Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe if this goes through, NASCAR will host the first sporting event since the beginning of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic that will actually be a ‘host’ to a human audience. While Korean baseball was about the first to get up and running, they are still playing in front of, literally, SpongeBob Squarepants and similar plush toys. The German Bundesliga is also active, but without an audience, and players have talked about how this has eroded the homefield advantage.
The Associated Press reports that NASCAR will begin allowing some fans to return to their raceways, announced so far for two events, to be held in Florida and Alabama, respectively.