More Rovals is the solution?

[DIDIT]

Can someone please come up with another name for Roval. I even like Boogity Boogity Boogity better than that! As long as I have followed racing I never recall anyone using this term to describe the road course at Daytona.

When I googled roval, here is what I came up with.

 

[Skoalbandit33]

Can someone please come up with another name for Roval. I even like Boogity Boogity Boogity better than that! As long as I have followed racing I never recall anyone using this term to describe the road course at Daytona.

When I googled roval, here is what I came up with.

I don't like the name either and would prefer Charlotte RC to differentiate it from the traditional layout. I have heard the term used before and I didn't like it then either but I think that will be the name that sticks.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I'm not so sure. Remember over the winter when an NBC exec was quoted as saying something like "We like X, Y, and Z", and Y was road course racing? Given the inflexibility we see with schedule changes, if NBC has it in their heads that they want more road course races, I could see it being attempted at Kansas, Indy (everyone wants to 'fix' the Brickyard) , and possibly even Daytona. I agree that many tracks are infeasible.

Well, they got Charlotte already. I don't know how many more they had in mind but I don't think it would be more than a couple. If they got Kansas too that might suffice for them.

Just from what I've read on the Xfinity tests I think the future of the Cup series at IMS is going to involve getting creative with aero ducting. It sounds like once they experimented with that they saw what they wanted to see there finally. Personally, I think that race stays on the oval.

If they tried moving the Firecracker 400 to the road course I think there's a good chance the Brain, Steve-O, and "the stakeholders" wind up like Brazilian soccer referees with their head on a stake outside One Daytona Blvd. I'd be okay with it but the overwhelming majority would not be and quite frankly I think it'd be a huge flop.

 

[Zerkfitting]

Can someone please come up with another name for Roval. I even like Boogity Boogity Boogity better than that! As long as I have followed racing I never recall anyone using this term to describe the road course at Daytona.

It sounds like a word DW made up.

 

[jws926]

I would rather have more short tracks than rovals , but its hard to say right this moment , need to wait till next year to see how the race plays out.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

It sounds like a word DW made up.

I don't know if he did, but he's the first one I recall using the phrase. He was discussing Pocono as a blend of road course and oval. It's evolved to include running the infield portion of bona fide oval tracks.

I don't have a problem with it one way or the other.

 

[Biggreen695]

I'm not the biggest road course fan when it comes to NASCAR but the races the last couple of years have been pretty entertaining. I think the stages made Sonoma alot more enjoyable to me with the early stages bringing lots of great racing and plenty of lead changes. The last stage was long and green which made for a more traditional road course race but still had the strategy and worry of a caution to keep me interested. I think they could add a couple more to the schedule but I really want to see how this roval at Charlotte works out. Road America and Mid Ohio could be added to the schedule I think as the younger drivers already have the experience at those tracks. That would give them 6 road courses and the Charlotte roval when it comes.

Holy sh1t me and you actually agree on something.


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[Greg]

Is this your first day on the Internet?

Well.... I aint too much for hybrid oval converted road courses if you must know. I wish they could snake there way through most of the infeild to turns three and four, and only use the front stretch and retain the current pit configuration.
But still the same if it doesnt suck I am willing to swap out one of the excess 1.5 mile tracks

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Well.... I aint too much for hybrid oval converted road courses if you must know. I wish they could snake there way through most of the infeild to turns three and four, and only use the front stretch and retain the current pit configuration.
But still the same if it doesnt suck I am willing to swap out one of the excess 1.5 mile tracks

Agreed, but there are more seats at the Turn 1 end than at Turn 4.

 

[KodiakRusty89]

I don't know if he did, but he's the first one I recall using the phrase. He was discussing Pocono as a blend of road course and oval. It's evolved to include running the infield portion of bona fide oval tracks.

I don't have a problem with it one way or the other.

Pocono has been referred to as a "roval" for 20+ years. This term has been around at least that long.