With the Charlotte Roval gone, NASCAR drivers push for road course in Chase

CONCORD, NC – Every year since 1960, NASCAR has held a fall race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on its mile-and-a-half asphalt oval.But for the past eight seasons, this race in early October had been held on a road course. The folks at Speedway Motorsports – the owner of the track in Concord, North Carolina – reconfigured the layout of the fall competition into a 2.28-mile road course with 17 turns. Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson each took the checkered flag twice there, while road