2020 NASCAR Thread

Also: Why isn't the Hulk naked?

 

Or better yet, why isn't Wonder Woman?

 

If I'm walking out of the hospital after that crash and I don't feel like wearing shoes, I ain't wearing shoes.

Stunned and happy to see those pictures.

 

It took the damn mayor to tell NASCAR to postpone Homestead, because the folks in Daytona Beach are Trump-challenged.

Homestead NASCAR race postponed

 

Looks like Hampton - I mean Atlanta - is now postponed, too.

 

NASCAR has postponed all races through May 3. The next race, it hopes, will be Martinsville on May 9.
So that brings the total to seven canceled races — Atlanta, Homestead, Texas, Bristol, Richmond, Talladega and Dover. There is one open date mixed in there.
Statement says they still plan to run all 36 races, though, which means they'll have to include either some midweek races or Pocono-style doubleheader weekends. I'd guess they'll also race on what had been two back-to-back open dates in July and August.

 

If you look up "delusional" in the dictionary, I'm certain there's a NASCAR logo as an illustration.

 

I looked a little closer at the schedule. Only one of those seven races (Dover) are at a track they visit before the playoffs. They don't go back to Atlanta and Homestead. The second races at Texas, Bristol, Richmond and Talladega are all playoff races.
So conceivably they could double-dip at Dover and Michigan, and run two races on the open dates. Maybe bag the All-Star race and put a regular-season race there instead, and push the season finale back two weeks to Nov. 22, which is right on the edge of where you'd want the season to end.
Most of these are also southern races, and they'll have to make them up on the summer swing through the northern states, which is going to be hell on logistics. I can't imagine how they do it.

 

Naaaaa, let's truly old school with the midweek races and hit Bowman Gray, Hickory, Kingsport.

 

North Wilkesboro should head up the "old school" list ...