NASCAR and rainy Sundays too common; and change the ‘playoffs’ label
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HEY, WILLIE!
Why is it that NASCAR is so determined to run the Cup races mostly on Sundays? And later in the day when it almost always rains in the Eastern part of the U.S.?
Then, as they did this week, they end up racing in front of no spectators, and no TV watchers on a Monday. All those people went to work.
NASCAR has zero connection to the working man or woman today.
They could schedule the Xfinity or some other race on Friday or Saturday prior to the Cup race.
Makes zero sense to me.
STEVE
HEY, STEVE!
This one has a certain feel to it. Kinda like, “Well, we’ve run out of everything else to blame NASCAR for, so let’s blame ’em for the weather!”
I saw something someone posted, or re-posted, saying 17 of NASCAR’s 25 race weekends this year have included weather delays or postponements — but that includes the Truck and Xfinity circuits.
Michigan this week was the fourth Cup race bumped to a Monday in 2023. Yes, that’s higher than the norm, but no, there ain’t much you can do about it, unless you want to build a giant roof and have everyone sign carbon monoxide waivers.
ON THE POLLBubba Wallace, Ty Gibbs in (for now) Daniel Suarez looms. Who makes the NASCAR playoffs?
Sure, it stinks to see an excellent crowd show up on Sunday, only to get rained on, and then see only half of them (at most) willing or able to come back on Monday.
Karen Carpenter famously crooned about “rainy days and Mondays” getting her down, and she wasn’t even a NASCAR fan. It’s not just a racing problem; rain has been interrupting plans ever since Noah was in freshman shop class.
NASCAR SPEED FREAKSHow you like Chris Buescher NOW? Gonna miss the Indy road course?
HEY, WILLIE!
I think NASCAR got it wrong by calling the postseason its “playoffs.” Isn’t that for football and other sports that people “play.”
Sounds kinda stupid to me. How about “Race-offs”? Get with the correct wording, NASCAR.
DAVID T
HEY, DAVE T!
Here’s some extremely trivial trivia regarding NASCAR’s postseason, which debuted in 2004 when Nextel was the Cup Series’ title sponsor — Nextel replaced Winston that year.
In January, just prior to the start of the ’04 season, the first playoff system was announced and was given a rather catchy name — Chase for the Championship. No “playoff,” but a chase, which seems reasonable given the sport in question.
By the time the last press release was handed out — figuratively speaking, of course — someone was passing through again, retrieving them and heading to the shredder. Actually, I’m not sure how long it took, but looking back, it seems like it was a matter of minutes before a new press release came off the printer touting, instead, the “Chase for the Nextel Cup.”
Ugh.
Paying millions for naming rights trumped neat alliteration. They should’ve gone ahead and scrapped the “chase” part, too, but I imagine they were suddenly in a hurry and had no time to roundtable, white-board, or whatever…
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