Dirt Late. These are a specialist version of stock cars where additional rules are applied. Smaller engines are required because of the tracks these cars are used on. Often, this means engines with crate motors that prevent any extra changes being made within the engine.

While open wheel race cars are purpose-built racing vehicles, stock cars (also known as fendered cars) can be either purpose-built race cars or street vehicles that have been modified to varying degrees.. There are hundreds of local and regional racetracks throughout the nation.

An informal survey of drivers who compete at various tracks in the region determined it costs a team between $500 a night to race at the asphalt tracks to about $800 a night to race at the dirt tracks. Schedules vary, but there are at least 20 weeks of races that begin at the end of March and last into September.

Eldora Speedway is a half-mile dirt racing facility located in western Ohio….The ‘411’ on The World’s Greatest Dirt Track.

NASCAR won’t race in the rain, even on a dirt surface, but Bell said a little water won’t do much harm. A downpour would be more difficult to overcome, but no matter the track conditions, the quality of racing will still be what determines if dirt racing was a good idea for NASCAR.

The dirt that has been hauled in to cover the concrete is graded to remove the extreme banking so the track can hold the dirt. Different types of dirt and material trucked in from locations nearby were used to cover Bristol Motor Speedway’s concrete surface.

Building on the success of the dirt races at Bristol Motor Speedway, Speedway Motorsports and Las Vegas Motor Speedway announced the 2021 fall NASCAR tripleheader weekend will be run on entirely on dirt at the speedway.

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NASCAR’s debut on Bristol Motor Speedway’s dirt-track layout won’t be a one-off. Track owner Speedway Motorsports Inc. announced that its spring NASCAR weekend in 2022 will be held on the dirt.

There will be no dirt racing at Bristol on Sunday. Rain initially canceled the qualifying races for both the Trucks and Cup on Saturday. NASCAR tried to run a Truck Series heat race before more rain arrived Saturday afternoon but the race was halted after a lap because of mud accumulating on drivers’ windshields.

Citing flood warnings and persistent rain, Bristol Motor Speedway officials postponed the most anticipated race of the season Sunday — an audacious attempt to stage a NASCAR Cup Series race on a concrete oval coated with tons of red clay — three hours before its scheduled start.

If it rains, once Bristol dirt track gets to where you can’t race on it , will have to wait for it stop and then for track prep to get it suitable for racing.

The first night race of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season started Saturday night but was eventually pushed back to Sunday afternoon because of rainy conditions at Martinsville Speedway.

Sunday’s 2021 Daytona 500, impacted by a nearly six-hour rain delay, attracted an average of 4.83 million viewers, Fox Sports has confirmed to CNBC. It marks the lowest-viewed Daytona 500 in the history of the race. Roughly 7 million viewers watched the 2020 event.

NEWS: Today’s NASCAR Cup Series and Camping World Truck Series races have been postponed at @BMSupdates.

BRISTOL, Tenn. — The NASCAR Cup Series dirt race that was scheduled to take place Sunday afternoon has now been postponed due to weather. It is the first dirt race for the Cup Series since 1970. The 28-degree Bristol banking has now been reduced to 19 degrees after the dirt was applied.

That’s the amount of dirt Bristol Motor Speedway placed around its . 533-mile concrete oval to turn it into a dirt track for the first time in two decades. A better but maybe more difficult visual: It equals 149,851 kegs of beer. Regardless, the grand total came out to be more than 23,000 cubic yards of dirt.

Below is the remaining schedule for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series regular season and playoffs, beginning with Sunday’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway….NASCAR Cup Series 2021 regular season.