Fantasy NASCAR Schedule

[Dilla]

I'm super new here and although there probably is already a thread with this subject somewhere, I didn't find with search, so I guess this is me sticking my neck out a bit.

Scheduling complaints are a pretty common complaint I've seen on various NASCAR forums I've been on, so what are you guys preferences, fantasy-wise?

Mine in general, without spending too much time going week-by-week:

1. Less 1.5 mile D-Ovals is the most obvious one for me
2. Fewer tracks with double dates, particularly Pocono, Charlotte, and Kansas.
3. More short tracks and banked one-milers(Iowa, build a new one in the NW), preferably newly built ones.
4. 6-8 road course dates (and find a way to make one or two a night race!). Spread them out so that it doesn't go to long without one. If 6, put 2 during the each third of the schedule. If 8, put 2 during each fourth. And although I'm a big fan of elevation changes on road courses, the idea of a NASCAR race at an airport sounds pretty cool. NASCAR is an oval series and should remain one, but more road courses would create a better change of pace and haters will have less to hate on.
5. No more All-Star race; make it an off-week.

 

[Devin41]

I agree with 1-4. Keep the All-Star but move it to the end of the season and include all race winners from that season, kinda like they do with the K&N Series. Add Iowa for sure, would love to see them go back to North Wilkesboro, Milwaukee, and gotta find a market in the NW with enough NASCAR interest and suitable to host a race...Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver come to mind as far as being suitable but is there enough interest? As far as a night road course race, Sonoma has lights and that would be awesome! Add COTA, Road America, and just because its 40 minutes away Miller Motorsports Park(SERIOUSLY doubtful...not enough seating or camping and traffic would be worse than Kentucky 2011).

Just my $.02 (y)

 

[Markfan]

Sprint Cup:

Exhibition #1) Rockingham Motor Speedway (Corby, England)
Speedweek) Daytona Shootout
#1) Daytona International Speedway (Day)
#2) Texas World Speedway (with increased banking reconfiguration)
#3) North Carolina Speedway
#4) Darlington Raceway (day)
#5) Las Vegas Motor Speedway
#6) Atlanta Motor Speedway (day)
#7) Bristol Motor Speedway (day)
#8) Talladega Superspeedway
#9) Sonoma Raceway (Long course)
#10) Pocono Raceway
#11) New Hampshire Motor Speedway
#12) Martinsville Speedway
#13) Charlotte Motor Speedway
#14) Michigan Speedway
#15) Mansfield Motorsports Speedway (Mansfield, Ohio)
#16) Daytona International Speedway (night)
All-Star) Daytona International Speedway (first segments on the speedway, second on the backstretch shorttrack and final 10 caution-free laps on the road course)
#17) Indianapolis Motor Speedway
#18) Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (Monterey, California)
#19) Gateway International Raceway (Madison, Illinois)
#20) Minneapolis Street Circuit
#21) Mosport International Raceway (Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada)
#22) Kentucky Speedway
#23) Iowa Speedway
#24) Darlington Raceway (sunset)
#25) Kansas Speedway
#26) Richmond International Raceway
#27) Evergreen Speedway (Monroe, Washington)
#28) Exhibition Place (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
#29) Texas Motor Speedway
#30) Dover International Raceway
#31) Chicagoland Speedway
#32) Watkins Glen International
#33) Bristol Motor Speedway (night)
#34) Road America (Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin)
#35) Homestead-Miami Speedway (day)
#36) Atlanta Motor Speedway (night)
Exhibition #2) Suzuka Circuitland (Suzuka City, Japan)



Nationwide:
#1) Long Beach Street Circuit (Long Beach, California)
#2) Dover International Speedway
#3) Indianapolis Raceway Park
#4) Richmond International Raceway
#5) Milwaukee Mile
#6) North Carolina Motor Speedway
#7) Charlotte Motor Speedway
#8) Myrtle Beach Speedway
#9) Kansas Speedway
#10) Darlington Raceway
#11) Texas World Speedway
#12) Homestead-Miami Speedway
#13) Talladega Superspeedway
#14) Iowa Speedway
#15) Music City Motorplex
#16) Nazareth Speedway (purchased and cleaned up)
#17) Road Atlanta
#18) Mosport International Raceway
#19) Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
#20) Gateway Motorsports Park
#21) Detroit Street Circuit
#22) Irwindale Speedway (revitalized)
#23) Kentucky Speedway
#24) Atlanta Motor Speedway
#25) Daytona International Speedway (road course)
#26) Martinsville Speedway
#27) Road America
#28) Pikes Peak International Raceway
#29) Bristol Motor Speedway
#30) Sonoma Raceway
#31) Pocono Raceway
#32) Watkins Glen International

