Do you think each track should only have one date a year?

One thing that would be good about this is that it would make races like the Daytona 500 way more prestigious and even make races like Texas matter more than they do now.

NASCAR should absolutely do this. The attendance and TV ratings would be a lot better & this would allow more new tracks on the schedule.

My suggestion: The only way a track get 2 dates is if its a special race (such as The Daytona 500 and The Coca-Cola 600). The rest get one. Only exception to the rule would be if the track would have a different track configuration (Such as the Roval or Daytona Roval, Indy Roval ect.) Doesnt mean i want all of these tracks on the calendar i listed, I'm just using them as an example of tracks that have different layouts Final race should rotate to different tracks that require skill to drive, if we gonna have to get stuck with the playoffs, might as well get a track make drivers have to earn there win.

In my opinion I don't think any track that sells less than 90% capacity should ever have more than 1 race date a year. I don't care if its Daytona, Talladega or anyone. If you don't sell at least 90% to TRUE capacity you you don't get 2 race dates the following year. I know here in Vegas we used to absolutely pack the Spring race and then they added the Fall race. Attendance down 35% for Spring and we probably don't HONESTLY even get to 50% in the Fall race. Reward tracks that people turn out for that's all I'm saying.

I think besides Daytona and Charlotte, NASCAR’s 2 home bases, every track should just have one date. It will definitely help fill the grandstands (look at Pocono). Also leaves plenty of room to go to new markets and return to some tracks. I always believe too the NASCAR schedule should have a flex weekend every year to go to new venues

Going to one track every season puts more value on that race to win, especially crown jewels. You can get great crowds like Pocono for instance Problem I have is the amount of road courses you listed. NASCAR fans already have road course fatigue as is. Also got to take into account TV ratings for those road courses alone

The tracks that deserve two dates in my opinion are Daytona, Talladega, Martinsville, Bristol, Darlington, and Charlotte

I really, really hope that Portland eventually gets a cup or truck date to add to the xfinity date. Ive went to both the 2022 and 2023 Pacific Office Automation 147s and they are always entertaining.. Great racing and good wrecks but not too many wrecks

I like the idea, however, there are tracks in the Mexico Series and Pinties that could be used over just adding additional road courses. El Dorado and Delaware are short tracks in Mexico and Canada, respectively. They both hold races in NASCAR santioned series already, so they could be in play for dates without adding too many road courses to the schedule. You could also get Milaukee back into the series using the mile there. That may be a year 2 thing, though.

Yes. Each track one race per year and let's go to 25 or 30 unique tracks. Only exceptions should be Daytona, Bristol, maybe a couple others. That's it. One race everywhere else.

They should do whatever puts the most people in seats. If that means 5 races at Daytona--fine. It certainly means going back to RA and just one date at most tracks.

Then add North Wilksboro, IRP, and Mid-Ohio.

I would love to see them run at laguna seca. That corkscrew would be a game changer. Another track that is race ready would be Williams Grove.

I’m a firm believer of 1 date unless it adds a new aspect of the venue (Indy, Daytona and Charlotte having a road course and the Bristol dirt) it clutters the series and I have friends who don’t call races by their sponsors so it gets complicated

Amen, I've said one race at each track for years. But when Nascar owns what 13? And runs the show like a drunk driving wrong way up a one way street I just enjoy the mayhem. Seems like they have been tweaking the system for years and sometimes have a good year by accident. But I like your picks for tracks.

I think they all should have one except for Daytona, Talladega, Atlanta, Bristol, Martinsville and maybe Darlington for a 6th one. That makes 30 different tracks.

Regarding Nascar schedule having one race a year at most tracks would make sense going forward I mean as tracks like Pocono and Michigan have shown it can work even if the racing is not perfect, same with Dover if it doesn't keep getting rained out. The only exceptions being Daytona, Talladega, Charlotte and Darlington they can stay as 2 races a year for now Eventhough Nascar I think would need to scale down from 38 to 36 races a year includes The Clash and All Star Race If I was Nascar wanting to do the non points races I would try Knoxville and Eldora but limit the eligibility to just Pole Winners from the previous 2 seasons Adding tracks like Chicagoland, Rockingham, Nashville Fairgrounds, Road America, North Wilkesboro being a Points Race, to newer options like Portland, Mexico City, Montreal or Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, Pikes Peak would make sense. Regarding Playoff system if Nascar are going to keep it I would change the format of the 3,3,3,1 for a 4, 3, 3 format and drop it from 16 to 12 Drivers and also would scrap both the win and your in approach as well as the win and you advance. Season finale both regular or championship you should rotate every few years which makes it more difficult to win the championship.

