Faced with challenges involving the nearby construction of the Tennessee Titans' new NFL stadium, organizers of the newly selected 2024 IndyCar finale, the Music City Grand Prix, have opted to shift the Sept. 15 street race onto the Nashville Superspeedway, Big Machine Label Group and IndyCar jointly announced Wednesday morning.

Having assumed a new leadership role in running the Nashville street race, which launched in 2021 and was prepared to shift to a much-ballyhooed location closer to downtown Nashville this fall; Big Machine Label Group chairman and founder Scott Borchetta spent the last couple weeks reviewing the race's plans for the eight months leading up to its reboot. Though the race will remain on the same date, Borchetta decided that there was too much risk remaining a street race so close to the intense construction that could potentially become prohibitive. Waiting longer to make a switch, he said, could've make it difficult to run the event at all.

“With several key locations around the stadium not available as in years past, and with the proposed course change to run through the streets of downtown Nashville, we simply don't have the proper space needed by the race teams, nor the proper access for downtown businesses and residences to execute the world-class event that is expected by our amazing fans, IndyCar teams and sponsors," Borchetta said in a release. "With the significant challenges of the proposed new layout and unknowns with the new stadium construction, which has been the center of operations for the first three years of the Grand Prix, the decision has been made to move the 2024 race to the Nashville Superspeedway."

The Indy Racing League (and later IndyCar) ran at the 1.33-mile D-shaped oval more than 30 minutes west of downtown Nashville from 2001-08, with Scott Dixon winning the last three races there. It will serve as the first oval to decide an IndyCar championship in a decade, dating back to Fontana in 2014. It's addition to the 2024 schedule will also make for an oval-packed end of the season, including six of the final eight events (Iowa doubleheader, World Wide Technology Raceway, Milwaukee doubleheader and now Nashville).

NASCAR recently made its full-fledged return to the oval track in 2021, bringing all three of its series to the track for a jam-packed weekend that has continued into 2024 (June 28-30).

"Nashville Superspeedway is ideally suited to our highly competitive and extremely intense style of racing, and we look forward to adding a Speedway Motorsports track to our schedule," Penske Entertainment president and CEO Mark Miles said in a release. "Our fans will eagerly anticipate watching a championship be decided on a high-speed oval, with NBC providing a must-see network telecast to viewers around the country.

"Scott (Borchetta) and his team will do a terrific job organizing our finale weekend, and I'm incredibly appreciative of their efforts to pivot and find a fitting venue for our fans, drivers and teams."

This story will be updated.

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