Justin Allgaier has been medically cleared to resume all racing activities after a medical evaluation for a non-racing related issue, NASCAR confirmed Friday afternoon.
The driver of the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet finished 20th on Thursday night at Kentucky after being involved in a hard-hitting last-lap wreck.
Allgaier, Ronnie Bassett Jr. and Timmy Hill all were sent to the infield care center after the incident, as is standard NASCAR procedure. Bassett and Hill were cleared and released while Allgaier was transported to an area hospital for further evaluation.
Allgaier was treated and released from a local hospital earlier Friday morning for non-racing related medical purposes. He underwent further evaluation before being cleared to race.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series completes its doubleheader Friday night in the Bluegrass State (8 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
UPDATE: Allgaier sent out a video message on Twitter prior to the race, explaining the reasoning behind his trip to the hospital.
An upbeat Jimmie Johnson said Friday that his feelings have spanned anger, anticipation and ultimately optimism in the week since his positive test for COVID-19, setting an emotional tone for his return to stock-car racing this weekend at Kentucky Speedway.
Johnson’s remarks came Friday morning in his first interview since he received clearance to return to NASCAR competition. The seven-time Cup Series champion will be back in the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for Sunday’s Quaker State 400 (2:30 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
“Obviously, just an interesting week or so to have the positive test and then the two negative tests,” Johnson said in a Zoom video conference with reporters. “Just emotional and a journey that you go through worrying about your safety, your family’s safety, watching a race with somebody else in your race car and the emotion that goes with that. Coming to grips with the reality of all that has been challenging, but I’ve always subscribed to growing through these tough moments, and I feel like I’m a smarter, stronger person today experiencing all this.”
Johnson revealed a positive COVID-19 test July 3, which sidelined him for last weekend’s race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He also said that his wife, Chandra, had tested positive for the virus, while his children — daughters Genevieve and Lydia — had tested negative. Johnson said he has been asymptomatic throughout; he said Friday that his wife was in good health, save for allergy-like symptoms common this time of year near their Colorado home.
NASCAR officials cleared the way for Johnson’s return Wednesday. The 44-year-old driver was required to have two negative COVID-19 tests spaced at least 24 hours apart, an absence of symptoms, plus clearance by a physician.
Johnson said his initial reaction upon receiving word of his first negative test was anger directed at multiple sources, in part from his uncertainty over the pandemic, his strange lack of symptoms, his children’s fears and his absence from the race track.
“I started cussing and used every cuss word that I knew of, and I think invented a few new ones,” Johnson said. “So it was just so weird, the anger, because I’ve been asymptomatic. So anger hits, and then speculation in my mind and it’s like wait a second, there is nothing good to come of this. It’s just time to move on. Then I got very excited, started looking at the facts that I’ve only missed one race, I’ve still got a good gap above the cut line and then this optimism about getting that second negative, and then I did. So I feel like I’m more on the optimistic side of things and really out of the dark headspace that I was in and just moving in the right direction and looking forward in all this.”
The Brickyard absence snapped Johnson’s consecutive-starts streak at 663 races. Xfinity Series regular Justin Allgaier — on standby for Hendrick Motorsports as an alternate driver since the sport returned in May with coronavirus protocols in place — filled in with the No. 48 team. He mustered just a 37th-place finish when a pit-road pile-up ended his day after just 17 of the 161 laps, a result that Johnson said he felt short-changed Allgaier’s chance to shine in a top-tier Cup Series seat.
Johnson said that the reality of missing the Indianapolis event began to set in as the hours ticked down to the green flag, but that participating in the No. 48 team’s pre-race meeting offered a sense of relief.
“Saturday night was the peak,” Johnson said, adding that he had trouble sleeping on the eve of the Indy race. “Sunday morning wasn’t great, but I joined the team call that we do an hour, hour and a half before the race. I was just able to hear the voices of my crew guys, give them a shot in the arm and pump them up and just be involved in that team moment. It’s crazy how it just relaxed me because I was convinced I wasn’t going to watch the race. I’m like, I can’t do it.
