{"id":7960,"date":"2020-04-02T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonmotorsport.com\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2020-04-02T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:06:22","slug":"iracing-short-track-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2020\/04\/02\/iracing-short-track-series\/","title":{"rendered":"NBCSN to host four-night, iRacing Short Track Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s an iRacing world<\/a> <\/strong>and we’re just living in it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

After FOX’s success running iRacing events during the COVID-19 shutdown across most of the United States, NBCSN is throwing its at in the ring.<\/p>\n

NBCSN to host four-night, iRacing Short Track Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The network announced on Thursday morning that starting on Monday, April 6, they would be televising a series of races at short tracks, featuring NASCAR Cup Series drivers.<\/p>\n

Each night will consist of six drivers racing in two timed races with the top two finishers advancing to the series finale on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud to continue our successful collaboration with iRacing and NASCAR, which began last year, to produce the NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge,\u201d Jeff Behnke,<\/strong> vice president, production, NASCAR on NBC and NBCSN, said in a release. \u201cThanks to all the drivers from the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series for joining in what should be four consecutive nights of entertainment and fun for all the great race fans and viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rick Allen\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Steve Letarte\u00a0<\/strong>will be calling the action along with input from Jeff Burton\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Marty Snider\u00a0<\/strong>via Zoom, according to the release.<\/p>\n

The races will begin at 7:00 p.m. ET each night and will be televised on NBCSN and the series is being tabbed as the NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf all of the events we\u2019ve been putting together for real-world pros, the NBC eSports Short Track iRacing Challenge should be one of the most fun,\u201d iRacing executive producer Steve Myers <\/strong>said. \u201cSo many of the top drivers in NASCAR have honed their skills on both local short tracks and iRacing, and combining the two for a virtual week-long showdown should deliver plenty of excitement. We can\u2019t wait to see who takes the checkered flag and bragging rights!\u201d<\/p>\n

The tracks and drivers featured can be found below.<\/p>\n

Monday, April 6
\n<\/strong>Rockingham Speedway<\/strong>
\n7:00 p.m. ET – NBCSN<\/em>
\nKyle Busch
\nWilliam Byron
\nAustin Dillon
\nParker Kligerman
\nTyler Reddick
\nBubba Wallace<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 7
\n<\/strong>Lucas Oil Raceway<\/strong>
\n7:00 p.m. ET – NBCSN
\n<\/em>Justin Allgaier
\nChristopher Bell
\nChase Briscoe
\nHarrison Burton
\nDenny Hamlin
\nKyle Larson<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 8
\n<\/strong>Myrtle Beach Speedway<\/strong>
\n7:00 p.m. ET – NBCSN<\/em>
\nLandon Cassill
\nMatt DiBenedetto
\nDale Earnhardt Jr.
\nTimmy Hill
\nRyan Preece
\nMyatt Snider<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 9
\n<\/strong>Martinsville Speedway
\n<\/strong>*Championship Race<\/strong>
\nTime TBA – NBCSN<\/em><\/p>\n

For more updates on iRacing<\/a> and breaking news, follow our department on Twitter at @RacingVault.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s an iRacing world and we’re just living in it.\u00a0 After FOX’s success running iRacing events during the COVID-19 shutdown across most of the United States, NBCSN is throwing its at in the ring. NBCSN to host four-night, iRacing Short Track Series The network announced on Thursday morning that starting on Monday, April 6, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1370,5],"tags":[390,52,384,261,62,311,14,1371,1372,1373],"class_list":["post-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iracing","category-nascar","tag-christopher-bell","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-iracing","tag-kyle-busch","tag-kyle-larson","tag-matt-dibenedetto","tag-nascar","tag-nbcsn","tag-nbcsn-short-track-series","tag-timmy-hill"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}