NASCAR: Is a demotion system worth implementing?
Final question: Would an Xfinity Series team sign someone mid-season?
Let’s say that we are in the middle of the season and a driver gets demoted while another driver gets promoted.
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Would the team for which the promoted driver competed in the Xfinity Series want to sign the demoted driver? I don’t think so, especially if the promoted driver was competing for a top-tier team!
The demoted driver could possibly go to a team putting up top 20 or top 30 performances. But would any of those teams even sign a driver who has been wrecking cars, especially if that driver would be in the lineup for the rest of the year? Jimmy Means Racing probably wouldn’t, and JD Motorsports probably wouldn’t either.
Maybe teams such as DGM Racing or Mike Harmon Racing, which have multiple drivers in a car per year anyway, would, but I still don’t really see that happening.
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The next race on the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series schedule is a Thursday night race in America’s Heartland at Kansas Speedway. NBC Sports Network is set to broadcast this race, the Super Start Batteries 400, live on July 23 beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.