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I will respectfully disagree. Daytona is one of the Crown Jewels of NASCAR. I would feel the same way about losing Bristol, Martinsville, Darlington, or Charlotte. There are certain tracks that form the bedrock of what NASCAR is and has been. We need to preserve those tracks, not tear them...

Losing Daytona would be catastrophic for the preservation of our sport’s history.

Todd Bodine has been retired for a while now.

My concern is about the warehouse outside of turns 1 and 2. I hope they’ve had their engineers do their due diligence. Either way, NASCAR should provide some kind of update.

Those locals have as much insight as you and me. Somehow it looks like they’ve saved the blueprint they planned to save. Turns 1 and 2 are going to be tight as hell though and I think NASCAR is being ambitious there. I think there’s a 25% chance of survival.

I’m happy to see JR Motorsports in the 500 but not a big fan of #40 but I guess any other numbers with ties to Junior are tied up right now.

On the other hand, plate tracks require pretty quick reflexes and one bad move can trigger a 20 car accident at very high speeds. Maybe there should be an objective test that drivers over a certain age have to pass but NASCAR isn’t wrong here.

One overlooked factor here is that construction costs in SoCal are about to balloon. When money starts rolling in for fire recovery, there’s going to be a lot of demand.

I think NASCAR should make an announcement on this either way. I support the short track idea, but NASCAR is dragging their ass with it and it appears may have sold too much land to make it viable.

I find it weird that he’s not approved for Trucks. He can’t be that much worse than some of the wrecking balls and moving chicanes down there.

The biggest problem is SoCal is the price of land. Ontario and Riverside closed for similar reasons. This is a problem that goes back decades.

Southern California is still a hub of car culture though, there IS demand there. Hopefully the next track isn’t a mediocre bore fest because that community deserves better.

**** it. Go big or go home. My prediction is that Bubba Wallace makes the Championship Four.

Implicit in the prediction is that Coach would give approval (which is one reason it was bold).

I somehow missed the charter limit. Thanks bro. New prediction incoming.

It is announced that Kyle Busch will return to JGR in the #18 in Cup while Denny Hamlin takes the #11 to 23XI in a 4th entry.

Weren’t there road course specialists who sucked everywhere else? Sometimes you get really good at one discipline and not any others.

I would argue that a late model guy is still light years ahead of your average Joe in terms of car control. I’m not saying that qualifying for the Daytona 500 is exceptionally hard. If you give an HMS or JGR car to someone like Cody Ware, he would have a shot at a pole. It’s just not something...

All it takes is one slip up and the back end is coming around and you’re going into the wall. It’s easy to attack the talent of the drivers but the average person could not step into a Cup car and be remotely competitive at any track. The average Joe would make a midpack ARCA driver look like...

You, me, and everyone on this forum would wreck the car during qualifying on any track.