Though NASCAR has never run races in the Coliseum, it still has history in Southern California, with events returning to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana in 2022.
MORE: NASCAR at Daytona results: Ryan Blaney wins second straight race in crash-filled Coke Zero Sugar 400 The group has really, really been challenged to think kind of differently about how we have all the different events leading into the main event, and I think a lot of good thoughts and input that we’ve got on it so far, so more to come on all that.” "The format will be a little bit different from what we’ve traditionally seen at the Clash at Daytona,” Kennedy said. “We moved it to the road course this year, but really wanted to think outside the box as we thought about the Clash in the future - and seeing that it’s an exhibition event, we looked at a number of different places and locations that we could host it at, and ultimately narrowed it down to the L.A.
“We’ve been discussing the Clash for a while, and we’ve had it at the (Daytona) oval for a number of years,” Kennedy said in a news release. MORE: NASCAR at Darlington results: Denny Hamlin holds off Kyle Larson to earn spot in Round of 12īen Kennedy, NASCAR's senior vice president of strategy and innovation, said the event will have a "new-look structure" from previous races. The format and eligibility for the exhibition has yet to be announced. It will be the shortest track in the Cup Series' modern era, beating Martinsville Speedway (0.526 miles) and Bristol Motor Speedway (0.533 miles), the shortest tracks currently on the schedule. The exhibition will run in 2022 around a quarter-mile oval, a year after the Clash at Daytona featured a road course.