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RUMOR: Two Teams Chasing Charters | Should COTA Be Off The NASCAR Schedule?

Rumors suggest two established teams are aggressively pursuing NASCAR Cup Series charters. Let's discuss who those teams could be!

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0:00 Potential buyers and sellers of charters
12:30 Should COTA be off the schedule?

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48 comments

@KFB4LIFE8 March 28, 2024 at 8:23 pm

Petition to get eric to start a team

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@kadinsmith5182 March 28, 2024 at 8:35 pm

Estepp Motorsports. I like it.

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@Charkled19 March 28, 2024 at 8:36 pm

Naw man then he wouldn’t have much time to do YouTube

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@CyanTheStrategist March 28, 2024 at 8:38 pm

@@kadinsmith5182i agree bro

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@cjearnest203 March 28, 2024 at 8:39 pm

@@kadinsmith5182Double E Motorsports

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@EricEstepp March 28, 2024 at 8:46 pm

A petition? Nah I would need $50M haha

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@Takingyoutojail March 28, 2024 at 8:28 pm

No COTA shouldn’t be removed
2021- The Rain Race
2022-Chastain moves Allmendinger for his first win

2023- Byron and Reddick whoop the field

2024- Byron takes the field to school with Bell chasing him

This track is a good track
If you’re gonna remove a road course
Make the Roval the clash

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@noahg2527 March 28, 2024 at 8:43 pm

We would all take COTA over TexASS

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@stephenholloway6893 March 28, 2024 at 9:01 pm

I doubt ISC/NASCAR is willing to let SMI have both the Clash and the All Star Race.

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@Takingyoutojail March 28, 2024 at 9:06 pm

@@stephenholloway6893 true it’s just a thought tho if we want the Oval back in the playoffs

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@stephenholloway6893 March 28, 2024 at 9:15 pm

@Takingyoutojail  Anything is possible but unless say they trade events and let NASCAR handle the All Star Race at one of their tracks I just don’t think they’ll be willing to let SMI have the Clash along with the All Star Race.

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@CyanTheStrategist March 28, 2024 at 8:30 pm

You may as well make the Roval the new Clash race if you want COTA removed from the schedule.

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@michaelmillen511 March 28, 2024 at 8:30 pm

we need more Out of the Groove paint schemes!

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@driftypuddles1385 March 28, 2024 at 8:35 pm

Rockingham’s been talking about NASCAR

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@johnhaas2523 March 28, 2024 at 8:44 pm

So what nascar couldn’t give a f***

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@nomadman5288 March 28, 2024 at 11:02 pm

Prly gonna be the All-Star Race either next year or in 2026.

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@Momentum_Racing March 28, 2024 at 8:36 pm

I’m sorry but COTA should NOT BE OFF THE SCHEDULE. Last year for Cup it had more action than Watkins Glen, The Roval, and the Indianapolis RC combined. And Every year whether its cup, xfinity or truck, there is always something memorable. It’s becoming one of my favorite tracks and it should not be off the schedule. Just because the race was basically start to finish with no cautions doesnt mean it was a bad race. I don’t get the hate.

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@nathan1sixteen March 28, 2024 at 8:43 pm

The only reason it had more action than the Glen was due to cautions, which you can’t bank on. Watkins Glen, overall, is a much better designed course for the NASCAR style cars.

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@Momentum_Racing March 28, 2024 at 8:50 pm

@@nathan1sixteen ok good point there, but it had a hell of a lot more passing than the tracks that I mentioned

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@nathan1sixteen March 28, 2024 at 8:38 pm

COTA shouldn’t be removed from the schedule, but maybe they need to switch over to the shorter track layout, like the Australian Supercars used to race on (that all of FOX made sure we knew about due to SVG). The current layout is simply too large.

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@nomadman5288 March 28, 2024 at 11:02 pm

Not any bigger than Road America and it has more passing zones. I don’t really get what the length has to do with anything. Watkins Glen was terrible last year, Sonoma was very average and they’re around 2 miles, give or take. There was nothing wrong with the race. It was an average race for any track. You can’t please everyone all the time.

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@provicate4334 March 28, 2024 at 8:39 pm

Kurt Busch did say on social media he was “refired not retired” recently…just saying he could share a ride with a prospect for a year and then hand it off to him.

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@larryeber March 28, 2024 at 9:30 pm

That would be wonderful for 23XI and NASCAR

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@andrewmeyer4124 March 29, 2024 at 12:43 am

I don’t see it happening with his health issues. Unless if he has all that cleared up, but I think his driving days are done

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@provicate4334 March 29, 2024 at 3:07 am

@@andrewmeyer4124 A boy(man) can dream(hope)!

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@jbuckshot01 March 28, 2024 at 8:41 pm

Certain people complaining about COTA being built wrong, it wasn’t built for cup cars. It was built for F1 then Indy. NASCAR just happens to be there. But yes the officials need to lighten up

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@guidorrmc7618 March 29, 2024 at 1:16 pm

You make my point because COTA was built for F1. Cars that can corner quickly and accelerate fast off corners. NASCAR cars are too big and cumbersome for it. I like road courses, but stick to ones where the cars don’t have as many tight turns and some more track area for them to get up to speed like Sonoma, WG, and Road America. I’m sure there are others.

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@HorrorDox March 28, 2024 at 8:52 pm

COTA getting cut from the schedule is a delusional idea, its time to cut a double-date track down to 1 cup points date. Probably either Richmond again or Darlington (i would ideally like it to be the allstar race).

