Besides, the sanctioning body experimented with weeknight races last year and the ratings weren’t very good.ĭoes an unexpected winner like Michael McDowell increase the desperation for mid-level Cup teams trying to make the playoffs this year?
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Plus they’d likely have to bring their backup Daytona car as well as their road course car, as the turnaround time would be too quick. After all, they were probably already preparing some cars for the other six road courses. NASCAR switched some dates and replaced ACS with the Daytona International Speedway road course fairly early enough for teams to prepare. If Auto Club had stayed on the schedule, teams would have gone to Homestead-Miami Speedway this week. Remember, this race is in place of Auto Club Speedway, so money is being saved on travel expenses already. Josh Roller: In a perfect world logistically, yes, but to ask some teams to prepare a road course car and bring it down with them to the 500 or change the setup in such a short timeframe is too big of ask.
Unfortunately, that is in a world where midweek races could bring in strong ratings.
You could run the road course on a Thursday and then head straight to Homestead-Miami Speedway. If midweek races drew a strong audience, I’d say go for it. I wish we could watch racing without the thoughts of how viewership would be, as television controls a lot of aspects of sports today. The Daytona 500 got a solid audience once again this year but was down last year, likely due to the fact that former president Donald Trump had been at that race. We saw a couple of midweek races last year and the ratings were not great.
In a world where television ratings are crucial, a midweek race would not be the way to go. Luken Glover: I can understand the reasoning behind it, but no. Should the Daytona 500 and this weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race on the road course have been held with fewer days in between?
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