“But having that moment to talk to Cliff (Daniels, crew chief), talk to all the guys. Justin was clearly on the call and to hear the words he had to say to the team, it let a lot of that go and I actually watched the race.”
One other element of the Indianapolis weekend that Johnson missed was a scheduled IndyCar test for Chip Ganassi Racing. He got a taste of the vehicle last Thursday at Indy chassis builder Dallara, where he turned laps on its driving simulator. While Johnson said all parties involved were eager to reschedule the session, he added that “everybody’s just giving everything a little time to breathe right now” before setting a makeup date.
As for his stock-car pursuits in what is set to be his final full-time Cup Series season, Johnson sits 15th in the Cup Series standings, just inside the provisional 16-driver playoff field. He received a medical waiver for the postseason if he meets all other criteria for eligibility.
Johnson’s self-reporting of a positive test made him the first driver in NASCAR’s top three series to reveal a COVID-19 diagnosis and to make his way through the sanctioning body’s health protocols for reinstatement. As other sports attempt to resume or start their seasons, and NASCAR continues to navigate through pandemic conditions, Johnson said he doesn’t necessarily have newfound perspective about the process, but only his own experience and course back to the track.
“I don’t know how to add clarity and advice in what changes need to take place,” Johnson said. “I unfortunately feel that there’s a lot to still be learned in the professional field on this, in the medical field on this, and I — like everyone else — am eagerly awaiting that instruction, that knowledge, a vaccine, better testing if it’s required, better screening. There’s just more questions than answers for a lot of us. I certainly don’t have the answers for everybody.”
Justin Allgaier was treated and released from a local hospital earlier Friday morning for non-racing related medical purposes, according to a statement from JR Motorsports. The statement added that he “will undergo further evaluation today before being cleared to race.”
Update from JR Motorsports:
Justin Allgaier was treated and released from a local hospital early this morning for non-racing related medical purposes following last night’s event at Kentucky Speedway. He will undergo further evaluation today before being cleared to race.
The driver of the No. 7 Chevrolet in the Xfinity Series was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation after a last-lap crash in Thursday night’s Shady Rays 200 race at Kentucky Speedway.
Allgaier was racing for position on the backstretch during the white-flag lap when was collected in a multi-car crash, with his No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet sliding into the back of Ronnie Bassett Jr.’s No. 90 Chevrolet. Bassett slammed nose-first into the inside wall, sending the car aloft before it slid to a stop. Timmy Hill was also involved in the incident, crashing into Bassett’s spinning car in the No. 61 Toyota.
UPDATE: The drivers of the Nos. 61 and 90 have been evaluated and released from the infield care center.
The driver of the No. 7 has been transported to the hospital for further evaluation.
Both Bassett and Hill were treated and released from the infield care center at the 1.5-mile oval.
Allgaier, who finished 20th Thursday, ranks sixth in the Xfinity Series standings. The Xfinity Series’ next race is the Alsco 300, scheduled Friday (8 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM) at the Kentucky track.
Austin Cindric won a two-lap overtime duel at Kentucky Speedway racing door-to-door with his good friend and former teammate Chase Briscoe to earn his career-first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory on an oval track.
Cindric, who led 41 laps on the night, ultimately finished .952-seconds ahead of rookie Riley Herbst and Ross Chastain to take the victory in Saturday’s Shady Rays 200 – the first of a doubleheader week that will include a second Xfinity Series Kentucky race, the Alsco 300 on Friday night (8 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Briscoe, who started on the inside of Cindric on a restart in overtime, pulled ahead briefly, but Cindric’s No. 22 Penske Racing Ford rallied back by and he rode off to his first victory of 2020, securing a ticket to the Xfinity Series Playoffs. It marked a record eighth time in the 14 races this season that the pass for victory came in the final two laps.
“Thank you, FINALLY,” an exuberant Cindric screamed into his team radio after passing under the checkered flag.
“We’ve come so close all year, these guys have given me so many awesome cars,” Cindric told the FS1 broadcast.
“I’m pumped. This is awesome. I’d love to be able to come back and enjoy another performance like that tomorrow night. All the credit to my guys for getting me here.”
