Tracks you'd like to see NASCAR at:

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Since we've had the discussion, here's my list

CUP

Iowa Speedway
Nashville Superspeedway
Churchill Downs
Streets of Baltimore
Road America
Montreal
Laguna Seca

NATIONWIDE/TRUCKS

Toledo Speedway, Ohio
Old Dominion Speedway, Virginia
South Boston Speedway, Virginia
Hickory Motor Speedway, North Carolina
Myrtle Beach Speedway
Five Flags Speedway, Florida
Lanier National Speedway, Georgia
Virginia Motor Speedway (dirt)
 
Why not have Cup at the tracks you mention in your Cup Lite/ CTS list? NA__AR might not make the money they do at the cookie cutters but at least the fans attending the races wouldn't be paying astronomical amounts to see an afternoon of follow the leader.

As for your list, from personal experience a track which which is dedicated to horse racing probably won't ever allow cars to race on the track. It takes a lot of work and money to get a track back in shape for thoroughbreds after cars have torn it up. I ran into this at the fairground track in my home town (½-mile dirt) and they never budged. They make the Indy car Hoosier Hundred at the Indiana State Fairgrounds be held sixty days before the State Fair, so that they could get the track back in shape. I would guess that about any track which allows both horse and auto racing is not controlled by horse racing enthusiasts.

As to Baltimore... I don't know the layout of the track but usually street course aren't conducive to motor sports. Monaco, Detroit, Valencia, are just a few examples. Laguna Seca is another matter. WCWest ran there and it was usually a good race.
 
Cup:

Iowa
Rockingham
North Wilkesboro

Nationwide/Trucks:
Rockingham
South Boston
Hickory
Irwindale
 
Cup: Get rid of... Indy, all plate races, and do not allow multiple races at any of the 1.5 tracks.
 
Road America
Laguna Seca
Memphis - if it ever opens back up and not in the middle of the summer.
Old Bristol
Monaco - the most far fetched but would be very cool.
 
Get rid of Pocono, California, and Sears Point.

Add Iowa, Laguna Seca.
 
Magnethead said:
I visited TWS last year, visiting a friend at A&M. They repaved it in 08/09 (partially funded by rousch) and greg biffle went 218 and change. The grandstands aren't safe to be on, and I didn't feel a whole lot safer on the paddock seat level.

Pictures: http://www.racing-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35290
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Thanks for sharing that thread. Lots of good info was given on that track by our posters. I didn't know it was essentially a copy of Michigan, and that it was simply mismanaged by the owners. What a shame.

Great pics you took. LMAO @ that first video you shared. At about 1:53 of the video, the driver clenches his fists, as if to say, "hell, yeah, I'm rockin' it at Texas World Speedway!". :beerbang:
 
CUP

Iowa Speedway
Nashville the old Fairgrounds
Road America
Montreal
Rockingham
North Wilkesboro
Winchester Speedway.
Restore two events at Darlington, and the Southern 500 to the labor day weekend.




NATIONWIDE/TRUCKS

Mansfield Ohio
Toledo Speedway, Ohio
Hickory Motor Speedway, North Carolina
Myrtle Beach Speedway
Salem Indiana
IRP
Oxford Maine if they still race there
Thompson, Connecticut
Greenville Pickens
Gresholm park
And any the old ASA tracks 1/2 mile or bigger.


Limit to one event only

Cup

Pocono
Michigan
All of the 1.5 mile tracks.
Daytona
Talladega


Get rid of:


California,
Kansas
Indianapolis


I have followed racing since 1971, been to more Cup and Busch races than I can count.

The best races I ever saw anywhere was the Busch races at Hickory.
 
I find it interesting that, ten or fifteen years ago most NASCAR fans disliked road races. Now, I see many of the same generation of race fans advocating more road races? To me, that says something about the horrible racing the current cookie cutter 1½- and 2-mile tracks produce. It seems that the road courses now produce the same type of hard driving action we used to see at bristol before they "Improved" the track.
 
Greg said:
NATIONWIDE/TRUCKS

Oxford Maine if they still race there
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They do, most notably the American-Canadian Tour (some of the best racing in the country by my account). I second this. If there were ever to be NASCAR racing at Oxford again, I'd pay to see it. Same for Stafford, CT.

I'm also in favor of adding road courses. Aside from their tendency to end in carnage on occasion, the closest thing we get to real racing, and the best test of driver skill in the Cup Series comes at The Glen and Sears Point. There ought to be at least two more. I don't know a whole lot about road courses around this country, but I would think Barber Motorsports Park and VIR would suit NASCAR just fine. There are a host of others to choose from though.

This isn't the only time there has been demand for more road racing. A lot of folks wanted it in the mid 80s as well. Maybe the best NASCAR road race ever was Riverside in about 1986. Darrell Waltrip and Tim Richmond battled in the last few laps, and both cars were out of control, sideways all the way through the last turn coming to the checkers, and Waltrip won it. That was also the year they added The Glen back to the Schedule.
 
Many good tracks listed but I'm doubtful due to their limited seating capacity that the gate would cover a cup purse.

I'm slowly coming around to road courses. I don't fall asleep watching them if that tells you anything.:D
 
Greg said:
CUP

Iowa Speedway
Nashville the old Fairgrounds
Road America
Montreal
Rockingham
North Wilkesboro
Winchester Speedway.
Restore two events at Darlington, and the Southern 500 to the labor day weekend.




NATIONWIDE/TRUCKS

Mansfield Ohio
Toledo Speedway, Ohio
Hickory Motor Speedway, North Carolina
Myrtle Beach Speedway
Salem Indiana
IRP
Oxford Maine if they still race there
Thompson, Connecticut
Greenville Pickens
Gresholm park
And any the old ASA tracks 1/2 mile or bigger.


Limit to one event only

Cup

Pocono
Michigan
All of the 1.5 mile tracks.
Daytona
Talladega


Get rid of:


California,
Kansas
Indianapolis


I have followed racing since 1971, been to more Cup and Busch races than I can count.

The best races I ever saw anywhere was the Busch races at Hickory.
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Agreed, I witnessed some great bull ring action at Hickory. Saw Jimmy Hensley win there as well as Dick Trickle.
 
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