Machine Gun Kelly to perform halftime show at NASCAR’s L.A. Clash

The Conflict returns to Los Angeles for the third consecutive 12 months. Annually, there’s been a mid-race break highlighted by a live performance.

The L.A. Memorial Coliseum has hosted every thing from two Tremendous Bowls, two Olympics, a World Sequence and numerous different main occasions over the previous century. The short-term race monitor constructed inside the power is simply ¼-mile in size.

In 2022, Pitbull carried out a pre-race live performance forward of the race, adopted by Ice Dice’s halftime present. The mid-race live performance returned in 2023 with Wiz Khalifa.

2024’s occasion will embrace a efficiency from Machine Gun Kelly, which takes place on Sunday, February 4, and serves because the unofficial begin to the brand new season of inventory automotive racing. The 2024 NASCAR Cup Sequence season formally kicks off on Sunday, February 18 with 66th operating of the Daytona 500.

“Machine Gun Kelly is the true embodiment of what it means to be a modern-day rock star,” mentioned NASCAR’s Senior Vice President of Racing Improvement and Technique, Ben Kennedy. “We’re thrilled to have as fascinating of an artist as MGK carry within the 2024 season throughout the Busch Gentle Conflict on the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.”

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The inaugural operating of the L.A. Conflict was received by Joey Logano, who went on to win his second Cup Sequence title that 12 months. The defending winner is Martin Truex Jr., taking victory forward of the Richard Childress Racing duo of Austin Dillon and Kyle Busch in 2023.

One other twist to this 12 months’s occasion would be the inclusion of the NASCAR Mexico Sequence, which can run their very own exhibition race previous to the Cup race.

NASCAR on FOX will as soon as once more carry the printed for the Busch Gentle Conflict. The NASCAR Mexico Sequence Race will be discovered on on FS1, Fox Deportes, Fox Sports activities 3 in Mexico, and obtainable pan regionally on Claro Sports activities and the D Motors channel on DirecTV.