Comments on: What Are the NASCAR Short Track ISSUES?

By: Flash of the Blades

Flash of the Blades — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:24:37 +0000

In reply to Lapis Lazuli. It wasn’t a problem when the Bristol Night Race was in August. But with the race in its current slot on the schedule…yeah, that’s the real problem there.

By: John Haas

John Haas — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:56:09 +0000

In reply to Lapis Lazuli. Speedway Motorsports decided to

By: Lu Vilela

Lu Vilela — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:22:16 +0000

In reply to Calvin Trudeau. Is not the solution, all though might help a lil, but at least for me the bigger issue in short track is the mechanical grip and size of the Next Gen, and the gears sync, they don't really look like it was setup for accelaration, and if there's a bit more power it will help as well but the overall build of the car is flawed for the short Ovals, so they might as well make a whole new package or car for those races

By: Jackson Cook

Jackson Cook — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 07:24:19 +0000

I”ll be at Bristol for Xfinity and Cup. Love short track racing and looking forward to today & tomorrow

By: TN Whiskey

TN Whiskey — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:59:06 +0000

Im 42 andd live in Tennessee. When I was a kid, everyone knew who Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon were at least. Nascar hooked me as a child because I saw a Mark Martin 6 Folgers car at the local Grocery store, and the crew guy gave me a pair of folgers earplugs. I had toy cup cars, a few driver action figures. Walmart sold nascar tshirts, etc.. My kids don’t have that!
That doesn’t exist anymore, hasn’t in a while. They tried to go mainstream like the NFL and got greedy. Bring back the marketing fron the 90s, early 2000s and it will pay off.

By: mastoner20

mastoner20 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:51:47 +0000

Funnily enough, I live under 3 hours away from all 4 of the short tracks you mentioned. Martinsville is the closest and is basically my backyard where I’m driving past the track every other week for work. And we can almost get away with calling Bristol our third short track in the state since half of Bristol’s inhabitants live in Bristol, VA and the track is only a couple miles from the line. Several years ago we would easily be able to afford seasonal tickets to all three of the tracks (Wilkesboro is close but wasn’t a thing obviously). Now-days it’s just not really worth it. Interestingly with Martinsville, there are several families in the area that amassed their fortunes by machining, fabricating, and welding stock cars for NASCAR races for locals to run in the various different events. Not really much of a thing any more for local families to do that sort of thing, but it’s a neat piece of history for our region.

By: V

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:12:40 +0000

In reply to Themba Njoko. Lolll nascar hasnt had a new OEM in like 20 years....and lost dodge

By: Daniel Chai

Daniel Chai — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:14:22 +0000

In reply to NRF Productions.

@Ryan Beyersdorff i agree that they can make it better and make it actually wear, but that’s not totally true and not a big deal. in theory it would be true but in reality it’s not.

they don’t cool down until a caution lets them cool down, and by then they do have enough actual wear that they aren’t running fast times anyways. it’s why we see guys stay out and fall back from 5th to 20th even if their tires aren’t that old. so yeah theoretically they could slow down and then be really fast but you can’t really do that without a caution forcing you to do it anyways.

if anything it helps passing because a guy can manage for 10 laps and cool his stuff and then go and pass a bunch of cars. that’s how you do it in all short track racing even with tires that do wear a lot. you see guys manage, make a run, then pay for it by falling back again.

so in the real life application of what makes them fall off, it’s almost exactly the same and fills the same purpose.

By: Chris Guardiano

Chris Guardiano — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:09:08 +0000

In reply to NRF Productions. NASCAR needs to start another tire war by allowing other makers to come in like Firestone, Hankook, Yokohama & Michelin. Having competition will force Goodyear to improve their tires & the racing will get better as a result.

By: Ryan Beyersdorff

Ryan Beyersdorff — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:48:21 +0000

In reply to NRF Productions. @Daniel Chaionly because the tire is getting hot, not wearing out. Once they cool it off they are running qualifying times again.