Pikes peak was sold under a clause by ISC that it cannot hold professional racing, just amateur/club level stuff. Maybe that could get mutually worked on but I’m not an attorney lol

My biggest issue with the current schedule is Phoenix, its a dog shit track design thats a far, far, cry from the excitement a track like bristol would be, but i get why people would hate a bristol finale, because all 4 contenders could easily get wrecked out, which is why honestly, and sadly, im back on the homestead boat but something i would be intrigued about if NASCAR would try it would be a 3 race final stretch of playoffs where you have a bristol, superspeedway or road course and a true oval - most points in round take all. The second issue I have with PHX is that we go there not once, but twice a year, teams have notebooks, we know a good part of what to expect already, and for me, that takes away a HUGE part of the intrigue and makes me honestly not want to watch, especially if i dont have a dog in the fight, the thing that made Homestead feel like a Finale is that we only went to it once a year, it had a feel of you have no idea whats going to happen, sure you could compare it to similar distance tracks, but in the end, its its own beast. Something else that would be interesting is if NASCAR kept the Finale track a secret until during the race the playoffs start and announced on the broadcast then, only known to NASCAR and the track, it could be a whole promotional tie in thing, Race to plan your trip to the Finale track and get your tickets before everyone else, imagine the black friday madness style that would bring 😂

It’s definitely a cool idea going to East track once. I just don’t think I’m willing to give up some of those second dates. A lot of those are my favorites.

I would say keep 2 Daytona and Charlotte dates, just run the road courses on the second date instead of 2 more oval races. Milwaukee and Nashville Fairgrounds would be two easy adds to the schedule as they just need minor facility upgrades and then rotate those with RA/Nashville Superspeedway. I like Knoxville, but not for Cup. I think you could consider some smaller half mile tracks with less infrastructure like LaCrosse, Toledo, Madison, Evergreen, 5 Flags, Berlin, Oswego, WIR, Greenville etc as exhibition clash or all star races either in cup or lower series (I think if you brought Xfinity or Trucks to some of these it could work). And of course there are plenty of other road courses available. I definitely think NASCAR should expand to more tracks.

I think we’re missing an opportunity to shorten the schedule with this one race per track theory. Especially if you’re wanting two international races, going to need to have an off week on one side of each of those races or the other. And while I like the idea of Rockingham to throw the old fans a bone, you’ve also added 7 or 8 road courses and there will be plenty of complaints there.

In a fantasy world i would love a renovated slinger speedway cup race

Love it. Don’t have a lot to add. Great ideas and more parity. Kudos.

If a track is going to have 2 dates, they need to each be unique in some way. Charlotte does fine with the ROVAL, Daytona could have their road course in the summer (or just say a 400 mile night race is different enough from the 500.) If Richmond and Talladega can continue to sell their races out, Richmond needs day and a night race. Idk what to do with Talladega. Atlanta's spring race could go back to Fontana once the short track is ready, Darlington's spring race to either North Wilkesboro or Rockingham. And I would add Montreal before Canadian Tire. And while we probably need Kentucky to fill this style of schedule, it and Texas both need re-configurations in some way. Texas could go back to the old layout, and Kentucky could be sometime like a Kansas, Vegas or Homestead.

Irwindale Speedway, always negliected, never has been considered, but the SoCal solution has been staring NASCAR in the face the whole time and didn't need to reconfigure Auto Club

Bruh, how could you NOT pick Milwaukee Mile??? It's such a historic race track. That track is older than Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It's one track I'd love to see the NASCAR Cup Series race at.

One I think would be good is Barber Motorsport Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Despite people saying it's "too tight", it's hosted great IndyCar and motorcycle racing, and I think it would be smart to replace that lost Talladega race with Barber

50 races in 30 weeks. A weekend race and a weekday night race for 14 week nights primarily during the summer with races 250-350 miles long in the cup. The weekday night races could part be non points paying at small town short tracks to get back to the roots, both paved and dirt

Yes, it is viable. Not every market can handle 2 races a season, Daytona included (apparently, they don't want it on July 4 anymore for some reason). Just remove TexARSE completely, renew the COTA lease, build a 2-miler in California while getting a street race in Long Beach, Irwindale can be the short track option, the only tracks that will get 2 are Talladega, Indianapolis, and Charlotte (different configurations, 2 equally good races for Dega)

In my completely Arbitrary opinion, you can get a second date if you host a Crown Jewel, you're Talladega, or your track has multiple configurations like Charlotte. Everyone else can have their second races replaced with returning tracks people want like Rockingham, the Fairgrounds, Road America, Montreal, and maybe Mexico City for Suarez.

