We need to go to these tracks in the future for the cup series. 1. Rockingham 2. Chicagoland 3. Motegi Japan Oval 4. Toronto Street Race 5. New York City street race 7. Milwaukee 8. Bring back the Charlotte Oval 😊
Finale rotation. Move it between Miami, Vegas, Charlotte, Darlington and Kansas (and maybe Phoenix if they’re that desperate, as well as Auto Club if the short track comes to fruition)
Homestead as the finale felt like a true final test to prove your worth for the ring that year. Its 1.5 mile oval but isn't a cookie cutter style, it feels like it's own race and you cant compare strategy and approach to the cookie cutters to win. It is its own beast and fun to see how people tackle it.
I have a feeling the broadcast partners aren't interested in making space for something that compares with the rest of their portfolios. And since NASCAR basically has its schedule dictated to them by the partners, you wind up with them paying billions to get shafted.
Fans should be appreciative of a constant changing and evolving schedule year by year. The schedule was basically the exact same from 2001-2020 (just tracks switching dates in 2020). The schedule was stagnant forever, glad NASCAR can go to new tracks or return to tracks they should've never left in the first place.
Could win 35 and finish second at phoenix, and lead all but 1 lap of the season and not win a championship. Sure that’s never going to happen but come on, that’s a rediculous system that could even allow that possibility
2:33 IndyCar needs to learn a thing or 2 on how to balance their schedules for ovals and circuits (But too bad NASCAR/ISC’s monopoly is one of the reasons why we are lacking ovals). The point is that all racing series, even NASCAR, should learn how to balance the schedule the right way when it comes to different track types!
The biggest thing that needs to change is the finale. It drags everything about the sport down from the racing product to the championship fight to the legitimacy of the sport itself.
I know, but the race itself being at Phoenix wouldn't be good for the sport regardless of the system. At least at Homestead or another good track for the time being there could at least be a good race. 100% think the single race finale needs to go as well
I love your second point about bringing balance. The diversity of tracks is one of nascar's strongest points, however I am honestly getting pretty burnt out on having so many constant schedule changes. I would love to see a 2000s-2010s "unchanging" style schedule with our newer tracks. Predictability and familiarity is not a bad thing. Also, Sunday night races are the WORST for people who have to work early on Monday. I have to be at work at 5am, I don't want to be watching TV at 10:30 on Sunday night
People complain a lot about NASCAR, but a thing that nobody can deny is that scheduling nowdays is variated and have stuffs for everyone to enjoy at that said i think that a few more night racing would be fun in the summer and maybe have miami as the finalle
Yeah if they ever bring back Rockingham they need to add lights at the track for Night Racing in the Summer and Nashville Fairgrounds should obviously be a night race.
Thank you for going over the balance section man. I have been saying this for ages, just because the cookie cutter race shave been the best does not mean they have to take up so much schedule space again. The Gen 4 racing at cookie cutters was pretty solid, but there were so many of them that the racing got rather repetitive quick. We do not need that happening again.
I find it funny they were trying to make a car that would do well on short ovals and road courses and they Ended up making a car that races great on mile and a halfs and superspeedways.
one market i really want to see nascar in is Denver. as a local, we have such a large amount of car guys and gals and no racing except pikes peak and smaller events. massive untapped market
@@FlashoftheBladesI live near the track myself. It's still standing, but nowhere NEAR NASCAR ready. They need to do some serious renovations to hold races there again.
Going off "staying fresh" & possibility of rotating the championship race, I think rotation throughout the schedule (excluding long standing traditions) would be huge. Playoff & regular season races, second dates, even tracks that are outside the current schedule (ex. Road America & Mid-Ohio). Get North Wilkesboro a points race already! Clash & All-Star Race, something different every year and BE CREATIVE, one of them at a grassroots track & the other at a big destination home or abroad (return to Japan is overdue, especially with Toyota hitting 20 years). Balance change and tradition!
Kansas would be too unpredictable in the weather category for championship weekend. It could easily rain, snow, be too windy, or too cold and change last minute. Even though it would be awesome for champ race. Aside from weather
I think something like this 2019 Daytona 500 2014 Atlanta motorspeedway 2018 Las Vegas speedway 2019 ISM Raceway 2013 Bristol 2015 Kentucky Motorspeedway
Hear me out about the champ race… Phoenix isn’t absolutely awful as a championship venue. The racing is trash as it has been since the 70s there. But the track environment is pretty great and it has pretty decent infrastructure. Although homestead does everything especially with the coming track upgrades
I think this would be brilliant. What if all the mid-season tournament races were all night races? If there were any part of year for Sunday Night NASCAR, it'd be from during the NBA and NHL playoffs through to the NFL's preseason.
