Does NASCAR Have TOO MANY Road Courses?

[@TheIceberg]

Do you think NASCAR has too many road courses?

[@King_Randy]

Absolutely

[@stoneracing1778]

Instead of having every road course each year, NASCAR should have five a year and use a rotating schedule except having the Charlotte Roval every year

[@millennialchicken]

nah, i think there's room for a few more... but they have to be circuits that have history of good racing, in order to be on the schedule.

[@otoot8198]

No

[@TheJason989]

No

[@TheNewsChannel]

The road course race that I would alter, whether that means changing the configuration of it or taking it off the schedule, is the Indy RC. Personally I think they should alternate between the Oval and the RC configuration as intermediate racing is on the up and up.

[@Kahne-yy3vq]

Agreed, it’s not really the brickyard unless they do the oval in my opinion, no matter how boring.

[@crazybut6641]

Indianapolis oval needs a special package the track can put on great racing it’s crazy to me how forgotten that 4 wide Xfinty stage finish is

[@jacobevenson8702]

What they should do is run the road course in May with Indycar as a double header, then run the 400 in the traditional first weekend of August date.

[@kjprodouctions9050]

@@Kahne-yy3vq I'm a traditional guy. So, I agree with u. The Brickyard 400 is a crown jewel for a reason despite some of the races not being as exciting.

[@josephpenn1115]

@@kjprodouctions9050 Honestly, I don't know how on earth anyone considers that race a crown Jewel considering it had no history up until 1994 and only exists to play second fiddle to the Indy 500.

[@ord4r857]

Yes they do

[@michaelcaraway2305]

I am a long time (most of my life) NASCAR fan. I was at Bristol when Dale Sr won his first Cup race but it was far from my first there and N. Wilkesboro. I've seen races at Talladaga and Daytona. That being said I love the road courses. They are really the roots of NASCAR. You really don't think moonshine runners just made left turns do you? A dirt road/paved road mix would be the ultimate of bringing the sport back to it's true roots.

[@tannermattey]

6 should be the max, we should have 1 rotating course like an international race

[@JJA1987]

No they don’t - The amount they have is perfectly fine

[@dadshirt6681]

i think we need more but 6 is perfect dont change from there

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

6 is not perfect. Fans wanted 4 road courses at the very least.

[@ryanb8780]

I mean a couple years ago we were bitching that there weren't enough RC's. And now we have more, I'm happy

[@crewscole4628]

You should do a "greatest race ever" video

[@NASCARDAWGYT]

We designed cars that now require more skill to drive at road courses. I think having 5 or 6 is perfect with this car. Gen 6 I would agree we have too much but now the cars have changed and Road coursed have become some of my favorite tracks and even my dad who was against it loves it

[@alexanderwoods3951]

I think that road course racing is a good thing for Nascar for a few reasons 1: The current cars do drive slightly like sportscars (according to McDowell) 2: It allows for more areas of North America to be reached as many international markets primarily have road courses 3: It can bring in international intrest even if there are series' in Europe and Canada 4: International drivers can now enter more races since they are used to road courses, we can even widen it to GT, Formula E, and Brazilian Stock Cars 5: If some tracks don't work, there are other options, tracks like Texas are highly disliked nowadays and if Nascar wants to keep racing in certain states/provinces, they can use road courses

[@Ramtamtama]

6. Le Mans.

[@The_shape_007]

I think this is the limit, I don’t want any more, but if they took some off it wouldn’t be the worst thing

[@Jose-Gomez]

Yeah. Both The Charlotte Roval, And The Indianapolis Road Course.

[@S.K.R.E.Inc.]

A suggestion would be eliminate all second races (exception Daytona and Talladega) and add a road course race to it (ex. Road Atlanta in place of AMS, Laguna Seca instead of Vegas 2nd race). If not possible in every scenario, short tracks

[@bloqk16]

The thing about NASCAR racers nowadays is that they are similar to the Trans Am road racers were back in the early 1970s; which primarily consisted of Ford Mustangs and Chevy Camaros . . . sounds familiar? Ppl had positive things to say about NASCAR at COTA. An aspect they may not have considered: That race at COTA was an SCCA Trans Am road-race in disguise; as there were Mustangs and Camaros in the mix.

