NASCAR taking shots in experimentation, making many of them

You miss the 100% shots you don’t take.

This vein was Greatzaki – aka the Hockey Gai on the Hood Tyler radic‘S Toyota in Darlington last year – Who made that quotation famous. And he would know. The Great One took 5,088 shots NHL Career, resulting in record 1,072 goals. We remember, so many of those times lit a lamp. We do not remember, so many 4,016 shots that he missed.

It brings us Nascar Garage, a world where memories of swings and memories rotate for the longest time, especially when it comes to the Holiday Ground that is a cup series. Do you want to start an hour -long impromptu therapy session? Just bring up the beginning-from-20s-20s when NASCAR performed extreme makeover simultaneously than the Beverly Hill Bridge Club. From the initial repetition of the Chess Postsen format and to leave Rockingam, transfer the southern 500 of Labor Day weekend and the rollout of the winged shobox -shaped machine rollout, which was yesterday’s car, the stock car racing was much more overhall than a much more overhall in a single bar.

In search of young eyeballs and wallets, it has become some old eyes that are no longer recognized and saw that fans kept their purse away for a long time. Next, we collectively rip the NASCAR leadership for all this, and we should have it.

Now, we should appreciate them. Or at least appreciate them. Because, like Greatzaki during the day, NASCAR is taking a lot of shots, but unlike its predecessors two decades ago, now more views seem to be behind the time and impact of those shots. What is more, if they miss – and they remember – they do not keep taking the same shot repeatedly, while the rest of us are screaming, “It’s never going to work!” Instead, they take their lumps and go to the next thought.

Like a temporary construction Major league baseball As stadium inside a racetrack to play a game Atlanta Braves And Cincinnati Reds Will do this week end Bristol on motor speedwayHardball purists can question the idea they want. Or they can refuse heaven, having fun for a few hours on Saturday evening. And if it’s not fun? Good news: There is nothing that says it has to be done again. But if it is fun, they will probably try it again.

“The question is always, what is your inspiration? Why are you doing this? Do you have a big vision or you are just saying, ‘Are you hell’ and throwing goods against the wall?” Reign Joy logano The series was explained before this summer in the middle of its 17th season. “I do not necessarily agree with all this, but I agree with the desire to try new things, as long as we stick together who we are.”

It is connecting the road and road race, of which only two of six decades in this season. But it is also returning to North Wilcaseborough and The Rock, whether it is initially the All-Star Race or Truck/Xfinity Doubleheader. Its Rotating championship weekend in the coming years To racket, but closing it on the homestand-mammy speedway, the house that appears to be the end of the season for nearly two decades, but not since 2019. This step for Phoenix was taken because fans were demanding more small track racing. When people started asking, “Why did we leave homestand?” It was taken back as a kickoff for the new finale model.

One leg always moves forward, but with the other leg is still placed in the past. It is difficult to do this and maintain someone’s balance. Therefore, stop worrying about falling down. expect it. Instead of being afraid of a knee or elbow, get up and try again.

Ben Kennedy said in a conversation with Martie and McGi earlier this year, “I think there is a feeling that needs to be present behind the decision, but also that the ground feels familiar, if it makes sense, if it makes sense,” Ben Kennedy said in conversation with Marti and McGi earlier this year. The 33-year-old Kennedy, NASCAR EVP, the main place and the racing innovation officer, the founder of NASCAR is a great-granddaughter of France, and a former racer in trucks and XFINITY. He is also the nephew of the person who is the most convicted for the ripped-out roots of the 2000s, who is the former NASCAR chairman Brian France. “Nobody wants to forget where we came from. Especially I am not, because it is the place from where I came.”

See: transferring Busch Clash from Detona, where no one had cared about it or participated in La Collizium for years. This was Kennedy’s brainchild. When all the juices were squeezed by the event after three years, it was taken back home to the Northern Carolina and Boman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, where there is never a shortage of juice, specifically made from fermented corn. How deep is Kennedy associated with the history of NASCAR? It is also a racetrack where Dada Bill France Junior and Dadi Betty Jane met France, when they were being trained as the successor of the NASCAR throne and was Miss Boman Gray Stadium.

Nevertheless, one day, the conflict in the Madhouse will also run its curriculum and the event will go somewhere else, there is another possibility of another place with a historic stock car backstory.

“This is the difference, I think, between now and not long ago,” says Chase elietThe winner of this year’s inaugurated Boman Gray Clash. “Try it, and if it doesn’t work, okay. Next year, do something else. It seems that the first decisions were earlier made, either they never decided, or if they did, everyone worked, ‘Okay, we are now stuck with this forever.’ But you do not try other sports and if it does not work, we do so.

When did that mindset change? Well, no one has ever been to put the words “epidemic” and “positive” in the same sentence, but in spring 2020, as NASCAR raced to become the first major game to return to action, the only way to return to the track was to plan Mr. Fantastic-Like Flexibility when it came for scheduleing. Back-to-back weekends and doubleheaders in the same race. Midweek night race. Constantly worrying about what a knot can look on Grandstand television and give the best show available to the audience at home.

Returning to 2021 and to some extent, NASCAR found himself free from old habits. It also helped that the old school years of contracts with Ractrack had ended and a new, short -term race business model had become ideal. Back during the day, the same tracks had the same or two weekends for decades at a time, because no one in the garage wanted them, but because the contracts demanded it. As he had laps, “Okay, we have to go there because we always have” mindset “.

As such comes August and the release of the 2026 cup series schedule increases close, we are putting in the Summer of Experimentation of the Rearview Mirror NASCAR. The remaining 14 cup series events are on the restracks we know on the racetrack, which we know for the most in the weekend, where we expect them to be, but only after the second-second trip for the Iowa Speedway at the end of this week. This is the period at the end of a summer sentence that has run in Mexico City, floats through the streets of Chicago, still experienced a pair of new oval revival in Nashville and Indianapolis, and all announced in the middle A 2026 Father’s Day Street event will be run on San Diego Naval Base,

Oh, and it spent a portion of five weeks as part of these-season challenge, in which the most rolled their eyes-Illiot did not even realize that it was not in existence until he was asked about it at a news conference-but a fun social media-flesh showcase became, but it became a funny social media-shoches, Wonderkind Winner Ti gibes And repeatedly third generation racer Tie dillon,

What will happen next? No one is completely certain. And it is not scary. It is exciting. As long as the new one is still implicated by the classic standbis. Detona 500 in February. Southern 500 on Labor Day Weekend. The decline in the form of Martinsville Speedway begins to roll through cold uplachian foothills.

Working ideas – carrying forward the clash, reviving the north wilkesboro, sometimes strut racing – will stick around. The thoughts that started working, but eagerly gone – the mid -size midweek night race and a dirt race per year – hopefully will return. The ideas that were at that time – Charlotte Rowl – hope that it will again receive a revival through resurrection.

While all of the above, a searching playoff committee continues to discuss a potential points system reboot and the approved body openly connects another manufacturer to join Chevi, Ford and Toyota. It seems a lot because it is. However, this is not again in 2004. It is instead an idea-out chain of ideas, which is tilt on the lessons learned.

Shots were taken. A lot of shots missed. But in addition, made a lot of shots.