I also like the finale race go from day to night I think it’s adds value you know the sun is setting on the season I hate day light finales it needs to start at lighter like just before sunset etc then have it turn dark it just adds value in my opinion
I understand the loyalty to ovals, but I don’t understand how some folks despise more road courses. The product we get on road courses is great! These cars can beat and bang on eachother like how racing should be. IMSA, WEC, F1, whatever you cannot really race wheel to wheel because of damage or penalty. Also, NASCAR having the most diverse schedule of any motorsport is a strength that needs to be leaned on. It’s a real challenge to the drivers rather than the same thing week in and week out.
I'd love it if the schedules of some(if not most) races aren't conflicting with IndyCar(like starting at the same time or 30 minutes later than the other).
Or with F1 when they come to North America. With the exception of the Vegas GP which is held on a Saturday night, all of the other F1 races in North America conflict with both Indycar & NASCAR in terms of start times.
If I was in charge of NASCAR, here is how my schedule would go Daytona Clash (only includes the pole sitters of the previous year) Daytona Duel (shortened to 50 laps) Daytona 500 (part of the No Bull 5 challenge, no stages, double points race, *must end at scheduled distance*) Phoenix (200 lap race) Las Vegas (night race) Sonoma COTA Atlanta Richmond Martinsville North Wilkesboro Iowa Eldora Talladega Kansas Mexico City Charlotte (All Star) Charlotte (part of the No Bull 5, no stages, double points, *must end at scheduled distance*) Gateway Montreal Rockingham New Hampshire Road America Daytona (held on the 4th of July *NO MATTER WHAT*) Michigan Brickyard 400 (part of the No Bull 5, no stages, double points, *must end at scheduled distance*) Kentucky Milwaukee Mile Chicagoland (Regular Season Finale) (Round of 16) Darlington (throwback race, part of the No Bull 5, no stages, double points, *must end at scheduled distance* Dover Nashville (night) (Round of 12) Pocono Talladega Bristol (Round of 8) Las Vegas Texas (cry:) Charlotte (Oval) (Champ 4) Martinsville Watkins Glen Homestead-Miami
4:08 That’s something that I’ve long been in favor of. NASCAR’s schedule needs to be as evenly balanced as possible in regards to the different types of circuits that it visits throughout the year (short tracks, short intermediate tracks (1-1.5 miles long), long intermediate tracks (1.5-2 miles long), superspeedways (2+ miles in length), and road courses).
NASCAR learned the hard way that most fans hate road courses. Sure Mexico replaced a Richmond date but fans started to hate Richmond too. They want NASCAR to be an oval racing series only.
@@TheIceberg Totally agree 2 isn't enough. I'm more a racing fan in general, not just NASCAR. I never fully understood the hatred. I thought 6 was a good number personally. Love Road America too.
I still like the idea of rotating road courses. Keep the staples like Sonoma, Watkins Glen, and COTA on there. The fourth road course can be rotated yearly within the United States, this might mean the Indy Road Course and the Charlotte ROVAL can appear as blips, but there are a lot of road courses on there that can help the sport. You have Road America, Laguna Seca (it has to be on certain weekends), Road Atlanta, and even ones you don't know about such as Pacific Raceways in Seattle. It can even be a city circuit, such as Detroit or Chicago. The fifth one can be a rotating international road course. Since we have Mexico back, this can open up for options. Canada has some good tracks, and Mexico has a few others as well that can be added. Every once in a while, do one in Europe, Asia, South America, maybe Oceania to help build a stable international audience. As for the playoffs, maybe make each round themed. You might call me crazy, but have a round be a specific track type. Have one round be intermediates, another short track, another road courses, and have the rotating finale. Or for the finale, do what Michael Mrucz (may have misspelled his last name) has in mind and have the championship round be a regular playoff round. Best of three races wins the championship.
100% want more Sunday night races. I find myself doing other things or always have plans for saturday night. Sundays are for Nascar! We are going to nashville this yr BC its a night race. Also Charlotte for the finale sounds great. Maybe Phoenix can lose a date.
In my opinion, when we're going international, when possible get on an oval. Not that we can't show off road course racing, but a big money oval race in another country stands out much more than another road course.
Find it hilarious in the eutechnyx NASCAR games the only difference in the schedule was when the races happened and even those dates were just flipped a week earlier or later
Sacrifice two road courses and bring back Chicagoland, and give Kentucky at least one shot, and bring back at least two 500 milers, preferably one at Kansas and one at Las Vegas, and make them day to night transition races, and then leave the rest of the schedule alone.
