It’s race day at Bristol Motor Speedway, and here is all the information to get ready for Wednesday night's NASCAR All-Star Race and the NASCAR All-Star Open qualifying race, which precedes it.
To longtime NASCAR fans — or anyone who's watched the All-Star Race before — this year's exhibition event is going to look a little bit different. And it actually has little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, which hasThe NASCAR All-Star Race is more of a spectacle than a traditional race. It's not a points race, meaning the winner doesn't advance in the standings or qualify for the playoffs with a checkered flag, so it's a little more fun and flashy.
For obvious reasons, this is the biggest change, by far, to NASCAR's exhibition race this year. Since the All-Star Race began in 1985, it's been held at the Charlotte track every single year, with the exception of the 1986 race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.to Bristol in Tennessee, where up to 30,000 fans will be permitted to attend. And the move is probably a great thing because many NASCAR fans would agree that Bristol's .533-mile short track produces far better racing than Charlotte.
Here's one example of the added pizzazz in the All-Star Race compared with the rest of the schedule. The underglow lights are exactly what they sound like, lighting up beneath the All-Star cars and creating a decidedly ridiculous but awesome look. They were first used at the end of the 2019 season during Champion's Week in Nashville for the Burnouts on Broadway event — when drivers literally do doughnuts in the street.NASCAR likes to use the All-Star Race to experiment with rules in the exhibition event to see how they might work before implementing them in points races immediately, and this is another example of that.
Currently, NASCAR's restart rules have only the leader choosing which lane to restart from, but this rule opens that up to the whole field. Short and dirt tracks around the country use this rule often, but this is the first time the Cup Series is trying it out.
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