Briscoe, a five-race winner and the Xfinity Series championship leader, finished fourth followed by Michael Annett. Anthony Alfredo finished sixth, followed by Justin Haley, Kyle Weatherman, Ryan Sieg and Brett Moffitt. It was a career-best finish for Weatherman.
Noah Gragson, who led a race-best 88 of the 136 laps and for the first time in his career, swept the opening two stage wins, finished 11th. He and JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier were running among the Top-5 on the restart and were poised to challenge for the trophy, but they made contact racing hard on the 1.5-mile high-banked oval and it cost them both better finishes. Allgaier was involved in an accident on the last lap and finished 20th.
Briscoe, who led five laps and ran among the top five for most of the night, solidified his championship lead on a night he insisted was a true challenge for his No. 98 Stewart-Haas Racing team.
“Thought we were gonna have a chance [to win] on both restarts but that last one just got real loose, but overall felt like this was our worst night of the year from the speed and balance standpoint and we were still able to race Austin for the win and end up fourth,” Briscoe said.
Cindric, who was elated with the victory – dramatically planting the checkered flag in the infield – joked about having to hold off Briscoe.
“I love the guy but he’s won enough, geez” Cindric joked of Briscoe, who passed him last weekend for victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
“Those restarts were a lot tougher than I was thinking they would be,” he said, adding, “I’m just so happy. Thank you to [team owner] Roger [Penske]. I believe this is a championship team.”
Friday night’s race will feature a partial inversion of Thursday night’s finishing order. The top 15 finishers will start in reverse order, which puts rookie Myatt Snider on the pole for the Alsco 300.
The nominations for the prestigious 2020 Comcast Community Champion of the Year award are now officially open and will remain open through July 27. Comcast created this award at the beginning of our NASCAR partnership to recognize and honor the incredible individuals in this industry who are giving back to their communities in remarkable ways. Each year, we’re able to shine a spotlight on exceptional stories of selfless acts and noble causes and that’s where we’re asking for assistance from race fans and industry members.
We need your help finding these industry heroes who are working hard to make a difference. Previous champions and finalists range from mechanics at the shop to pit crew members and track presidents. If you know a deserving candidate, please take the time to nominate them, and learn additional details about the award, by visiting ComcastCommunityChampion.com.
Eligible award recipients from NASCAR’s top-three national series include:
• Race team owners, employees and drivers
• Employees from tracks on the 2020 schedule
• NASCAR officials
• Motorsports media members
Comcast will select and honor three finalists, sharing their stories publicly later this year. A committee of NASCAR & Comcast executives will then determine the Comcast Community Champion of the Year, awarding $60,000 to the champion’s affiliated charity and $30,000 to each of the two finalists’ selected charities. Since the program kicked off in 2015, we’ve donated a total of $600,000 to causes of inspirational individuals in the NASCAR industry who are truly living Comcast’s core values.
Thank you in advance for your help in identifying deserving individuals to be the next Comcast Community Champion. Continue to take care of yourselves and your loved ones during these unprecedented times.
Matt Lederer
Vice President, Brand Partnerships & Activation at Comcast
Cars already locked into the 2020 NASCAR All-Star Race at Bristol Motor Speedway will feature underglow lighting beneath their machines for the July 15 race, NASCAR confirmed Thursday.
The underglow lights were first used by Chip Ganassi Racing at Nashville during Champion’s Week 2019, adding a special flair to the Burnouts on Broadway event.
Underglow lighting is one of three changes coming to the annual All-Star Race — four if you count the change of location itself, from Charlotte Motor Speedway to the “Last Great Colosseum.”
A choose rule also will be in effect. When drivers approach a designated spot on the track, they must commit to the inside or outside lane for the restart. Failure to make a clear choice or changing lanes after the designated spot will result in a tail-of-the-field penalty.
This is different from the current double-file restart system, where only the race leader chooses his lane. Having the rule for the All-Star Race gives every driver the ability to make his own decision, and strategy will come into play in every instance.
Additionally, NASCAR will utilize a new paint scheme concept, one which moves the car’s side-door numbers backward on the vehicle toward the rear wheel.
