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No, I’m not endorsing John McCain for president. But as I was thinking about this week’s upcoming race at Watkins Glen, I began to think that a road course should be included in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
A friend of mine, who works in the Sun newsroom and considers NASCAR second only to breathing in importance, has advocated for some time that a road-course race should be included in the Chase. In heated lunch discussions loud enough to justify our banishment from Wendy’s, I have argued the opposite, saying that a road course doesn’t belong in the Chase because it’s not similar to the majority of tracks on the regular season schedule. The Chase should be a mixture of the tracks that are most frequently raced on, I figured.
Looking back on that statement now, I must have sounded like I was reading talking points from NASCAR.
I’ve since changed my mind. A road-course race should be included in the Chase. With so many cookie-cutter tracks in the final 10-race lineup, the Chase is in danger of becoming a Snoozapalooza that caters to the drivers who excel on this type of track. Let’s mix it up a little and give the drivers a new challenge that would add more excitement to the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
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Road course in the Chase? Yes. But it should be on city streets.
The streets of Las Vegas?
Road courses races in NASCAR are so boring.
Passing is so rare.
It only can occur on very few places on the race track.
It has to be a poor race to see live at the race track. You only can see a tiny part of the track.
Also, you get these drivers that only race on these types of tracks. That is so dumb and should be banned.
I think they should drop all road course races from the entire race schedule,
Road-course races aren't more boring than races at the Brickyard, Atlanta or Pocono.
Or California and Las Vegas.
Exactly!