[@thekingscene]

I do like the road courses, some more than others. The issue with change in Nascar is they have a tendency to make changes just for the sake of change, which is never a good thing

[@johnvandeventer8668]

I think 6 is enough

[@bowmanfan4824]

I think this is the perfect amount of road courses. They seem evenly spread out on the schedule. To be honest before they added them to the schedule I never really was interested in the road course races even though Watkins Glen is my home track. But, by them adding in more throughout the season I decided to give them a watch. That is when I got hooked into those races now I really look forward to them.

[@CamKrazy2000]

I'm all for having more road course races, especially now with the current cars that are more suited for road courses than before. HOWEVER they must get rid of the stages when they are at road courses. You simply cannot have pre-determined cautions in road course racing, that's idiotic. The undercut vs. the overcut or 2 stops vs. 3 stops, etc... these are the things that make road course racing interesting and fun. I can live with the stages at ovals but not at road courses.

[@ErikZarins]

I like the added road courses because I like seeing NASCAR distance itself away from just being oval racing..... *HOWEVER* keeping our current ovals (minus Texas Motor Speedway) adds some prestigious value to what our grassroots dates back to. We are a motorsports league....we want the BEST drivers who can master the oval, dirt and road races

[@gentrydebbie1040]

They are still trying to master the new Car ? Ever Driver spins out more than they ever have , The last race had more action on Pit Row than The Track ?

[@f1fan112]

Short answer: No Long Answer: HELL NO!

[@Lukepuke311]

Street courses would be slug feats where the cars would be going 50mph the whole time

[@King_Randy]

Yes

[@Bill_the_Redneck]

I freakin’ love Charlotte roval. I’m more of an oval guy because it is one thing that makes nascar unique and it’s super fun but I’d rather watch road course racing than the same track 2 times a year. I just don’t like that concept.

[@ACasualRacer]

I agree, I wish they'd take a lot of tracks second dates and make them roval races as well. And then Texas I'd just have as a roval race, scratch the oval event until they reprofile the track.

[@markymarc12]

I've been watching since the 2004 Daytona 500. The 2012 Watkins Glen race is easily one of my favorite races with that awesome finish

[@loganengland8177]

I think 6 should be the limit.

[@lukecannonn]

6 is the perfect number. no more, no less. it's not too much where it takes up a majority of the schedule, and it's not so little where road course skill doesn't matter like when we only had 2 races a year

[@eclark9965]

More road courses. You’re not a wheelman until you can prove you can turn right.

[@richsmith6997]

When it comes to road courses I'm old school. I've been watching and following NASCAR since the 90's and I would prefer to see a limit of only 3 or 4 road courses, at most, on the schedule. The major changes that NASCAR has implemented in recent years have only served to push me more and more to watching winged sprint car racing, where there are no road courses or playoffs. There was a time when sprint car racing always played second fiddle to NASCAR for me. Thanks to the changes implemented by NASCAR that is no longer the case.

[@SMCSRacingNetwork]

Which 4 would you keep?

[@richsmith6997]

@@SMCSRacingNetwork Watkins Glen, COTA, Road America, and Sonoma. That said, I would gladly trade Sonoma for the Roval. But that would likely never happen because the Bay Area market is simply too important to abandon.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

@@richsmith6997 Sonoma could always be replaced by Laguna Seca when it comes to the Bay Area, especially after the renovations are finished.

[@LethalSpine]

@@chrisguardiano6143 Laguna Seca's NIMBY neighbors would never tolerate having NASCAR there. They'd hear one car and complain so much it would never be allowed again. Unless some politician there grows some balls and tells the neighbors to eff off, Laguna is probably never gonna happen.

[@richsmith6997]

@@chrisguardiano6143 True. I grew up less than 20 minutes from Laguna Seca. It's a beautiful track. But since Sonoma is owned by SMI I think it's highly doubtful that SMI would ever agree to lose the Sonoma race to Laguna Seca.

