NASHVILLE SUPERSPEEDWAY - NASHVILLE TN
Nashville Superspeedway is a motor racing complex located in Lebanon Tennessee, United States, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville. The track was built in 2001 and is a concrete oval track 11⁄3 miles long. Nashville Superspeedway is owned by Dover Motorsports, Inc., which also owns Dover International Speedway. Nashville Superspeedway was the longest concrete oval in NASCAR during the time it was on the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series circuits. Current permanent seating capacity is approximately 25,000. Additional portable seats are brought in for some events, and seating capacity can be expanded to 150,000. Infrastructure is in place to
expand the facility to include a short track, drag strip, and road course. As is a Nashville metropolitan tradition, specially-designed Gibson Les Paul guitars are presented to race winners in place of conventional trophies. Following sluggish attendance for major events and no prospects of gaining a Cup Series event, Dover Motorsports announced that the track would not seek NASCAR sanctions in 2012, effectively shutting it down, on August 3, 2011. In the announcement, Dover also hinted that the track was up for sale. The track remained available for private use, such as car and tire testing. The track also remained available, and has been used, as a filming location for various television and
filmprojects. On June 2, 2020, reports began to surface that Nashville Superspeedway would reopen in 2021 and would host a NASCAR Cup Series race. On June 3, NASCAR confirmed that the track will reopen to host a Cup race in 2021, replacing one of the two Dover dates. The track brought on sports management executive Erik Moses as track president in August 2020 ahead of the reopening. On June 20, 2021, NASCAR's Cup Series made it's first venture to the facility. Kyle Larson led 264 of the 300 laps on his way to getting the win. He beat a hard charging; fast closing Ross Chastain who simply run out of time. Larson won by four seconds as Chastain was reeling him in at a fast pace. William Byron; Aric Almirola and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five.
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