IndyCar moves from Nashville streets to nearby superspeedway for season finale amid NFL construction

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IndyCar will move its season-ending championship finale in September from the streets of downtown Nashville to the superspeedway in Lebanon nearly 40 miles away because of construction surrounding the Tennessee Titans' new stadium.

The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix has been a smashing success racing down lower Broadway and using a bridge as part of a tricky track layout.

Big Machine Label Group chairman and founder Scott Borchetta said Wednesday he started overseeing the Sept. 15 race in December and spent several weeks reviewing plans before determining the event had to be moved.

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"I don’t see that we can properly race downtown until that stadium is completed," Borchetta said. "We all have a great desire to to race IndyCars in Nashville. We have a great desire to return to the streets when we can."

Groundbreaking for the Titans’ new stadium is scheduled for Feb. 29 but the stadium won't be ready until the 2027 NFL season.

Borchetta said the old stadium was central to all IndyCar operations, particularly hosting the paddock and team hospitality. That, combined with the NFL schedule not being released until May, created uncertainty. Other construction in the honky tonk district of Lower Broadway also make racing in that area more challenging.

"We all just looked at each other and said, ‘You know what? We’re we’re trying to put 10 gallons in a 5 gallon bucket for this year,’" Borchetta said.

The IndyCar race has a contract in Nashville through 2026. The superspeedway is not unfamiliar: IndyCar has run eight times at the track, with Scott Dixon winning the final three