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Nashville adds to IndyCar street-race line-up in 2021
IndyCar's return to Nashville will be formally announced Wednesday in the Music City and give the NTT IndyCar Series five street races in 2021.
Neither Penske Entertainment president Mark Miles nor track designer Tony Cotman could be reached for comment on Tuesday evening, but Nashville TV stations were reporting a press conference has been scheduled with Roger Penske, Miles, Cotman and two-time IndyCar champ Josef Newgarden, a native of Tennessee who now makes his home in Nashville.
As RACER first reported a few weeks ago, the 2.1-mile circuit will incorporate downtown streets and also Nissan Stadium, home of the NFL's Tennessee Titans.
IndyCar ran at the Nashville Super Speedway from 2001-2008 and that oval will be back in action next year with NASCAR.
Nashville, which joins enduring IndyCar street shows in Long Beach, Toronto, Detroit and St. Petersburg, is expected to be held in late August.
Robin Miller
Robin Miller flunked out of Ball State after two quarters, but got a job stooging for Jim Hurtubise at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 when Herk's was the last roadster to ever make the race. He got hired at The Indianapolis Star a month later and talked his way into the sports department, where he began covering USAC and IndyCar racing. He got fired at The Star for being anti-Tony George, but ESPN hired him to write and do RPM2Nite. Then he went to SPEED and worked on WIND TUNNEL and SPEED REPORT. He started at RACER when SPEED folded, and went on to write for RACER.com and RACER magazine while also working for NBCSN on IndyCar telecasts.
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