Richmond Raceway will celebrate the start of the 2020 NASCAR season on the Richmond Raceway Road Trip (RR Road Trip) for DAYTONA Speedweeks Presented By AdventHealth in Daytona Beach, Fla. on Feb. 8-16. Richmond will drive a track branded Toyota Camry Pace Car and Toyota Tundra to promote the new racing season by visiting racetracks across five states between Richmond, Va., and Daytona Beach, Fla., on Feb. 9-10.
The RR Road Trip will depart America’s Premier Short Track on Sunday, Feb. 9 for a two-day drive to Daytona Beach, Fla. for DAYTONA Speedweeks Presented By AdventHealth. The race track tour will begin with a stop at Racing Virginia’s VIRginia International Raceway in Alton, Va., which was named as one of Car and Driver Magazine’s top six road courses in the nation.
The RR Road Trip will continue with visits to Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., Lake View Motor Speedway in Nichols, S.C., Golden Isles Speedway in Waynesville, Ga., and New Smyrna Speedway in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. The RR Road Trip will conclude at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.
“As the dawn of a new NASCAR season starts at DAYTONA Speedweeks, we will launch our season by crossing our historic start/finish line to begin the Richmond Raceway Road Trip to Daytona International Speedway,” said Richmond President Dennis Bickmeier. “We support NASCAR Roots and grassroots racing through Racing Virginia, so we look forward to visiting and highlighting local tracks on our journey to Daytona International Speedway. Thanks to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Bowman Gray Stadium, Lake View Motor Speedway, Golden Isles Speedway, and New Smyrna Speedway for hosting us to start DAYTONA Speedweeks.”
As part of Richmond’s commitment to promote grassroots racing, the track joined an unprecedented collaboration among Virginia’s motorsports venues to launch Racing Virginia. Now in its fourth year, racingvirginia.com shares information from tracks around the Commonwealth to make it easy for fans to plan their weekends with a master schedule of racing events, stay up to date with news, and share ticket information. Exclusive original content is shared weekly with regular columns by long-time motorsports columnist Randy Hallman and the Racing Virginia Podcast hosted by Dave Seay of Virginia Motor Speedway and Vaughan Crittenden of Richmond. To learn more, visit racingvirginia.com.
To follow the RR Road Trip online connect to Richmond on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter and Racing Virginia on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The official hashtag is #RRRoadTrip.
Tickets for the 62nd annual DAYTONA 500 and all other Daytona International Speedway events are available for purchase online at daytonainternationalspeedway.com or by calling 1-800-PITSHOP.
Richmond Raceway 2020 Season
Richmond will host the Toyota Spring Race Weekend on April 17-19. NASCAR’s best will compete for a spot in the playoffs in the TOYOTA OWNERS 400 NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) race on Sunday, April 19. The NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series will return to America’s Premier Short Track for the ToyotaCare 250 “under the lights” on Saturday, April 18. This will be the first Gander Truck race at Richmond since 2005. Practice day for the NCS and Gander Truck is on Friday, April 17.
For the first time in 11 years, the NTT IndyCar Series will race at Richmond “under the lights” on Saturday, June 27. Richmond will host a festival headlined by the NTT IndyCar Series, welcoming fans to engage in a speed-themed weekend event on June 26-27.
The road to the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series championship will once again lead through Richmond on Sept. 11-12. The Action Track will be the second race of the first round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs for the ninth annual Federated Auto Parts 400 on Saturday, Sept. 12. Richmond will also host the Go Bowling 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series Regular Season Championship race on Friday, Sept. 11. This will be the 29th consecutive year the fall race weekend is “under the lights” at Richmond.
NASCAR and INDYCAR tickets are available for purchase in-person at the Richmond Ticket Office, via phone at 866-455-7223, or online at richmondraceway.com.
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