@@TheeGlocktopus Agreed. Green Sonoma as part of the west coast swing would make more sense. Have midwest/northeast swing in the summer. Carolina swing for teams in May and etc.

NASCAR won’t ever go back to any prior iterations of the chase/playoffs, so they need to do one of two things. One, make the final “round” 3 races. One race, winner take all is bs, and not representative of who the true champion should be. But if that doesn’t happen, allow the champ 4 drivers to collect stage points. For example, if Denny dominates the race, wins both stages, and chokes the final restart to Larson and finishes second, Denny (possibly) still scored more than Larson, and should be scored as such, and be crowned champion.

That’s what I was going to say. I do think what hurt that race was the following factors

1. That was the first time that the Brickyard had moved from Sunday to Monday due to weather.
2. Had the race went ahead on Sunday without mother nature interfering, it would have conflicted with the Indianapolis Colts home opener just down the road