{"id":73657,"date":"2020-06-29T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=73657"},"modified":"2020-06-29T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:47:12","slug":"nascar-cancels-nashville-races-due-to-covid-19-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-cancels-nashville-races-due-to-covid-19-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cancels Nashville Races Due to Covid-19 Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"70067\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-to-hold-race-events-without-fans-in-attendance\/nascar-bar-mark\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,361\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NASCAR-Bar-mark\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70067 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR, COVID-19\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic the NASCAR Champion\u2019s Week and NASCAR Cup Series Awards originally scheduled to take place in Nashville, TN, will be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has released this statement:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith the uncertainty surrounding the Coronavirus and the impact on the industry, this year\u2019s NASCAR Champion\u2019s Week and NASCAR Cup Series Awards originally scheduled to take place in Nashville will not occur. The 2020 NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Gander RV &amp; Outdoors Truck Series champions will be celebrated at the end of the season with more details to come. We look forward to returning to Nashville in 2021.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic the NASCAR Champion\u2019s Week and NASCAR Cup Series Awards originally scheduled to take place in Nashville, TN, will be canceled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":70067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,5029,22],"tags":[7567,2052,127,7904,41,3937],"class_list":["post-73657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-racing","category-event-coverage","tag-covid-19","tag-events","tag-nascar","tag-nashville","tag-news","tag-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-ja1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73658,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73657\/revisions\/73658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}