As part of a teleconference announcing Homestead-Miami Speedway as the 2026 season finale, NASCAR has also given an update on 'The Clash' and its immediate future.
After spending decades as an exhibition race for pole-sitters, taking place at Daytona International Speedway in the lead-up to the 500, the event has changed drastically in recent years. After moving it from the Daytona oval to the Daytona road course in 2021, the event took on a whole new identify with a temporary race track constructed inside the LA Memorial Coliseum. After three years of that with all chartered teams invited, everything changed again. In 2025. NASCAR left the lucrative LA market and returned to its roots at Bowman Gray Stadium.
