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No Need to Change the Chase

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As each Chase for the Sprint Cup passes us, a new batch of criticism from the NASCAR nation is whipped up for the race tracks that are involved in the ten race playoff.

Ever since the Chase for the Sprint Cup was constructed in 2004 to spice up the championship run, NASCAR has made small tweaks to the tracks involved in NASCAR’s version of the playoffs over the years with Chicagoland Speedway being the newest edition to the Chase in 2011.

A lot of people always voice their opinions on how they would like to see different race tracks in the ten race Chase for the Sprint Cup, but every time I hear these race fans voice their opinions about adding this track and scraping that track. They fail to recognize the weather element that is involved in scheduling races along with the season-ticket holder aspect.

I would love to see road courses like Watkins Glen in the Chase, but what’s the weather like in Watkins Glen, New York this time of the year? Not even close to favorable for a NASCAR race and if you were to add Watkins Glen what track would you yank out?

Fans poured out of the closet in August begging NASCAR to put the road course in the Chase after it produced one of the more exciting last laps of the season, but is one good race — much in part to a oiled down track — worth putting in the Chase?

If Watkins Glen was ever added to the Chase, and it produced a less than exciting race, the following Monday race fans would be up in arms on radio shows and on social networking voicing their opinions on how the track should be abolished from the schedule altogether.

NASCAR fans are the hardest bunch to please.

Season ticket holders are also an added element to this difficult equation of scheduling races. You can’t schedule too many races in the same region because most race fans like to travel to every race that is at least in driving range. When you cluster races in the same region together it hurts the overall attendance, especially when the economy is in the dumps.

Many fans are like myself. They like to attend every race that comes within their area, but when you put the races so close to each other on the schedule, those fans can’t afford to go to multiple events, and then the empty seats pile up in the stands.

We live in California, and we used to go to every Phoenix, California and Las Vegas Race. However, ever since NASCAR decided to put the trio of races in the same month, it has made it very difficult to attend all three, and this is a similar dilemma a good portion of fans face nowadays.

At the same time, no matter what ten tracks find themselves in the ten race Chase, there will always be a certain level of criticism.

Some things are better left alone, and the Chase is one of those things.

We welcome your opinions on this subject. 



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