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@johnhaas2523 March 28, 2024 at 8:56 pm

Junior just doesn’t like COTA especially Xfinity series as his cars sucked

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@HorrorDox March 28, 2024 at 9:05 pm

@@johnhaas2523 replacing it with North Wilksboro is the wrong idea, you’d end up spending too much of the time in the same region of the US, yeah thats were the majority, you’d be better making one of the other tracks go down to 1 race

COTA did have a pretty meh race this year but it’s still too unique of a track & venue to get dropped from the schedule.

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@SCJ.racing.25 March 28, 2024 at 8:54 pm

In contrary to Dale, I really think that COTA brings a uniqueness to the schedule that other road courses don’t and that’s what makes it special. That “something” being it’s an F1 road course. I love that. I love that even in road courses you have specific unique aspects like how the Charlotte Roval is an infield road course & oval/road course hybrid track (not the best one though), Sonoma & Watkins Glen being traditional road courses, Chicago obviously being a street course, and COTA being a track that both Nascar and F1 use. And with the rumors of Nascar going international, that adds another aspect to the aforementioned list (that is if the rumors turn out to be true). I think we should have F1 tracks on the schedule. I think it sends the message of: “Hey, we’re not afraid of playing on your playground.” and it helps with Nascar’s track diversity portfolio.

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@aaronmachado13 March 28, 2024 at 8:57 pm

I love COTA, the Esses in these cars is amazing to watch and just one year ago people were even considering it a crown jewel for the sport bringing over Jenson button, Kimi Raikkonen and Jordan Taylor. In my opinion it’s a car problem as this car is just too easy to correct mistakes like we’ve seen from the cars at the short tracks.

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@bruh_im_a_pigeon5597 March 29, 2024 at 12:03 am

I like COTA but it has never been close to a crown jewel I have no idea where you heard that

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@nikopappas8484 March 28, 2024 at 8:59 pm

Trackhouse may be BOTH teams looking for charters lmao I know a couple years ago Justin said “Three is the magic number” but I can easily see them becoming a 4-car team to try and become the “chaotic good” version to Hendrick’s lawful evil, and hell they have 5 drivers and 2 current seats.

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@chasehavlik2213 March 29, 2024 at 3:42 am

HMS is lawful evil?

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@Pankypops March 29, 2024 at 5:12 pm

@@chasehavlik2213 Their owner is literally a felon.

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@bobaboey7073 March 28, 2024 at 8:59 pm

As a nascar newbie…its interestin how races are determined by the ending, the last 5 minutes. As a newbie, i see the race and an ending. Cota great race, average ending, and thats okay. Was still a fun race to watch. Groovy gauge of 65-70 is appropriate. Nothing wrong w that.

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@Pigeongamer_ March 28, 2024 at 9:03 pm

I hate how whenever there’s a mid race fans call for the track to be removed. We had 3 great years of COTA and one mid race (MID RACE NOT BAD RACE) makes everyone want the track to be removed from the schedule never to be seen again

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@lets-go-larson5 March 29, 2024 at 1:06 am

lol same for texas motor speedway

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@stevemansfield3449 March 28, 2024 at 9:04 pm

I said it before, I’ll say it again: The 2 Kaulig cup cars will be racing in the 2025 season under the Trackhouse banner, Kaulig will function as the Xfinity team for TH, much like HMS & JRM. I suspect the financials might be 40M cash for one charter and 40M buy-in to Trackhouse for the other charter.

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@bighand1530 March 28, 2024 at 11:22 pm

278 days left till 2025.

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@CoryAY82383 March 28, 2024 at 9:07 pm

I recall Justin Mark’s mentioning why he didn’t want a charter yet. He mentioned the wait for Featherlite trailer orders and other logistics and team building challenges before that is possible

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@MrFatLipx March 28, 2024 at 9:34 pm

People need to calm down in general regarding rule changes and track changes. We live in an era now where anytime a race isn’t a 10/10 banger, everyone flips out and hits the panic button on what to change. No other sport does this. The NFL has PLENTY of boring games throughout the season, and you don’t see fans discussing the need to change the rules of the game of football the next day. They accept that boring events are going to inevitably happen, since this isn’t a movie, and they move on hoping for a better show next time. NASCAR fans and pundits need to start adopting this mentality. The idea that the “golden era” of the 90’s didn’t have it’s fair share of “boring” races is a complete myth. Some races are just going to be less entertaining than others, it’s just the way it goes. To be clear, that’s not to say that we should never consider changes (for example I agree that this car needs more horsepower), but in general, we need to as a community stop freaking out anytime there’s a race where there aren’t 70 lead changes and 20 crashes.

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@rebelsoul5980 March 28, 2024 at 9:47 pm

Agree completely! Honestly today’s fans would have never lasted in the 90s. The drivers made the 90s what it was,people watched because of the star drivers and rooted for and against the Earnhardt/Gordon rivalry. Nascar has good races for the most part now, now they need star driver’s and more horsepower!!

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@DannyRicBobby3 March 28, 2024 at 10:16 pm

Dead on buddy! NASCAR fans are so spoiled when it comes to this topic, they are kind of similar to F1 fans every time a driver has a bad race.

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@bighand1530 March 28, 2024 at 11:24 pm

Life in general is unpredictable. James 4:13-14.

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@bighand1530 March 29, 2024 at 3:53 pm

@@DriftlessWarrior Thanks.

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@arturodiaz4106 March 28, 2024 at 9:40 pm

I thought Jr was talking about removing Cota for xfinity series. But HELL NO do not remove Cota race for either series

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