The only 2 tracks that should get 2 races are Daytona and Talladega. Other than that, i love the idea of 1 date per track. It keeps the schedule interesting. Plus, please rotate the championship race. Its ridiculous keeping it at 1 track year after year

Man coming to mid-Ohio would be awesome. I have a bunch of friends in Columbus and Cleveland that know little to nothing about nascar, but have shown interest in attending one if there was a race here.

I think they should leave Daytona, Talladega, Kansas and Charlotte with 2 races (And I would actually add Indy Road Course), but make every other track only once a year.

It worked wonders for Pocono!!

im from the PNW and specifically Vancouver Island in BC and if there was a race in Portland it would be a dream come true for there being a race relatively close to where i live

I would love to see the Daytona road course come back

I've been a fan of the idea for about 10 years.

There are some tracks that I would like to see have one date, but there are some that I think should have two like Daytona, Talladega, and perhaps even Bristol. I think that only having one race for some of these tracks would help draw more people to the event and would allow for some newer (or older) tracks to come on to the schedule.

If we were to be able to put a pit road here, I think Churchill Downs would be an interesting place for the dirt race.

You quite missed the European market. If you need to go international, you have to go to Europe. There is a Pocono like track in Europe - Lausitzring in Germany. True, Alex Zanardi lost his legs on it, but that is still an oval that stock cars haven't really targeted. Plus, it's road-course configuration is used for stock car racing in the DTM. Also, there could be dirt races in Europe too. Here we have a lot of dirt tracks, but they're used for motorcycle speedway racing though. If you remember Greg Hancock, he is a speedway world champion. I think there might be one or two of them that actually might fit the 0.5 mile or even the 0.75 mile length and could be used for NASCAR. I think the one in Poznan in Poland was quite big. Speedway is a national sport in Poland nonetheless, so I think there could be a good opportunity for dirt racing. And finally, a crazy idea that I want to happen. How about a three-way motorsports weekend in France in June? IndyCar race on Friday, NASCAR race on Saturday and F1 race on Sunday on all the same track! I'm suggesting Mangy-Cours since it's the easiest choice for all 3. I even have a name for it - The Dysneyland 300! (Or any number. And it would be Dysneyland GP for Indy.) This all would be expensive, but believe me, this could easily be a case of high risk - high reward. That gets 3 tracks out of the way. And if Chicagoland remains alongside Chicagoland, the Charlotte Roval and the Indy Road Course remain andthe Daytona 400 stays, that would leave mich fewer extra tracks to consider. :) Oh, and Toyota might work on adding a race on Fuji in Japan. But even if I have a name for it - the Toyota 200 - it's too long of a shot.

One race per track would be awesome. As someone mentioned would make certain races more prestigious. And would include more breaks which imo would be great especially considering from speedweeks to the Olympic break is 22 non stop weeks iirc. Which to me would also decrease burnout some would get tuning week after week, could help build anticipation for upcoming races.

Quick solutions to the needing 11 more races thing, don’t have 11 more races. Sometimes less is more.

Make the Cup series schedule like the truck schedule where drivers and teams get some downtime between races. Not to mention the money team owners will save on race fuel for the cars but also diesel for the trucks.

I think an issue with Mexico bei g on the calendar is the Nascar brakes. The front straight is so long and the first turns relatively tight that the cars would have to brake so early, it would be quite boring to watch, and a chicane on the front straight to keep the speeds lower would be quite clunky. A way around it could be to use the current FE layout or even the older FE layout but take away a few of the chicanes as it would then be a right hand turning flat oval, with the baseball infield area still being run.

I would love for that to happen! More fans can attend those races and save money for the next year, we can add some more tracks on the schedule to fill up the schedule, and it feels more special. I’m not a fan of 2 race dates a year for tracks, so I’m bias about this video

This is something I can get on board with. But I do feel 3 or 4 tracks deserve two dates; - Daytona - Talladega - Martinsville - Maybe Charlotte

A few years ago I would have said it's a crazy thought but given how attendance is at say Richmond, summer Daytona, spring Darlington and so on it wouldn't be a terrible idea would definitely create more demand with only the 1 race weekend a year

I agree. I think every track on the schedule should have only one date each to create more schedule diversity & add more prestige to each race. But nobody is ready to have that conversation yet

240 miles at the Daytona Road course would be awesome 👌

Phoenix and Richmond should definitely have only one date. That's just my personal opinion.

