{"id":1572581,"date":"2023-06-19T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1572581"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:28:02","slug":"cup-series-playoffs-already-shaping-disappointment-sending-fans-flocking-to-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/cup-series-playoffs-already-shaping-disappointment-sending-fans-flocking-to-football\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cup Series Playoffs Are Already Shaping up as a Disappointment Sending Fans Flocking to Football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember that New Year\u2019s Eve party two years ago that was so depressing that you made an excuse to turn down the invitation last year? <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/nascar\/\">NASCAR<\/a> fans will endure the same experience this fall when the Cup Series playoffs arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless NASCAR whips up solutions to problems it hasn\u2019t solved in the past year, the NFL will be picking up additional viewers soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-joey-logano-no-track-should-host-more-than-1-race-per-year\"><strong>Joey Logano: No track should host more than 1 race per year<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcaf \u201cI think no racetrack should have more than one race.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCAR<\/a><br><br>Defending champ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joeylogano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joeylogano<\/a> thinks increased variety on the Cup Series schedule should be a focal point for 2024 and beyond.<br><br>More on \u201cBehind The Wheel\u201d with JoLo \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oek7E77UMS\">https:\/\/t.co\/oek7E77UMS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ah3ecRQ6E5\">pic.twitter.com\/Ah3ecRQ6E5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Ch. 90) (@SiriusXMNASCAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SiriusXMNASCAR\/status\/1666807793335300096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending Cup Series champion <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/joey-logano\/\">Joey Logano<\/a> made news last week with an interview in which he said NASCAR shouldn\u2019t stage more than one race a year at any track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logano was coming at it from the perspective of fans. With just 38 race dates per year, doubling up at Daytona, Talladega, Atlanta, and Charlotte clusters a chunk of the schedule in southeastern states. Phoenix, Las Vegas, Darlington, Kansas, Bristol, Richmond, and Martinsville also get two visits a year while fans in vast swaths of the country must travel great distances just to see one race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is asking a lot for fans to travel a long ways away to go watch a race,&#8221; Logano said. &#8220;If you have to travel three or four hours to go to a race, then there are hotel rooms and .... all of a sudden, it's expensive. Along with the race tickets and all of the other stuff that comes along with it, it's asking a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take it a step further, however, with respect to the tracks that host twice a year: If the first race is a dud, isn\u2019t it likely a lot of those fans won\u2019t come back for the second or even watch it on TV?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NASCAR has produced some dull racing at Cup Series playoffs tracks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Things could get very interesting before the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCARPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCARPlayoffs<\/a> begin.<\/p>&mdash; NASCAR (@NASCAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR\/status\/1669457253164888068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s indisputable that NASCAR has a short-track problem in the Next Gen era. Everything is mostly fine once the Cup Series gets to the intermediate tracks, but Bristol, Richmond, and Martinsville have given us a lot of uninspiring viewing in the first year and a half of the Next Gen car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Martinsville playoff race would have qualified as decent viewing even without <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/speed-ross-chastain-martinsville-shocking-optical-illusion\/\">Ross Chastain\u2019s mad dash<\/a> to the finish, and the last two Richmond races have been respectable, too. But the others have largely underwhelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recall Martinsville this spring: Ryan Preece was crushing everyone for 135 laps, got sent to the back on a pit penalty, and was never heard from again because passing was so difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there\u2019s Phoenix Raceway, the mile-long oval that is the venue for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/championship-4\/\">Championship 4<\/a>. Neither of last year\u2019s races there were compelling, and the 2023 spring race, in which there were just 10 lead changes and winner William Byron and teammate Kyle Larson led 265 of 317 laps, was additional evidence that the new car doesn\u2019t work there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Cup Series playoffs are destined to end with a collective yawn<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ross Chastain&#039;s video game move to advance to the Championship 4 | NASCAR\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sOY9p5gFa5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With 10 winners thus far and Kevin Harvick and Ross Chastain piling up big points, we have a good sense of what 75% of the Cup Series playoff field will look like this fall. And, of course, we know 100% of the schedule since NASCAR locks that in before the start of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That playoff schedule is worrisome. Seven of the 10 races are at tracks the Cup Series competes on during the regular season, and several are flawed for the reasons cited above. Worst of all, three pivotal races have the potential to backfire and send the more casual race fans scurrying for football games instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The first of three transfer races, which reduce the playoff field by four, is on Sept. 16 at Bristol, one of the short tracks that fare poorly in Next Gen action. There were only 12 lead changes in 500 laps last fall, and one of those was the result of a stage break. It\u2019s a Saturday night race, but there\u2019s always plenty of college football to watch if the racing action disappoints.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The third transfer race, which sets the field for the Championship 4, is at Martinsville on Oct. 29. A repeat of the spring, when one of the 10 lead changes again came on a stage break, won\u2019t do the sport any favors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Championship 4 at Phoenix on Nov. 5 continues to be a Cup Series mistake, one that NASCAR has already committed to making again in 2024. It\u2019s another track that hasn\u2019t been conducive to lead changes and drama out front.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Joey Logano dominated the 2022 Championship 4, and some of that may have had to do with the No. 22 Ford team having three weeks to prepare by virtue of locking in with a win at Las Vegas. Another playoff driver is likely to forge the same sort of edge this fall, and there\u2019s no reason to believe the result can\u2019t be similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Got a question or observation about racing? Sports7\u2019s John Moriello does a mailbag column each Friday. Write to him at JohnM@Sports7.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stands will likely be fuller than this  for the playoff races, but will uninspired action on certain key tracks hold our attention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":1572585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253795],"tags":[447293,447294,447300,118377,16060],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Cup Series Playoffs Are Already Shaping up as a Disappointment Sending Fans Flocking to Football - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NASCAR is going to stage three of its biggest Cup Series playoffs races on tracks that have consistently disappointed in the Next Gen era.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/cup-series-playoffs-already-shaping-disappointment-sending-fans-flocking-to-football\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Cup Series Playoffs Are Already Shaping up as a Disappointment Sending Fans Flocking to Football\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NASCAR is going to stage three of its biggest Cup Series playoffs races on tracks that have consistently disappointed in the Next Gen era.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/cup-series-playoffs-already-shaping-disappointment-sending-fans-flocking-to-football\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-19T18:18:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-19T18:28:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cup-Series-playoffs.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"993\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Sports7J\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Moriello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/cup-series-playoffs-already-shaping-disappointment-sending-fans-flocking-to-football\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/cup-series-playoffs-already-shaping-disappointment-sending-fans-flocking-to-football\/\",\"name\":\"The Cup Series Playoffs Are Already Shaping up as a Disappointment Sending Fans Flocking to Football - 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