2018 Cup Schedule

Skoalbandit33 said:
IDK if you have ever seen a Brickyard 400 race but it makes hardcore fans turn into casual and casual into disinterested. I used to be a hardcore Nascar fan but I consider myself a casual one now as I don't keep up with it and don't mind if I miss seeing some of the races.
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The Brickyard is one of my favorite races. I watch it every year, I still think it's pretty neat stock cars are racing at Indy.
 
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LewTheShoe said:
Preach it, FL. Racers from around the world covet a win at Indy. MotoGP riders and teams were not fond of the course layout nor the pavement (prior to the repave), but were awed by the opportunity to race at IMS. They voted Indy their favorite event of the year several times. F1 drivers and teams felt the same way. And so do most all of the Nascar guys. Saying the Brickyard 400 doesn't have immense prestige is just wrong.

I wouldn't be in favor of 36 races per year on tracks that race like Indy. But for one race, I appreciate the challenge and difficulty of the Indy oval. It is a completely different challenge from every other track, and it rewards driver skill and set-up skill handsomely. It is a fascinating race IMO, and one of Nascar's crown jewels along with Daytona 500, World 600, and Southern 500. (Last year, Indy had a lot more passing at the front than the 600, BTW.)
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I agree,this times 100.
 
Snappy D said:
The Brickyard is one of my favorite races. I watch it every year, I still think it's pretty neat stock cars are racing at Indy.
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I am glad you enjoy it and I wish you could have seen what it was like even 15 years ago as it was a huge event.
 
Las Vegas Motor Speedway GM Chris Powell said the 2nd vegas race next year would probably be a sunday race, cause NBC wanted that race to lead into SNF
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
I am glad you enjoy it and I wish you could have seen what it was like even 15 years ago as it was a huge event.
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I was alive for it. I was born in 84 ha ha so I've seen every one. Wish it could go back to the way it used to be in terms of fan excitement for this race
 
Snappy D said:
I was alive for it. I was born in 84 ha ha so I've seen every one. Wish it could go back to the way it used to be in terms of fan excitement for this race
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The excitement around that 1994 race was insane. There were even suggestions back then that the Brickyard 400 could supplant the Daytona 500 as the biggest race of the year. Crazy to think that now the race is mostly an afterthought.
 
ToyYoda said:
The excitement around that 1994 race was insane. There were even suggestions back then that the Brickyard 400 could supplant the Daytona 500 as the biggest race of the year. Crazy to think that now the race is mostly an afterthought.
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remember reading that. Really is insane how far that race has fallen in the eyes of fans, however if I were a driver its awesome to win at Indy in whatever form you race at there.
 
Earlier start to the season? Fine by me.

Moving Indy is so pointless. It just makes zero sense being in that spot on the schedule.
 
Two things I don't like: 1) Charlotte road course on a Sunday. First because I like CMS and it's well supported, so I think some other 1.5er should have lost it's second date. Secondly on a Sunday there's pretty much no chance I can go. 2) Only 1 night race in the playoffs, now every race except Richmond goes head to head with the NFL. Not Good.
 
I'm not a fan of this schedule at all. As cool as Charlotte being a road course race is, this is just doubling down on mile and a halfs and night races.
 
So the fan experience wins out over TV and the on-track product at Richmond. Interesting. I doubt we'll be able to replicate at night what we saw there last month.
 
ToyYoda said:
Glad they're moving the Daytona 500 back to President's Day weekend. IIRC, NASCAR pushed the 500 back a week right around the time the NFL was seriously considering expanding to an 18 game schedule, which would have put the Super Bowl on the same day as the Daytona 500. Now that it looks like that's not going to happen, it's safe to move it back.
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And now FOX gets one more race in before the NCAA Tournament starts.
 
Acs said:
Two things I don't like: 1) Charlotte road course on a Sunday. First because I like CMS and it's well supported, so I think some other 1.5er should have lost it's second date. Secondly on a Sunday there's pretty much no chance I can go. 2) Only 1 night race in the playoffs, now every race except Richmond goes head to head with the NFL. Not Good.
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Infield lighting would be my guess.
 
Trucks: Do like Mosport being in the playoffs. Don't like another intermediate track (Las Vegas spring) and don't like Las Vegas now becoming two companion weekends.
 