[@prevailathletics2951]

Charlotte roval needs to go asap!

[@davidmarecek1754]

I think good option would be making some sort of sub-series/championship, something like "nascar road course tour". Yes, it would cost money and other resources, but you would have a choice between classic nascar on the oval(which wouldn't be oversaturated with roa courses), or something new with road courses (and street circuits) only. If this would happen, the road course slots could be replaced with some fan favourite ovals.

[@aaronmachado13]

No, perfect as I got into NASCAR for track diversity, these drivers race on the most diverse schedule in motorsport with short track (which I pray they fix the package for short tracks) intermediate tracks, road course, dirt and super speedway. I think COTA, road america, Sonoma, Roval, the Glen and Daytona RC is perfect as if we’re revisiting legendary tracks, minus we’ll make use of a new layout. This package has provided first time winners on the RC and seems to be providing great racing whether it’s three wide at sonoma or epic finish at COTA. Though I’m part of the people who believe texas should go, texas is awful racing in every package and use COTA to represent the texas NASCAR fanbase

[@OffWalrusCargo]

Honestly I'd love to see a bit of mixing up the race types. If they want to keep the staged racing, make indy an oval, road, oval race where in the second stage you have the road course. Nascar has the ability to do multiple race styles use it during racing.

[@dylanjom8233]

Honestly, probably the worst road course on the schedule is the Indy RC. I know some people liked that race, but I didn't like it because I didn't see much passing most of the race besides the crazy last 20 laps and NASCAR's bs on not throwing the caution for not seeing debris when MTJ spun. I might give that track another chance but I'd rather see the Brickyard 400 on the oval again even though it hasn't been great for a while.

[@evolveVIII]

I think they need more. They need change, and I have hope

[@prestonr52]

No. 6 is a good spot. I like the Indy road course but understand if they want to try the oval again I loved seeing them on the Daytona RC. Don't know how they could fit that in the schedule but would love to see them back on there.

[@keonssj667]

Probably would have to move auto club back a week and have the Daytona Rc a week after the 500 like last year. They probably would have to take away a date from a track with two to get the brickyard 400 back.

[@crfbwv]

They need more honestly

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

No we don't.

[@Jimmy-qb3kr]

I definitely think the three they used to run was great. However, Xfinity should get more. What was fun was how xfinity used to run at places like mid ohio, montreal, and mexico city, and had the road course ringers run them.

[@OwneOle]

4 road course races would be perfect

[@papadragon695]

I think 4 is the best number. But having 3 to 6 a year is fine. Just don’t go over 6 or back to 2

[@jamessenik5147]

They should add more road races

[@tomdanison234]

Well they screamed to many midsized tracks. So, the road course !!!!!

[@theflagstand]

I mean, I kinda miss the way it used to be with just Sonoma and Watkins Glen but that's more nostalgia than anything else. I wouldn't want to remove any of the current road courses from the schedule, alhtough IMO if there's gonna be only one race at Indy it has to be on the oval. The number of road courses we have now is near perfect and the road courses they go are really good choices.

[@bigdaddydave3341]

I'm sure I'm just fantasizing here, but how about an exhibition race at The Nurburgring?

[@theracingcanucks]

I’m all for road courses! They bring out hidden talent in our drivers and shake up the field that could ultimately bring a new or long time coming driver to victory lane once again. Another reason too is for the Canadian market, we only have short track ovals here but we do have active street courses. Why not buddy up on the Honda Indy Toronto weekend when Indycar comes down or hey even the Canadian GP weekend when F1 is here for a visit like what’s happening tomorrow. Imagine how epic that schedule would be… Short tracks, intermediates, super speedways, dirt, road courses and a out of country road race! Sign me up!

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Now there's a possibility Road America could be off the schedule next season

[@traingirl3234]

If we get rid of stage cautions on road courses I bet their popularity would go up massively

[@acegarcia3719]

Regardless, I've always been of the belief that more road coruses and likely more still were inevitable, because a lot of potential markets don't have a viable oval option available.

