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NASCAR plans to race its way through the South in June

AP photo by Terry Renna / NASCAR driver Aric Almirola heads for the track during a Cup Series practice on Sept. 4, 2015, at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway, the venue that will host NASCAR's return to competition after a two-month layoff this Sunday.
AP photo by Terry Renna / NASCAR driver Aric Almirola heads for the track during a Cup Series practice on Sept. 4, 2015, at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway, the venue that will host NASCAR's return to competition after a two-month layoff this Sunday. AP photo by Terry Renna / NASCAR driver Aric Almirola heads for the track during a Cup Series practice on Sept. 4, 2015, at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway, the venue that will host NASCAR's return to competition after a two-month layoff this Sunday.

By JENNA FRYER / The Associated Press 2 min read

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – It will be a summer in the South for NASCAR: The stock car series announced Thursday it will stick to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee for June races – all of them without fans.

NASCAR has now set plans for 20 races – including nine in the top-tier Cup Series – as it returns to the track after being shut down for more than two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Cup Series is scheduled to resume Sunday at Darlington Raceway and run four times in 11 days at the South Carolina track and at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Each track will also host a second-tier Xfinity Series race during that span, when Charlotte will also host a third-tier Truck Series event.

Then NASCAR will go to Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee on May 30 for an Xfinity Series race, with the Cup Series running there the next day. The track is roughly three hours’ driving distance for most of the teams based in the Charlotte area. Some drivers could fly privately to the track via helicopter.

NASCAR will then race at Atlanta Motor Speedway with the Truck Series and Xfinity Series on June 6 and the Cup Series on June 7. The track in Hampton, Georgia, is at least a four-hour drive, though, and teams could need hotels.