In relation to each meals and racing, three-time and defending NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano doesn’t like both being stale. With Sunday’s Chicago Road Course Race — the third 12 months it’s been held on the streets of downtown Chicago — there’s hypothesis whether or not NASCAR will return subsequent 12 months for a fourth straight season or if it might take the road course idea to a different market.
A number of studies have surfaced in current weeks that NASCAR could also be contemplating a road race in San Diego and Philadelphia. There’s additionally discuss a road race north of the border in both Toronto or Vancouver — or maybe on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve street course in Montreal.
Logano likes the three-and-out idea with regards to new venues. For instance, NASCAR held the preseason Busch Conflict race for 3 straight years on the Los Angeles Coliseum earlier than pulling the plug after the 2024 occasion and shifting it to Bowman Grey Stadium in North Carolina this 12 months.
So if this certainly is the third and last race in Chicago, Logano is ok with it.
“I’m at all times an enormous fan of going to new amenities as a result of it’s labored each single time,” Logano stated Friday throughout media availability in Chicago.
“Early in my profession once we by no means did something like this, it was the identical schedule yearly for many years. Nothing modified. A giant change can be like shifting a date a pair weeks from the place it was. It wasn’t altering something.
“Now we’re going to new venues. You consider Highway America, we’re not too removed from there, and that was an enormous success. The L.A. Coliseum, the primary couple of years was an enormous success.”
However there’s a caveat in Logano’s thoughts: that stale feeling. He wish to see NASCAR proceed to carry new tracks on-line, even when it’s only for a three-year interval.
To Logano, going to a brand new observe brings with it an charisma and parity for all drivers that different tried-and-true tracks not have.
“I feel for those who do it too lengthy it will get stale,” he stated. “I feel there are tracks which can be a part of our roots that we should go to, however I feel there’s a handful of tracks that needs to be on a three-year time period type of factor that you could simply transfer round and go to new locations.
“Take a look at what occurred at Bowman Grey this 12 months — an enormous success, a brand new observe. Folks love going to see one thing new. The unknown. The uncertainty of all of the groups not figuring out what to do. It’s enjoyable to look at.
Talking additional, Logano emphasised the significance of selection within the schedule. “You will have an concept now of what Chicago is gonna appear to be. We all know what Richmond seems to be like. We all know what Daytona is gonna appear to be,” he stated, highlighting how acquainted tracks take away the component of shock. In distinction, new amenities carry uncertainty — as he famous with Bowman Grey — and he believes that this sense of unpredictability is crucial to retaining the schedule thrilling and contemporary.
