McGlynn said it will take between $8 and $10 million worth of renovations to prepare Nashville Superspeedway for racing.
“The speedway itself is in great shape. There are some needs to replace some SAFER walls that we had cannibalized over the years to bring to Dover, so we are not too concerned about the speedway,” McGlynn explained. “The buildings need to be gone over for the infrastructure that services them and all the fixtures that are inside, so we will be spending money on carpets and air conditioning units and all that other stuff.
“We expect that it will be somewhere between an $8 to 10 million investment over the next two years. I say that because maybe some of the things we want to do, we won’t be able to get done in one year. It is close to being ready and we will be up and in first-class fashion by next June.”
McGlynn confirmed that Nashville Superspeedway has 25,000 permanent seats and that capacity will be augmented with portable seats.
Finally, while no announcements have been made regarding Dover’s May event of this year, which was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, McGlynn said his team is preparing to host a doubleheader in August.
“As I mentioned earlier, while we don’t have any confirmation, and NASCAR certainly hasn’t verified this yet, only because we have to plan for August, we’re planning for the eventuality that we may have our spring race, which was postponed, blended into our August race to have what essentially would be a doubleheader weekend with two Cup races, two Xfinity races, a truck and an ARCA race,” McGlynn said. “Again, that’s not official. That’s what we’re planning for because we don’t want to be caught shorthanded at the last minute with that kind of a proposition.”