Road Course Race Coming to The Chase? Nascar looking at it

Sports Illustrated is reporting that Nascar is considering adding a road course to Nascar's playoff The Chase. Currently The Chase has every style of track except a road course. The Chase has a plate race at Talladega, short track at Martinsville, concrete track at Dover, flat tracks at Phoenix and Loudon, and cookie cutters like Texas, Homestead, Kansas & Fontana. The most likely tracks to loose a date would be Loudon or Fontana. Loudon seems to be the most likely with TV market ratings favoring Fontana.

 

Nascar is also considering a "Elimination Style" format for The Chase. This style was used once in the All-Star race, but removed after fans didn't like the format.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by TOG on July 5, 2010 at 12:47pm
adding a road course to the chase will be a sound move if they do it, but It will probably just involve switching the Watkins Glen race to either September or October.
Permalink Reply by Shop Goddess on July 5, 2010 at 1:32pm
Too much of a chance of early snow in October for the Glen, but a colorful September race would be great. I do wish they would just add some more road courses to the all around season.
Permalink Reply by GasOnRobby on July 5, 2010 at 1:40pm
Road America would be nice. I also vote for Summit Point in West Virginia. There are a lot of road courses to choose from. Maybe a street race in Baltimore?
Permalink Reply by d7lee on July 5, 2010 at 2:07pm
It will never happen, but more road courses would be great!
Road America or Montreal would be nice. Or they could move an Atlanta date to Road Atlanta.
Hell, even Laguna Seca or VIR. Or a street circuit (in Long Beach like Robby said).
The nascar money machines will never let that happen though.
And another shitty thing is that they are really just moving cookie cutter dates around.
And then going to take a noncookie cutter out (new hampshire) in favor of putting in a cookie cutter (kentucky).
Get rid of the cookie cutters! And the chase for that matter.
Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on July 5, 2010 at 7:16pm
BALTIMORE STREET RACE FTW!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Permalink Reply by TOG on July 5, 2010 at 7:31pm
I could really go for that.
Permalink Reply by GasOnRobby on July 5, 2010 at 7:49pm
Hey, it's down the street. I'm on the list for Indy Car tickets. I can pick up my Cup tickets at the same time.
Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on July 5, 2010 at 1:08pm
According to Nascar RoundUp...Nascar is looking to create interest in The Chase, one idea on the drawing board is a playoff style format currently used in most other sports. The format would take the Top 35 and create elimination stages. All drivers in the Top 35 would have points reset and spaced in 5 point increments, The driver is 35th would be at 5,000 points and the driver in first would be at 5,175. In addition, each driver would receive a 10 point bonus for each win. After 2 races the Top 30 would remain. After the 4th race the Top 20 would remain. After the 6th race the Top 10 would remain to battle over the final 4 races for the championship.

Another idea is a bracket style with the Top 32. #1 would be paired againt driver #32 and so on. After 3 races the teams would be cut to 16 teams, then cut to 8 teams after the 6th race. Elimnating 2 drivers each race over the 4 race stretch. Making the final race between the final 2 teams. (Each team would receive a 10 point bonus for wins prior to The Chase and drivers in the Top 25 would receive a 10 point bonus, drivers in the Top 15 would receive a 15 point bonus, drivers in the Top 10 would receive a 20 point bonus and drivers in the Top 5 would receive a 25 point bonus. The leader would receive an additional 10 points).
Permalink Reply by GasOnRobby on July 5, 2010 at 1:39pm
I like the first but the second would be too confusing and hard to control. A teammate could wreck JJ and then take the bracket win.

Whatever they do they should create a race within a race. The worst a driver in the chase can get is 12th place points using the current chase numbers. This will keep them close and will allow them to take more risk without being out of the chase with a DNF.
Permalink Reply by MikeNIN7 on July 7, 2010 at 6:52am
I like the Race with in a race idea. Give points for the caase drivers as they are at the finsh 1 - 12 taking all other non- chase out of scoring. Then give bonus points to them for a top 10 top 5 3rd 2nd with a big bonus for a win.
Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on July 5, 2010 at 2:56pm
This is what a 32 team bracket would look like (as of today's driver standings). It is based on Drivers Points, not Owner Points. The drivers would have to compete. (#1 team vs #32 team and so on, Example: Harvick would be racing Robby the first 3 races then the winner advance) It would be eliminated down to 16 after 3 races (Loudon, Dover and Kansas). Then cut to 8 teams after (Fontana Charlotte, Martinsville), Down to 6 after Talladega, 4 after Texas and then 2 after Phoenix, leaving the Top 2 teams racing for the Championship at Homestead,

Permalink Reply by GasOnRobby on July 5, 2010 at 3:28pm
Interesting match ups. Team mate vs. team mate. (or quasi-team mate)

Kurt Busch vs. Sam Hornish Jr
Matt Kenseth vs. David Regan
Greg Biffle vs. Paul Menard
Jamie McMurray vs. Clint Bowyer

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