I wouldnt mind seeing rotation in the schedule. For 2026, bring back Chicagoland Speedway and Kentucky for 3-5 years. There are a lot of other tracks that deserve a spot on the schedule, but theres no room. Rotate some tracks out, put the others in and give it a 3-5 year cycle. Keeps it feeling new for local fans and keeps drivers from getting too good at one specific track.
I would love to see Rockingham back on the cup schedule, despite the package with the Next-Gen cars, this track can be ran on a lot of lanes, which I think would make for a great race for the NASCAR Cup Series there.
The only tracks that should have 2 dates are Daytona, Talladega, Atlanta, Bristol, and Martinsville. I’d like to see Chicagoland and Rockingham return to cup racing.
1. There's literally nothing left of Nazareth. 2. Under current ownership, the track is not allowed to be rebuilt and host races. 3. Part of that is because it's so close to Pocono. "Want racing in NW PA? Go to Pocono."
@runrafarunthebestintheworld please read more carefully. I said if tracks have two dates one should be a night race one a day race. Talladega does not hav3 lights thus get 2 day races. Primarily talking bout Phoenix and Kansas. IMO only Charlotte Daytona and Martinsville (maybe Talladega and or Kansas) should have two dates, everyone else only one
You know I've been always doing this project in nr2003 where is basically is what if NASCAR had the schedule from 10 years ago and this all applies to The cup series Xfinity and trucks and in that project I experimented with all those cars and see how they could have ran in the track that were 10 years ago still nothing has changed steal some tracks like Kentucky are still mediocre at best but other than that that project will probably not to end because I'm putting it on hiatus but forget it back again if NASCAR literally announced that they're going back to the schedule that they have from 10 years ago I will definitely be a chaotic one because they need to have every single track and you will attract that when the schedule they need to get the license back from them and some of the tracks like Kentucky California and Chicagoland those tracks are now in a booming real estate market I have no idea how Chicagoland is nowadays and also Kentucky and California speedway well they're still making the short track
The schedule is fine. Just fix the racing. If I'm going to spend 3 or 4 hours watching i should be able to tell a different story than, "They raced around, it started to get intetesting and then there was a yellow, then it started to get interesting again, and then there was a yellow which meant a GWC and then a big wreck and then on the 4th GWC attempt somebody who ran 20th all day won."
The perfect balance is 4 Superspeedway races Daytona and Talladega. Make Atlanta unrestricted because too many cars are getting wrecked and there's no show of driver talent. 9 short tracks races. 2 Martinsville, 1 Nashville Fairgrounds, 1 North Wilkesboro, 1 Iowa, 2 Bristol, 1 Richmond, and hopefully 1 Auto Club if construction starts. Side Note Auto Club is no longer sponsoring the track so for now it's California Speedway. 4 Road Courses Sonoma, Watkins Glen, COTA, and an international race in different countries like next year they're going to Mexico. Then Maybe go to Canada after that in 2026. The Chicago Street Course is too involved in the city politics along with the fact is I hate going to any city in the country. Just go back to Chicagoland but repave turns 3 and 4 and leave 1 and 2 alone for 2 or 3 years then repave that end to make it interesting to the new fans and diehards. Go back to the Charlotte oval. You have your unique tracks like Darlington, Michigan, and Gateway. 4 mile tracks and each with 1 race. Dover, Phoenix, New Hampshire, and Rockingham. 10 Intermediate races. 2 Las Vegas, 2 Kansas, 2 Charlotte,1 Chicagoland, 1 Homestead, 2 Atlanta. Texas is gone given to Rockingham. Nashville Superspeedway moves to the Fairgrounds. North Wilkesboro is given a points race. I given my idea for Chicagoland for a repave at a cheaper cost and preserve half of the track surface until the repaved half rubbers in. An idea of mine if Nascar wants to rotate the championship race is let the fans vote the track. Give fans 3 options of the best tracks in this car to choose to host the finale. Here's the idea from 4th of July weekend the vote starts. You'll vote Homestead, Phoenix, or Kansas. You'd have until the playoffs to vote and at the Regular Season Finale the track with the most votes would host the championship race and it would give the track enough time to prepare for the event along with boosting fan interest and change the format so we don't have these gimmicks.
NASCAR needs to have a balance of tracks. It used to be 2 road courses and now we have a lot. Same with the Superspeedways. It’s all about balance. The finale needs to be fixed. Phoenix is not a good track for the finale at all.
*H O M E S T E A D* *H O M E S T E A D* *H O M E S T E A D* *H O M E S T E A D* But seriously, I think they need to fix the car for short tracks and road courses as well
I honestly loved the 6-7 road courses. But COT 2.0 (aka next-gen cars) ruined it. It was a way to go to different places if they capitalized. I personally gained from that, I live in Wisconsin I went to both Road America races. Now we don’t even get Xfinity.
