Plus, it's also in the peak of Hurricane Season
Hurricanes are slow as hell, nothing like the pop up rain sh!t that can't be predicted and dealt with..Pretty simple, call off the race if one is coming. There is plenty of time to do that.
Probably not, but I think it is a safe bet to say there will be more Nascar/Indycar combinations.
I mean the next World Cup is in the 120 degree Qatari desert so they got to get used to rough conditions.
Money talks, and Qatar has a lot of it
That is honestly brilliant
Those teams are likely already doing that somewhere anyway. It does get hot and humid other places than just Daytona.
I like it but how do prevent everyone skipping Daytona (or any other single event)?
yeah, there is a reason why he is a billionaire and we aren't
. I think it is safe to say many of his ideas he is talking about are going to happen because they work.
Years ago they used the road course at Daytona during the Firecracker 400. The sports cars would run on it the day/evening before the 400.
Have you see the attendance for the Bristol spring race the last 4-5 years? They only sold 38k tickets for the '19 spring race.
Just like Dover, it's a unique track. Rockingham and Wilkesboro were unique as well.
Maybe not for a Cup race, but IF SMI decides to sit down with these folks and reopen I don’t see why an Xfinity and Trucks stand-alone date couldn’t happen if all involved decide to try to make it work. They have a year to get the track fixed up and race ready. Would I make a bet on it happening? No not at all, I think too much time has passed, the entire infrastructure of the place has to be worked on. The real question for me is all this is where is Rockingham? Their twitter and Insta have been quiet for a long while and there’s no news at all about them. I would hope there’s more stand alone races for Xfinity and Trucks, that would be my wish for upcoming schedule change. I just don’t know where you would go besides the usual suspects bandied about on these parts
Agreed! However, it has consistently had the best attendance for at least the past 10 years. It is a fantastic track to attend from everything I've heard
Bruton'll have a fit. NASCAR better issue defined standards as to how they pick the tracks or SMI's lawyers will be getting new boats.
Same place it's been for a decade, languishing. Did anybody really expect this outfit to revive racing? Getting the track back in shape was the easy part; that was just money and grunt labor. Their concert showed everyone they had little clue as to how to execute an event. We haven't heard from them since.
