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It’s the kind of thing that happens when you create a temporary dirt track at which crews can’t get consistent reps in prepping it.

And when the track wasn’t too wet, it was too dry. Rain plagued the weekend, as it has and will continue to do every single time you have an event in Bristol, Tenn., in April. I’m all for trying new ideas, but NASCAR tried dirt on Bristol last year and it was pretty much a disaster. Which is completely fair, but it’s just hard to go along with the vision of a company that thinks it’s a great idea to put someone in a watermelon seed costume to convince viewers to stick around and watch the race.

And FOX paid the big bucks to NASCAR, so it gets to call the shots. Why’d it lose a date? Because TV ratings weren’t good for the Saturday race.

Just ask Pocono Raceway, which lost a race despite packing the place for the last year’s doubleheader. Meanwhile, Texas Motor Speedway has had races where I wondered if there were more people racing on the track than there were in the grandstands, and yet not a thing is being done to change that abomination of a racing surface.Īttendance doesn’t matter anymore. Something needed to change to try to boost attendance, right? Actually, no.īristol holds over 160,000 people, so it could literally have double the attendance of last year’s Nashville Superspeedway race and it would still look half empty. Putting dirt on Bristol essentially happened because of two reasons: low attendance for the spring event and because FOX wanted it. It’d be like taking the iconic Lambeau Field and changing the field color to blue (of course, Bristol was already tampered with when it went from asphalt to concrete, but that’s a whole other topic). Speedway Motorsports has taken its greatest and most beautiful facility and dumped truckload after truckload of mud onto it. This weekend, the NASCAR Cup and Camping World Truck series will race on Bristol Motor Speedway’s dirt surface for the second time.

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