Should Nascar race at more road courses?

[street_racer_00]

He may be experienced in small circle track open wheeling, but he's still a baby...he probably still had acne and braces when NASCAR'S premier series (winston cup back then) raced it's last race at north wilkesboro in the fall of 1996...I know my balls hadn't even dropped when that happened.

[theFREAKnasty82]

Originally Posted by Layla's Keeper

Kasey Kahne is far from a baby, bucko.

I was not attacking Kasey Kahne personally, I believe that he's a very talented driver. Since this is just his second year in NASCAR's elite series, he doesn't have as much experience as others who have been around for a while, thus he's still a "baby", he and others who have been in the elite series for less than 3 years. If he sticks around with Ray Evernham, he'll become a championship driver.

[Jaguar D-Type]

I wish they would race at Road America.

I saw a chicane by the "kink" while watching the ALMS race over the weekend.

http://www.roadamerica.com/

[SirCull]

I've been thinking about it...and if the large field is such a prolblem, then split it up

If you have 42 cars, split them up into two heats, wih 21 cars each, then the top 10 from each heat go on to the last race, make each race 45 minutes, there ya go, road corse problem solved

[kfoote]

The problem isn't field size, it's having the facilities up to NASCAR standards. I've been at 40+ car races at Lime Rock, which at 1.53 miles is about the shortest permanent road course in North America. NASCAR won't go to any tracks that don't have garages for the Cup cars, and AFAIK, Mid-Ohio and Laguna Seca are the only permanent road courses that have garages other than Sears Point and Watkins Glen.

[Iron]

Seein the Nextel cars come through the corkscrew at Laguna Seca...damn that'd be weird.

[theFREAKnasty82]

Originally Posted by Iron

Seein the Nextel cars come through the corkscrew at Laguna Seca...damn that'd be weird.

actually, I think that would make for some very interesting racing, see what guys are willing to push the envelope and what guys are going to back off, someone's gonna wreck and it'll be just like short track racing!

[Jaguar D-Type]

Originally Posted by kfoote

The problem isn't field size, it's having the facilities up to NASCAR standards. I've been at 40+ car races at Lime Rock, which at 1.53 miles is about the shortest permanent road course in North America. NASCAR won't go to any tracks that don't have garages for the Cup cars, and AFAIK, Mid-Ohio and Laguna Seca are the only permanent road courses that have garages other than Sears Point and Watkins Glen.

Well, I wish they would run at Mid-Ohio or at least Laguna Seca.

http://www.laguna-seca.com/

http://www.midohio.com/home.asp

[TheStang00]

hell yeah i wish theyd run at mid-ohio too... then thered be a race pretty close to me

[kfoote]

UPDATE:

The good news: There is another premiere road course being built that will have garages. ALMS, Grand-Am, World Challenge, and AMA have already announced that they're running there in 2006.

The bad news: It's in Utah. Though it's close to Salt Lake City, there's not much other population base to draw from.

http://www.millermotorsportspark.com/

[Jaguar D-Type]

Denny Hamlin won today's Busch series race in Mexico City.

http://motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=211280

http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/head...kie/index.html

[TheStang00]

i still want mid ohio....

Another thing, champ car does this and it has seemed to be very succesful although i could hardly imagine nascar runnin on a city track. but if they could find a way to do it... having racing festivals for a whole weekend has worked very well for champ car. just a thought, even if it has no chance of happening...

[CarInfoGuy]

Originally Posted by Iron

Seein the Nextel cars come through the corkscrew at Laguna Seca...damn that'd be weird.

First lap...43 cars thundering through there...that wouldn't be weird, that would be awesome!

I heard that IROC is going to do the Daytona road course. Well, last I heard, Daytona's got a permanent garage that NASCAR teams can use.