The one-race experiment comes at the request of the teams, who will use the newfound prime real estate for sponsorship integrations.
The start of the 2020 season has certainly featured a “new guard” trend in success.
Three 2019 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series championship contenders are still racing in the series but none are currently ranked among the top 10 this season. It’s been a decided trend toward new names.
The defending winner of Saturday night’s Buckle Up in Your Truck 225 at Kentucky Speedway (6 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) — Tyler Ankrum — is a shining example of the young new guard poised to make a run at the 2020 title.
There are three full-time series drivers with previous wins at the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway, including Ankrum, whose impressive seven-second win over Stewart Friesen last year is the 19-year old’s only series victory — coming in his first Kentucky start. This week, Ankrum arrives ranked eighth in the driver standings with a pair of top 10s to his credit — both coming in the last two races. His season-best work is a runner-up result at Homestead-Miami Speedway in June.
Championship leader Austin Hill, 26, has never won at Kentucky and has only a single top-10 finish (10th in 2017) in four starts, but he certainly brings an impressive 2020 season resume into this weekend’s event. He holds a hefty 51-point edge over Ben Rhodes atop the championship standings. Although Hill’s No. 16 Hattori Racing Enterprises Toyota team is still looking for that first win on the season, the organization has done everything but celebrate in Victory Lane. Hill has top-10 finishes in all six races and has earned runner-up finishes in two of the last three stops.
Rhodes, driver of the No. 99 ThorSport Racing Ford, would love to become only the fourth driver with multiple wins at Kentucky (joining NASCAR Hall of Famer Ron Hornaday Jr.. James Buescher and Kyle Busch). This is the Louisville native’s “home race” and he’s eager to kick-start his season with a win. He has four top-10s in the opening six races and is coming off a fifth-place finish at the last race in Pocono.
A competitive exception to the younger generation’s dominance, is 2019 regular season champion Grant Enfinger. The 35-year-old Alabama native has two wins already – at Daytona and Atlanta – the first time in his four-year Gander Trucks career that the driver of the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford has scored multiple wins. Enfinger is ranked third, 61 points behind Hill with only a three-point edge on Sheldon Creed for fourth and a five-point advantage on Todd Gilliland for fifth in the tightly stacked standings.
Defending series champion Matt Crafton is the only other former Kentucky winner in the field among full-time NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series drivers. The 44-year-old has started 21 of the series’ 22 races at Kentucky and has 15 top-10 and six top-five finishes including that 2015 victory. He led 11 laps last year and finished 13th. He could use a boost in his title defense. Crafton has only a pair of top 10s through the first six races and one top five – a fourth place at Las Vegas. He crashed out of the series’ last race at Pocono and finished a season-worst 40th.
In its fifth year of NASCAR Xfinity Series competition, Kaulig Racing has gone from a one-team startup to a serious threat for the 2020 championship as the league inches closer to the postseason with this week’s Kentucky Speedway doubleheader.
The organization’s trio of drivers, which includes full-time drivers Ross Chastain and Justin Haley and part-time driver AJ Allmendinger, might be the most unique teammates in the Xfinity Series garage. Each have varying degrees of experience levels, but all have united as one to achieve success in just a short amount of time.
The drivers’ stories are unique. For Allmendinger, the 38-year-old’s time at Kaulig has been a fun-filled career resurgence driving the No. 16 entry. After last competing full time with JTG Daugherty Racing’s No. 47 NASCAR Cup Series entry in 2018, Allmendinger has earned two victories with the Kaulig group. While all signs point toward a future Cup Series ride (perhaps with Chip Ganassi Racing), Chastain, 27, is biding his time with the Chevrolet-powered No. 10 machine. Haley, 21, is still in the beginning stages of his NASCAR career. But in a short amount of time, the No. 11 driver has placed himself among a prestigious list of drivers who have won at least one race in all three national series.
“I think that helps these guys get along because it’s not three 21-year-old guys that are just competing to get to that one Cup ride,” team owner Matt Kaulig told NASCAR.com. “They’ve got different agendas. They all want to win. But I think they all feel pretty comfortable and really good with where they are in the sport.”
