“We’re looking at three things when we’re looking at that race schedule,” Steve Phelps, NASCAR president, said at his state of the sport news conference in November. The season gets going in earnest Sunday with Daytona 500 pole qualifying, a week full of auxiliary races and finishing Feb. 16 with the race. All of sports is down 9%; we’re plus 4%.”AdvertisementOn that backdrop, NASCAR enters this season with these five story lines to watch. But it did move the other Daytona race off July 4 weekend, where it has been for more than 60 years, to Aug. 29. We’re not going to have a bunch of electric cars going around.”What does all that mean to this year?

Source: Los Angeles Times February 08, 2020 22:49 UTC