{"id":870920,"date":"2026-08-25T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870920\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:10:14","slug":"nascar-truck-racing-returns-to-clarington-after-7-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870920\/","title":{"rendered":"Nascar truck racing returns to Clarington after 7-year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a 7 year absence, Nascar Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) is coming back to Clarington for the 2027 racing schedule.<\/p>\n<p>NCTS is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by Nascar.<\/p>\n<p>The series will be racing at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for tens of thousands of race fans from across Canada and the northern United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis news has the community excited and impatient. It\u2019s like hearing Christmas is coming but not until next year. We\u2019re going to have a hard time waiting for the 2027 Labour Day weekend,\u201d said Clarington Mayor Adrian Foster.<\/p>\n<p>He welcomed the Nascar Craftsman Truck Series crew back to Clarington and added that \u201cwe look forward to the<\/p>\n<p>You May Also Wish To Read<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durhampost.ca\/scugog-council-raises-serious-concern-about-water-taking-permit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scugog raises serious concern about water-taking permit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durhampost.ca\/unifor-reaches-tentative-agreements-with-general-motors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unifor reaches tentative agreements with General Motors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durhampost.ca\/dsbrt-works-restrictions-on-kingston-road-till-year-end\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DSBRT Works: Restrictions on Kingston Road till year end<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durhampost.ca\/trent-gets-643000-funding-for-aging-and-other-research\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trent gets $643,000+ funding for aging and other research<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durhampost.ca\/four-new-school-projects-in-durham-ready-to-open-soon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four new school projects in Durham ready to open soon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Share this:<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/durhampost.ca\/nascar-truck-racing-returns-to-clarington-after-7-year-hiatus\" data-text=\"Nascar truck racing returns to Clarington after 7-year hiatus\" data-via=\"DurhampostC\" rel=\"nofollow\">Post<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-whatsapp-89295\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button\" href=\"https:\/\/durhampost.ca\/nascar-truck-racing-returns-to-clarington-after-7-year-hiatus?share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" aria-labelledby=\"sharing-whatsapp-89295\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tClick to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tWhatsApp<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a 7 year absence, Nascar Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) is coming back to Clarington for the 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[222003,222013,29957,222021,8512,49,48,634,18244,82],"class_list":["post-870920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-claringtonaf","tag-regionofdurham","tag-clarington","tag-claringtonon","tag-durhamregion","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-ncts","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870920","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=870920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}