Why No Race This Weekend?
Bruin
used to be that in the Cup series, they would take 3 weekends off from
racing each season...Easter, Mother's Day and one non-holiday weekend
later in the summer (I think it was in August).
Now they have a race on Mother's Day weekend on Saturday night so that
crews can race that weekend but still honor their mothers on Mother's
Day Sunday.
I don't understand why there's no race this weekend however. Easter is
still several weeks away and Mother's Day is even later than that.
There are no races whatsoever this weekend, no truck, no Nationwide
and no Cup series race (actually I think they have had this type of
schedule for a number of years now).
Does anyone know why this is so? They are only a few races into the
season so it's not as if anyone should need a vacation yet. I would
think that they would want to have their days off spaced more evenly
throughout the season so that they would have a break later (instead
of now) on and at a time that would give them a vacation break when it
would be more helpful to them.
Do they do this because too many tracks are still affected by the
closing days/weeks of winter?
Don Del Grande
>I'm not sure that I understand NASCAR's current scheduling system. It
>used to be that in the Cup series, they would take 3 weekends off from
>racing each season...Easter, Mother's Day and one non-holiday weekend
>later in the summer (I think it was in August).
>
>Now they have a race on Mother's Day weekend on Saturday night so that
>crews can race that weekend but still honor their mothers on Mother's
>Day Sunday.
...and when it rains on that Saturday night, they end up racing on
Mother's Day anyway.
The other breaks are still Easter (after all, when they moved the
stone from the sephulcre and found the crpyt empty, they did NOT find
a note saying, "Went to the chariot races, be back soon, love,
Jeshua") and, for whatever reason, there always seems to be one right
before Indy.
>I don't understand why there's no race this weekend however. Easter is
>still several weeks away and Mother's Day is even later than that.
>There are no races whatsoever this weekend, no truck, no Nationwide
>and no Cup series race (actually I think they have had this type of
>schedule for a number of years now).
>
>Does anyone know why this is so?
Didn't the first break actually used to come earlier in the season?
-- Don
Chuck Steak
>I'm not sure that I understand NASCAR's current scheduling system.
>
>I don't understand why there's no race this weekend however.
I don't know 'why' they started it, but they have been doing it
like this for a long long time.
Dan
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Ray O'Hara
"Don Del Grande" <del_gra...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I thought so.
didn't it used to be Daytona, Richmond and a week off.
Brad
When the Nationwide 3rd race of the season was in Mexico, Cup had that week
off. (or maybe it was the 4th race of the season)
It would have been before Atlanta instead of after it I guess.
Not having that roadcourse race, which had half cup guys in it, makes the
break seem so much quieter too for me. I REALLY miss the early road course
event too. It feels like 6 months until we see any road course action then
it's all over within weeks.
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Brad
armpit
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Close. It was Daytona, Rockingham, then the first off week.
Slush
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Thy needed a break after the Rockingham race back then LOL.
RickyBobby
"Chuck Steak" <Chuck...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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They do not want to run a race on an empty sports weekend like this one.
They would rather run the race during football season so nobody watches
them.
I will turn out the lights , yawl take care of the doors
If the aBOVE was the only problem with the coverage and the media
and the racing....we would all say AMEN DOUBLE AMEN
ChrisCoaster
In the thread I just started, I made mention of it must be the St.
Patricks Day break.
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