Track Facts

The Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, formerly the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix, brought INDYCAR back to Nashville in 2021 after a 13-year gap between races in Middle Tennessee. The challenging downtown Nashville street circuit, with its distinct route across the Korean Veterans Memorial Bridge, saw Marcus Ericsson win the first NTT INDYCAR SERIES event on the city streets before Scott Dixon and Kyle Kirkwood followed with victories in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Construction of Nissan Stadium on the Cumberland’s east bank facilitated the event’s transition back to the original home of INDYCAR in Nashville – the Nashville Superspeedway 1.33-mile concrete oval track in Lebanon, Tennessee – in 2024. The move also shifted the race to the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season finale in both 2024 and 2025. Former Nashville resident Colton Herta won for Andretti Global in the action-packed return to Nashville Superspeedway in 2024, while Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou claimed his third series championship. In 2025, Nashville native Josef Newgarden of Team Penske produced his first hometown victory, while Palou was crowned series champion for the third consecutive year and the fourth time in five seasons.

Nashville Superspeedway hosted INDYCAR racing from the track’s opening in 2001 through 2008. Buddy Lazier captured the first INDYCAR SERIES race at the fast oval before Alex Barron and Gil de Ferran won at Nashville over the following two seasons. Tony Kanaan won in 2004 and Dario Franchitti won in 2005 before Scott Dixon captured three consecutive victories at Nashville Superspeedway from 2006-2008. In addition to his three wins, Dixon still owns the track’s speed record with a qualifying lap of 206.211 mph on July 19, 2003. That same year, Sam Hornish Jr. clocked the fastest race lap at the track at 203.757 mph. Beyond his four Nashville race victories (three on the oval, one on the street circuit), Dixon is tied with Scott McLaughlin for the most poles earned in Nashville at two apiece. Dixon’s 0.1067-second win over McLaughlin in 2022 is the closest margin of victory for an INDYCAR race in Nashville, while Dixon’s 0.1176-second triumph over Dan Wheldon is the narrowest margin for an INDYCAR win at Nashville Superspeedway.