Making a dream NASCAR Cup Series schedule is so, so hard, because there’s so many tracks, yet, there’s only so many dates on the schedule. With that being said, I would like to see more races outside the US, maybe even overseas, and I would also like to see NASCAR explore more big markets.
They need to move The Bristol Night Race back to August. Don’t like It In The Playoffs. 4 of The 5 Playoff Night Races were Horrible, with The 2021 Bristol Night Race being the only good one. It fit better In August late In The Regular Season. It was Warmer, & The Races fit better In August.
The GEN 4,5 & 6 cars turned into purpose built cookie cutter tracks cars. Now the gen 7 is a purpose/traditional built race cars it sucks on flat tracks and road courses.
The problem with that is oversaturation. To many tracks in too small a region of the country (and considering the push for Nashville Fairgrounds, that would be SEVEN racetracks in just two connecting states.) Not to mention, Dallas-Ft. Worth is too valuable of a market for NASCAR to lose, especially to IndyCar.
My three big points: 1. Change the finale, Homestead, Charlotte, Kansas even are better options than Phoenix. 2. Invest in tracks you already have. Texas needs a reconfiguration and remodel. It’s a huge market if they would invest in it. Auto Club needs to be finished. This could end up being the finale once it’s done but we need it finished. Also Chicagoland and Kentucky needs to be back on the schedule regardless of the series. You have tracks send a NASCAR series to them. 3. We need two more shorter tracks, 1 less road course and or a “short road course” ie LimeRock park or New Hampshire.
Move sears point to may or before the hot summer months get Rockingham into one of championship last four races and every year all tracks in the and have the tracks change every year even if they are the same tracks just put them in a different order and get the plate tracks out of the playoffs
What do you want to see most in future NASCAR schedules?
I would like Nazerth Speedway back in 2025 or 2026
I’d like to see Milwaukee get a Cup race. Or if not then bring back Chicagoland to replace the Street Course
Nashville Fairgrounds
We need to go to these tracks in the future for the cup series.
1. Rockingham
2. Chicagoland
3. Motegi Japan Oval
4. Toronto Street Race
5. New York City street race
7. Milwaukee
8. Bring back the Charlotte Oval
😊
Finale rotation. Move it between Miami, Vegas, Charlotte, Darlington and Kansas (and maybe Phoenix if they’re that desperate, as well as Auto Club if the short track comes to fruition)
Homestead as the finale felt like a true final test to prove your worth for the ring that year. Its 1.5 mile oval but isn't a cookie cutter style, it feels like it's own race and you cant compare strategy and approach to the cookie cutters to win. It is its own beast and fun to see how people tackle it.
6:17 surprised there isn’t more night races next year considering Iowa (a night race) this year was one of the best viewed cable races
I feel the same. A few more Sunday night races in the summer would do quite well like Iowa imo
I have a feeling the broadcast partners aren't interested in making space for something that compares with the rest of their portfolios. And since NASCAR basically has its schedule dictated to them by the partners, you wind up with them paying billions to get shafted.
Fans should be appreciative of a constant changing and evolving schedule year by year. The schedule was basically the exact same from 2001-2020 (just tracks switching dates in 2020). The schedule was stagnant forever, glad NASCAR can go to new tracks or return to tracks they should've never left in the first place.
No, too much change for the sake of change. All traditions were chucked out the window, which makes the sport more generic.
The fact a driver “could” win 35 out of 36 races and still finish 4th in the championship is just ridiculous
Could win 35 and finish second at phoenix, and lead all but 1 lap of the season and not win a championship. Sure that’s never going to happen but come on, that’s a rediculous system that could even allow that possibility
2:33 IndyCar needs to learn a thing or 2 on how to balance their schedules for ovals and circuits
(But too bad NASCAR/ISC’s monopoly is one of the reasons why we are lacking ovals).
The point is that all racing series, even NASCAR, should learn how to balance the schedule the right way when it comes to different track types!
Yeah I agree. But it would be hard for NASCAR/ISC to justify it now, especially with fox putting so many IndyCar races head to head with NASCAR races
@ except that all IndyCar races are on FOX while NASCAR is still on various channels.
(Too bad schedule conflicts are still a thing….)
It's rough being an American motorsports fan
@ without a doubt
The biggest thing that needs to change is the finale. It drags everything about the sport down from the racing product to the championship fight to the legitimacy of the sport itself.
