NASCAR's 1.5 mile problem

[Charlie Spencer]

on cc1.5 tracks with 2 dates,
run one race normally,
run second date, use tri oval as pit road and use pit lane as race track, like a true oval.

I like the idea, but it would take a lot of money and equipment to reconfigure the front stretch twice a year. I don't think you'll get buy-in from the tracks.

 

[LouieLouie]

I wish in the boom of the 90's some of these new tracks like Kansas or Chicagoland were made to be a clone of Wilkesboro. I went to the Chicago Motorspeedway in Cicero,Il right outside of Chicago, I wish that track had been built where Chicagoland is now. I loved the racing at that short track.

I remember this track. It was a one mile flat oval if I recall. They held a couple of indycar races there, but it doubled as a horse racing track. I went there once with my dad to gamble on the horses and thought the facility was pretty nice. I don't quite remember if they put dirt on top of the oval track or repaved the thing every year, but I think that was part of the reason NASCAR couldn't be there because the cars were too heavy. Then again that was a long time ago so maybe I'm making all of this up. haha. Now I have to do some research!