The 2024 Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum is shaping up to be an interesting event. The deal to be in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is closing and some of the choices for the 3rd year of this event are odd to some. From Machine Gun Kelly performing a “halftime show” to not allowing fans in for over half of the racing events of the weekend it is head scratching. So, is this NASCAR’s last Clash At the Coliseum?
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What do you want the future of the Clash to look like?
Not at Daytona again
I say go back to Daytona or have it at homestead
@@ethantaube2512Nah going back to Daytona is a bad idea
McDowell Supremacy!
They should bring the clash to Martinsville
MGK is hated online but he’s a lot like 2000’s Nickelback in that there’s a fan base for him out there, and given the way the average NASCAR fan acts his fanbase and them honestly fits well.
True. Ive ran across a few mgk fan pages on insta that had comments that they bought tickets just to see him
He’s just generic. All his music across all the genres he’s done is just generic. Nickelback is the same way. They’re the most generic rock group ever. If there was a Rock band simulator, they would be preset 1.
@@lolspoolin7366
I would argue Rush was the most generic band ever.
But I get your point.
@@douglasyoung6114 Rush would be, except they’re big on weird time signatures which makes them stand out from most rock bands.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453
“Weird time signatures” ?
Here’s what I would do with the Clash. Move it back to Daytona, make it Saturday night under the lights, keep the heat format, and add an incentive to win the race. You could award a million dollars, extra playoff points, or maybe even a first round bye in the playoffs.
Rename it the Shootout, as well
It would be really cool to see a Heat format race but with all 3 series, see if some Truck or Xfinity drivers could qualify in to race with the big boys in Cup for 1 race that isnt for points.
How about they keep it a non points race. Sounds good
Sounds like a great idea although we can’t have a points format with this race and can’t have it affect the playoffs as much I would like it we just cant
@@S.K.R.E.Inc.It’s not going back to the shootout The clash is the original name Just as Sunday is the original day of the clash
I just volunteered as a camera guy sending official interviews and footage of the 2024 Clash to the Philippines. The previous footage by the same team last year got pretty good views there also. If NASCAR had a NASCAR Asia series, it’d be nice to see the Philippines get a race or two since there are genuine race fans and aspiring drivers there. The only competitions in TV there would be basketball, baseball and soap opera tv shows.
With Nascar’s success with other international series, I could definitely see that happening
As a Filipino that religiously watches nascar. I like this
Like Chicago, LA is a very unique city. We have to embrace these worldwide markets as though NASCAR wants them on their schedule for a fixed amount of years. Yeah, they are quite expensive to put on the schedule, but at least the top executives are risk-takers that hopefully for the long run they might try Canada or Mexico in the near future.
With the Clash I think if this edition is the last one at the LA Coliseum then Nascar have to either one find another venue thats not Daytona which especially in the last few years when that hosted it became The Wreck Clash, Or just simply ditch it completely and bring something back like Pre-season Thunder back to Daytona although rather in mid January instead 2 weeks before the Daytona 500.
The only way The Clash if it was to stay is either find another stadium to race at or perhaps try out a dirt track thats already built
As for this years format, the heat races being 25 laps each I say is good enough but no fans being allowed in not the best move to be honest
As for the main event on the Sunday having only 23 cars in it is about right although having only green flag laps count is totally unnecessary and the race could end up dragging on and on.
I get what Nascar are trying to do but in some ways there is a bit of a trend of them getting one thing and two things wrong
The other major problem that comes from a marketing perspective with Auto Club now gone and if the LA Coliseum goes too then the California market’s only race on the Nascar calendar would be Sonoma which if I was Nascar I move it from June to the 2nd race of the West Coast Swing after Las Vegas regardless the TV Ratings.
If the Clash has run it’s course then hopefully the last one doesn’t disappoint and doesn’t end up being a Nascar Style No Holds Barred Match for 150 Laps But will have to wait and see.
You can’t do two weeks before at Daytona because IMSA is running their 24 hour race.
@@SimRacingVeteran oh yes forgot about that sorry very good point
Next year, I’m anticipating it will become an international event. I could imagine somewhere like Europe, Australia, or Japan being interesting options to take the event
A February event in Europe or Japan would be a very bad idea because of weather. I would like to see it go international, but to Mexico.
I like that idea
@@accampbellAustralia
That sounds awful have. Teams fly all the way out there and back and not have much time between it and daytona
It should go back to daytona and stay there as a preview of what’s to come in the 500
@@wordlesslfiddling You must not be familiar with geography. There is an almost 1 mile oval in Monterey and a great track in Chihuahua called El Dorado Speedway which is a .625 mile oval banked at 20 degrees. Both are closer than Los Angeles, CA.
