NASCAR Goes West To LA Coliseum As Warmup For The Super Bowl
Feb 3, 2022, 3:19 PM | Updated: 3:19 pm
Aerial view of the Los Angeles Coliseum under construction for the NASCAR Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum, on December 31, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images)
(Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASCAR is in Los Angeles a week ahead of the Super Bowl with its wildest idea yet.
The exhibition Clash has always been the unofficial season-opening NASCAR version of the Pro Bowl.
For the firs time, it has been moved out of Daytona Beach, Florida, and will instead be staged at the Coliseum in a made-for-Fox Sports spectacular.
A temporary quarter-mile track has been built inside the iconic venue.
The race on Sunday night will also mark the debut of the Next Gen car, a project several years in development that was delayed a season by the pandemic.
#NASCAR's deal to run the Clash at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum includes options to run the event there in 2023 and 2024. Details … https://t.co/luzGlutyvT
— Dustin Long (@dustinlong) February 1, 2022
