IndyCar Series at Nashville Superspeedway

This article is about the IndyCar Series race held at the Nashville Superspeedway. For the race held at the Nashville street circuit (2021–2023), see Music City Grand Prix.

Borchetta Bourbon 400

IndyCar Series
Venue	Nashville Superspeedway
First race	2001
Distance	399 miles (642 km)
Laps	300
Previous names	Harrah's Indy 200 (2001) Firestone Indy 200 (2002–2008) Big Machine Music City Grand Prix (2024) Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix (2025)
Most wins (driver)	Scott Dixon (3)
Most wins (team)	Chip Ganassi Racing Andretti Global (3)

The Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tennessee has hosted American open-wheel car racing events dating back to 2001.

History

The 2001 event marked the first American open-wheel event in the Nashville area. During some years events were held on Saturday nights. The 2007 event was postponed until Sunday after a series of rain showers at the track.

Following the 2008 event, Indy Racing League officials decided to end their association with Nashville Superspeedway. The event was removed from the 2009 schedule, and afterwards the facility shuttered for several years. Subsequently renamed as the IndyCar Series, the series returned to the Nashville area in 2021 with the Music City Grand Prix on a downtown street circuit. Due to construction downtown, beginning in 2024 the race was moved to the Nashville Superspeedway. ^[1] The race is currently the Borchetta Bourbon 400. ^[2] The race was shifted to be 400 miles for the 2026 running of the race. ^[3]

As a Nashville-area racing tradition, from 2001 through 2008 the winner received a hand-made and painted Gibson Les Paul guitar. When the current event moved to the Superspeedway in 2024, the guitar tradition continued with agreement by Gibson, promoter Scott Borchetta, and circuit owner Marcus Smith. In 2026, The race was moved up to a 400 mile race, as well as a late July, following the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Race summaries

• 2024: For 2024 the Music City Grand Prix was moved to Nashville Superspeedway and scheduled as the season finale. The race would be a championship deciding showdown between Álex Palou and Will Power. Palou only needed to finish ninth or better to secure the championship, while Power had to win the race and hope Palou finished no better than tenth to win the championship. A glimmer of hope was given to Power during qualifying when he managed to qualify fourth while Palou had to take a nine position grid penalty for an unscheduled engine change, leaving him to start 24th on the grid. Kyle Kirkwood meanwhile qualified on pole, earning his first oval pole position. Power's championship hopes faded early in the race when he had to make an unusual early green flag pit stop on lap 13 for a seatbelt that had come undone in his car. Josef Newgarden took the lead before a yellow on lap 56 came out when Felix Rosenqvist blew a tire. Through two more caution periods the race turned to a head to head battle between Newgarden and Colton Herta, with Herta finally getting the best of Newgarden on lap 147. After clearing David Malukas and Scott Dixon, Herta battled with lapped traffic and eventually Pato O'Ward to retake the lead for good, taking his first victory on an oval. With Power multiple laps down, Palou secured his third IndyCar championship. Pato O'Ward finished second while Josef Newgarden rounded out the podium in third.

Past winners

Season	Date	Driver	Team	Chassis	Engine	Race Distance		Race Time	Average Speed (mph)	Report	Refs
						Laps	Miles (km)
2001	July 21	Buddy Lazier	Hemelgarn Racing	Dallara	Oldsmobile	200	266.6 (429.051)	1:44:44	144.809	Report	[4] [5]
2002	July 20	Alex Barron	Blair Racing	Dallara	Chevrolet	200	266.6 (429.051)	2:01:53	127.997	Report	[6] [7]
2003	July 19	Gil de Ferran	Team Penske	Dallara	Toyota	200	266.6 (429.051)	1:53:18	137.679	Report	[8] [9]
2004	July 17	Tony Kanaan	Andretti Green Racing	Dallara	Honda	200	266.6 (429.051)	1:55:35	134.975	Report	[10] [11]
2005	July 16	Dario Franchitti	Andretti Green Racing	Dallara	Honda	200	266.6 (429.051)	1:57:13	133.089	Report	[12] [13]
2006	July 15	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara	Honda	200	266.6 (429.051)	1:36:46	161.205	Report	[14] [15]
2007	July 15*	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara	Honda	200	266.6 (429.051)	1:35:06	164.03	Report	[16] [17]
2008	July 12	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Dallara	Honda	171*	227.943 (366.838)	1:30:05	148.072	Report	[18] [19]
2009 – 2023	Not held
2024	September 15	Colton Herta	Andretti Global with Curb-Agajanian	Dallara	Honda	206	273.98 (440.93)	1:43:15	159.207	Report	[20] [21]
2025	August 31	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Dallara	Honda	225	299.25 (481.49)	1:54:50	156.342	Report	[22]

• 2007: Race postponed from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon due to rain. ^[23]
• 2008: Race shortened due to rain. ^[18]

Support winners

Indy NXT

Season	Date	Winning driver	Ref
2002	July 20	Cory Witherill	[24]
2003	July 18	Mark Taylor	[25]
2004	July 17	Thiago Medeiros	[26]
2005	July 16	Jaime Camara	[27]
2006	July 15	Jay Howard	[28]
2007	July 14	Robbie Pecorari	[29]
2008	July 12	Ana Beatriz	[30]
2009 – 2023	Not held
2024	September 15	Louis Foster	[31]
2025	August 31	Myles Rowe	[32]

References

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External links

• champcarstats.com