With COVID-19 restrictions rolling back in some states, NASCAR is getting ready to welcome back fans with no capacity limits. The Pocono Raceway will be one of the first racetracks this year to have no capacity limits for its double-header in June.
Chase Elliott managed the slipping and sliding, the standing water and the poor visibility that made it hard for drivers to see just a few feet in front of them. Chase Elliott won the debut NASCAR Cup Series race at COTA. (AP)
And when NASCAR s debut at the Circuit of the Americas ended early because of poor racing conditions in the rain, Elliott had earned not just his first victory of the season, but also historic ones for Hendrick Motorsports and Chevrolet.
Matthew McConaughey, as NASCAR Grand Marshal, Delivers Those Famous Words
On 5/23/21 at 5:32 PM EDT
Famous actor and quintessential Texan Matthew McConaughey gave the starting address for NASCAR s Cup Series race at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) track in Austin on Sunday.
McConaughey is already known for one word he said three times: Alright, alright, alright! He said those words in
Dazed and Confused, the 1993 comedy filmed in Austin about students who waste away the last day of school. McConaughey himself was a film student at the nearby University of Texas who shot to superstardom after that movie. Matthew McConaughey participates in a Q&A after a special screening of his new film The Gentlemen at Hogg Memorial Auditorium at The University of Texas at Austin on January 21, 2020 in Austin, Texas.
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Now it s NASCAR s turn.
After several years of competing on the racing calendar with F1 s annual stop in Austin, NASCAR brings stock car racing to a new road course where the drivers say they re excited to bump their way through the turns and s-curves carved out of rolling scrubland of Central Texas.
The 3.4 mile-track will put the drivers, most of whom have never taken a lap at COTA, through 20 turns, hard braking out of a long, high-speed straight, and a lefty switchback that slingshots the cars into a 133-foot descent just seconds after the start.
The Texas Grand Prix is one of a record seven road races on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule this season, park a weekend triple-header with lower-tier Xfinity and Trucks races.
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Texas The Circuit of the Americas brought Formula One back to the U.S. with heavy doses of champagne, style and speed that put Texas on the map of world racing.
Now it’s NASCAR’s turn.
After several years of competing on the racing calendar with F1′s annual stop in Austin, NASCAR brings stock car racing to a new road course where the drivers say they’re excited to bump their way through the turns and s-curves carved out of rolling scrubland of Central Texas.
The 3.4 mile-track will put the drivers, most of whom have never taken a lap at COTA, through 20 turns, hard braking out of a long, high-speed straight, and a lefty switchback that slingshots the cars into a 133-foot descent just seconds after the start.