NASCAR Cup Series at Watkins Glen
The current NASCAR Cup race at the track began in 1986, utilizing a shortened 2.45 mile course.During a 2011 Mobil Oil "Car Swap" at Watkins Glen using the course, Tony Stewart pushed for using the Grand Prix course after driving demonstration laps in both his Chevrolet Impala and the majority of his laps in a McLaren MP4-23 as part of the event with Lewis Hamilton.Starting in 2015 (current contract), NBC had the rights to broadcast the race but the 2015 edition was aired on NBCSN.Beginning in 2017, NBC decided to broadcast this race in the style of radio where various analysts would be placed on the course to report what they see in their section of the track to the viewer.[5] NASCAR instead held a race on the Daytona International Speedway road course,[6] the Go Bowling 235.