Nationwide - No more Lucas Oil Raceway formally IRP

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway is expected to announce Wednesday the addition of a Nationwide Series race to its 2012 Brickyard 400 weekend. Gone will be the Nationwide race @ Lucas Oil Raceway.

From Jayski.....

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is expected to announce Wednesday the addition of a Nationwide Series race to its 2012 Brickyard 400 weekend. The race will be held on Saturday afternoon, a day after NASCAR's Grand-Am Series will compete on the road course, according to sources familiar with the announcement. Losing a Nationwide Series race will be Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis formerly known as Indianapolis Raceway Park and O'Reilly Raceway Park. IMS officials have been asking for a Nationwide race for several years and finally are getting one at the expense of one of the best short-track races on the Nationwide circuit. Lucas Oil Raceway has a capacity of 30,000, and apparently NASCAR and the track couldn't agree on a sanction fee to keep the Nationwide event at the 0.686-mile track. The track might still have a Camping World Truck Series event but without the doubleheader feature of the trucks and Nationwide, it remains to be seen whether the track wants to do all the preparations for just one event. The track has been a part of the Nationwide Series since the series debuted in 1982, with Morgan Shepherd winning the track's first race. Kroger has sponsored the race each year, making it the longest continuous race entitlement in the sport.
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That place is going to look awful empty with only 40,000 people there.
 
Damn the Nationwide races at LRP where one of the Best Races around 2 Wide on a short track! Now thats racing!
 
So they take one of the best races off the schedule and replace it with what I'm sure will suck.
 
It sucks, IRP was a great race. No way to add more to the good points already made.


It's no surprise either, I expected it, and that is the bad part, this a routine predictable Nascar choice.


And drivers better tweet it with love, if they don't want a fine. Muzzled pieces.
 
You wonder why I ***** so much about Nascar, it's because they do asinine **** like this!:mad:
 
Lap3Forever said:
It sucks but i guess some drivers look forward to it, since it will be their olny chance to run at Indy
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Just about every single move the drivers have loved have pissed the fans off.

Like I've said before, when the drivers love a track, the race is usually a horrible bore.
 
I had season tickets for the brickyard and ORP. I can't remember the first year I went to ORP but I was a lot younger man then. I attended the innaugural event at the brickyard and had been every year until the tire mess up at the brickyard. I have not been back since.

This will be my last year going to Indy for a NASCAR race.
 
From a television viewing fan's perspective, I would have liked to see the NNS race remain @ IRP. Great racing there. I've never been a big fan of the follow the leader type racing we see with the CUP guys at the Brickyard. I expect more of the same with the NNS cars. But I won't judge the move from IRP to IMS until after the inaugural NNS race.

I wonder how the campers at IMS, there for the CUP race, feel about the move. I don't know the distance between the two tracks, but maybe some of these fans are raising their glasses for the convenience factor.:idunno:
 
...... and oh yeah, nice to see a dpkimmel2001 thread. It's been a while. Keep 'em coming.:beerbang:
 
Worse move since taking letting N Wilkesboro close. IRP has had some great races in the past, almost legendary Busch and Trucks battles. Wonder how many cuppers will be in the race. What a joke, lets keep ruining the races NASCAR!
 
Official, the Nationwide Series and the Truck Series will no longer race at Lucas Oil Raceway :mad:

One more nail in the NASCAR coffin. :rolleyes: Guess there weren't enough Cup drivers in the Nationwide race at IRP for NASCAR to be happy.
 
For their next feat, NASCAR will drop Martinsville off the schedule and replace it with a third and fourth Texas race.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
For their next feat, NASCAR will drop Martinsville off the schedule and replace it with a third and fourth Texas race.
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hMMM...? I dunno. Maybe California could use a second date? That would make about as much sense as them moving Cup Lite to the Brickyard.
 
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