[@arslangungil2923]

NOPE! Literally every road course, bar Sonoma and the Indy Roval, have been incredible races. I like watching the drivers struggle, making the drivers improve their ability, and making NASCAR drivers more versatile if they want to race in other racing series. Efficiently.

[@beekay2186]

Why other than the poor execution of the curb was Indy roval bad

[@racerlord2329]

That freaking Kerb at indy RC was just pure death and was one of the bigger talking points of that race as well as Briscoe cutting the track and getting a penalty but instead of yielding his spots like a smart guy he took out Hamlin from a fair shot of a win like a fool but other than that the racing was good there

[@THEDonnyB]

Road courses, short tracks, superspeedways, mile and a halfs. Four track types. 36 races. I wouldn't mind Daytona and Talladega getting 2 a piece, and the other types getting 8.

[@hadeskerbecs2881]

I think you also half to consider is the schedule, which tracks would we lose, which ones would lose a second date etc.

[@L9ne_Wlf]

It's rare for me to put on a Nascar race nowadays. Sonoma was the first one I've seen in full since dover. It's definitely more interesting

[@MFran248]

The thing too with true road courses (ie not the Roval) that people don't talk about is how big the attendance is due to how the tracks are set up. Besides the daytona 500 the only other 2 tracks to have 100,000 people are Road America and Watkins Glen.

[@nicemusic3432]

Replace Sonoma with Laguna Seca, that fixed the problem

[@jtpromolab]

I'm just waiting for the Bristol Dirt Roval.

[@millennialchicken]

Nah i don't think so. I think there's room for a few more... but they have to be circuits that have history of good racing, in order to be on the schedule. Tracks like Road Atlanta (which is very close to the Elliott's home of Dawsonville), Laguna Seca because of it's tight but brilliant layout (and the corkscrew), CTMP because why not Canada amongst others.

[@antoniestrada1972]

I know that used to do a lot of testing at Road Atlanta but man having a NASCAR race at Road Atlanta would be something

[@speedhunter7156]

I agree 100%

[@austindingess72]

I think I’d rather see Circuit Giles Vellenueve than Mosport

[@SebastianWoodard]

I'm gonna go test Xfinity cars at Laguna Seca in iRacing now. probably one of my favorite road course out there. I ran the ARCA car a couple times there in iRacing. it was a blast.

[@antoniestrada1972]

@@austindingess72 me personally always had the belief of IndyCar NASCAR going out of the country they should do oval racing instead of circuit racing

[@24ever66]

Thread courses are awesome. Great racing as long as it's not pouring rain

[@ATR022190]

Love road course racing! I've been to Watkins Glen a few times, and the road course experience is an absolute blast if you ever attended a race (or weekend) at one. I also went to the ROVAL last year, it was a very unique at track experience. You'd get the same at track experience of a speedway combined with the entertainment (and much better views) of a road course.

[@somedumbcrap]

I think the bigger issue than road courses is the possible issues with the new car at short tracks. With the exception of the clash, they've been average to dreadfully boring.

[@somedumbcrap]

Bristol is its own animal, in both forms.

[@nicholasvandeloecht4249]

So I've been watching NASCAR seriously for 21 years. In 2001, the first true year I got into it, and before the Daytona 500 started, I put together a fantasy schedule for a fantasy series I wrote (including my middle school peers as drivers) and, given how it was influenced by NASCAR 2001 (which had more than 5 road courses), I initially included 8 road courses in a 32-race schedule: WG, Sonoma, and six fantasy courses including a season-finale street course at New York (which I scrapped because I was 12 and sensitive to the 9/11 attacks). But ever since then, I've remained convinced that a third or a quarter of the schedule is what road courses should occupy. Outside of that, the previous generations of cars made it hard to justify the bevy of 1.5-milers when Watkins Glen and even Sonoma at times slowly developed into must-watch races. If there's anything I'd add, it's that each road course needs to feel different from the other. COTA feels like its own thing. Indy RC is a great course (watch the 2020 Xfinity race and tell me I'm wrong), but Charlotte already owns the ROVAL card. Road America is awesome and it rolls through a forest, but Watkins Glen already does that (and has more memorable turns like the inner-loop and the penultimate Turn 10). A street course would be a wonderful-looking addition, but once the road courses become too samey, then you run into the same problem you created with the rise of the 1.5-mile tri-oval.

