Noah Gragson SLAMS Narrative That “Short Track Racing Is Dead”

Front Row Motorsports star driver Noah Gragson shared his thoughts on the revival of short track racing greatness in USA.

Noah Gragson SLAMS Narrative That “Short Track Racing Is Dead”

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One of the biggest complaints among the NASCAR community since the introduction of the Next-Gen cars has been the quality of the short track racing. This wasn’t limited to just the premier stock car racing series has the Late Model and Modified series are also have been finding it hard to return from the massive financial hole they found themselves in during Covid.

This made the rise of the narrative that short track racing dead and this angers Front Row Motorsports’ Noah Gragson. During the 2025 Snowball Derby weekend, the star racer shared his thoughts on the situation and asserted that he doesn’t believe the statement is true and gave the massive attendance at Five Flags Speedway as an example to validate his point.

People say short track racing is dead, I don’t necessarily believe that. Come down here to the Snowball Derby, you have a good atmosphere, a good racetrack, good people that put on this race…

Noah Gragson said via Short Track Scene.

The ex-Stewart Haas Racing driver asserted that he feels short track racing is as alive and as good as it has always been. He admitted that there are certain tracks that has lost its charm, it’s legacy and not longer host premier races they ones used to host. Gragson believes while some of the failures are product of poor racing, some are due to mismanagement as well.

Short track racing is as alive as it’s ever been in my opinion… Maybe at certain tracks it might be dead, and that might be a product of who’s running them.

Noah Gragson added.

Noah Gragson is getting Cup Series prime nostalgia from Five Flags Speedway

In the same conversation, the Ford driver shared his thoughts on the Snowball Derby. He pointed out that the massive attendance for the event excites him as he doesn’t get experience such huge group of fans nowadays for short track races.

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This place is awesome. Especially, you know all week, but on Sunday as well. It’s pretty spectacular to see the amount of people that come out for the race and just how excited they are, and all the haulers leave the infield on Sunday. You’ve got everybody bringing their pickup trucks in for the racetrack and the race, it’s just unbelievable to see.

Noah Gragson said.

The star racer pointed out that he is getting nostalgia about 90s short track racing, which was the peak time, seeing the fans. He also admitted how it took him almost two years to realize how big was his 2018 derby win and how much the fans love him.

It reminds me almost of a 90s Cup race in a sense, just because in 2018, we won this race and I knew it was a big deal. But I didn’t really realize, it didn’t fully sink in how big a deal it was until we came back here in 2020, and I missed the race my next time here and i had to park all the way down by the McDonald’s.

Noah Gragson added.

The comments from the Ford driver shows positive signs of the grassroot stock racing getting back to its prime and it will have a positive effect NASCAR in the coming years. It would be interesting to see what role Noah Gragson can play in it.

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