I mean, have you seen the man sing? Apparently is also good at golf and basketball when I've seen tweets about him doing that when he was with the Angels. I really do wonder what this guy *can't* do.
(Though thats ignoring that his translator Ippei drives him around everywhere and I can't remember if Shohei had ever gotten his license, so maybe this might be one of the things he can't do. Though I get the feeling if he put his mind to it he probably could, lol).
https://preview.redd.it/ifm4167ezwmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5acba8345bfaa51167f12747ad24b52d69cfe064
Okay hear me out... I think we can make this work...
Yup yup, after I found that out, it made me want to really dominate it. If you do a quick google search, you will find that a certain percentage of fantasy tracks in the Thunder games were based off actual tracks.
The high banking on that right hander right past the pit road entrance was always tricky. You could carry a lot more speed through there than you should because you had to get set up for the hairpin left hander. I always though the s/f line should be closer to turn one than it already was.
The hairpin on the opposite side you could always cut seconds off your lap time compared to AI by going under the expected apex of the corner under the white line.
Was a road course based on Riverside in some games but was an oval in some of the other years.
Redball was based on Mansfield.
The football stadium one was "inspired by" Bowman Gray but obviously much bigger scaling wise and in an NFL style stadium. Now that I think about it I don't remember if that was a stadium created from scratch or something ripped from the Madden/NCAA model library and then modified
Red Ball wasn’t super easy either. The AI just didn’t know what to make of pit road I think. I always assumed they tried to model it after Slinger or something. That’s good to know.
If you ever get into iRacing, Concord is still a blast in basically every series and comes free with the subscription. As the person already mentioned, Concord is the basis for this track.
Not that I am aware of. Its hard enough to find any information on it. One of those things all the old guys at the local tracks will bring up, but thats about it. Some pictures when you look it up on google.
This track was the a thorn in my back side back then. The Nationwide cars should not have run there. The mods and Trucks were decent though.
Edit: this one and the stadium race. The pit road being on the outside really screwed things up for me.
Ahh...raceball
I'm just imagining officials red flag it for an argument with a crew chief on the start finish line. Just kicking up marbles at each other.
I know this is a joke, but that reminds me: I’d love to see something similar to the 2011 Bristol Speed Trials again. Maybe even bring in much different series like Indycar, IMSA Sports Cars, maybe even foreign series like V8 Supers and F1!
That would be epic, I think.
Not too much tho. Any race in a baseball stadium would have to be in February or November. There are only a few stadiums that could host in those months and most are in markets that already have a race.
LA, San Diego, Houston (if the open dome isn't a monoxide issue) are the only possibilities I see.
Maybe the minor league parks in like a Mobile/New Orleans/Pensacola but even then, those cities have actual race tracks that can attract just as many people (Mobile International Speedway, NOLA Motorsports Park, Five Flags)
Agreed. Much as I'd love a Fenway Park race in central Boston, February Boston weather automatically makes that a non-starter. And there's no way NASCAR can nail down a fall date, just in case we ~~somehow~~ make it back to the World Series.
If we're talking LA and exhibition races, Dodger Stadium, SoFi Stadium and Long Beach road courses are some neat options.
NASCAR should buy Irwindale Speedway TBH. That'll help it get saved.
I would 1000% fly across the country to see this, I’ve been to almost all of the mlb stadiums at this point and Dodger Stadium ranks near the top for me
https://preview.redd.it/havgkhmd7xmc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8288cd0692551becf62447723cc481a2a1f60e0
My brain didnt read the “R” and thought this became a reality
"You said DODGE? I thought you said DODGER?"
https://preview.redd.it/s68dtxkq0xmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=236e9849e6e1a30410bb3bf2555e92dd4734d0ac
Funny you mention potholes. I was going through some of my old photos the other day and came across this. It was the Pocono Cup race in June 2010.
Some asphalt came up at the pit exit. It was a little to the side the direct line drivers normally took, and they did put some asphalt in to patch it. In the finest tradition of PennDOT, they put some cones around it so drivers wouldn't hit the hole so they could continue the race while the patch material cured.
https://preview.redd.it/3kfdvdupqxmc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=512ca7e9e1344af2070d8c6c234b70dd41934544
Yeah that just screams Pennsylvania. By me there was a massive pothole in the middle of a pretty major road. Their solution? Fill it with so much asphalt that it basically became a ramp. I guess convex is better than concave.
nah the bullpen hasn't been THAT awful.
What's more likely is it will be a dominant regular season and get scorched by a silly high variance playoff format.
You’re not wrong, but it’s also not a fun task and if you can avoid it, you avoid it.