Ford Racing said:
Kentucky was always a night race.
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Yeah, I forgot. Only Kentucky race I've ever sat through was the one that got rained out and pushed to a Sunday afternoon. And it was a decent race.

NASCAR should just go ahead and make every race a Saturday night race "for the fans". Even though it produces legitimately awful racing.
 
All this is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Everyone and their brother said how great Richmond was in the daylight, which I agree. And what do the powers of ISC/Nascar do but put it back at night. That says it all people, the brain trust of Nascar can't even do something simple.
A true road course would be better that a roval.
And the brain trust again made a smart move by moving Atlanta even more into a chance of bad weather.

The countdown has begun. Would the last fan out of the last Nascar race remember to shut the gate.
 
ChexOrWrex said:
Richmond day race is insufferably hot for many people.
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Well, that's because NASCAR fans are the worst fans in all of sports. They won't go to this race because it's too cold, or this race because it's too hot. Don't see Packers fans bitching about it being too cold when they play at Lambeau Field in January in subzero temperatures.
 
I like the changes. Charlotte road course should be interesting to say the least. Las Vegas in the playoffs just makes sense, now just needs to be moved to the championship race.

I will say though if they are adding a road course I'd rather it be a real rosd course. Never seen a race on Charlotte's road course so I don't know how a race might go. Maybe it'll be good race I'll just have to wait and see.
 
I guess I'm an awful fan, but I would not sit through a day race at Kentucky. At night it's really enjoyable. Maybe I would change my tune if tracks would stop trying to pack us in like sardines.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Well, that's because NASCAR fans are the worst fans in all of sports. They won't go to this race because it's too cold, or this race because it's too hot. Don't see Packers fans bitching about it being too cold when they play at Lambeau Field in January in subzero temperatures.
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There's some truth to this, football fans don't seem to care nearly as much about the weather. I went to see the Titans play the Arizona Cardinals a few years ago and about froze my balls off, I don't think it got out of the 20's that day. I remember being pissed because a team that plays their home games in the desert came into our stadium in sub-freezing temperatures and beat us.
 
Dover continues to be unsure when it wants to be in the spring. June, May, June, May I swear it's bounced back and forth for line 5 years now if it wanted to be before or after the 600, next year will be the earliest I've ever seen it.
 
ToyYoda said:
There's some truth to this, football fans don't seem to care nearly as much about the weather. I went to see the Titans play the Arizona Cardinals a few years ago and about froze my balls off, I don't think it got out of the 20's that day. I remember being pissed because a team that plays their home games in the desert came into our stadium in sub-freezing temperatures and beat us.
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Meanwhile, NASCAR fans complain about temperatures being in the 50s or the 80s. :rolleyes:
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Well, that's because NASCAR fans are the worst fans in all of sports. They won't go to this race because it's too cold, or this race because it's too hot. Don't see Packers fans bitching about it being too cold when they play at Lambeau Field in January in subzero temperatures.
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Or maybe like with the too hot thing it's like with me, being in the sun for a long period of time really messes with me and makes me sick. With the cold part it's more or less sucky when it's cold and starts to rain. Can really mess with you. I wouldn't bash the fans for stuff like that.
 
Ford Racing said:
I guess I'm an awful fan, but I would not sit through a day race at Kentucky. At night it's really enjoyable. Maybe I would change my tune if tracks would stop trying to pack us in like sardines.
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Agreed, especially in the middle of July. Not a awful fan at all. While I get what Andy is saying, a race track gets alot hotter than a football field. Also a snowy football game is unpredictable and its entertaining to watch, plus beer. If NASCAR stuck snow tires on cars and ran races in the snow people would go.
 
Blaze88 said:
Or maybe like with the too hot thing it's like with me, being in the sun for a long period of time really messes with me and makes me sick. With the cold part it's more or less sucky when it's cold and starts to rain. Can really mess with you. I wouldn't bash the fans for stuff like that.
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Making the Richmond race a night race because it was too hot a few weeks ago (88°) could backfire. It could just as easily be 35° next year at night, which isn't uncommon in April-May in Virginia.

Reality is, and I've gone to many Richmond races, most of the fans just go there to drink beer and to "raise hell and praise Dale".
 
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