- 8,057
- GTP_Royalton
http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/headlines/cup/11/11/dearnhardtjr_season/index.html
What Jr. says is basicly what I've been thinking for a while. NASCAR has some incredibly exciting races, but also some very boring ones as well. That is due to the 36 race schedule.
In Formula 1 you have to have a top notch facility/race track in order to get on the calendar.
In NASCAR all you have to do is get a cookie-cutter out and make a 1.5 mile D shaped oval near a large amount of population, pack 60,000 seats around it and before you know it you will get NASCAR to visit your venue TWICE a year.
A NASCAR schedule is 36 races, but there is only around 16 original tracks, meaning the circuit visits 11 tracks a year TWICE. But I'm not going to continue talking about visiting tracks twice because as long as NASCAR and pack the stands twice a year there is no way they will stop.
Ill just cut to the chase. In my opinion, NASCAR quality and ratings can be improved by the following:
- Get rid of or slowly phase out cookie cutter tracks like Atlanta, Texas, Kansas etc. Keep original tracks like Darlington, Rockingham and Pocono
- Build new, exciting ovals with 3, 5, or even 6 turns.
- Add a road race in Europe at a track like Spa or Imola
- Make the cars look visibly different, more then just fake decals of grills/lights on the front grill. The car of tommorrow is terrible looking.
- Shorten 500 mile races to 400 except at Daytona or Talladega
- Don't visit any track twice a year
- Keep schedule to 20-25 races.
I'll stop there because the ideas I have posted and the rest of the ideas I would have posted won't be incorporated because NASCAR is a money making business and they will do what makes money, not what is intersting etc
But if I were to get rid of one thing about NASCAR I would get rid of the cookie cutter tracks like Texas Atlanta etc. I'm sure the drivers enjoy the challenge of tracks like Darlington and Pocono. Texas Atlanta etc is all the same thing.
What Jr. says is basicly what I've been thinking for a while. NASCAR has some incredibly exciting races, but also some very boring ones as well. That is due to the 36 race schedule.
In Formula 1 you have to have a top notch facility/race track in order to get on the calendar.
In NASCAR all you have to do is get a cookie-cutter out and make a 1.5 mile D shaped oval near a large amount of population, pack 60,000 seats around it and before you know it you will get NASCAR to visit your venue TWICE a year.
A NASCAR schedule is 36 races, but there is only around 16 original tracks, meaning the circuit visits 11 tracks a year TWICE. But I'm not going to continue talking about visiting tracks twice because as long as NASCAR and pack the stands twice a year there is no way they will stop.
Ill just cut to the chase. In my opinion, NASCAR quality and ratings can be improved by the following:
- Get rid of or slowly phase out cookie cutter tracks like Atlanta, Texas, Kansas etc. Keep original tracks like Darlington, Rockingham and Pocono
- Build new, exciting ovals with 3, 5, or even 6 turns.
- Add a road race in Europe at a track like Spa or Imola
- Make the cars look visibly different, more then just fake decals of grills/lights on the front grill. The car of tommorrow is terrible looking.
- Shorten 500 mile races to 400 except at Daytona or Talladega
- Don't visit any track twice a year
- Keep schedule to 20-25 races.
I'll stop there because the ideas I have posted and the rest of the ideas I would have posted won't be incorporated because NASCAR is a money making business and they will do what makes money, not what is intersting etc
But if I were to get rid of one thing about NASCAR I would get rid of the cookie cutter tracks like Texas Atlanta etc. I'm sure the drivers enjoy the challenge of tracks like Darlington and Pocono. Texas Atlanta etc is all the same thing.
