Today, NASCAR unveiled its rejigged 2020 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, which will see the season finale event moved from Miami-Homestead Speedway to ISM Raceway in Phoenix.
The 36-race NASCAR 2020 Schedule includes a number of other changes in addition to the season finale change. The regular season finale has been moved to Daytona International Speedway, Pocono will play host to a double header race, Indianapolis has been moved to the July 4th weekend, Martinsville will now race under the lights in May and Darlington will serve as the playoff opener.
Highlights of new schedule: New season finale, new playoff races. Daytona ends regular season. Round 1: Darlington-Richmond-Bristol. Round 2: Vegas-Talladega-Charlotte Roval. Round 3: Kansas-Texas-Martinsville. Title: Phoenix. #nascar pic.twitter.com/npvzr3xaAJ
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) March 26, 2019
Additionally, the Bristol Night Race will move from its usual August date to September 19th. Round 8 of the playoffs, formerly ISM, will now be occupied by an event at Martinsville, which NASCAR says is “sure to amp up even more with drivers having just one final chance to clinch a spot in the Championship 4,” due to the track being the shortest and oldest on the NASCAR calendar.
“The fans and the industry as a whole have been vocal about the desire for sweeping changes to the schedule, and the 2020 slate is a reflection of our efforts to execute against that feedback,” NASCAR executive vice president Steve O’Donnell said in a statement. “These changes are the result of unprecedented consensus-building with our race tracks and broadcast partners; something we look to continue into 2021 and beyond.”
NASCAR collaborated with NBC Sports and its track partners on the schedule, with Jon Miller, president of programming at NBC Sports and NBCSN, saying the company believes ” this innovative schedule will be a benefit to everyone in the industry, and, most importantly, the fans.”
The first points-paying race of the NASCAR 2020 schedule will be the Daytona 500, as usual, set to be held on Sunday, February 16th. You can click here to view the entire schedule.
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NASCAR what is that?
NASCAR is a dying sport and FOX Sports is killing it by scheduling the Monster series race to be shown on their cable channel FS1 which means you’ve got to have cable television to watch except we’re living in a cable cutting society which means the population that will watch any Monster series race on FS1 is shrinking.
Auto racing in general has been a dying sport. No major enthusiasm generator in this announcement. The philosophy of win on Sunday and sell on Monday ended a while ago. Your cable cutting comment is right on. Seems like a waste of GM and Ford advertising dollars to sponsor cable broadcasts of NASCAR now. Our company’s sales of trailers for local racing has declined significantly and volume replaced, and exceeded, by units for ATV and snowmobiles,
Millenials seem to have little interest in driving let alone watching motorsports. Very sad, glad I grew up when I did, for me the golden age of racing the 60’s to the early 90’s
I have been to races all over the country with various sanctioning organizations for a long time . Your right that millennials and kids in general have no interest, except when their parents are paying all the bills for top notch rides and then all they care about is driving race cars. I think most of our generation has lost interest in watching a bunch of teenagers that learned to race using computer games move into the three top NASCAR divisions.
NASCAR has been slowly dying since Dale Sr. passed away. All the rules and points systems have sped up the demise. So hoaky. Kyle Busch is the face of the Sport now. Enough said for lack of interest.
Slowing the cars down via “tapered spacer” this year has not helped either. As a long time fan of Nascar I find the races this year very boring for the first time in my life. Oh, by the way I have been watching races for a long time. I’m over 70.
All they have to do to fix NASCAR is enact this simple formula….
1. No limits on engines! Make’em as big and as powerful as you want.
2. Remove all aerodynamic devices.
3. Skinny up the tires.
Now, go have a ball. I’ll watch every race,
NASCAR races are all settled on pit stops. First guy out wins the race. Except for grilles, cars are all the same and don’t look like the real ones. Too many 1.5 mile tracks that all look alike. Kinda like watching baseball in the 70s when all stadiums had astro turf and were all the same.