[@248JRO]

One of the reasons why I love stock cars is their ability to run on many types of circuits. They can run on road courses, short tracks, superspeedways and they still can put on a good show. I like the bump and run style racing and that has happened at every type of circuit. I think 5 is the sweet number of Road Courses. I especially love COTA and Road America. I think we need more short tracks to even it out and dirt racing back at Eldora. Love the schedule variety. No other motorsport has the circuit variety that stock car racing does.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

Indycar would be as equal to NASCAR when it comes to circuit variety if they added more ovals specifically what NASCAR fans would consider intermediate ovals (ex Kansas) to the schedule. Instead Texas (which is horrible for Indycar in my view), Indy, Iowa & Gateway are the only ovals they race on currently although there have been talks to get Homestead back on the Indycar schedule within the next few years. It is a shame that Motegi in Japan (my favorite oval for Indycar) was extensively damaged in the 2011 tsunami/earthquake & is no longer usable

[@S.K.R.E.Inc.]

Stock car racing is basically advertising by manufacturers showing their prowess in multiple conditions (stop-and-go traffic, twists and turns, crash durability, etc), and proving that there's more to it than left turns. I'd like to see Auto Club back as an IndyCar venue. Would stall potential reconfig plans by NASCAR, which I firmly oppose. Heck, I'll take IndyCar racing in Martinsville

[@theracingcanucks]

@@S.K.R.E.Inc. Yo I would love a short track Indycar race!

[@cheddarmx5969]

@@chrisguardiano6143 I don’t think they will even with the aero screen wrecks like 2011 Vegas could still take lives

[@HayTatsuko]

Here's another for CotA and Road America. I've been a huge fan of the latter for many years. CotA was good from the very beginning and seems to have gotten even more so, the more I see various series run on it.

[@teajaydesigns]

I think they just need to be spread out. This year we had COTA and then it was like 2-3 months until Sonoma, and now ee have 3 road courses in the next 10 races. Just spread them out more and it's perfectly fine

[@andrewhicks768]

Yes we have reached an overstated state. We need more short tracks.

[@charmanderichooseyou2726]

Not only has stage racing ruined road course racing I would say full track yellows have as well. I know it’s not a main series, but look at the NASCAR Pinty series last race at Canadian tire motorsport Park a couple weeks ago, and you’ll see why it’s not only bad for the entertainment, but it’s extremely unsafe.

[@oneTOU3]

What? Just a few years ago, fans wanted more road course?

[@stevena55]

Yes, I think so. I'd like to see 3 road courses preferably, 4 maximum. We also don't need 6 Superspeedway races either, but that's another discussion.

[@Thraser999]

What we don't need is short tracks, and a dirt Bristol race...

[@tonystewartfan2014]

More short tracks I couldn’t agree more

[@zackariah8120]

6 SS races is fine.

[@stevena55]

@@Thraser999 short track racing is what this sport was built on, I don't think we will be scrapping them all on your recommendation. I'll concede the new car hasn't translated well to some short tracks, but they will get it figured out. As for the dirt race, a single one off dirt race has proven very successful in both trucks and now the cup series. It's likely here to stay in some capacity, be it at Bristol, or my preference, an actual dirt facility like Eldora.

[@stevena55]

@@zackariah8120 it's not the hill I'd die on, but does merit discussion. Driver feedback from superspeedways hasn't been great for a long time, combine that with the difficulty these cars pose to drive and rising aggression and it's a recipe for a wreckfest. I think 4 was fine, 6 probably will be too, but if I was doing the schedule it would be 4 road courses and 4 superspeedways.

