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Nashville Superspeedway’s Erik Moses is first Black track president in NASCAR history

AP photo by Mark Humphrey / Kevin Harvick takes the checkered flag at the finish line to win the Nashville 300, a NASCAR Nationwide Series race on April 3, 2010, at Nashville Superspeedway in Gladeville, Tenn. NASCAR is set to return in 2021 to the speedway, which now has the first Black track president in the history of the stock car racing giant.
AP photo by Mark Humphrey / Kevin Harvick takes the checkered flag at the finish line to win the Nashville 300, a NASCAR Nationwide Series race on April 3, 2010, at Nashville Superspeedway in Gladeville, Tenn. NASCAR is set to return in 2021 to the speedway, which now has the first Black track president in the history of the stock car racing giant. AP photo by Mark Humphrey / Kevin Harvick takes the checkered flag at the finish line to win the Nashville 300, a NASCAR Nationwide Series race on April 3, 2010, at Nashville Superspeedway in Gladeville, Tenn. NASCAR is set to return in 2021 to the speedway, which now has the first Black track president in the history of the stock car racing giant.

By DAN GELSTON / The Associated Press 4 min read

DOVER, Del. – Erik Moses has been named president of Nashville Superspeedway, the first Black man to hold that title at any NASCAR track.

Moses most recently served as president of the XFL’s DC Defenders and now leads the charge of the scheduled reboot of the Tennessee track next year. The 1.33-mile concrete tri-oval was built in 2001 by Dover Motorsports Inc. and hosted NASCAR and IndyCar events until 2011.

DMI announced the hire before Saturday’s Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway.

“Our partnership with NASCAR is for them to put on the race and bring the circus to town,” Moses said. “Our job is to make certain that the big top is ready. Make certain that everybody in and around middle Tennessee and the rest of that area understands we’re going to have a Cup Series race and they can look forward to the type of experience that NASCAR fans expect and deserve.”

Moses said he was welcomed to the industry this past week by NASCAR president Steve Phelps. He takes control in a year when the series has been swept up in the reckoning of the nation’s racial issues.