{"id":157459,"date":"2025-08-19T04:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157459\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:07:17","slug":"denny-hamlin-questions-nascar-potentially-moving-all-star-race-to-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157459\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin questions NASCAR potentially moving All-Star Race to Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> All-Star Race might have a new home in 2026.\u00a0Jordan Bianchi<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0The Athletic<\/a> reported last Thursday there is an \u201cincreasing possibility<\/a>\u201d that the All-Star Race could be moved from\u00a0North Wilkesboro Speedway\u00a0to Dover\u00a0Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

Bianchi noted that Dover hosting the All-Star Race could lead to North Wilkesboro hosting its first Cup Series points race since 1996. Dover already lost one of its annual dates in 2021. Denny Hamlin<\/strong> won\u2019t be pleased if it loses another in order to host the All-Star Race. <\/p>\n

\u201cSurely, they can\u2019t be talking about replacing Dover\u2019s point race, right? \u2026 We had such a great fan turnout when it was 120 degrees, it was like being on the sun,\u201d Hamlin said on his Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

Dover, notably, is a racetrack without lights. If NASCAR holds the All-Star Race at night, temporary lighting will be needed. That could be the draw for Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith<\/strong>, Hamlin said. Hamlin, however, would prefer this idea not come to fruition. He doesn\u2019t see Dover as an \u201cAll-Star type of racetrack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dover and the NASCAR All-Star Race\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it would be very Marcus Smith<\/strong> of him to be like, \u2018We\u2019re putting in temporary lights and that\u2019s what the spectacle is going to be is to have the first Dover night race.\u2019 I\u2019m just spitballing, but you just never know,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cI just hope there\u2019s no way they could be going from two points races to none at Dover. The fan turnout\u2019s been good there, I don\u2019t know why you would do that. And then, you got to put in temporary lighting. Surely, we won\u2019t run in the middle of the day in July. Who knows.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, hopefully they\u2019re not thinking this one all the way through because this is not the best choice. Dover is just not an All-Star type of racetrack. That track is one where it needs rubber on the racetrack to then widen out and then you can start making passes. But that doesn\u2019t happen until 30 to 40 laps into a run, and the All-Star Race is made up of short runs. There\u2019s just not going to be any passing.\u201d <\/p>\n

The 2026 schedule is expected to come this week. We\u2019ll soon know what the calendar will look like, but if it were up to Hamlin, he\u2019d do away with the All-Star Race and just have a points race at North Wilkesboro. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t we just give the damn teams a week off? Like, they are running us through the grinder. It is a grind trying to get to the racetrack every single weekend,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cDefinitely would enjoy another break, and I just don\u2019t see the need of trying to force this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR All-Star Race might have a new home in 2026.\u00a0Jordan Bianchi\u00a0of\u00a0The Athletic reported last Thursday there is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-157459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115053464497160236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}