@@Brandonbrooks412And IROC likely will get current stars.

@@Ka_Gg Road courses aren’t my favorite, but the occasional right turn never hurt anyone, and it would be a good way to get drivers outside of the stock car world to show up once or twice a season.

It would have been interesting to see these cars on a road course. I’m not a big road course guy, but it would have been interesting. I agree with most of what you said though.

Kinda but SRX ran dirt tracks too, I don’t see the IROC series getting close to a dirt track. There was no real viewership for the network to make any $ plus I believe Camping World pulled out as a major sponsor this year! Tony’s SHR only really has 1 sponsor (14) so far for his 4 car team, Tony is bleeding $ right now!@@Brandonbrooks412

@@casey6518 Casey, think of it this way. If IROC comes back, there is no point in having the SRX. It’s basically going to become the CART/Indy Split for legends and that would not be a good look. It would be better to either A. just close down and give the drivers the chance to race in IROC or B. Merge with IROC to become the main legends series

Brandon, there’s NO reason for Ray Evernham to merge with the SRX series, Ray stopped being involved with SRX almost 2 years ago, don’t think he liked the way that series was headed! Ray is using his old original IROC race cars from his collection of race cars or building new “old type” chassis to clone the old race cars! It’s also very doubtful the new IROC series will ever run on dirt either. I hardly watched any of SRX season 3, always forgot it was on Thursday night! I never thought SRX was any good to start with, I maybe only watched 6 races out of 3 years!

When I saw the series at first I thought “Cool, well that’s interesting how we have a lot of semi-retired and some active drivers in these cars, understandable it’s all on short tracks, but that’s okay.”

Then when I went to a race for the finale at Sharon Speedway in Hartford, OH to watch Dave and Ryan Blaney race, I didn’t have a great time.

The track announcers didn’t have a clue as to what was going on or how the formats ran, points positioning or the like, the race ended up getting shortened up by about 20 or more laps, and the amount of wrecking by guys like Michael Waltrip, Paul Tracy, and even the eventual champion Marco Andretti made it difficult to watch. By the time I walked out, I appreciated the facility, but was overall unimpressed with the live product, even if there were drivers I would have been interested in meeting.

As for the TV side, the CBS deal made it more easy to watch, but it was hard to remember when they were racing and what time it was on. Shift the racing to ESPN, and then put it on Thursday; as much as it tried to appeal to the old “THURSDAY NIGHT THUNDER” crowd of nostalgia; nobody is going to remember or potentially have time to watch a Thursday night race. Add into the fact you have Paul Tracy being an absolute clown and making it hard to watch, and that the issues got so bad to the point Ken Schrader almost walked away, didn’t really help with wanting to tune in TV wise if it is going to be a demo derby until maybe the last 10 laps.

SRX was an interesting idea, and I’m sad it’s going away, but there were a lot of issues that made it probably hard to be a breakout success that could last even 5-10 seasons potentially. I don’t know who may fill in that “Star Power” after guys like Stewart, Newman, Labonte, Biffle, etc. potentially left to do their own things, but it was worth seeing while it was here.

And to everyone saying IROC is going to take it’s place and go back to the way it was in the 2000s; at this point I expect them to just be show cars and special event stuff like the Goodwood Hill Climb. Given what we see with the SRX and it’s problems, I don’t really see how you manage to get IROC to come back as a full fledged racing series, because that schedule was hard to keep up with when it’s 4 races spread out through 9 months.

I hope SRX continues, I hope IROC comes back in some actual racing capacity, but given how hard sponsorship is coming by in auto racing even with NASCAR, it’s going to be an uphill battle for both to get off the ground or fly again.