NASCAR needs more road courses

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Road America, Road Atlanta, New Jersey, VIR, Laguna Seca, Portland, MMP, Mid Ohio and Sebring should be added to the NASCAR schedules.
 
I wouldn't mind just seeing short tracks and road courses with the Daytona 500 being the last race of the year, but that would be too entertaining, NASCAR would never do it.
 
I still want to see cup cars on dirt, even if its an non-ponts race. 100 lap race with just green flag laps counting.
 
I agree with y'all. More road courses and dirt track races for the CUP cars. :beerbang:

NASCAR could run the road course at Daytona in July and they could add a second date to INDY and run on the road course there - in place of one of the Talladega races.

Mid-Ohio, Road America and Miller Motorsports Park would be great choices - except for the lack of infrastructure in Utah.

I absolutely love Laguna Seca but I don't know how many drivers would be able to navigate the corkscrew in a CUP car...:rolleyes:
 
I don't know if they need more road courses, but they need one in the Chase.
 
robbybee said:
I absolutely love Laguna Seca but I don't know how many drivers would be able to navigate the corkscrew in a CUP car...:rolleyes:
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I would love that but you might be right, the corkscrew for a clunky Cup car would be a nightmare for the less experienced guys but it would be a blast to watch. Then again, they would have to slow down so much in the turn before the corkscrew that it might not be that bad. Has a stock car ever been tested there?
 
I think that at this point, every track should only have 1 race. 32 race schedule, 32 different track configurations. Daytona and Indy would be only cities with 2 dates, but on different configs.

1. Atlanta (400 miles/267 laps)
2. Bristol (250 miles/500 laps)
3. Circuit of the Americas
4. Charlotte (600 miles/400 laps)
5. Chicagoland (400 miles/267 laps)
6. Darlington (500 miles/367 laps)
7. Daytona Oval (500 miles/200 laps)
8. Daytona Road Course (350 miles/~100 laps)
9. Dover (400 miles/400 laps)
10. Fontana (400 miles/200 laps)
11. Homestead (400 miles/267 laps)
12. Indianapolis Motor Speedway (alternate oval and RC every other year)
13. Indy Raceway Park (300 miles/437 laps)
14. Iowa (400 miles/457 laps)
15. Kansas (400 miles/267 laps)
16. Kentucky (400 miles/267 laps)
17. Laguna Seca (300 miles/134 laps)
18. Las Vegas (400 miles/267 laps)
19. Martinsville (250 miles/500 laps)
20. Michigan (400 miles/200 laps)
21. New Hampshire (400 miles/400 laps)
22. Pheonix (400 miles/400 laps)
23. Pocono (350 miles/140 laps)
24. Portland (300 miles/150 laps)
25. Road America (300 miles/75 laps)
26. Road Atlanta (300 miles/118 laps)
27. Richmond (300 miles/400 laps)
28. Sebring (300 miles/81 laps)
29. Sonoma (with inner loop) (300 miles/119 laps)
30. Talladega (500 miles/188 laps)
31. Texas (400 miles/267 laps)
32. Watkins Glen (with boot) (300 miles/88 laps)
 
I like that, Magnet! But you will never convince NASCAR to change the season-opening race from Daytona. But if you switched Daytona and Atlanta on your schedule, it shows very well!
 
Magnethead said:
I think that at this point, every track should only have 1 race. 32 race schedule, 32 different track configurations. Daytona and Indy would be only cities with 2 dates, but on different configs.

1. Atlanta (400 miles/267 laps)
2. Bristol (250 miles/500 laps)
3. Circuit of the Americas
4. Charlotte (600 miles/400 laps)
5. Chicagoland (400 miles/267 laps)
6. Darlington (500 miles/367 laps)
7. Daytona Oval (500 miles/200 laps)
8. Daytona Road Course (350 miles/~100 laps)
9. Dover (400 miles/400 laps)
10. Fontana (400 miles/200 laps)
11. Homestead (400 miles/267 laps)
12. Indianapolis Motor Speedway (alternate oval and RC every other year)
13. Indy Raceway Park (300 miles/437 laps)
14. Iowa (400 miles/457 laps)
15. Kansas (400 miles/267 laps)
16. Kentucky (400 miles/267 laps)
17. Laguna Seca (300 miles/134 laps)
18. Las Vegas (400 miles/267 laps)
19. Martinsville (250 miles/500 laps)
20. Michigan (400 miles/200 laps)
21. New Hampshire (400 miles/400 laps)
22. Pheonix (400 miles/400 laps)
23. Pocono (350 miles/140 laps)
24. Portland (300 miles/150 laps)
25. Road America (300 miles/75 laps)
26. Road Atlanta (300 miles/118 laps)
27. Richmond (300 miles/400 laps)
28. Sebring (300 miles/81 laps)
29. Sonoma (with inner loop) (300 miles/119 laps)
30. Talladega (500 miles/188 laps)
31. Texas (400 miles/267 laps)
32. Watkins Glen (with boot) (300 miles/88 laps)
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Swap Kansas with Heartland Park and make room for New Jersey and it would be perfect. Start at Daytona, end at Las Vegas.
 
be9ak7ts16 said:
Laguna Seca gets my vote because of the corkscrew.
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It's great for bikes and sportscars. And when the CART series ran there it was great. They ran TransAm races there too, but I'm not so sure it's suitable for CUP cars.

That being said, I sure as hell would watch!
 
Oh My their gonna need to hire a bunch more fabricators and bodymen/painters......
I,ve been around the Daytona, Road Atlanta, Leguna Seca and Road America road course's on two wheels and have always been amazed that the lil sports cars can get around them, Butt full size Cup cars..........could be entertaining ;)
 
My list was aphabetical. Arrange it how you'd like :p

the corkscrew alone would attract fans and viewers.
 
Laguna Seca would be my choice, lots of room for fans but I'm not so sure about the traffic getting in and out. Could turn into another deal like we saw not too long ago, I believe Kentucky.
Maybe run it backwards so the corkscrew would be uphill.
:beerbang::beerbang::beerbang:
 
I'm not gonna lie. I have been an oval fan first long before I was a road racing fan. But after the two very entertaining Cup road races this year, yeah, give us more.:beerbang:
 
nascage said:
I'm not gonna lie. I have been an oval fan first long before I was a road racing fan. But after the two very entertaining Cup road races this year, yeah, give us more.:beerbang:
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Maybe they could plant trees at Daytona and Talladega and make everyone happy. ;)
 
1st post on here, would love to see a couple more road courses added Laguna Seca would be one but would be awesome to see a Nascar race through streets of a city somewhere dont care where. There's a few street tracks in the v8's over here and always put on a good race and have very healthy crowds.

Agree with having a road course in the chase, the chase desides the champion so i'd like to see who can master all forms tracks be it short track, superspeedway and road course.
 
Aussie Fordstar said:
1st post on here, would love to see a couple more road courses added Laguna Seca would be one but would be awesome to see a Nascar race through streets of a city somewhere dont care where. There's a few street tracks in the v8's over here and always put on a good race and have very healthy crowds.

Agree with having a road course in the chase, the chase desides the champion so i'd like to see who can master all forms tracks be it short track, superspeedway and road course.
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Excellent first post, a street race would be very cool. I love watching the V8's run through city streets. You are absolutely correct about a road course being in the chace, it takes way more skills to do that then it does at Talladega.


Welcome aboard, cool screen name.
 
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