[@connorjeans6592]

i think the series is good with the current number of road courses but i’d definitely love to see road atlanta or something like that swapped out for the indy rc

[@gabrielcraig8928]

Fans asked for more road courses that's why nascar put more on the schedule. They just need to change a few rules on road courses then it'll b more exciting so yea fans don't know what they want sometimes

[@steveelrino1339]

Road courses also give the drivers who win both legitimacy. Pretty cool that two of the best also do well at road courses

[@lewislinn1047]

Yes. Thank you! Finally someone mentions too many road courses! Replace them with mile and a half’s.

[@cian-neural2594]

Keep the number of road courses to six, but try to find a way to have more track variety that is different from other racing series. Changing course layouts, swapping venues with another track in another location once every two years, and stages without any yellows can be useful in making the sport more entertaining while also challenging the best stock car drivers on the planet to use their knowledge on road course racing.

[@jacobgivens7906]

Your point about stage cautions is valid: look at this past weekend, indycar with green flag strategy was a more entertaining race than nascar with stage cautions

[@JG3RTR]

No, I'd like to see 8 a season. Just my opinion. I love RC.

[@RJ_TwentySix]

No, the schedule should be as diverse as possible and right now, road courses aren't even 1/4 of the schedule

[@nothinghere7391]

There are 32 oval races in a year... Out of THIRTY-FUCKING-EIGHT. There's nowhere near enough RCs on the schedule

[@IyaTaisho]

I for one do enjoy seeing NASCAR having the current number of road courses on the schedule. Adding the Roval shook up the Chase a bit, to which I really think they should have two road courses in the Chase just to really mix it up. 6 of 36 races is not too bad. Most of the tracks visited were 1.5 mile tracks for years. The cookie cutters just really made the sport a bit less exciting with each season. With a few less of them and a few more road courses, things do feel slightly better balance wise.

[@larryepperly3118]

for the last few decades Nascar has tried to turn itself into F-1 , this is American racing not Europian racing , give us back our oval tracks but make them varied in size and layout .

[@peterbruschi8690]

Why can't we have both? I grew up around the Saturday night short track, worked on stock cars all my life. We'd go to Watkins Glen every year for NASCAR. I got into SCCA autocross because it was what I could afford to do with my daily. I've come to appreciate circle tracking and road course/sports car racing. I appreciate NASCAR mixing it up, I feel it attracts fans of both to our sport, and other motorsport.

[@GachaRacing18]

As someone who started watching during stage racing, and adore stage racing I definitely think that's what's hindering road courses. In racing games strategy on fuel and tires along with testing your skill on how deep you want to send it into a corner, that's what makes road courses awesome. So I say take the stages out of road course....I was going to share my "just don't throw a yellow" plan but then I realized we might still get the same problems as we have now

[@speedwayanywhere6845]

They totally brought into many at a time. Add to that they had to race the Daytona infield because of California regulations last year. Go ahead and take away some of the cookie cutter tracks but don't make them all road courses

[@tloz171nfs]

When intermediate racing was bad (especially last year), more road courses were a clear improvement. Now that intermediate racing is way better, it kinda sucks that we're going to the Indy RC and Charlotte Roval instead of their oval layouts.

[@dustykh]

For almost 30 years nascar had basically one road course on the schedule in their entire season. Then they added a second road course that would stick around, and that lasted for almost 30 years as well. in the last 4 years we've added 4 different road course races to the schedule, and have even raced at a 5th different road course as a replacement for when another road course wouldn't let us in due to outside circumstances. I feel like having this many road courses in stock car racing is somewhat absurd.

[@skyewarren79]

I think 6-7 is the right number, and it was done to quickly. I think the Glen and Sonoma were 2 good to keep, the roval is such a unique event that it fits the schedule well, and road america and COTA are great tracks with roots and ties to both American and international racing. The only change I make is move the Indy RC back to the oval, and maybe rotate in the street race for say the texas playoff race (the street circuit shouldn’t be in the playoffs but take that texas date and give it to the street circuit

[@benwalter4842]

Just add Portland, Montreal, Canadian Tire, and Mexico City to the schedule.

[@Ob1tuber]

I feel that we should rotate between the Indy Roval and the normal Oval, this makes newer fans and older fans happy

[@dexterhochstetler3727]

Or do a double header and race the road course Saturday and the oval Sunday.

