Nascar 2015 season

Nascar just signed a 5 year contract with all the track owners, so taking a date away for another track won't happen, unless of course a current track owner bought another track and replaced its second date with the newly acquired one. Everything in nascar is $$$, sponsors for tracks sponsor those races out of guarantees; then you have to look at the stocks of those companies who are guaranteed cash flow that would be removed if a track lost a race. So moving a race to a different track has legal issues as well as $$$ issues. This sport can't ever be what it was.

 

But could they switch the date on 2 tracks?

 

Smith is pretty good. Hopefully he becomes Almirola teamate

 

The races at tracks are locked in through 2021, so no new tracks can be added during that time unless bought by a current track owner. The dates themselves aren't set like that, if a date does change it has to be requested by the track owner and goes through a "realignment" process or something like that. Basically it's politics.

 

All this equates to reduced enthusiasm for future innovation. NASCAR is making a lot of moves to cover their asses in the future. It makes sense business wise but otherwise it's a bore.

 

Ready for some Martinsville Hotdogs

 

Then they hate Atlanta.... Because we get a shit ass frozen race. They requested and got shot down....

 

The logistics are unfortunate. I don't think Atlanta will ever drop off the schedule but I think it is stuck with the date in perpetuity. It's the same logic that landed it with the season finale for so long: outside of Daytona, it was the farthest East and farthest south offering the best chance for decent winter weather. They used to go from Daytona to Pheonix or California next, but owners put up a gripe about the cost and timeliness of driving cross country so soon.

 

Take it to the desert instead? Somewhere with a dry winter... Because ours is always wet

 

Before Atlanta was the season finale, they ended the season at Riverside, California.now they have purpose hilt Homestead-Miami. You can't go any lower without going to Cuba. That's actually a great idea now that trade has reopened with them. An winter exhibition race in the tropics! They tried winter exhibition races in Japan in the mid-90s. Truck racing also started as a winter exhibition series.

 

Need to do more winter racing on TV... I don't know how I'll cope without racing lol

 

haven't you heard eating hotdaogs is like eating asbestos?

 

No penalties following the Talladega fracas. While Harvick wasn't formally penalized by NASCAR, you can bet his rear bumper will have a big target on it at Martinsville. Probably bigger than the one on the #22. Only guy gunning for the #22 is the #20. Meanwhile, 1/2 the field is ticked at the #4 who also managed to wreck two teammates (including his boss) at 'Dega.

Meanwhile, NASCAR brass is eating this up because it equates to headlines and potential ratings boosts.

 

Yep, I've also come to the conclusion that everything will eventually cause cancer.

 

I'm pretty sure just attending a NASCAR event significantly ups our cancer risk.

 

It doubles with each gwc

 

Nahh that's every day that I come to work in a 1940's or 50's building that's due for demo next spring.

 

Actually eating asbestos would probably be less carcinogenic because your saliva would keep the particles from becoming airborne and becoming trapped in your lungs which is how you get mesothelioma , incidently spraying water on asbestos insulation is how they remove it

Eating a cylinder of processed lips and assholes is definitely more likely to kill you

Science , bitches

 

Martinsville prez just stated this will be one of the largest crowds there in a long time, "ticket sales have been awesome."

 

Get back to Formula one..... Lol