Nashville is back to Extravaganza Series racing! 54 entries will fill up the 36 spots in the main 320-lap event. There will be two 100-lap duel races the day before, with 15 drivers from each duel qualifying for the main event. This will be followed by a 24-driver, 30-lap shootout to fill up the final 6 spots in the field. Each event will have a qualifying session prior, so the results in each duel will not translate to the next race. Everybody will get points, with the last place driver in Duel #2 (54th place) getting 1 point, and the first place driver in the main event  getting 180 like normal. Here is the format written in bold:

Nashville Duels
1. 100 lap Duel #1, 27 cars, 15 advance
2. 100 lap Duel #2, 27 cars, 15 advance
3. 30 lap Shootout, 24 cars, 6 advance
 

Nashville Main Event
1. 320 lap Feature, 36 cars

With only 10 races left in the regular season, the chase race appears to be as tight as ever. Scott Jackson and Johnny Reed Foley have meandered their way to several straight top-10 finishes in-a-row, and have eeked their way into the top-10 in points. Matt Raboin and Dave Miller have been knocked out after crashes at Chicagoland, but are still on the borderline of Championship livelihood. Here are the standings between 9th through 12th:
 

9. Scott Jackson: +14
10. Johnny Reed Foley: +7
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11. Matt Raboin: -7
12. Dave Miller: -13

Horsepower seems to correlate with engine detonation like no other season in 2021. Four drivers inside the top-12 in points have gobbled all the wins, and the same four drivees have hogged  all the DNF's. Here are these drivers:

Battista, Heuser, Jackson, Raboin: 11 wins, 9 DNF's
Rest of top-12 (8 other drivers): 5 wins, 4 DNF's

Tony Pizzaro enters the Fairgrounds 42 points ahead of Tim McDonnell for the Championship. Tim has still completed every lap this season. With the possibility of not making the feature, and the simplicity of going a lap down in a 320-lap short track race, the streak may end this week.