Marcus Smith, who \u201calso wants to renovate the track.\u201d O\u2019Donnell said, \u201cWhen you think about the noise and everything, I mean they\u2019ve got concerts (at nearby Geodis Park) and all kinds of stuff, they\u2019ve got soccer.\u201d He added, \u201cThen there\u2019s a pretty vocal group there about noise ordinances, what can you do? But there\u2019s been a lot of plans put together around what we could do to offset some of that\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2026\/04\/14\/nascar-return-nashville-fairgrounds-discussion\/89610006007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nashville TENNESSEAN, 4\/14<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR President Steve O\u2019Donnell appeared as a guest on the \u201cDoor, Bumper, Clear\u201d podcast\u202fon April 14 and said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,139,12716,634,82],"class_list":["post-606210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-leadership","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606210","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=606210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}