I agree, either Homestead should be back or a rotation of solid tracks that have good racing and outreach
@@TheIcebergthat’s not the point. He meant the single race finale. If it was 3 race finale round people wouldn’t care about the track being boring
I know, but the race itself being at Phoenix wouldn't be good for the sport regardless of the system. At least at Homestead or another good track for the time being there could at least be a good race. 100% think the single race finale needs to go as well
I love your second point about bringing balance. The diversity of tracks is one of nascar's strongest points, however I am honestly getting pretty burnt out on having so many constant schedule changes. I would love to see a 2000s-2010s "unchanging" style schedule with our newer tracks. Predictability and familiarity is not a bad thing.
Also, Sunday night races are the WORST for people who have to work early on Monday. I have to be at work at 5am, I don't want to be watching TV at 10:30 on Sunday night
Some nascar fans unfortuntally will complain about everything.
nascar on my feed it's been like 4 years since i seen this channel use to be hardcore on this channel
Welcome back!
People complain a lot about NASCAR, but a thing that nobody can deny is that scheduling nowdays is variated and have stuffs for everyone to enjoy at
that said i think that a few more night racing would be fun in the summer and maybe have miami as the finalle
Yeah if they ever bring back Rockingham they need to add lights at the track for Night Racing in the Summer and Nashville Fairgrounds should obviously be a night race.
There's a reason people complain about it, and is less popular than it used to be.
Listen to the fans that were abandoned.
Thank you for going over the balance section man. I have been saying this for ages, just because the cookie cutter race shave been the best does not mean they have to take up so much schedule space again. The Gen 4 racing at cookie cutters was pretty solid, but there were so many of them that the racing got rather repetitive quick. We do not need that happening again.
I find it funny they were trying to make a car that would do well on short ovals and road courses and they Ended up making a car that races great on mile and a halfs and superspeedways.
Yep had the opposite effect. 😅
All i want for christmas is to putting Phoenix in the rear view mirror. It's time to move with the championship race.
one market i really want to see nascar in is Denver. as a local, we have such a large amount of car guys and gals and no racing except pikes peak and smaller events. massive untapped market
It's such an untapped area for NASCAR. I'd love to see it too!
Is Pike’s Peak International Raceway still around? That might be a location to consider.
@@FlashoftheBlades PPIR is there but it's not in a great state.
@@FlashoftheBladesI live near the track myself. It's still standing, but nowhere NEAR NASCAR ready. They need to do some serious renovations to hold races there again.
@@FlashoftheBlades It is! i think thier biggest event is World Time Attack
I want more races on the west coast, since there are only a couple events on my side of the country right now.
Going off "staying fresh" & possibility of rotating the championship race, I think rotation throughout the schedule (excluding long standing traditions) would be huge. Playoff & regular season races, second dates, even tracks that are outside the current schedule (ex. Road America & Mid-Ohio). Get North Wilkesboro a points race already! Clash & All-Star Race, something different every year and BE CREATIVE, one of them at a grassroots track & the other at a big destination home or abroad (return to Japan is overdue, especially with Toyota hitting 20 years). Balance change and tradition!
Michigan has had some really good races shadowed by rain I think now that it’s back in June it will be one of the best races next year
Kansas would be too unpredictable in the weather category for championship weekend. It could easily rain, snow, be too windy, or too cold and change last minute. Even though it would be awesome for champ race. Aside from weather
I think something like this
2019 Daytona 500
2014 Atlanta motorspeedway
2018 Las Vegas speedway
2019 ISM Raceway
2013 Bristol
2015 Kentucky Motorspeedway
I say bring back a dirt race, either Bristol dirt or Eldora
I got ideas for other potential dirt tracks but who knows if they want to do that
Atlanta season ending race will be very interesting.
Hear me out about the champ race… Phoenix isn’t absolutely awful as a championship venue. The racing is trash as it has been since the 70s there. But the track environment is pretty great and it has pretty decent infrastructure. Although homestead does everything especially with the coming track upgrades
I think this would be brilliant. What if all the mid-season tournament races were all night races? If there were any part of year for Sunday Night NASCAR, it'd be from during the NBA and NHL playoffs through to the NFL's preseason.
I do like the way NASCAR is handling the schedule for the most part.
I also like the finale race go from day to night I think it’s adds value you know the sun is setting on the season I hate day light finales it needs to start at lighter like just before sunset etc then have it turn dark it just adds value in my opinion
I understand the loyalty to ovals, but I don’t understand how some folks despise more road courses. The product we get on road courses is great! These cars can beat and bang on eachother like how racing should be. IMSA, WEC, F1, whatever you cannot really race wheel to wheel because of damage or penalty. Also, NASCAR having the most diverse schedule of any motorsport is a strength that needs to be leaned on. It’s a real challenge to the drivers rather than the same thing week in and week out.
