NASCAR running thread

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Or even better, open Wilkesboro (and Rockingham and Nashville Fairgrounds) and go racing. I was by there about a month ago. The track still has all its Winston signs and everything going on. It made me sad.

 

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I agree, but I've resigned myself to the fact that Cup cars will never race at Wilkesboro again.

 

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I'd love it if Bruton or someone would start, not a rival series, but an alternative one that raced on the old tracks. Make the cars stock appearing once again and try to return to sport to its roots. They wouldn't even have to bill it as a top flight or even second tier series. Make it something fun and affordable for the fans of NASCAR roots.

Race Bristol, Nashville, Martinsville, Wilkesboro, Hickory, Bowman Gray, Kingsport, Myrtle Beach, Rockingham, Atlanta, etc.

 

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Bruton is part of the problem. If anyone could get a series like this to take hold, it would have to be someone like Humpy Wheeler. I'm kind of surprised we haven't heard much out of him since his retirement.

 

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Humpy would be the ideal person, but I threw Bruton out there because he owns half the tracks that I mentioned.

 

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I have to think Bruton was considering something like that 15 years ago, but two things happened that stopped it before it got started. One, the mess that came from the IRL/CART split, and once he got wind of the television contract NASCAR was hammering out, it all was too big to pass up.

 

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I totally agree and even really believed their would be a fracture 12-15 years ago. When NASCAR got its first big TV money and started the push to leave its roots, I saw the seeds. By the time the most recent contract rolled around, Dale was dead and with it the true link to the old and the name that could have gotten it off the ground and the track and team owners were too accustomed to the cash to rock the boat.

 

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I remember after the contract was signed (I think there was a season-and-a-half still to run under the old ones), Humpy more or less showed SMI's hand, or the hand it wanted to play but couldn't. He basically admitted that the new money was more than enough to keep Bruton's tracks in line. He said something to the effect that it was more money than they could get on their own. I think he meant that two ways. More than what the SMI tracks could negotiate for its parts of the NASCAR schedule, and more than what the networks were willing to risk if Bruton was to go out on his own.

 

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There was that TRAC thing about 10 years ago. Actually, I looked it up and was off a little.
http://www.jayski.com/pages/trac.htm

 

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That deal never did make sense to me where you had team-based race teams, a playoff (CHASE!) and cars that looked like IMSA or something.

I Cale was involved in it, and I understand that's part of the reason you don't see him involved in NASCAR any more than they have to bring him out.

 

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Who beat?

 

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Cale also likes to get paid.