Video: President Steve Phelps NASCAR Update at Homestead

Steve Phelps

With a new rules package coming in 2019 for NASCAR's foremost series, with significant schedule changes under consideration for the year after that, and with a groundswell of new corporate interest in the sport as a marketing vehicle, NASCAR President Steve Phelps was upbeat when he took questions from reporters on Sunday morning before the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Despite an on-track product that has produced compelling racing this season-as well as perhaps the strongest Championship 4 contingent since the inception of the elimination-style format in 2014-NASCAR has introduced a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series competition package that will constitute a paradigm shift for next season.