Camping World:
#1) Richmond International Raceway (Richmond, Virgina)
#2) Colorado National Speedway (Erie, Colorado)
#2) I-70 Speedway (Odessa, Missouri)
#3) Portland Speedway (Portland, Oregon)
#4) Heartland Park Topeka (Topeka, Kansas)
#5) Walt Disney World Speedway (Orlando, Florida)
#6) Watkins Glen International (Watkins Glen, New York) (long)
#7) Lanier National Speedway (Gainesville, Georgia)
#8) North Carolina Motor Speedway (Rockingham, North Carolina)
#9) Milwaukee Mile (West Allis, Wisconsin)
#10) Eldora Speedway (Rosburg, Ohio)
#11) South Boston Speedway (South Boston, Virginia)
#12) Sonoma Raceway (Sonoma, California) (long course)
#13) Mosport International Raceway (Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada)
#14) Darlington Raceway (Darlington, South Carolina)
#15) Evergreen Speedway (Monroe, Washington)
#16) Atlanta Motor Speedway (Hampton, Georgia)
#17) Indianapolis Raceway Park (Clermont, Indiana)
#18) Martinsville Speedway (Martinsville, Virginia)
#19) Texas Motor Speedway (Fort Worth, Texas)
#20) Phoenix International Raceway (Phoenix, Arizona) (Short road course)
#21) Nashville Superspeedway (Gladeville, Tennessee)
#22) North Wilkesboro Speedway (North Wilkesboro, North Carolina)
#23) Daytona International Speedway (Daytona, Florida)
#24) Pikes Peak International Raceway (Fountain, Colorado)
#25) Mesa Marin Speedway (Mesa Marin, California)
#26) Bristol Motor Speedway (Bristol, Tennessee)

End of Season Showdown) Daytona International Speedway

(the top 20 drivers from each of the top 3 series are invited into a 3-hour (time based, not lap based) road course race that only has local cautions while using the vehicles builds that they raced in their respective series. In order to balance the vehicles, restrictor plates and tires are designed to make the trucks turn better than the muscle cars (which in turn can maneuver better than the cup cars) while the cup cars are slightly faster than the muscle cars (which are slightly faster than the trucks))

. . . . well, it did say fantasy, not realistic desires.

 

[Devin41]

^Is this assuming NASCAR does away with their minimum 1/2 mile track size requirement to host races in top 3 series? Otherwise Colorado National, Evergreen, and Lanier aren't even eligible to host national series races because they're under 1/2 mile. Also Nazareth Speedway and Portland Speedway don't even exist anymore...they've been torn down and redeveloped or are in the process of being redeveloped.

 

[Markfan]

^Is this assuming NASCAR does away with their minimum 1/2 mile track size requirement to host races in top 3 series? Otherwise Colorado National, Evergreen, and Lanier aren't even eligible to host national series races because they're under 1/2 mile. Also Nazareth Speedway and Portland Speedway don't even exist anymore...they've been torn down and redeveloped or are in the process of being redeveloped.

. . . . well, it did say fantasy, not realistic desires.

Also, I meant Portland International Raceway and Nazareth isn't entirely torn down as far as I know, just unusable without heavy renovation.

In addition, Evergreen is larger than 1/2 mile (it's a 5/8 mile track) and the other two mentioned are in a reimagining of the truck series as a road course/short-track series like it used to be. (Though yes, the 1/2 mile track size limit bothered me since it took away what made quite a bit of the Busch and Craftsman series interesting compared to cup)

 

[Devin41]

Ahhh ok. Yeah I guess Nazareth has a bunch of dirt piles placed all over the racing surface to prevent people from trying to drive on it. Since we're on that note of fantasy desires regarding track length, I'll vouch for my local track, Rocky Mountain Raceways here in Utah. 3/8 mile LOW BANKED(it really annoys me when the track announcers/track officials call it "high banked") asphalt oval. 5* banking on the straights and 7*-11* progressive banking in the turns. Asphalt is starting to show its age since its been used for the last 17 years now but still puts out some fantastic racing, especially when the RMCS Late Models, SRL Southwest Tour, and ASA Pro Trucks come to town and this year we will be hosting a Lucas Oil Modified Series race here in about a month. The local modified series that runs here as our ASA premier division always puts on a great show so I'm excited for this race and we're also hosting a 200 lap winged sprint car race in September. (y)

 

[Dilla]

#20) Minneapolis Street Circuit

Woah, that's a lot of 90 degree corners.

Edit: My road course selection for the Sprint Cup series would be:

Watkins Glen with the boot
Sonoma
Road America
Virginia International (Full course)
New Jersey Motorsports Park (either configuration)
Mid-Ohio
Mosport
Circuit Mont-Tremblant

Leguna Seca and Autodromo Hermanos (for hispanic promotion) would be cool, too.

 

[moppenheimer]

That Minneapolis track was awful. My Dad drove in that race and I've got it on VHS somewhere. The surface was breaking up in places and it was very unforgiving. I was 6 and the atmosphere was cool, so I enjoyed it.

In fact, It's on youtube.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CtFfOQLaCs"]1998 Sprint PCS Grand Prix of Minneapolis Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]