Homestead finale in in Canada to go along with the one in Mexico just like the old nationwide series stays
I'd love it if the schedules of some(if not most) races aren't conflicting with IndyCar(like starting at the same time or 30 minutes later than the other).
Or with F1 when they come to North America. With the exception of the Vegas GP which is held on a Saturday night, all of the other F1 races in North America conflict with both Indycar & NASCAR in terms of start times.
If I was in charge of NASCAR, here is how my schedule would go
Daytona Clash (only includes the pole sitters of the previous year)
Daytona Duel (shortened to 50 laps)
Daytona 500 (part of the No Bull 5 challenge, no stages, double points race, *must end at scheduled distance*)
Phoenix (200 lap race)
Las Vegas (night race)
Sonoma
COTA
Atlanta
Richmond
Martinsville
North Wilkesboro
Iowa
Eldora
Talladega
Kansas
Mexico City
Charlotte (All Star)
Charlotte (part of the No Bull 5, no stages, double points, *must end at scheduled distance*)
Gateway
Montreal
Rockingham
New Hampshire
Road America
Daytona (held on the 4th of July *NO MATTER WHAT*)
Michigan
Brickyard 400 (part of the No Bull 5, no stages, double points, *must end at scheduled distance*)
Kentucky
Milwaukee Mile
Chicagoland (Regular Season Finale)
(Round of 16)
Darlington (throwback race, part of the No Bull 5, no stages, double points, *must end at scheduled distance*
Dover
Nashville (night)
(Round of 12)
Pocono
Talladega
Bristol
(Round of 8)
Las Vegas
Texas (cry:)
Charlotte (Oval)
(Champ 4)
Martinsville
Watkins Glen
Homestead-Miami
Nope North Wilkesboro shouldn't go after Richmond or Martinsville moving Iowa ahead of North Wilkesboro is better.
4:08 That’s something that I’ve long been in favor of. NASCAR’s schedule needs to be as evenly balanced as possible in regards to the different types of circuits that it visits throughout the year (short tracks, short intermediate tracks (1-1.5 miles long), long intermediate tracks (1.5-2 miles long), superspeedways (2+ miles in length), and road courses).
NASCAR learned the hard way that most fans hate road courses. Sure Mexico replaced a Richmond date but fans started to hate Richmond too. They want NASCAR to be an oval racing series only.
To be fair though two wasn't enough. And prior to about 2018-2019 tons of fans were clamoring for more road courses, NASCAR just went too far
@@TheIceberg Totally agree 2 isn't enough. I'm more a racing fan in general, not just NASCAR. I never fully understood the hatred. I thought 6 was a good number personally. Love Road America too.
The attendance when they went to Road America was very strong.
I still like the idea of rotating road courses. Keep the staples like Sonoma, Watkins Glen, and COTA on there. The fourth road course can be rotated yearly within the United States, this might mean the Indy Road Course and the Charlotte ROVAL can appear as blips, but there are a lot of road courses on there that can help the sport. You have Road America, Laguna Seca (it has to be on certain weekends), Road Atlanta, and even ones you don't know about such as Pacific Raceways in Seattle. It can even be a city circuit, such as Detroit or Chicago. The fifth one can be a rotating international road course. Since we have Mexico back, this can open up for options. Canada has some good tracks, and Mexico has a few others as well that can be added. Every once in a while, do one in Europe, Asia, South America, maybe Oceania to help build a stable international audience.
As for the playoffs, maybe make each round themed. You might call me crazy, but have a round be a specific track type. Have one round be intermediates, another short track, another road courses, and have the rotating finale. Or for the finale, do what Michael Mrucz (may have misspelled his last name) has in mind and have the championship round be a regular playoff round. Best of three races wins the championship.
3 race final round. If they don’t want to be 3-3-3-3. Do 1-3-3-3
100% want more Sunday night races. I find myself doing other things or always have plans for saturday night. Sundays are for Nascar! We are going to nashville this yr BC its a night race. Also Charlotte for the finale sounds great. Maybe Phoenix can lose a date.
In my opinion, when we're going international, when possible get on an oval.
Not that we can't show off road course racing, but a big money oval race in another country stands out much more than another road course.
Find it hilarious in the eutechnyx NASCAR games the only difference in the schedule was when the races happened and even those dates were just flipped a week earlier or later
I'm just glad the Truck Series got rid of the weird month-long gap in the middle of the playoffs
Sacrifice two road courses and bring back Chicagoland, and give Kentucky at least one shot, and bring back at least two 500 milers, preferably one at Kansas and one at Las Vegas, and make them day to night transition races, and then leave the rest of the schedule alone.