That being said, I’d be all for watching a race in Dodger Stadium, lol.
https://preview.redd.it/xwg317ilpymc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b261fbad9fc39d6d8e74af830a84b736593cfd94
They also know how to throw a party for the last 150 years.
[Could look like this](https://youtu.be/TktjNyou3RE?feature=shared). CASCAR, Vintage Modifieds and TQ Midgets raced at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto in the early 90’s. The track had one corner with a tighter radius than the other. This was an attempt to bring racing back to to Exhibition Stadium after the very successful track there in the 50’s and 60’s had closed down. In fact, that track was where Richard Petty made his first Grand National start.
Ratings and money. That’s why. NASCAR knows people will buy tickets to see this and watch on it on tv. Sports in general are gravitating towards tv ratings and money. That’s the world we’re in now.
Aside from the fact that Laguna Seca isn't really a good stock car track, and having both Laguna Seca and Sonoma would be a questionable business decision, what good does Laguna Seca (over 300 miles from Los Angeles) do for the Southern California market? At that point, you might as well call Phoenix a Southern California race, it's about as close to LA as Laguna Seca is.
(Edit: Hell, Las Vegas is actually closer to downtown LA than Laguna Seca - Laguna Seca is 312 miles away, Las Vegas is 282 miles.)
What other racetrack in Southern California is anywhere fucking close to being Cup-ready?
I feel like doing a street course for The Clash in LA would be a better idea until Auto Club becomes a short track (? on where exactly though). NASCAR's short track package is also still questionable on performance, & no one asked for Chicago but we got it & it worked for the time being.
Anyone who just says "why don't we just go to a local short track" is a moron that doesn't even understand what NASCAR is trying to do.
I would implore you all to Google the meaning of "brand recognition" and how to build it.
Literally. People don’t know how basic business works. Do something original that attracts people. This right here is the definition of original. Nobody else but NASCAR has thought about racing inside baseball stadium.
...We running baseball stadiums now? I mean, I've always ***wanted*** them to come to Fenway, but my understanding was that it'd be too much of a shit show for them to even try. I respect the will to mix thinks up, at least.
They could even realistically do a race on the ring in the parking lot around the stadium. Certainly wouldn’t be as cool but from what I can tell on google maps, it’s a near perfect oval with plenty of room for temporary seating and exhibition space.
dodger stadium is even smaller than the coliseum for those wondering, baseball has been played inside the coliseum before, and i’m not sure that I like NASCAR going the monster jam route, and with that being said Angel Stadium is better than Dodger Stadium.
Big fan of this idea. Just like I was of the LA Coliseum Clash.
A "stadium series" of events for NASCAR does nothing to hurt it, but only grow the fanbase.
LA resident here. wish they'd take the couple mil theyve been spending at the colosseum and would spend at a baseball park and put it into Irwindale. we'd have a home for Cup in socal while building auto club 2.0, and when that track is done we'd have a better weekly track to grow the racing fanbase here beyond just the Cup series
Okay so hear me out. Knock down the walls for the bullpens and you can have the track go straight down the foul lines but then out into the parking lot.
Why not some other wild LA street circuits:
- [Downtown LA Figure 8](https://imgur.com/iETmlBq)
- [Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills](https://imgur.com/CwL81Vr)
But yes Irwindale is a nice actual track alternative nearby.
I’m divided.
On the one hand, it would be pretty cool to see it happen in the modern day. I live in Indianapolis and when our baseball team moved to their new stadium, Victory Field, the old one, Bush Stadium, was converted into a dirt track for a few years known as 16th Street Speedway. So it’d be interesting to see it at an MLB park.
But on the other hand… imagine if Vin Scully was still alive and would call this race. That would’ve been EPIC! But sadly, it’s not possible anymore.
Well, the KC royals will be moving stadiums in the coming years, I think this coming season is their last in the current stadium. Kauffman is one of the largest baseball stadiums in terms of play area. Could make for an interesting short road course.
Imagine filling the stands of a baseball stadium for a NASCAR race. We already got similar with the LA colosseum but that was a tiny oval.
We have a vote on the downtown stadium next month, if it passes we are in Kauffman through 2027. If it fails they are in the K maybe another year after that before they move to their new KCK stadium or Nashville stadium
What if they went rally cross style and did part of the course inside the stadium and the other part outside in the parking lot? Idk if that’s possible on this dodger stadium but that would be something to look into instead of making another Tiny bullring inside a baseball stadium
Baseball stadiums have been turned into race tracks before. Grimes Stadium in Fredericksburg, PA became Fredericksburg Speedway in 1965 and ran until 1976. I know my dad went to a lot of races there and I've heard of cars crashing into the dugouts. The baseball diamond dimensions were kept and it created some pinch points with the turns.
