2024 NASCAR Schedules

[AlTerego]

Texans sure love their football. I would guess that high school football attracts more interest than NASCAR and other sports.

 

[AlTerego]

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I don’t remember anyone clamoring for Bristol to be covered in dirt. Also I think it wasn’t so much that people wanted more road courses more than a case of people wanting less 1.5 tracks. I do see your points though.

 

[SpeedPagan]

It's stupid fast when the sprint cars raced there, Bristol is a hell of a dirt track for stuff like that, it's a little too fast honestly.

I remember being at Bristol in 2022 for the WoO weekend and it was AWESOME! Those 410 Sprint Cars with 900hp were screaming through the Bristol banked turns.

 

[MRM]

I don’t remember anyone clamoring for Bristol to be covered in dirt.

Fox is the one that wanted that.

 

[donthaveanickname]

But apparently there's a chance that if Montreal doesn't happen that Cup could go to Iowa.

And I guess that would happen in early to mid-July so IndyCar fans would be in for a quadruple-header at Milwaukee

 

[kkfan91]

Looks like Montreal has fallen through Iowa here we come

 

[kkfan91]

 

[Spotter22]

The food truck business is gonna be very happy because the last time I was there they had no concessions. I wonder if they will add seats and how they will deal with ingress-egress? I guess if they could make Wilkesboro work they can do it here

 

[SpeedPagan]

If NASCAR can get the short track package figured out, then LFG!!!

 

[StandOnIt]

Looks like Montreal has fallen through Iowa here we come

If that is so, that is not an even trade by any means.

 

[kkfan91]

Bob thinks Wednesday we get the schedule

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

The NASCAR Cup Series is heading to Iowa Speedway for the first time.

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2023/10/03/iowa-speedway-set-to-host-nascar-cup-series-race-in-2024/

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

 

[AlTerego]

The food truck business is gonna be very happy because the last time I was there they had no concessions. I wonder if they will add seats and how they will deal with ingress-egress? I guess if they could make Wilkesboro work they can do it here

I think Iowa holds around 30k so I would think they’d want to add some temporary seating

 

[MRM]

I know the spring Talladega race is April 21. They called me about tickets for Sunday's race a few weeks ago and I told them I'd be more inclined to come in the spring.

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[kkfan91]

"Short track" by definition not exactly by racing.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I’m interested to learn what the breakdown in negotiations with Montreal was. Seems like they were in discussions for quite a while and things just dragged on.

I love Iowa but I think it’s more important to head to Canada/CGV in 2025, hopefully it’s sorted out by then. And IndyCar can have Iowa to itself again.

 

[Hawaii808]

JGR got the schedule (jokes)

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

Just got this email from Bristol. I’m very tempted, the Food City 500 never looked so good

 

[Blaze]

 

[Kiante]

Duel, 500, and Atlanta?

Man, that is bat**** insanity. I feel for the teams because that could be a lot of possibly wrecked chassis.

 

[virtualbalboa]

Not exactly a radical re-imagining. Watkins Glen in mid-September is probably going to be really attractive, but I also recoil in horror at the thought of how expensive hotel rooms will be in the region.

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

Superspeedways in the first two rounds of the playoffs?

Two superspeedways to start the season?

JFC.

Guess we're back to The Show.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Supposedly the Xfinity/Truck schedules are more interesting.

 

[Kiante]

Supposedly the Xfinity/Truck schedules are more interesting.

I'm fine with it, Iowa should be fun with an intermediate package. The Olympics is a wrench in everything due to the fact it takes priority. I expect '25 to be more interesting.

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

That first round of the playoffs is going to have some big names out in the first round who probably will have had good regular season..... wow that round is a bear. I'm going to fly my I hate the Olympic Break flag.....bummer the network$ and their $$$$ control everything. I think more people would have been happy with the schedule if it wasnt for that two week break.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I'm fine with it, Iowa should be fun with an intermediate package. The Olympics is a wrench in everything due to the fact it takes priority. I expect '25 to be more interesting.

Iowa is great. Just worried about what its proximity to the Indy weekend does.

Not as many changes to the Xfinity and Truck schedules as rumored either.

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

and just saw Richmond on Easter night, they really want a race on that night. I dont have a problem with it, in fact thats great. Something to watch with family.

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

Iowa is great. Just worried about what its proximity to the Indy weekend does.

Not as many changes to the Xfinity and Truck schedules as rumored either.

I remember in the early part of the summer, some crazy number of Cup races were rumored with like 37 races and a few mid week night races.

 

[MRM]

If it had been me, this is how I would have done the early part of the schedule:
2/18 - Daytona 500
2/25 - Las Vegas
3/3 - Phoenix
3/10 - Texas
3/17 - Atlanta
3/24 - COTA
3/31 - Richmond
4/7 - Bristol
4/14 - Martinsville...

Atlanta right after the 500 is dumb because it's the same style of racing and it's still plenty cold in Atlanta late February (see previous seasons when AMS was second).

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

The first two rounds of the playoffs are some bull****.

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

If it had been me, this is how I would have done the early part of the schedule:
2/18 - Daytona 500
2/25 - Las Vegas
3/3 - Phoenix
3/10 - Texas
3/17 - Atlanta
3/24 - COTA
3/31 - Richmond
4/7 - Bristol
4/14 - Martinsville...

Atlanta right after the 500 is dumb because it's the same style of racing and it's still plenty cold in Atlanta late February (see previous seasons when AMS was second).

I'd go to Sonoma in the Spring too. Imagine that track being green instead of some dusty, sandy, Saharan Desert looking ****.

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

Not as many changes to the Xfinity and Truck schedules as rumored either.

If they wanted to impress me with the Xfinity schedule, they'd run IRP the night before the Brickyard 400.

That Xfinity race being at the big track cheapens the whole weekend.

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

Every time I start to warm up to the playoffs, NASCAR does some bull****.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I remember in the early part of the summer, some crazy number of Cup races were rumored with like 37 races and a few mid week night races.

They added a week to the calendar rather than make Richmond double up with a midweek race.

Lee Spencer said they may go to 40 or 42 races. I think that was probably all a nonstarter until the 2025 TV deal is in place and the additional money is secured.

 

[Speedbowl14]

Not exactly a radical re-imagining. Watkins Glen in mid-September is probably going to be really attractive, but I also recoil in horror at the thought of how expensive hotel rooms will be in the region.

Leaves aren't changing up there til early October anyway. It'll largely look same as it ever was on TV

 

[AndyMarquisLive]

They added a week to the calendar rather than make Richmond double up with a midweek race.

Lee Spencer said they may go to 40 or 42 races. I think that was probably all a nonstarter until the 2025 TV deal is in place and the additional money is secured.

Yeah, I don't foresee any radical changes until the TV deal is announced. Which I imagine, with it now being October, should be announced within the next few weeks.