Nascar's San Diego Announcement Is The Next Step In A Nationwide Takeover
Nascar is making a major move by traveling to San Diego in 2025. Not only will the Nascar Cup Series be competing in America's Finest City, but so will the Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series from June 19-21, 2026.
While the race will be held at the Naval Base Coronado, the city is enthusiastic to host a Nascar weekend. Unlike Chicago, which had a negative perception of Nascar from the initial announcement, San Diego appears to be welcoming of stock car racing. Sports Business Journal reported that the contract is between Nascar and the U.S. Navy, and Sports San Diego will help run operations and promote the event.
'As part of our nation's 250th anniversary, we are honored for Nascar to join the celebration as we host our first street race at a military base, Naval Base Coronado,' Nascar's Ben Kennedy, EVP, Chief Venue & Racing Innovation Officer, said in a statement. 'Nascar San Diego Weekend will honor the Navy's history and the men and women who serve as we take the best motorsports in the world to the streets of Naval Base Coronado.'
The Cup race will be streamed on Amazon Prime as part of its summer stretch of races.
This is a major step for Nascar, which is expanding its presence on the West Coast after leaving the L.A. Coliseum (an exhibition race) and Fontana's Auto Club Speedway. Not only does this announcement keep Nascar viable in a major market, but it also shows the sanctioning body's creativity is endless right now.
While Nascar nearly settled on racing in Downtown San Diego, they opted for the Naval base to create a patriotic twist to the spectacle. Kennedy told SBJ that racing in San Diego on a base is 'naturally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be able to celebrate this special anniversary of the Navy and our country.'
Another great element to the event is that iRacing, which will launch the first mainstream Nascar video game in several years, helped create the track.
The announcement is expected to generate not only waves of interest from drivers and sports executives, but also potential sponsors. Nascar has welcomed in a plethora of new partners in 2025, and an announcement like this will certainly generate additional key sponsor interest.
Nascar will not return to Chicago in 2026, but it will likely return to Chicagoland Speedway in nearby Joliet. The Mexico race's status has yet to be determined.
But an announcement like this makes it clear: Kennedy and his team are leading Nascar to push the limits and get creative.
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- Indianapolis Star
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There are four Brownsburg Little League baseball fields now instead of five (Diamond 1 was torn out in the renovation). But on a spring night or weekend afternoon, if you pull off Green Street for a minute and drive behind the apartment buildings and restaurants, you can still see parents and grandparents in chairs circling the fences around all four fields (the league leases from the town, which owns Arbuckle Park) and classmates of all talent levels playing baseball together year after year. 'This has been Brownsburg since I don't even know,' Brownsburg Little League president Geoff Ziegler said. 'This is Brownsburg. We're going to make sure we treat it with respect and invest the time and effort into this space and make sure the community knows we're invested into it. And the people who come and participate recognize that we have a history of winning but also that there is plenty of awesome stuff that happens here on a daily and weekly basis. If the kids can have fun, get a little dirty, get a little sweaty, have a snack and smile on your face at the end of the day and want to come back next year, we've done our job.' In an era where travel baseball often gobbles up the most talented players as soon as they can lift a bat, Brownsburg Little League proves there is room for both — at least up to a certain age. From ages 4 through 16, the Brownsburg program had more than 700 kids participate this spring. The jewel of that group is always the 'Majors' division, mostly made up of 12-year-olds who dream of representing Brownsburg, then Indiana and the Great Lakes Region, in the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa. On Saturday night, a group of 12 kids — all but one who have played eight years of Brownsburg Little League baseball on these Arbuckle fields — will look to take one step closer to that dream when they represent Indiana in the first round of the Great Lakes Region against Illinois. The winner of the five-team tournament, which will be played entirely at the Central Region complex in Whitestown, will earn a spot in the Little League World Series. 'I've always had the dream of going to the Little League World Series,' said Arnold, a pitcher, shortstop and catcher. 'Having a team like this is just the best thing that could happen.' Spears, 12, basically grew up at Arbuckle. First as a 'batboy' for his older brother's teams, then working his way up through the T-ball and coach-pitch leagues. The kids who are selected for the All-Star team to represent Brownsburg in the district tournament must also play in the rec league (won this season by the Cubs). 'The community and how much support we get is awesome,' Spears said. 'The volunteers work on the field and make sure it's always in good shape.' Four years ago, the Brownsburg Little League team won the state tournament for the first time since Brownsburg won four in a row from 1999 to 2002. Two of those teams, in 1999 and 2001, went on to play in the Little League World Series. The 1999 team was led by future major league pitcher Lance Lynn. Brownsburg later produced two more big leaguers in Drew Storen and Tucker Barnhart, further cementing the community's association with baseball. 'The reality is the odds are very small for kids to go on and play professionally somewhere,' Ziegler said. 'But that's OK. There is still value in Little League being what it is, which is teaching life lessons through the conduit of sports.' 'It inspired me.' Lance Lynn on Little League World Series 25 years ago In the same breath, Ziegler wants to win. For this group, the goal has been Williamsport for many years. When the 2021 team made the Great Lakes Regional (the first year it was played in Whitestown), Spears attended with his father, Justin. Every year since, they have attended the regional with some of Carter's teammates. In 2022, the Hagerstown team won the regional and represented the Great Lakes Region in the Little League World Series. Justin Spears, the Brownsburg coach, said connection to past teams and the potential of making a run to the Little League World Series is what keeps Arbuckle hopping year after year. 'They all say the same thing: 'I want to win a state championship,'' Spears said of the team. ''I want to go to the regionals. I want to go to Williamsport.' You are always playing for something. I think you lose that to some extent when you start playing travel baseball. You show up the weekends and you have a team you play for and you are trying to win weekend tournaments, but there is nothing you are working toward at the end of the season. There are not many times you set a goal as an 8-year-old and work on it every single year and four or five years later you can accomplish that goal. That's a life lesson that takes you beyond baseball. That piece of it they are going to remember forever.' In the days leading up to Brownsburg's regional appearance, Spears asked former major league pitchers Cory Wade and Bill Sampen and longtime major league scout Mike Medici to come in and speak to the team on three different nights at Arbuckle. 'One of the things I took away the most is that we get to be nervous because of where we're at,' Carter Spears said of the message from Sampen. 'We earned it. We all put the work in.' There have been a few nervous moments already. With the score tied 0-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning of the district championship game against Terre Haute North, Adam Poisel hit a grand slam on a 3-2 count with two outs. 'We were silent for like two seconds,' Arnold said. 'Because it hit the top of the fence and we didn't know if it was going out or not.' The ball bounced over the fence for a grand slam. Brownsburg closed the door in the top of the sixth inning for a 4-0 win to take the district title. 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