I just want the throwback race to be a 500 lap prime time Easter Classic at North Wilkesboro.
I wouldnt mind seeing rotation in the schedule. For 2026, bring back Chicagoland Speedway and Kentucky for 3-5 years. There are a lot of other tracks that deserve a spot on the schedule, but theres no room. Rotate some tracks out, put the others in and give it a 3-5 year cycle. Keeps it feeling new for local fans and keeps drivers from getting too good at one specific track.
I would love to see Rockingham back on the cup schedule, despite the package with the Next-Gen cars, this track can be ran on a lot of lanes, which I think would make for a great race for the NASCAR Cup Series there.
Yep no doubt that Rockingham would be a multiple lane track but it needs lights for some night racing for sure.
The only tracks that should have 2 dates are Daytona, Talladega, Atlanta, Bristol, and Martinsville. I’d like to see Chicagoland and Rockingham return to cup racing.
Different strokes for different people obviously but I only watch NASCAR road course races
Wow hi
Add Nazareth, the Lehigh Valley + surrounding areas loves NASCAR
I don't think there's much to salvage there unfortunately
@@TheIceberg, this is quite true. 😢
1. There's literally nothing left of Nazareth.
2. Under current ownership, the track is not allowed to be rebuilt and host races.
3. Part of that is because it's so close to Pocono. "Want racing in NW PA? Go to Pocono."
Nazareth is dead.
Move races to Saturday nights. Trucks on Friday. Xfinity at noon sat
All we need is Chicagoland back
As a british fan I do NOT want sunday night races
I don't blame you
Less tracks with 2 races per year and more night races. No track should have two day races except Talladega
So you're really going to axe one of Martinsville and Daytona's races. Wow.
@runrafarunthebestintheworld please read more carefully. I said if tracks have two dates one should be a night race one a day race. Talladega does not hav3 lights thus get 2 day races. Primarily talking bout Phoenix and Kansas. IMO only Charlotte Daytona and Martinsville (maybe Talladega and or Kansas) should have two dates, everyone else only one
I think, unless it’s a big time track like Daytona, Talladega, Bristol, etc. you only get 1 race
3 race championship 4 please
It'd be a bit better but I'd take a 10 race chase back if I could
The finale needs to go back to Homestead
& back to the Mid-November Tradition (On the 3rd or 4th Sunday of November)
I would love to see a 40 race schedule
I mean if we count the Clash, All-Star Race, and 2 duels we have 40 lol
You know I've been always doing this project in nr2003 where is basically is what if NASCAR had the schedule from 10 years ago and this all applies to The cup series Xfinity and trucks and in that project I experimented with all those cars and see how they could have ran in the track that were 10 years ago still nothing has changed steal some tracks like Kentucky are still mediocre at best but other than that that project will probably not to end because I'm putting it on hiatus but forget it back again if NASCAR literally announced that they're going back to the schedule that they have from 10 years ago I will definitely be a chaotic one because they need to have every single track and you will attract that when the schedule they need to get the license back from them and some of the tracks like Kentucky California and Chicagoland those tracks are now in a booming real estate market I have no idea how Chicagoland is nowadays and also Kentucky and California speedway well they're still making the short track
That sounds really interesting. I can definitely say that Chicagoland is in pretty good condition nowadays still
The schedule is fine. Just fix the racing. If I'm going to spend 3 or 4 hours watching i should be able to tell a different story than, "They raced around, it started to get intetesting and then there was a yellow, then it started to get interesting again, and then there was a yellow which meant a GWC and then a big wreck and then on the 4th GWC attempt somebody who ran 20th all day won."
The perfect balance is 4 Superspeedway races Daytona and Talladega. Make Atlanta unrestricted because too many cars are getting wrecked and there's no show of driver talent. 9 short tracks races. 2 Martinsville, 1 Nashville Fairgrounds, 1 North Wilkesboro, 1 Iowa, 2 Bristol, 1 Richmond, and hopefully 1 Auto Club if construction starts. Side Note Auto Club is no longer sponsoring the track so for now it's California Speedway. 4 Road Courses Sonoma, Watkins Glen, COTA, and an international race in different countries like next year they're going to Mexico. Then Maybe go to Canada after that in 2026. The Chicago Street Course is too involved in the city politics along with the fact is I hate going to any city in the country. Just go back to Chicagoland but repave turns 3 and 4 and leave 1 and 2 alone for 2 or 3 years then repave that end to make it interesting to the new fans and diehards. Go back to the Charlotte oval. You have your unique tracks like Darlington, Michigan, and Gateway. 4 mile tracks and each with 1 race. Dover, Phoenix, New Hampshire, and Rockingham. 10 Intermediate races. 2 Las Vegas, 2 Kansas, 2 Charlotte,1 Chicagoland, 1 Homestead, 2 Atlanta. Texas is gone given to Rockingham. Nashville Superspeedway moves to the Fairgrounds. North Wilkesboro is given a points race. I given my idea for Chicagoland for a repave at a cheaper cost and preserve half of the track surface until the repaved half rubbers in. An idea of mine if Nascar wants to rotate the championship race is let the fans vote the track. Give fans 3 options of the best tracks in this car to choose to host the finale. Here's the idea from 4th of July weekend the vote starts. You'll vote Homestead, Phoenix, or Kansas. You'd have until the playoffs to vote and at the Regular Season Finale the track with the most votes would host the championship race and it would give the track enough time to prepare for the event along with boosting fan interest and change the format so we don't have these gimmicks.
