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The Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval has been a part of the NASCAR schedule for 6 seasons now since its debut in 2018. Barring an unlikely turnaround in TV viewership in the current year (2023) the race has never delivered an increase in audience year over year. Add to this the fact that many are not wanting as many road courses as 6 years ago and there is a true contingent of fans who are anti-Roval. On the flip side there are fans who like the spontaneity of this event, and the way it shakes up the NASCAR Playoff field every season. Those who would be pro-Roval, and do not want things to go back to the way they were pre 2018. this is the great Charlotte question. Roval vs. oval?
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Which configuration would you prefer for Charlotte? The oval, roval, or both changing back and forth?
Oval
Both changing Back and forth
I mean, I like both but the roval hasn’t been really exciting with the next gen car. The oval could be a really good change, but we need road courses
The Roval race there makes it so teams can’t develop setups for the oval race there as easily and we get better coke 600’s as a result of that change, don’t mess with what works just to have another 400 mile 1.5 miler playoff race.
I like the oval better.
I think it’s great if NASCAR doesn’t stick with the same thing, so I really like the Roval for that reason.
For now I’m on the roval side but I’m fine with either one, Bringing back the Indy oval was the big one.
The Coke 600 ever since the 00’s repave was a stinker, then after they dropped the fall race for the Roval and went to the 550 package which erased the teams notebooks we saw an uptick even before NextGen. IMO it’d be foolish to risk making one of the Crown Jewel races worse when it’s finally had a streak of lively races just for another oval race there in the playoffs.
No that’s not gonna happen again. Sorry. Charlotte doesn’t have the all star race either.
So does Darlington and Daytona having 2 dates a year on the same layout take away from there crown jewel events? IMO it be foolish to not go to one of your best tracks twice because it wasn’t great in the previous generation of car for a reason you can’t prove. It’s like making the 2nd Daytona race be in the rc sure the Daytona rc was pretty good but it’s not as good as the oval. IMO the Daytona rc should be a way to add to speed weeks for a special kinda race for an IROC kinda event and maybe lower series or whatever and the Roval can take away a boring tracks 2nd day and be ran sometime mid season or at least stay for Xfinty.
@Crazy ButDarlington and Daytona in the modern era have never had a period of over a decade of mediocre at best races for their crown jewel the way Charlotte had with the 600. If the spring Darlington race or summer Daytona race started to have a noticeable effect on the racing product of those Crown Jewels I’d advocate against those second races too.
I haven’t got to watch yet as I comment this, but I feel the Roval should stay. I know I’m in the small group of people saying that. To me I like having the Roval just for schedule diversity, even if the racing past 2 years hasn’t been great. The oval just is more prestigious with just one Oval event. If you do change it to the oval, and if Wilksboro does become the Easter race, then All Star back at Charlotte, but on the Roval.
I love that NASCAR does the Charlotte races twice a year, but the 600 on the oval, and the 2nd Charlotte race as the road course. It’s unique!
We don’t need 2 race dates a year. Plus nobody cared about the Charlotte 500. I cared about to when it was a night race only. I’m happy with the Roval as the 2nd Charlotte race date, but the Cup package is hell. At least Xfinity is good there.
But obviously Charlotte Oval in general is an iconic, historically, and special track!
What I love about the land of Charlotte Motor Speedway is that it’s like a racing playground. It has the oval, road course, infield oval, dirt track, Dragstrip.
But as for NASCAR at Charlotte, NASCAR should continue to race on the Oval for Memorial Day weekend and the 2nd Charlotte date as the road course. It’s unique, to me.
I’d say ditch the Roval and go to an actual road course such as VIR or Road Atlanta
@Benny Parsons Those tracks would even bigger rating bombs than Road America.
The roval has grown on me, but I do miss the fall oval race. We know how good this car is on mile and a half tracks. If they do go back to the oval for the fall, I think it will produce great racing like it does in the Coca-Cola 600. Also, Ian, imo, I like 2 race dates a year
I literally never watch nascar unless its on a superspeedway, short track, or road course (and some play off races) it would suck hard to see the Roval go for the same exact cookiecutter track we get every other race.
We have both. Both are good. Keep both.
I don’t want to go to less than 5 Road Courses, and I prefer not racing on the same track twice every year.
If there are two races at one track, at least make them different distances, as with Daytona and Martinsville.
Nah, if there needs to be 2 races at the same track it should be different layouts like the roval and Daytona road course
the Roval has made the 600 more special and we don’t need 3 races including all star at the same track. at least one is a oval an the other is a road course
I was pro Bristol dirt and I’m pro Roval. Saying “ oval” when there’s still the 600 makes no sense to me. I’m anti tracks having 2 dates unless they add a new perspective to the track. If they turned the one Dover race we get into a Roval than I’d say “ maybe not “ but when there’s a race that happens on that track configuration especially that’s created some iconic moments like harvick/Elliott 2021, Johnson and Truex or bell clutch win. Most of the problems we saw at the Roval yesterday come from ALL aspects that aren’t a intermediate track.
As far as ratings NBC is currently not on dish so I wonder how much that influenced that. I’m pro Roval. The last part of the race was nail biting waiting to see if AJ could close it out. Every restart and every turn was a chance for him to slip and give it away. This wouldn’t have been near as interesting if the leader and a multi second lead with little chance of change between two ends of the tracks.
I like the Roval and glad to see it is still on schedule next year,
The Roval is my favorite race of the season. I also always enjoy road course racing. I would be disappointed if we went back to the oval, but I can understand why.
I’m a new nascar fan so I know very little but the roval is my favorite track I love watching it and racing it on heat
The ROVAL is one of the most fun events to attend. FACTS
I love the fact that the Next Gen was designed for road courses, but yet it fixed the issues we had, and made more issues we thought would be hard to break. It would be smart to go back to the oval, but the roval is a decent race still so lets just keep it
Love the Roval with stage cautions.
I would love to see the craftsman truck series raced on the Charlotte road course
lately I’ve attached to the idea of “why not both” for all the rovals. I think it’d be a great addition to make the regular season closers be a 2 week event a track; in this case Charlotte, and have 2 races. One on each configuration. You can rotate it every year, or biyearly.
As a western New Yorker currently living in uptown Charlotte, I flew back to Rochester to go to the Glen and didn’t go to the roval. But I think that is more a testament to the Glen then a knock to Charlotte. Watkins Glen is a very special place to me, and so happy to see it as a playoff race.