Haley thinks the team is hitting its rhythm as the season progresses, which he credits partly to the advent this year of Kaulig’s own in-house engineering department, a change of pace compared to previous years when Kaulig outsourced the staff from Richard Childress Racing.
“We all get along together,” Haley said after his Talladega victory. “I think the biggest thing for Kaulig is we all work as a team. We all build each other’s cars. In the shop, it’s all one group. Me, AJ and Ross have all gotten along really well. They all have a lot of knowledge. I’m pretty new to this, I’ve struggled a little bit to start. But leaning on them has been awesome.”
Allmendinger embraces race winner Haley at Talladega. Brian Lawdermilk | Getty Images
Talladega could be the most defining moment in the team’s young history, which was capped off by Chastain and Allmendinger celebrating with Haley after his first career victory in the Xfinity Series, a moment that saw Allmendinger sprint down pit road to the start-finish line to embrace Haley after the race.
“We’re just like a bunch of buddies in school,” Chastain said. “In all reality, I think AJ and Justin are probably a little closer honestly because they have this weird father-son dynamic. I’m just either like a distant cousin or an uncle or nephew or something. I don’t know where I fit in exactly, but I wedge myself in there.”
Those actions are no façade to satisfy sponsors or pull a publicity stunt. The camaraderie is real, but the brotherhood still doesn’t get in the way of their will to win.
“These guys genuinely like each other,” Kaulig said. “I’ve heard there are teams out there where the drivers don’t all get along. I don’t think it’s a non-competitive thing because Ross and Justin and AJ … I mean they definitely want to win. They want to beat each other. … It transfers to the whole team because those guys are the visible guys.”
To put their 2020 accomplishments to date in perspective, the three drivers have earned a combined 12 top-five finishes, which makes up more than half of Kaulig’s total of 22 top fives since its first season in 2016. Since the beginning of the 2019 season, they have also earned 53 of the organization’s 75 top-10 finishes.
With the enhancements the organization has made to its program, especially over the past offseason, it’s clear the numbers are no fluke. While the drivers and their crews operate as three separate teams on Saturdays, it’s the work behind the scenes during the week at the race shop that unites them as one.
“It’s just like in any job, it’s leadership,” team president Chris Rice said. “You bring the drivers in and say, ‘Hey, here’s your job, this is what you’re gonna do, here’s your team.’ But everybody at Kaulig Racing works on everything. So really, you’re coming into battle with all three teams. … It starts from the top. Matt Kaulig just creating something that we can be proud of and go out tomorrow and know that we’re going to have a job, we’ll be able to go racing and do the things we love. That’s where it starts and the drivers feed off of that.”
Haley (11), Allmendinger (16) and Chastain (10) race at Daytona International Speedway in 2019. Jared C. Tilton | Getty Images
From the drivers to the shop members, Kaulig has developed a culture that thrives on having fun to achieve success, but that doesn’t mean the young team owner doesn’t run a tight ship. From the race team to his various other business ventures, the Ohio-born team owner has used lessons learned on the football field as a former quarterback for the University of Akron Zips to transcend the organization from a one-car operation to a three-car championship-level powerhouse.
“I always say, it’s an old football term, it’s not necessarily the Xs and the Os, it’s the Jimmys and the Joes,” Kaulig said. “It’s the people, you’ve got to start with good people. They’ve gotta be good at what they do. They’ve got to be passionate about what they do, but it’s not so much the passion, it’s hard work and it’s execution. You’ve got to find people that want to do it and are good at it, then you want to improve all of your processes all of the time. You want to have continuous and never-ending improvement in everything that you do.”
So, is 2020 the year Kaulig Racing knocks off teams like JR Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing and Team Penske to make a title charge? Kaulig is confident, noting it’s all about carrying the momentum into the playoffs. His teams show no sign of slowing down to prevent that from happening.
“Just put yourself in position,” Kaulig said. “All you need to do is get to Phoenix (Raceway), then we know we’re as fast as anybody. The goal would be to get both of those guys (Chastain and Haley) in the Championship 4 and then you have a 50% chance of winning the championship. That’s what we’re going to do.”