Besides Daytona, no track really needs two dates a season. Maybe Talladega, but we have already another pack race in Atlanta.

I could only dream that Nascar Cup would have ever came to PPIR (my home track growing up)

I do think that some races having 2 races is a good thing, definitely Daytona, Talladega, Darlington, Bristol (bring back the dirt) and Charlotte (inc. roval). Tbh with how it races atm Kansas should have 2 and Martinsville should probably have 2 Apart from them keep 1 race per track

I was wondering if you could do a top ten xfinity series finish also keep up on the good videos

Minus the road courses and short tracks I don't think there is enough race tracks fast enough for that. I wanna see flipping fords

Also, New York, NASCAR has wanted a race in that market for years

Agree for a few. The ones i would like to see drop a race. Phoenix >>>>> Pikes Peak Richmond >>>Rockingham Bristol>>>>>>>Nashville FG Vegas>>>>>>>>Chicagoland Kansas>>>>>>>Kentucky -the only way i take a date from atlanta is if TX goes to the same config. -Dega and Daytona keep 2 -possibly pull a martinsville and go to eldora or N Wilksboro

I think 1 race per track would be great and I think the schedule should only be 30 races with 2 breaks during the season

As always, the potential of a NASCAR race at Long Beach is overlooked. I still think that would be a perfect fix to having a race in southern CA while Auto Club is being changed to the short track (if its rebuilt).

I think that would be cool to see but we'll always see 2 races at Daytona, Martinsville, Darlington and maybe Talladega only because of historic values.

The Milwaukee Mile could definitely hold a cup race

I stand by my belief that we don't need a nascar race every single week, it's ok to give the teams a break. I think we'll all survive even if we don't have 36 point races a year

Video Idea: What if (insert NASCAR Cup season here such as 2023) happened IN REVERSE. (It would have the season finale race first and the Daytona 500 last) How would the season being flipped change who won the championship? (only 2004 onwards, because the 2003 seasons and earlier would be unaffected in terms of the final standings.)

One date for each track and no stages on the important races (600, both 500s, and champ race).

Idk if it will ever be feasible to do this in real life, but on NR2003 anything is possible!

One race at each track each year with two exceptions. 2 at daytona baby, and two at charlotte, roval and world 600. You can't not give the teams two backyard races.

I like the idea. However it would be a lot of road courses. Pros and cons to that.

We get some more short tracks and dirt races and a few more road courses.

I'd say Daytona should be the first current NASCAR track to get 2 races per year. I can also consider Talladega, Martinsville, and Charlotte. Atlanta and Darlington, in my opinion, are two tracks that had become effective in hosting only one race per year, only to return to hosting two races out of respect for tradition.

My schedule idea (No non-points races included) Daytona Atlanta COTA Texas Dover Milwaukee Mid-Ohio North Wilkesboro (All Star) Charlotte (Coca Cola 600) WWT Phoenix Kansas Sonoma Iowa Richmond Road America Laguna Seca Indy Mexico Daytona (Coke Zero 400) Pocono Chicagoland Nashville (Regular season finale) Playoff schedule idea: Round 1: Darlington Watkins Glen Bristol Round 2: Talladega Montréal Charlotte (Roval) Round 3: Las Vegas Homestead Martinsville Championship: Michigan

I am in favor 1 race per track, originally I thought there would be a few exceptions, mainly if there was a 2nd layout like the Roval or Daytona road course, or 2 different tracks in the same area like Nashville Superspeedway and Fairgrounds, but after watching this am more in favor of a strict 1 race per track.

I always (20+ years) thought every track outside of Daytona and Talladega should have one date only. But, I don't necessarily want to see new tracks filling those missing dates. I certainly don't want more road couses, I'd do 4 at the most. I would go to a 26-32 week schedule. More off weeks built into the schedule at regular intervals, and end the season in October. I'm of the opinion that less is more, or in an entertainment phraseology, leave them wanting more.

I would definitely support a cup race at Mid- Ohio!

If we took every single track on the schedule and gave them all one race each, we’d only have about a 20-something week schedule, not that much longer than the NFL schedule. I’m not opposed to a shorter schedule, but there are some places that deserve 2 dates. Daytona is too historic for NASCAR, Bristol puts on fantastic racing, etc.

