Here’s hoping Nashville remains an oval on the IndyCar schedule 

Ever been to Lebanon, Tennessee? How about neighboring Mt. Juliet? You’ll find a tremendous number of good, hospitable people looking to welcome you into these small towns, with clean hotels and plenty of restaurants to serve you meals. It’s not Nashville and that’s exactly the point, but they do have a gem of a small oval racetrack and this past weekend they did a heck of a job in hosting the NTT IndyCar Series final race of the season which saw Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta win for the first time on an oval in his career while also crowning Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou with his third series championship in four years on a track that makes open wheel race fans forget all about street racing rather quickly.& To add some perspective, it’s necessary to look at just how the Nashville Superspeedway became the alternative track for this year’s successful IndyCar finale which saw the competitors traveling at nearly 200 mph on a 1.3-mile banked oval. After being staged as a street race from 2021 through 2023, promoter Scott Borchetta had to move the event to the Nashville Superspeedway due to the construction of the new Nissan Stadium which accommodates the...