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So not NHL or MLB related, but I stumbled on some interesting SLC related sports discussion today. I'm a big fan of motorsports, including NASCAR. This past week, NASCAR held its first ever street race in Chicago, and it was a smashing success, it completely blew expectations out of the water and was an instant classic of the modern era. In motorsports as a whole, street races are becoming a more popular option as they are cheaper and bring the racing closer to the fans. Building and maintaining purpose built circuits is costly, but street races can be done in a single weekend (with a few weeks of preparation beforehand) for much cheaper. Anyways, NASCAR is clearly interested in doing more street races, and this week put our a poll on their socials asking where people would be interested in seeing a NASCAR street race. The second most popular option? Salt Lake City, which really surprised me, but everyone was mentioning things like the views and wide streets and the geographic hole of racing in America that Salt Lake City could fill. The kicker tho was the NASCAR admin responding with something along the lines of "we'll keep our eyes on that option." The Chicago street race had over 100,000 attendees and over 4 million TV viewers, so there was a lot of eyes on it, and the city pulled in tens of millions in revenue from it. Now I'd imagine there isn't a lot of nascar fans on this forum, but I'm sure everyone could piece together an opinion on hosting a large motorsport event here, the effects it would have on our city, pros and cons, etc. I'm putting this here in this thread since it's becoming our defacto sports thread. Personally I think it'd be awesome if in the next 5 to 10 years we can get 2 new major league teams and a nascar race to the city, in addition to a possible Olympics announcement. It'd really solidify us as a sporting city