The starting lineup for Sunday’s Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart NASCAR Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway (2:30 p.m. ET on FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) has been set.
Kyle Busch will start from the pole position, with Joey Logano joining him on the front row to lead the field to green for the 267-lap, 400.5-mile race.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 8, 2020) — NASCAR today announced its schedule of events through August for all three national series and the ARCA Menards Series, which includes two additional NASCAR Cup Series doubleheaders and two separate stops — on two different courses — at Daytona International Speedway.
The NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series will visit Michigan International Speedway Aug. 7-9, featuring a Cup Series doubleheader on Saturday, Aug. 8 (4 p.m. ET, NBCSN) and Sunday, Aug. 9 (4:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN). Meanwhile, the NASCAR Xfinity Series will visit Road America on Saturday, Aug. 8 at noon ET (NBCSN).
For the first time, the NASCAR Cup Series will race on the storied road course at Daytona International Speedway during the Aug. 14-16 weekend. The road course-oval hybrid, most noted for the annual running of the Rolex 24 At DAYTONA, will feature races across all three national series and the ARCA Menards Series. The historic races will replace NASCAR’s annual visit to Watkins Glen International.
FS1 will continue to carry coverage of the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series throughout the balance of the season. As part of the 2020 revised schedule, World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, which was originally slated to host the first race of the Gander Trucks playoffs, will now become race No. 14 of the regular season on Sunday, Aug. 30 at noon ET.
NASCAR’s modified event procedures and protocols have been finalized in accordance with public health officials, medical experts and local, state and federal officials. NASCAR will determine if fans are allowed entrance to NASCAR Cup Series races on a market-by-market basis, in accordance with local and state guidelines.
More details on additional NASCAR national series events, including the playoffs, will be announced at a later date.
The latest installment of the 2020 schedule is as follows:
Date
Track
Series
Distance
Network
Start Time (ET)
Fri., Aug. 7
Michigan
Gander
200 mi
FS1
6 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 8
Road America
Xfinity
182 mi
NBCSN
Noon
Sat., Aug. 8
Michigan
Cup
312 mi
NBCSN
4 p.m.
Sun., Aug. 9
Michigan
ARCA
200 mi
MAVTV
1 p.m.
Sun., Aug. 9
Michigan
Cup
312 mi
NBCSN
4:30 p.m.
Fri., Aug. 14
Daytona (road)
ARCA
TBA
MAVTV
5 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 15
Daytona (road)
Xfinity
182 mi
NBCSN
3 p.m.
Sun., Aug. 16
*Daytona (road)
Gander
153 mi
FS1
Noon
Sun., Aug. 16
Daytona (road)
Cup
231 mi
NBC
3 p.m.
Fri., Aug. 21
Dover
ARCA East
125 mi
TrackPass
2 p.m.
Fri., Aug. 21
Dover
Gander
200 mi
FS1
5 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 22
Dover
Xfinity
200 mi
NBCSN
12:30 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 22
Dover
Cup
311 mi
NBCSN
4 p.m.
Sun., Aug. 23
Dover
Xfinity
200 mi
NBCSN
1 p.m.
Sun., Aug. 23
Dover
Cup
311 mi
NBCSN
4 p.m.
Fri., Aug. 28
Daytona
Xfinity
250 mi
NBCSN
7:30 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 29
WWT Raceway
ARCA
150 mi
MAVTV
6 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 29
Daytona
Cup
400 mi
NBC
7:30 p.m.
Sun., Aug. 30
WWT Raceway
Gander
200 mi
FS1
Noon
*The NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race at Daytona (Aug. 16) has been realigned from Iowa Speedway; the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series races will not run at Eldora Speedway (originally scheduled for July 30) and Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (originally scheduled for Sept. 6) and have been realigned for dates and locations to be determined; the NASCAR Xfinity Series will not run at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (originally scheduled for May 30) and has been realigned to a date and location to be determined; the NASCAR Xfinity Series will not run at Michigan (originally scheduled for June 6) and has been realigned to a date and location to be determined.
**Schedule locations, dates, times and networks are subject to change.
