The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule has been released, along with it's "impactful" changes.
If you want to call it that.
Now, I'm not saying that the schedule changes were hurtful or negative to the sport, but I do believe that that changes didn't have the big mix up that was expected by comments from CEO Brian France.
They were good enough though...for now.
But, there's a better way.
Well, it's not exactly a new idea. It has been heard from others as well.
Here it goes - how about changing the Championship race around every year?
There has been an idea of changing the actual Chase races around, but really that can only be done so much because of the limit of tracks as well as different weather situations. However, what if NASCAR were to rotate the final race around every season?
It would be great for both the fans, and the tracks.
As stated earlier, weather would prevent some tracks from gaining this position in the schedule as a result of the different climate zones that the tracks are located in during the season finale month of November, but it would open up many tracks to give them a shot at crowning a champion.
Different sponsors would be able to take the stage, tracks would have another motive to stay in the schedule, knowing they would eventually get a championship race(weather permitting) and sometimes it's just nice to mix it up a little. And with a wide variety of tracks available for this opportunity, it would take years for the same track to be on the schedule again.
Now, will it ever happen?
Chances are, probably not, there are just too much politics involved. But, I don't expect to see Homestead be the final race for too much longer.
It seems to me like that would work. The sport just needs some mixing up, thats all
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