NASCAR.com goes 1-on-1 with Ben Kennedy about the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, including new dates for Atlanta and a regular-season finale at Darlington.
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25 comments
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Well, as if championships weren’t illegitimate enough, now we have two drafting tracks and two road courses in the playoffs! Yay!
so…some of the best races and the racing that fans asked for?
@jabber1990No one asked for those races in the playoffs. We wanted the roval gone, but instead got another road course.
@JayTeeKay fans have been asking for those in the playoffs for years
nobody wanted the Roval gone until last year, now people act like they’ve always felt that way…get off the bandwagon
Best NASCAR drivers on intermediates and short tracks ≠ Best NASCAR drivers. It’s important that the Playoffs consist of varied types of tracks. If you had a Playoff Schedule that just consisted of intermediates and short tracks, it would be extremely monotonous. Plus, all of these changes are in the Round of 16, which is merely a speed bump to drivers who can keep theirselves out of trouble.
Playoffs are just a micro version of the full season distribution-wise.
There are enough RC’s and SS races now in the full calendar that having two in the playoffs is pretty accurate.
It’s going to take the fans to go on strike and not show up to races to get what we want
Then why don’t we do it?
I mean, it worked in 2020!
2021 schedule is unrecognizable compared to 2019!
These zoom call interviews are a shame. Get in the studio! Be proud of showing off the new schedule!!
Once again, NASCAR refusing to actually listen to the fans… and then they wonder why the fans get upset and the sport as a whole becomes less popular
We don’t want Atlanta and the Glen in the playoffs. We wanted Sonoma apart of the spring west coast swing, not two drafting tracks in a row to start the season. They failed to get a race in Montreal. No double header weekend. They failed to move track dates around to decrease the chances of rain delays. A 6 year old could have randomly placed track dates around and had done a better job.
This is an awful schedule, and it’s quite frankly hilarious that Ben would say they listened to the fans and think these are some sort of revolutionary set of changes…
Sonoma has been trying to get it through peoples’ heads for years that there are flooding concerns around Spring Sonoma.
The man who runs SMI’s logistics said on record parts of the facility would be under water, not to mention any non-paved parking lot would be a disaster if it rained. There’s a reason it’s never happened.
@Michael Hermanwe are the fans who are apart of Reddit forums, YouTube communities, NASCAR discords, who seem to have these almost unanimous complaints every year that are never heard or answered. Ben Kennedy brought up fan interest, and this schedule goes against that. It’s not whining and complaining when these are valid concerns widespread across the nascar community. There seems to be a disconnect between leadership and the fans. I think that’s something to worry about.
@Daniel West I’ve never understood the flooding concerns, especially as someone who lives within an hour of the track. They do GT racing in the spring, so why can they run those but not the cup series? The 24 hours of lemons used to be in March, and now is in December. After February the area doesn’t have as much rain, that’s more of a winter problem than the spring. Sonoma as the last race of the west coast swing would not only work, but would be ideal in terms of geography to include in this portion of the schedule. If NASCAR has concerns for rain, why haven’t they moved around the other races that suffer from frequent rainouts? New Hampshire, Dover, and Pocono come to mind, as NASCAR races at these places during their highest months of precipitation.
@Arend RolloI feel you on that one. That’s just what’s been said by officials who would know more than most of us about the logistics of hosting them.
Green Sonoma would be pretty cool. Especially since as a former Fontana regular, there’s a hole in the early season SoCal NASCAR schedule again. Not counting the Clash, of course.
Daytona losing the regular season finale = L, Darlington out of playoffs = L, Atlanta and Dega in playoffs = L, no Canada = L, 2 SuperSpeedways to start the season = L.
Wtf were you thinking NASCAR. What a let down.
As usual, NASCAR fans dont know what they want. This is a great schedule, cant wait for ’24!
I am glad they got rid of Bristol dirt.
round of 16 could knock alot of good teams out with atlanta and bristol
Thanks Frank
Atlanta needs to just be abandoned it is a failure
Not true in the slightest
I don’t like how Daynton not the regular season final it was a different way end the regular season final
this was the only decision on the schedule i don’t like. Make Atlanta the regular season finale, and keep Darlington as the playoffs opener. a road course and a superspeedway in the round of 16 and both in the round of 12 will eliminate some serious title contenders