NASCAR: Five Ways To Make The Coca-Cola 600 Better

Time For Change

Next there’s the matter of time! For years now NASCAR has started the race in the late afternoon and had it end early in the evening. While that does offer the challenge of changing track conditions for the drivers and the teams, the process is so long and drawn out that the art of it all almost goes completely unnoticed. In other words, it’s not something younger fans will understand.

That’s why NASCAR needs to eliminate the day and night cycle of the race altogether and give it a primetime spot instead. Doing so will not only end the confusion of what time the race starts, something that confuses fans almost every year and leaves them surfing the channels for the race, the primetime schedule change will also be a treat for that love night races.

Not only that, this is also a great opportunity for NASCAR to go to the drawing board and put give some of their best race tracks a nighttime race. Just imagine if the Coca-Cola 600 was relocated to Talladega and it was scheduled to start at 7pm!  That would give fans something they’ve never seen before and leave them dazzled at all the drafting action under the lights!

Next: New venue?