Nascar goes to Texas and will have a different challenge a circuit of the Americas this season.
The weekend of Echopark Automotive Grand Prix Nascar Cota Race will feature the national course, instead of the Grand Prix circuit, on which Formula 1 takes place for the Grand Prix of the United States in October.
This is a new challenge, but the best stock-car drivers in the world will be ready for this.
Here’s what you need to know about the different layout of the Nascar Cota race.
When is the Nascar Cota race?
The Echopark Automotive Grand Prix is ​​scheduled at 2:30 p.m. CT on Sunday March 2 in Cota in Austin, Texas. The race is planned for 68 laps and covers 231.88 miles during the racetrack at 17 laps.
What channel is the Nascar Cota race?
The Grand Prix of the Echopark automobile will be broadcast on Fox with Mike Joy, Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick in the diffusion stand.
Nascar Cota track change
Nascar will direct the national course to the Americas circuit. The track is 2.3 miles and 17 laps.
The biggest change is to lose tricks from 7 to 11 years old and more than one mile on the backstch of the COTA Grand Prix circuit. The turn 7 is a long turn on the right with left and right corners contrasting for turns 8 and 9, ending with a left hand dogleg for turn 10. The left hair pin leads to a long rear -Missue.
Now, the Nascar pilots will be faced with two corners with a net bend that was out of turn 6 and another left-handed next day leading to the end of the long rear. From there, drivers will have to navigate the technical part of the circuit with nine additional corners before the end of the knees.
“The transition to the national course will make an excellent race experience even better for our fans with more laps and more action,” said President and Chief Executive Officer of Speedway Motorsports, Marcus Smith. “Fans will have more laps to encourage their favorite driver from the best seats, and the action will be faster with time in turn reduced by about a minute. The national course and its new sidewalk will provide drivers, teams and team leaders a new look and a new challenge after having followed the full course in the past four years in Cota. »»
Drivers have a completely different challenge to face, learning the new provision of the national course, but also operating on a complete iron that the track suffered after the Nascar weekend last season.
Ross Chastain of Trackhouse Racing, which won the Grand Prix of Automobile Echopark 2022, had the opportunity to follow the existing national course on Iracing, the racing simulator based on the Internet and shared its reflections on what it has seen during the simulation.
“It will be like going fundamentally on a new track, a new city, a new region,” said Chastain, which leads the Chevrolet n ° 1. “It flows well, and (turns) 12 (full course) will really change because We don’t have that long back. Once I can (turn) 13, however, everything will be the same. I will get my normal speed that I was last year. My God, this place is great.
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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Nascar Cota Race using the national course for the first time
