NASCAR moves 2021 Auto Club race to Daytona Road Course

On Tuesday, NASCAR announced that the 2021 Auto Club Speedway race will not happen due to COVID-19 and moved the race to Daytona International Speedway’s Road Course on February 21st, with all three NASCAR series appearing at the Daytona Road Course. This will be the first time in 24 years that Auto Club will not host a NASCAR race.

NEWS: The weekend following the #DAYTONA500, the top three @NASCAR Series will return on February 19-21 to race the @DAYTONA Road Course. 📰 : https://t.co/omaAbtbzJL pic.twitter.com/Ttncg5RMO6 — Daytona International Speedway (@DAYTONA) December 8, 2020

With this adjustment to the schedule, NASCAR will have three consecutive races in the state of Florida. The Homestead-Miami race will move back a week to February 28th. The Camping World Truck Series was scheduled to race at Homestead-Miami and will now run at the Daytona Road Course.

The Daytona Road Course will now have two races next year, with the Clash at Daytona on February 9th. Chase Elliott won the inaugural Daytona Road Course race this year. He will compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona next month, along with former seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson.

Daytona International Speedway opened in 1959 with the first road course race called the Daytona 3-Hour Continental in 1962. The road course is 3.81-mile and is famous for the Rolex 24 at Daytona that is held on the last week of January.

NASCAR also announced that the Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series exact dates and times will be released soon.

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