Instead of the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) 3.41-mile, 20-turn full-course layout, NASCAR will now use the facility’s equally challenging 2.3-mile, 20-turn National Course. The NASCAR Xfinity ...

Last fall, NASCAR announced that it was shortening the course for the Xfinity Series and Cup Series races at COTA from 3.4 to 2.4 miles, cutting out turns 7 to 11 and creating a hard cut from the ...

Instead of running the traditional, 3.4-mile Formula One layout, NASCAR chopped one mile off ... thrown for an extra loop when they realized COTA had milled the inside of Turns 14 and 15 ...

This week, NASCAR officials decided to shorten COTA's track layout, making it 1.1 miles shorter. As a consequence, lap times will drop by around a minute. In turn, 27 laps were added to the ...

After two weeks at high-speed Daytona and Atlanta, NASCAR goes to the tricky road course in Austin (COTA) for something completely different.

What an awesome experience the NASCAR COTA race produced. Christopher Bell won the dramatic EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, passing Kyle Busch late in the race and holding off William Byron and ...

This year, the race will take place on the shorter 2.3-mile layout for its fifth edition. Many NASCAR drivers have praised COTA’s challenging layout and facilities, but opinions are split on its ...

on a different layout than NASCAR employed in previous visits to the Circuit of the Americas. COTA can utilize a couple of different layouts, and this year, NASCAR is moving from the 3.4-mile ...