NASCAR’s lease is for 3 years at LA. Depending on how this Clash goes, they may either extend it or terminate it depnding on how the Fontucky layout is going
I hate the racing and I really would rather any other track but when you look at the ratings they can get and how having the LA coliseum can bring in a new fanbase I’m kinda happy about it tbh even tho I hate everything about it it’s a good move for nascar and I like it
@@RUSH240 New fanbase? Who? Tiktokers? lol Nascar is marketing to an age group that cannot afford a ticket, let alone round-trip airfare food and a rental car, lol.
Nascar needs to focus on those fans that CAN afford the product they are trying to sell. for example, GenX and older…. as long as they stop the wokeness bs.
I appreciate NASCAR trying something different with the Clash, and I don’t really care if they try to make it more entertainment based or not. It’s an event purely for fun and some cash. I feel like NASCAR put in a lot of effort the first two years but I feel like they’re really half assing it this year. Honestly wouldn’t mind it being back at Daytona but doubt NASCAR does that because the teams don’t want their costs skyrocketing any more than they already are.
I hate the racing and I really would rather any other track but when you look at the ratings they can get and how having the LA coliseum can bring in a new fanbase I’m kinda happy about it tbh even tho I hate everything about it it’s a good move for nascar and I like it
Personally, I think it might be in NASCAR’s interest to make the Clash a roving exhibition race, traveling to different cities each year, taking over a sports stadium & giving a show in markets that aren’t on the main schedule. How about a race in Denver? Or Seattle? NYC? New Orleans?
There’s plenty of arenas that the Clash could visit, NASCAR knows how long it takes to set up & tear down the track, so why not? Heck, there’s plenty of indoor arenas that would be suitable, judging from the number of indoor motocross and monster truck events that are held each year – although earplugs would probably be a good idea for indoor shows.
Chicago showed that if you take the race to the city, people WILL show up at least once, so taking the race to an arena that already has the infrastructure to get potential fans in & out makes a lot of sense. If nothing else, going to an arena for a race is a LOT less hassle for a city than setting up a street circuit, and that fact alone would open up markets that wouldn’t dream of letting a race happen otherwise…
I’d love to see them run it on the Daytona Road Course. It just makes sense. Road courses don’t usually have big wrecks so the teams don’t have to worry about wrecked cars. They save money by just going to one location in 2 weeks.
A clash is usually a battle. Road course races can sometimes get spread out pretty far on Daytona RC.. especially if they use some fabrication of crap cautions to stir up drama
What about using Laguna Seca or Pikes Peak hillclimb course, but downhill?
@@RazorSharp75426 I would love to see an older style rear truck arms style stock car..om Laguna seca. The new gen7 would be interesting but not as cool as the older cars sliding around and cresting the hill atop the corkscrew
I went to the clash last year and while I like Wiz Khalifa, the concert stopped a green flag run which was really annoying because like you said there was so many cautions. The concert is an interesting addition but when it takes away from racing I have a problem with it. Maybe just make it a post race concert since DJs are already doing stuff prerace
Honestly, I was hoping they’d try another track in California for the Clash (Kern County Raceway Park), but scratch that.
But, if they don’t move it back to Daytona, or this year doesn’t go well, just axe it altogether. Special events aren’t meant to last forever
I liked the Bud Shootout. Where they drew the starting positions by picking a bottle and the bottle had a flag in it with the starting position.
As someone that frequents local short track racing, not counting yellow laps really can make the runtime of the race vary drastically, it can go by really fast if it stays green but can drag on indefinitely in theory. making the main 200 laps and counting the cautions I think would have been a better solution.
NASCAR is one of the few motorsports left that run big non-points races, but it seems like they’re becoming more pointless, no matter how hard NASCAR tries while also keeping the status quo with cost-cutting
i think the clash is great. the first year was good but could have been better but last year was one of my favourite races to watch
I haven’t been to a race since 2019. I live just over an hour away from Kentucky Speedway and loved taking my kids to that track. Now I can’t justify ticket prices, hotel/camping etc for the product that’s offered. I may be in the minority, but I loved sitting in the stands all day Friday watching Xfinity and Cup practices, qualifying, and the Xfinity race. All that track time was great. Now there is so much decreased time on the track I just can’t justify the travel involved to go see a race in person
Even if I had looked at the website and seen the only track day was Sunday, I still would have thought the heat races would have been on Sunday. If I go to a local 1/4-mile track on a Sunday I get to watch all the heat races.
It might be running its course. I will give nascar credit for doing this and making it work when everyone was skeptical about it. I also attended last years race and it was definitely a cool experience. What they do in the future will be interesting. It has to be at an iconic venue for people to continue to care about it. If they do Daytona then they need to make it a night race again. Preferably make it the weekend before on Saturday night and have qualifying the next day again, make it a weekend worth it for fans to attend