Big Machine Music City Grand Prix To Take Over Broadway With 2nd Annual FanFest

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MCGP Fan Fest pit stop competition 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the Music City Grand Prix

The Big Machine Music City Grand Prix festivities will officially kick off Thursday, Aug. 4, with the return of FanFest on Broadway featuring a Pit Stop Challenge with some of the biggest names in the NTT IndyCar Series.

FanFest, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Broadway from 1st through 4th streets and include show cars, sponsor displays, a Mini Grand Prix and a Stadium SUPER Trucks exhibition, along with the heightened pit stop competition.

The Pit Stop Challenge has been expanded from last year’s best-of-three, two-car competition to a single-elimination, six-driver event with:

  • Six-time NTT IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon of Chip Ganassi Racing
  • Former seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson of Chip Ganassi Racing
  • Seven-time race winner Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport with Curb-Agajanian
  • Three-time race winner Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP
  • 2021 IndyCar Rookie of the Year Scott McLaughlin of Team Penske
  • 2019 Rookie of the Year Felix Rosenqvist of Arrow McLaren SP

The Pit Stop Challenge will be held on Broadway between 1st and 2nd streets and begin at 6 p.m. The opening-draw will be announced just prior to the start of the competition and the teams will vie for $10,000 in prize money.

Following the conclusion of the Pit Stop Challenge, Robby Gordon’s Stadium SUPER Trucks will put on an exhibition as a preview of one of the series competing in the Aug. 5-7 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix around the Nissan Stadium campus. SST stars expected to be on hand are Gordon, Greg Biffle, Gavin Harlien and Robby’s son, Max Gordon.

That area also will serve as the layout for Rocketown’s second annual Mini Grand Prix that begins at 5 p.m. Children will compete in mini Indy pedal karts in three age classes (4-5 years old, 6-7 and 8-9). Tony Kanaan, an Indy 500 winner and series champion, will be calling the action.

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