{"id":373199,"date":"2026-06-24T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373199\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:44:33","slug":"nascar-sees-san-diego-race-as-template-for-future-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373199\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR sees San Diego race as template for future events"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR\u2019s race at Naval Base Coronado last weekend \u201ccould serve as a template for future events elsewhere,\u201d with organizers also hoping to see the race \u201creturn in 2027 — and possibly 2028<\/a>,\u201d according to Bill Center of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. NASCAR COO Ben Kennedy, acknowledging there were glitches during the inaugural San Diego Weekend, called the first race ever in San Diego<\/a> and on a military base a \u201ctremendously successful event.\u201d Kennedy said that \u201cjust more than 125,000 spectators attended the three days of racing.\u201d Saturday and Sunday crowds were \u201ccapped at 50,000 over concerns about how the base, the Coronado Bridge and connecting streets could handle the traffic and the turnout.\u201d For the most part, traffic \u201cwent smoother than expected.\u201d Lines across the bridge \u201cmoved, if sometimes slowly.\u201d However, there \u201cwere problems at the site.\u201d On Saturday, lines were \u201clonger than expected at concession stands and bathrooms,\u201d and supplies of some necessities, like bottled water, also \u201cran low.\u201d There were also \u201clogjams around pedestrian bridges.\u201d Kennedy said, \u201cWe were working in real time to continue to improve the fan experience.\u201d Kennedy added that NASCAR is \u201calready studying the possibility of making temporary permanent.\u201d Most of the equipment brought into Naval Station Coronado — grandstands, barriers, etc. — was rented. Kennedy: \u201cIt might make more sense if we owned our equipment\u201d (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 6\/23<\/a>). <\/p>\n

OPENING A NEW DOOR: RACER\u2019s Kelly Crandall wrote Chicago, where NASCAR has raced for the past three years, and San Diego \u201caccomplished many things for the sport, most notably proving that NASCAR can create new racetracks and put them anywhere.\u201d The latter also \u201cputs racing in front of people who might not normally see it, and in areas that don\u2019t have a racetrack or one that\u2019s relatively close.\u201d Crandall wrote San Diego \u201calso had the cool factor.\u201d There is \u201cnothing that can compare to the feeling of being on an active military base and the sightlines that come with it.\u201d NASCAR \u201cdoesn\u2019t always feel or look cool, but it did and was over the weekend.\u201d Crandall: \u201cCoronado was different and challenging, and that\u2019s never a bad thing to throw at a driver. It also seemed to be fun for them, as there hasn\u2019t been a bad review to be found\u201d (RACER, 6\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR\u2019s race at Naval Base Coronado last weekend \u201ccould serve as a template for future events elsewhere,\u201d with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[14396,2352,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-373199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}