NASCAR’s two-week Olympics break continues this weekend.
NASCAR as most of you know it, that is.
NASCAR is actually available this weekend in two forms — through its adopted stock-car offspring (ARCA) and its sports-car cousin (IMSA).
ARCA will provide another week of short-track action in the hinterlands of the upper Midwest, while IMSA will head to America’s Dairyland to race at one of the racing world’s favorite playgrounds.
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Where is ARCA racing and how can I watch?
Saturday night’s ARCA race, the Shore Lunch 250, can be watched on Fox Sports 1 (FS1), beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern.
The race will be run on the three-eighths-mile Elko Speedway in the city of New Elko Market, Minnesota, south of Minneapolis.
Where are IMSA sports cars racing, how do we watch?
All four classes of IMSA racers will compete in Sunday’s race around the historic four-mile Road America in Elkhart, Wisconsin — the picturesque course labels itself as “America’s National Park of Speed.”
The race will last 2 hours and 40 minutes, beginning Sunday afternoon at 3:10.
The race will be broadcast on NBC’s Peacock streaming network, beginning at 3.
As often happens with IMSA, Sunday’s race will be four races within a race among the four classes of cars: GT Prototype, Le Mans Prototype 2, GTD, and GTD Pro.
What is the NASCAR connection?
ARCA, founded in 1953 and based in Toledo, Ohio, was bought by NASCAR in 2019. It remains largely a Midwest racing organization but visits all corners of the U.S., often as a support race during a NASCAR weekend. During the two-week NASCAR Olympic break, ARCA has been a stand-alone show.
IMSA stands for International Motor Sports Association and races under the Daytona Beach-based NASCAR umbrella.
And by the way, adding to IMSA’s NASCAR connection, Cup Series driver Ross Chastain will race in one of the weekend’s preliminary races — Saturday afternoon’s 2-hour Road America 120, which begins at 2:40 on Peacock.
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