The

Nashville Superspeedway Nashville Superspeedway is a tri-oval intermediate speedway in Lebanon, Tennessee. The track has held a variety of racing events since its opening in 2001, including NASCAR and the IndyCar Series. It is currently owned by Speedway Motorsport ...

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has hosted

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racing events dating back to

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

. The 2001 event marked the first American open-wheel event in the

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area. During some years events were held on Saturday nights. The 2007 event was postponed until Sunday after a series of rain showers at the track. Following the 2008 event,

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officials decided to end their association with Nashville Superspeedway. The event was removed from the 2009 schedule, and afterwards the facility shuttered for several years. Subsequently renamed as the

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, the series returned to the Nashville area in

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

with the

Music City Grand Prix The Music City Grand Prix, known as the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix for sponsorship reasons, was an IndyCar Series race held at the Nashville Street Circuit in Nashville, Tennessee. The race's most notable feature was its straightaway acro ...

on a downtown street circuit. Due to construction downtown, the 2024 Music City Grand Prix was moved to the Nashville Superspeedway.

Past winners

As is a Nashville-area racing tradition, from 2001 through 2008 the winner received a hand-made and painted

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guitar. *2007: Race postponed from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon due to rain. *2008: Race shortened due to rain.

References

External links

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{{IndyCar Series races Motorsport in Nashville, Tennessee Recurring sporting events established in 2001 Recurring events disestablished in 2008