AndyMarquisLive
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Did Mike Joy and Darrell Waltrip really say NASCAR needs to return the K&N, Nationwide and Truck Series races to real racetracks? Wow. Sense and logic.
Are my ears clogged?
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I know at first the Trucks raced a lot of short tracks.
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Yeah, I believe the trucks raced almost exclusively on short tracks their first couple of years. As I recall, the Truck prototype was developed at Mesa Marin.
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Yes Andy, your ears are clogged. But you have bigger problems. 
AndyMarquisLive
I love short track racing with all my heart
Because K&N is beginning to run at Cup and Nationwide tracks more often. Every year, another short track disappears and another big track appears. Fair, valid observation from Mike and Jaws.
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No offense, Andy, but I find it much more fun being a fan than being a critic
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Do the trucks go to the road courses?
I would like to see the cup cars go to more, maybe one inside the chase
Just like turning right and left.
I would like to see the cup cars go to more, maybe one inside the chase
Just like turning right and left.
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In short answer form YES
FLRacingFan
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Prior to Mosport last year the Trucks hadn't been to road courses since Portland and Watkins Glen in 2000.
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I must assume that cup cars arent racing on "real" race tracks either then
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Correct. NA$CAR went in the direction of the Las Vegas's, Texas's, freaking Chicagoland.
They should have built a North Wilkesboro replica in Kansas instead.
Not really, K&N added Watkins Glen this year (although it had been a regular stop for the series since the Busch North days anyway, just fell of the schedule a few years back). Other than that, the last Cup track they added was Richmond in 2011. They had a higher % of Cup tracks on the schedule in 2010 than they do in 2014. K&N series seems fine to me. It's gotten very far away from its roots in the Northeast, but it seems like a true short track series to me.
Dwayne
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At first the Truck series was short track only and no pit stops, they had a break in the middle of the race to do any work needed, it was great for small teams, and small tracks that normaly would never have a nascar race. Lots of trucks being towed on open trailers, a small team could really make money back then. I thought it was alot better.
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Ahmen brother!!
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I really wish they had built a couple of bull rings or another road course instead of all the 1.5 ovals.
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While Nationwide used to have it's own identity, it's now nothing more than Cup Lite. The trucks are slightly better off in that sense, but need to stay the course and stop the drift towards being just another Cup Lite series.