HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — For the first time since 1959, NASCAR will only host one race at Richmond Raceway, starting in 2025.
The announcement was a blow for some of Richmond’s NASCAR racing fan base, like Reggie Johnson, who grew up across from RIR.
“It’s always been two races a year. I never thought the day would come when they would take one way,” he said when CBS 6 broke the news to him last August.
Neighbors ‘never thought the day would come’ after Richmond loses NASCAR race weekend
Neighbors ‘never thought the day would come’ after Richmond loses NASCAR race weekend
Now, a new kind of race is coming to the River City, hoping to capitalize off of fans that keep showing up for any kind of race: Nitrocross.
Travis Pastrana, an X Games medalist, former NASCAR driver, and a 2021 Nitro Rallycross Champion, considers himself the commissioner of Nitrocross racing.
“Nitrocross is a motocross with a roll cage. It takes the best of all different sports and all different types of driving, we add big jumps for cars, over under crosses, Talladega banks right and left, some tracks are snow, some tracks are pavements, some tracks are dirt, some tracks are a mix of everything. It’s supposed to challenge the drivers and the teams as much as it is excited the fans,” Pastrana said.