Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008 | 9:29 p.m.
Turn right.
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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