NASCAR needs to have a balance of tracks. It used to be 2 road courses and now we have a lot. Same with the Superspeedways. It’s all about balance. The finale needs to be fixed. Phoenix is not a good track for the finale at all.
Balance is definitely key, but ya the finale is a huge point that should be solved sooner rather than later
More super speedway tracks
4:55 Sad part is, NASCAR wants the chaos. Which is why Talladega is in the round of 8 this year. 🙄
We need dirt back
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But seriously, I think they need to fix the car for short tracks and road courses as well
Also I know I'm a boomer, but generally NASCAR needs to shorten races (minus your crown jewels) and get rid of the stages.
Sorry but road courses are the way forward for new fans
Bite your tongue
Some road courses are nice for sure, but the way to regain fans is from all the fans that were abandoned in the first place.
I honestly loved the 6-7 road courses. But COT 2.0 (aka next-gen cars) ruined it. It was a way to go to different places if they capitalized. I personally gained from that, I live in Wisconsin I went to both Road America races. Now we don’t even get Xfinity.
Another change would be get rid of the playoffs, a reason why less and less fans view in as the years go boy.
Why not a trip around the USA clock wise to each track for example
Daytona homestead Atlanta Talladega COTA Texas Auto Club Sanoma etc ends in Daytona
I just want chicagoland back wee need a rought tire wearing cookie cutter like we had with atlanta
The schedule doesn’t matter. Until this gets back to innovative racing, we’re all kind of done here.
Making a dream NASCAR Cup Series schedule is so, so hard, because there’s so many tracks, yet, there’s only so many dates on the schedule.
With that being said, I would like to see more races outside the US, maybe even overseas, and I would also like to see NASCAR explore more big markets.
I hope we get dirt tracks again in some form , I feel like it pays tribute to nascars history
No way I’m this early
Well done!
They need to move The Bristol Night Race back to August. Don’t like It In The Playoffs. 4 of The 5 Playoff Night Races were Horrible, with The 2021 Bristol Night Race being the only good one. It fit better In August late In The Regular Season. It was Warmer, & The Races fit better In August.
The GEN 4,5 & 6 cars turned into purpose built cookie cutter tracks cars. Now the gen 7 is a purpose/traditional built race cars it sucks on flat tracks and road courses.
Take Texas off the schedule, add Rockingham on the Cup schedule, and make North Wilkesboro a points race
Texas imo would be fine if it had its pre 2017 layout. Though I agree on bringing back the Rock and Wilkesboro as points races
The problem with that is oversaturation. To many tracks in too small a region of the country (and considering the push for Nashville Fairgrounds, that would be SEVEN racetracks in just two connecting states.) Not to mention, Dallas-Ft. Worth is too valuable of a market for NASCAR to lose, especially to IndyCar.
My three big points:
1. Change the finale, Homestead, Charlotte, Kansas even are better options than Phoenix.
2. Invest in tracks you already have. Texas needs a reconfiguration and remodel. It’s a huge market if they would invest in it. Auto Club needs to be finished. This could end up being the finale once it’s done but we need it finished. Also Chicagoland and Kentucky needs to be back on the schedule regardless of the series. You have tracks send a NASCAR series to them.
3. We need two more shorter tracks, 1 less road course and or a “short road course” ie LimeRock park or New Hampshire.
Bring back Dirt! 2-3 races a year, Eldora and rotate others
I think they need more short tracks on the schedule when they fix the car and get rid of the stupid all star race
Less road courses and add a second date for intermediate tracks.
Move sears point to may or before the hot summer months get Rockingham into one of championship last four races and every year all tracks in the and have the tracks change every year even if they are the same tracks just put them in a different order and get the plate tracks out of the playoffs
Get rid of the playoffs/chase.