{"id":23819,"date":"2025-08-11T05:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bristol-speedway-from-mlb-to-nascar-a-transformation-against-the-clock\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:17:33","slug":"bristol-speedway-from-mlb-to-nascar-a-transformation-against-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/bristol-speedway-from-mlb-to-nascar-a-transformation-against-the-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Speedway: From MLB to NASCAR, a transformation against the clock!"},"content":{"rendered":"BRISTOL, Tennessee \u2013 The moment the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds cleared the baseball diamond inside the infield at Bristol Motor Speedway, a new clock began to run.\n\nThe “Last Great Colosseum” must transition from hosting the MLB Speedway Classic and be ready for NASCAR’s return to the historic racetrack for a playoff race on September 13.\n\nThe first MLB regular season game in the state of Tennessee set a record with a paid attendance of 91,032 people, but now it must return to its roots in racing.\n\n

It’s difficult, but they are things we like. It gives us a challenge and we like challenges.<\/p>Steve Swift, Senior Vice President of Speedway Motorsports Operations<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

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Despu\u00e9s de transformarse en un campo de b\u00e9isbol para un juego entre los Braves y los Reds, Bristol Motor Speedway debe volver a su estado normal a tiempo para una carrera de NASCAR el 13 de septiembre. Earl Neikirk\/Bristol Motor Speedway v\u00eda AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe Major League Baseball used BaAM to create everything, from the locker rooms for the Braves and the Reds, complete with showers, fitness and strength rooms, coaches’ and trainers’ offices, and batting cages. They built stands along both baselines with broadcast booths.\n\nThe pit walls were removed and now have to be rebuilt. The transformation into a baseball diamond on the infield required 17,500 tons of gravel to level the infield, then 340 tons of Pennsylvania clay for the playing surface.\n\nSwift said that pouring concrete walls takes time, and then more time for it to cure properly.\n\n

As soon as the final release is launched, the final hit is connected, the teams do their thing, take care of the post-game, the pads will begin to come off the wall, and they will work overnight to basically start dismantling so that we can reassemble for the NASCAR race.<\/p>Steve Swift<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nPart of the gravel will be used in Bristol parking lots. Swift said they have found groups to help use some of the materials to help people still recovering from the damage caused by Hurricane Helene. That includes 2x4s and plywood used for the bleachers.\n\n

Many things are going to be of good use with respect to the reconstruction part. We just need to get them out of the way so we can put asphalt and concrete back.<\/p>Steve Swift<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThis new renewal calendar has a couple of days built in for protection. The target date for completion is September 7th.\n\n

There may still be some paint drying when the Goodyear transporters arrive, but we will definitely aim for (September 7th).<\/p>Steve Swift<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBristol hosted a college football game in 2016 that drew 156,990 people. Now, the NHL could be in Bristol’s future after Sportico reported Friday that league officials would be reviewing how the racetrack handled Major League Baseball.\n\n

We have shown with soccer and now baseball that things can take place and we can do things that no one would even think of.<\/p>Steve Swift<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BRISTOL, Tennessee \u2013 The moment the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds cleared the baseball diamond inside the infield at Bristol Motor Speedway, a new clock began to run. The “Last Great Colosseum” must transition from hosting the MLB Speedway Classic and be ready for NASCAR’s return to the historic racetrack for a playoff race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6737,344,182,2607],"class_list":{"0":"post-23819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-bristol-motor-speedway","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-renewal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}