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They ideally want the schedule to go from after Super Bowl to Labor Day Weekend, which puts it right between the entire NFL schedule, but they still have other things to compete with.
I know that's their plan, the problem with it is that Speedweeks usually starts a couple weeks after the Superbowl. So in order to steal some of NASCAR's thunder (which is a far bigger threat than the NFL), they would either have to start before the Superbowl before NASCAR even rolls into DIS or try getting a marque event to fill the narrow gap. Of course neither of those things are really possible as there aren't many circuits that can do a January race and they don't really have any marque events that can move into an early February slot.
I guess this is where International dates come into play, but even that has quite a few risks as a 3AM start time isn't going to help you earn fans in the U.S.