Chase Elliott Wins NASCAR All-Star Race
Matt Yocum, Fox NASCAR reporter, looks at Chase Elliott’s victory at Bristol Motor Speedway to the biggest US sports crowd since the pandemic began on ‘Fox and Friends.’
In its All-Star career at Bristol Motor Speedway on July 15, NASCAR has welcomed the largest audience of any sporting event in the US since the coronavirus pandemic began, opening its doors to some 20,000 attendees.
And there is more to come until the end of summer.
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Over the next seven Cup Series racing weekends, up to five may allow fans with current social distancing measures.
The races at Kansas Speedway (July 23) and Michigan International Speedway (August 8 and 9) will definitely take place behind closed doors, but tickets are sold for Texas Motor Speedway (July 19), New Hampshire Motor Speedway (August 2) .), and Daytona International Speedway (August 16 and 29).
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Texas will allow its 130,000-seat grandstands to be filled to 50 percent of capacity, while 19,000 tickets are offered for New Hampshire, which can accommodate up to 88,000. Daytona has only said it is making a “limited” number of tickets available for the road course and oval track races.
Dover International Speedway is still in talks with local officials about the doubleheader scheduled for August 22-23.
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