I like the idea of one race per track, but I don't think they need to add back to get up to 36 (38 with NP races). I think around 30 races is a perfect schedule. It would let them do a yearly break, ala F1. One race per track + less races = more fans per race, and added excitement about the series in general.

It would definitely be interesting

Now why exactly does it still need to be 36 races at this point if every track gets one date, maybe Daytona and talladega get 2, but really 24 to 26 races a year would be so nice

One could wonder what the local economic impact would be with just one race a year. Aside from the price-gouging that goes on with the regional lodgings during race weekends, you have to consider the other entities that are on the receiving end of the dollars from having two races per year. Perhaps someone in NASCAR has done a financial analysis of the affected local businesses if a race was removed from the calendar. And how would it affect the TV broadcast revenues with going to a single race per track season? Personally, having races nearly every weekend puts a tremendous burden on the race teams when prepping the cars. In addition, has NASCAR reached a saturation point where it has gotten to be _too much of a good thing_ with the quantity of races they schedule annually? In entertainment circles, and old axiom of "leave them wanting more," is important to sustain fan interest. Providing fans with too much can leave them bored and moving-on to other entertainment avenues.

Only Daytona and Talladega NASCAR could actually start the season in Mexico City if they wanted to expand there. They could run the race on the weekend before the Superbowl

Daytona and Talladega and possibly Darlington should be the only tracks to have multiple dates.

I would say yes w the exception on Daytona and Talladega

I actually wouldn't be against having one race per track. It opens up for more tracks and more off weeks for teams. And it also allows for more incentives. Give bonus points for winning the crown jewel races (Daytona 500, Coke 600, Southern 500). I just wouldn't add any more road courses. Stick with adding short tracks.

Only places like Phoenix, Kansas, Vegas the rest that have two can stay

It Would be way to many road courses

At least alternate the All-Star race between North Wilkesboro and The Rock for a few years.

The only 2 per year is daytona,Martinsville, talladega, and Charlotte motor speedway and maybe Richmond

NASCAR needs to have several road course races in the schedule if they want to be taken seriously on the world stage. The biggest market is europe and the middle east right now with GT racing and F1. Most of the world thinks oval racing is a joke. So putting 8 or more road courses on the shcedule will go a long way to making NASCAR an international interest vs just the US.

Yes. Allows more areas of the country to be invested.

Mid Ohio and/or Kentucky would be great, this coming from a Buckeye

NASCAR should race at Sebring

They need cup in Portland

Could keep two, but have one track turning left, and the other turning right.

The only tracks I’d like to see either are demolished, would be boring with NextGen, or are impossible. That being said. I think it would make more interesting watching. Nazareth, Five Flags, Laguna Seca, Sebring, Lanier, Lucas Oil Speedway, USA International, Hickory, Rockingham, Kentucky, Nashville Fairgrounds, Myrtle Beach, Milwaukee, Riverside, Ontario- Yeah the NASCAR i want is dead and gone lmao

Daytona, Talladega and Charlotte should be the only tracks with 2 dates

Run one a year and shorten the schedule. Racing from Feb.-Nov. makes the season too long. I have no problem with adding places like Rockingham or Road America, though.

My perfect schedule 1. LA Clash 2. Daytona Duals/500 💎 3. COTA 4. Phoenix 5. Atlanta 6. Sonoma 7. Richmond 8. Kentucky 9. North Wilkesboro (Easter Throwback) 💎 10. Chicagoland 11. Iowa 12. Milwaukee 13. Eldora 14. Portland 15. Nashville Fair Grounds (All Star Race) 16. Charlotte (Memorial Day Coke 600) 💎 17. Rockingham 18. Fontana 19. Mexico City Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez 20. Indianapolis (July 4th Brickyard 400) 💎 21. New Hampshire 22. Pocono 23. Dover 24. Road America 25. Gateway 26. Michigan 27. Watkins Glen 28. Bristol (Playoff Cut Line Night Race) Round Of 16 29. Darlington (Labor Day Southern 500) 💎 30. Texas 31. Montreal Round of 12 32. Nashville 33. Vegas 34. Knoxville Round of 8 35. Kansas 36. Talladega 37. Martinsville Final 4 38. Homestead Miami (Championship Race)

I've been saying that every track should be 1 race only. 24 races on the schedule plz

i was waiting to hear you say something about comiforia after the reconfig and going to so many road courses would be an issue as there are to many as it is im not looking forward to this years schedule as its the worst its been in years as well as other changes to the coming year if it wasnt for me taking my daughter to a race i wouldnt pay any attention at all this year its just too far gone from its roots and is no longer anything that i remember