[@BeautifulAngelBlossom]

I love the track at Indianapolis why it not a cookie cutter track it almost square with Curve to call it a oval is wrong cause it not really a oval it is own unique track

[@dd-uj8jx]

Cup series at Laguna Seca

[@karl_m3013]

Not enough

[@Vol4Life75]

7:29 that’s what she said

[@ZeusEKR]

Absolutely not. Road courses are must see TV. They're always my favorite races to see. Not sure how they are in person though. Get rid of the cautions at the end of stages though at road courses.

[@nathan1sixteen]

The increase in road courses was nice with the gen6 car, as it meant we didn’t have to suffer through as many 550hp 1.5 milers. With the NextGen, the 1.5 milers have produced great racing (outside of Texas), so I don’t want to lose any more of them. Also, I’d rather have a few more short track races than road courses. Honestly, I’d rather get rid of Sonoma and just stick with Watkins Glen, COTA, Road America, and the Charlotte Roval, while also giving Charlotte 2 oval dates

[@judefernandez9234]

This sounds similar to how indycar fans were bitching about having too many oval races in the 2000s

[@PurdueAl]

There’s no too many road courses as long as it produces good racing

[@tsholts5173]

I think this is perfect amount, maybe take off 1 or 2 in favor of short tracks like you said. I've always liked road courses, but I don't understand the street course hype. They just about always suck in open wheel racing. People want close, hard racing where you can pass, and street courses don't do that. And we saw how bad the Pro Invitational race was, nothing happened except lap 1 And Johnson actually didn't need the win there to advance, he just wanted to break the longest winless streak of his career (that continued 😭) iirc and first full-time season without a win

[@Tristin471]

I think they have the perfect number now. Look how many mile-and-a-half races that the cup series used to have…….. I never used to like road courses, but once they added the Roval, my views on them totally changed.

[@bigdaddydave3341]

I am a rare case of an older Nascar fan (50 years old) who is embracing many of the new changes to the sport. I like the playoffs, I even like stage racing, and I'm loving more than 2 road courses a year. I'm not advocating for a ton of them, but I would like to see the cup series at other courses. Don't do the same 6 or 7 every year to open opportunities for others like Laguna Seca or Sebring to host a NASCAR weekend. I would love to see what happens when you get four or five cup cars close enough to throw a blanket over headed into Laguna Seca's infamous corkscrew, or see who has the nerve to brake later headed into one of Sebring's hairpins at the end of a long straightaway. Is Road Atlanta still in operation?

[@joshuasweeney7864]

i think they need to have a set number of slots for them, 3 of them guaranteed for Sonoma, The Glen and The Roval, and then rotate the rest every year depending on how many slots you want to alot , you get the staples and then showcase other road courses around the country

[@JeffyPDiddy]

They could get rid of a few, but I really enjoy some of the road courses. And I have gotten several of my friends into watching NASCAR by showing them the road courses. They assumed NASCAR was only ovals. I never could have got them into the sport by showing them a short oval track.

[@aaronspringborn34]

Years ago I was against the Roval and all of this. I am now for it but they need to bring back the Indianapolis motor Speedway oval for the Brickyard 400 and Chicagoland. Don’t my losing one or twoFor those to come back

[@nicholashansen7826]

If anything, I'd maybe like to see them run the oval at Indy again. But other than that, I think we have a good amount of Road Courses. Street Course would be cool!

[@Jtplaysgames21]

Nascar should do 4 to 5 road course. This assuming they cut down the schedule to 30

[@scoriosta1675]

I love the road courses on the circuit I think it gives the drivers a better opportunity to show their talent. Same this the dirt race (except it definitely shouldn't be at Bristol). Also yeah stage cautions shouldn't happen at road courses

[@Pabig93]

NASCAR should go for a 50/50 split between road courses and ovals. But they need to stop the stage racing AT LEAST for road courses.

[@Thraser999]

I'd like to see Road Atlanta instead of Sonoma, maybe VIR instead of the Charlotte "roval", and well, then, a total removal of short tracks, that's what Nascar needs to do more than anything...