The first time I interview Samuel Delany, we meet in a diner near his apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. we’re going to take calculated risks.Interviewed by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Issue 197, Summer 2011 Coliseum to kick off our debut with our Next Gen car is a proof point, frankly, that we’re going to be bold in what we’re doing. There’s such great opportunity for us," Phelps said. We’re doing it by meeting people where they are, whether that’s physically at a racetrack or through other mediums.
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Larson, Suarez and Wallace all graduated from NASCAR's diversity program, and Phelps said series leadership will continue to reach out to new fans.
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Larson is NASCAR's first champion of Asian descent, and the Cup Series now includes Mexican driver Daniel Suarez and Bubba Wallace, the only fulltime Black driver at the national level.
NASCAR showed in 2021 it will make bold changes to the schedule - Phelps called this season the “most aggressive schedule we’ve had in 50 years" - and its plans to continue growth rolled into Los Angeles the day after Larson won his first Cup title so he could promote the Busch Clash. He believes NASCAR will draw “an unbelievable crowd at the Coliseum” and upward of 40% in the stands will be attending their first Cup race. Public tickets were not sold to Thursday night's coronation of Larson as Cup Series champion, Hemric as Xfinity champion and Rhodes as the trucks winner.īut by the time NASCAR opens the 2022 season, one week ahead of the NFL's Super Bowl in February at the Coliseum for the exhibition Busch Clash, Phelps expects enthusiasm for the new season to be soaring. Its return to Nashville promises plenty of opportunities to see the Next Gen car but few organized chances to get close to the drivers. The awards ceremony was canceled last year.
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The weeklong event in 2019 was wildly popular, and drivers could be spotted up and down Lower Broadway at many of the popular downtown bars. Restrictions will still be in place this week in Nashville, the second year NASCAR chose The Music City for its awards show. Are we satisfied with where that is? We’re not.” “We need to make sure the event experience is better than it’s ever been. We need to make sure we are driving storylines,” Phelps said. “We need to make sure that the marketing and promotion is as strong as it can be. Phelps wants the same Phoenix energy level at all of NASCAR’s races and the series hopes to ensure fans get the most bang for their buck. Martinsville had one of its largest crowds in years and Phoenix saw the return of practice, qualifying and spectators freely roaming the Arizona garage area earlier this month. to me, there’s a responsibility that individuals have to each other” - but some normalcy had returned by the final two races of the season. Policies fluctuated based on virus positivity numbers - and Phelps himself admitted the vaccination rate in the garage is “not high enough. Drivers mostly went directly from their motorhomes to the race car with little engagement with their own race teams, let alone any spectators. To get to the finish line a year ago, NASCAR scrapped all qualifying and practice sessions and three-day weekend events became one-day shows in front of fewer fans. Although NASCAR was one of the first sports to resume competition during the pandemic and the first sport to complete its entire 2020 season, its events have been anything but normal. NASCAR needs its fans to care about its drivers, and it needs its superstars to be accessible to those who invest - both emotionally and monetarily - in the sport. There’s a decent possibility that they will not just look at us as a segmented period of time like they were going to do in the playoffs, but they’ll extend it to potentially the entire season. “I think actually if we’re able to get a few contracts signed in the next couple weeks, they will begin production in December,” Phelps said. NASCAR President Steve Phelps was hopeful earlier this month that discussions with NBC Entertainment could lead to a show that chronicles the 2022 season beginning as early as the February exhibition race in Los Angeles. Many racing series are chasing the docuseries idea since Formula One and Netflix partnered on the “Drive To Survive” program that has helped the sport explode in popularity in the United States. The answer could be a behind-the-scenes docuseries and cameras could potentially be in Nashville this week collecting footage.
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