NASCAR's return to racing shifts to Talladega Superspeedway, with new rules in place after Ryan Newman's frightful crash in the season-opening Daytona 500.
The Alabama track will admit up to 5,000 fans Sunday - with at least two NASCAR teams facing a coronavirus scare - while NASCAR will be on the lookout for the newly banned Confederate flag.
The 5,000 fans in the grandstands will arrive just 48 hours after Stewart-Haas Racing confirmed two unidentified employees tested posted for COVID-19. Team Penske said Saturday it had one employee test positive. The employees are quarantined and are not part of the limited crew members permitted to go to the track under virus rules.
Newman suffered a head injury but was released from the hospital just 48 hours later. He continued to recover during the coronavirus shutdown and returned to racing when NASCAR got back to the track in May. Five-time Talladega winner Brad Keselowski has won twice since NASCAR resumed and is among those “not sure what to expect.”
“You hope everybody is smart and that they take chances, you have to take chances to learn,” Keselowski said. “But by the same token you hope they don't take chances that are potentially lethal to everyone else's day and causes big wrecks. Everybody has different motivations, challenges, goals and they all kind of get thrown into this big pot at Talladega with no practice. We'll see what happens.
“NASCAR five years ago made a deal where they tried to get rid of it without overstepping too many bounds,” he said. “But now the world has changed where you can kind of step over those bounds and make change, and they made a very positive one. It will work out great for our sport, as a whole. I think we'll gain a lot of new fans and a lot of new people will be paying attention, and that's great for all of us.
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