Out goes the Coliseum
In comes the Stadium
The Busch Clash will move from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where it has been held the past three seasons to Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem North Carolina, where it will also be a homecoming of sorts for the NASCAR Cup Series.
The football stadium, home of Winston-Salem State University, is also where NASCAR sanctioned its first pavement race in 1948 and was the host to 29 Cup Series races from 1958 to 1971 back when it was known as the Grand National Series.
Even after the Cup Series left, The Most Exciting of Them All has continued to host NASCAR’s longest running weekly series divisions on Saturday nights from April to August, where it has a weekly average attendance over 10,000 with a maximum of 17,000.
NASCAR now owns the lease to weekly show , which opened the door for this announcement in the first place.
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From 2011 to 2017, what is now the ARCA East division held the NASCAR Hall of Fame 150 there, where seven current Cup drivers have raced there with Corey Lajoie even having won an event that also saw participation from Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson, Daniel Suárez, Bubba Wallace, Alex Bowman and William Byron.