![]() Harvick, who will make 2023 his final season in NASCAR, and Bowyer, his former teammate at Stewart-Haas Racing, will be on hand for the kickoff. SRX gets underway Thursday, July 13 at Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford Springs, Connecticut and then runs for six consecutive weeks. The availability of NASCAR drivers is partly attributable to the series moving from Saturday nights to Thursdays for a reboot of ESPN’s Thursday Night Thunder, which will remove any conflicts with the weekend schedules. Chase Elliott won the last two season finales at Nashville (Tennessee) Fairgrounds in 2021 and Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio last year. The SRX series was launched to create a bridge between veteran drivers, up-and-comers and visiting superstars. A partial schedule for Helio Castroneves was also announced. We’ll make the best of every minute of those 2 hours to maximize the fun.Three current and former NASCAR drivers join SRX in 2023 for at least two races each, as the series announced on Instagram that Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Clint Bowyer will help fill the roster in four of six races. It’s 2 hours and we know it’s going to be a lot of fun. You’re going to want to hear more from Tony Stewart. “You’re going to want to hear more stories about Helio Castroneves. CBS Sports will produce these races in a 2 hour window. Personality and action on the track will be a big part of the draw to SRX but the final piece may be the race format when it comes to how it is broadcast. It’s all about the steering wheel and the pedals and the guy behind the wheel. How much budget one team has vs another is not a factor. Put them all in cars that take out a lot of the things that are out of their control, even better. Whether it’s a race back to the hotel at the end of the day, they want to win. “You put them in a race car, they want to win. ![]() “They are all pretty competitive,” said SRX play by play announcer Allen Bestwick. We’re going to leaning on each other in these cars.” It’s not going to be your normal IROC race that you saw where guys were either wrecked and tore up or not touching each other at all. “It’s short track racing and we are going to lean on each other. “Hopefully we aren’t tearing a lot of these cars up, but I have a feeling the cars are going to have marks on them each week,” said Stewart. A way to shine a light on the next potential great drivers like Doug Coby, Brian Brown, Bobby Santos III, Kody Swanson, and Haillie Deegan. Guys from the open wheel circuit like Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan, Paul Tracy, and Marco Andretti to former NASCAR stars like Michael Waltrip, Bill Elliott, Bobby Labonte, Greg Bifflie and Tony Stewart who is also a co-founder of SRX.īut this series will feature some up and comers like Ernie Francis, who at the age of 23 is already the winningest driver in Trans-Am Series history.Ī part of the up and coming drivers will include some “all-star amateurs” to run at select tracks. The cast of characters climbing into the cars each week will be full of personality. We are going to tell the fans about what these guys have been doing since they were superstars and active in the sport full time. “People want to see machines but they want to know about these guys. “People want to see personalities,” said SRX co-founder Ray Evernham.
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