Dale Earnhardt Jr. has at all times had a gentle spot for the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and can honor that enthusiasm by racing in its CARS Late Mannequin Inventory Tour occasion debut on April 11.
He confirmed the extensively accepted rumor that he would enter that occasion on Tuesday in the course of the newest episode of the Dale Jr Obtain podcast.
“I’m racing at Nashville Fairgrounds April 11. … , I’ve one million issues occurring up right here in my head? And looking out round in there, I believe it’s April 11, and I’m driving the Bass Professional Outlets automobile on the Fairgrounds,” Earnhardt stated. “Yep, for the CARS Tour. … I don’t know if there’s anymore I must say. … I’m going to do a tire take a look at right here in a pair days so I’ll have a greater concept of how briskly it’s.”
Earnhardt co-owns CARS Tour with fellow NASCAR luminaries Kevin Harvick, Justin Marks and Jeff Burton. It’s largely thought-about essentially the most prestigious regional brief monitor racing collection within the nation.
Marks, who has a residence in Nashville, satisfied Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge proprietor Steve Smith to function title sponsor for the occasion now known as the Tootsie’s Music Metropolis Showdown, which additionally features a CARS Professional Late Mannequin Tour race.
NASCAR Cup Sequence races had been held at Fairgrounds Speedway from 1958 till 1984. Within the years since, it hosted the O’Reilly Sequence and Craftsman Truck Sequence till 2000 and now a month-to-month racing program each summer time.
It’s future, which may embrace a revitalization and Cup Sequence date below a plan proposed by Speedway Motorsports, or demolition as pursued by Nashville SC proprietor John Ingram, remains to be being deliberated by the native political course of.
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