The Cup Series had not raced in the Nashville area since 1984 when the last premier series event was held at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.
NASCAR kicked off the major race slate when Nashville Superspeedway officially reopened in June after a 10-year slumber and drew a sold-out crowd of roughly 40,000 fans to the event held about 35 miles outside city limits. The race capped a summer renaissance for racing’s return to Nashville. This town knew that we were here and looked like they loved that we were here.” It wasn’t just we got dumb luck putting ourselves in a highly populous city. There was a ton of merch, a lot of people that knew what they were talking about, knew the drivers. “It wasn’t just like some guy that heard some noise and walked in,” Hinchcliff said. OK, maybe Nashville doesn’t need an execuse to fill bars, but they were full for every podcast taping, autograph signing, or even just the chance to suck down a double-spiked juice cooler with a driver nearby. James Hinchcliff rode his electric scooter to the track every day and was called out by fans on the sidewalk. One fan jumped out of his car in traffic and flagged down Jimmie Johnson for a picture and an autograph. Ind圜ar drivers were treated as celebrities almost on par as the country music stars that call the city home wherever they went - and they were seemingly everwhere. “I don’t know if they’re drunk, but they were pretty excited,” runner-up Scott Dixon said. Just check out fans who lined fences, packed grandstands and stood for hours on concourse ramps at Nissan Stadium to watch Ericsson win a perhaps sluggish race at times in Ind圜ar’s inaugural Music City Grand Prix. With apologies to Detroit, Music City morphed into Motor City as Ind圜ar stormed into town and proved again downtown streets and bridges and zipping around NFL stadiums are where the series needs to race. Nashville still hasn’t come down to Earth.
– Marcus Ericsson thought for sure his car would snap in half as he treated the slowed car in front of him like some sort of Monster Jam ramp and soared through the air and leapfrogged a spot before he slammed onto the asphalt.Īirborne at the start, feeling sky high at the finish, Ericsson delivered Ind圜ar and Nashville a highlight that will be replayed in all sorts of promotional videos and social media posts pushing next year’s race.
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