LA was the only stadium with the size for it, big enough for a racetrack. Modern stadiums are so much smaller and wouldn't put in a great race due to the microscopic sizes. Something older like the stadiums NASCAR and other Motorsports used to actually race in would be better suited for the purpose. (Bowman for one, if LA is off the table)
We've done this before i believe, now we just need a race at an airport to check off all the old random places NASCAR has raced at.
Edit: after further review, i think it was a modifed divison, and i was confused with Soldiers Field that NASCAR raced on in the past. But if a modified division can make it work, i think we can!
If Shohei really is the most versatile player ever, he’d jump in a car to race
And win
He’ll make the RFK cars his bitch in the process, too
...and then allow NASCAR to pay him his winnings sometime in 2044.
I don’t think the F in RFK is going to allow a Dodgers play to drive for them though.
That’s why he’ll make the RFK cars his bitch i.e. he’ll bully them the whole race
Got you. Was thinking you meant more along the lines of him using the car to dominate.
https://preview.redd.it/k4zsu766aymc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98d53e40a27592c2003dd4ca8185660cbbeef5f0 He already has???
RFK Shohei isn’t real, he can’t hurt you
See, we joke, but they do need to have something like that Toyota Celebrity race alongside the Clash.
I mean, have you seen the man sing? Apparently is also good at golf and basketball when I've seen tweets about him doing that when he was with the Angels. I really do wonder what this guy *can't* do. (Though thats ignoring that his translator Ippei drives him around everywhere and I can't remember if Shohei had ever gotten his license, so maybe this might be one of the things he can't do. Though I get the feeling if he put his mind to it he probably could, lol).
Would he make the playoffs though
https://preview.redd.it/ifm4167ezwmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5acba8345bfaa51167f12747ad24b52d69cfe064 Okay hear me out... I think we can make this work...
That is my favorite fantasy track from the EA days
Actually based off of the old Concord Speedway ;)
I did not know that, you learn something new everyday
Yup yup, after I found that out, it made me want to really dominate it. If you do a quick google search, you will find that a certain percentage of fantasy tracks in the Thunder games were based off actual tracks.
Bring that speedway back!
Between this one, old spice and saw mill from thunder 04
Old Spice was the weird road course right?
Yes, I think it was loosely based on Riverside. Not 1 to 1, but it's similar.
The high banking on that right hander right past the pit road entrance was always tricky. You could carry a lot more speed through there than you should because you had to get set up for the hairpin left hander. I always though the s/f line should be closer to turn one than it already was.
The hairpin on the opposite side you could always cut seconds off your lap time compared to AI by going under the expected apex of the corner under the white line.
Was a road course based on Riverside in some games but was an oval in some of the other years. Redball was based on Mansfield. The football stadium one was "inspired by" Bowman Gray but obviously much bigger scaling wise and in an NFL style stadium. Now that I think about it I don't remember if that was a stadium created from scratch or something ripped from the Madden/NCAA model library and then modified
Red Ball wasn’t super easy either. The AI just didn’t know what to make of pit road I think. I always assumed they tried to model it after Slinger or something. That’s good to know.
It was a hacked down version of Watkins Glen with different geometry, but yes.
It was literally the Riverside Short Course but different banking/scaling.
If you ever get into iRacing, Concord is still a blast in basically every series and comes free with the subscription. As the person already mentioned, Concord is the basis for this track.
But put it at Levi’s stadium in Santa Clara
Wouldn't fit.
Look up Mooers Field Speedway, Richmond VA. New baseball stadium was built and the old one was converted to a race track.
I'm guessing there's no remains of the track left? Maybe a plaque or something? I'd like to check it out if there is.
Not that I am aware of. Its hard enough to find any information on it. One of those things all the old guys at the local tracks will bring up, but thats about it. Some pictures when you look it up on google.
This track was the a thorn in my back side back then. The Nationwide cars should not have run there. The mods and Trucks were decent though. Edit: this one and the stadium race. The pit road being on the outside really screwed things up for me.
That pit road wreaked havoc on the ai too. Turn cautions off and the race is yours.
I loved that track on that game!
I've seen worse ideas, I'm in.
I used to love racing here in the Busch Series. What was this track based off of again?
“Kyle Larson sliding into home plate while Tyler Reddick is rounding third!”
MAJOR IMPLICATIONS if Reddick scores
TROUBLE ON BASE TWO
Slide job!
Ok I was against the idea of this happening but this play by play sold me on it.
Dodger Dogs vs Martinsville dogs
Came here to say this I’ve had both. Martinsville dogs all day!!!
As a regular at dodger stadium. The quality of dodger dogs has gone down significantly these past couple of seasons after they switched producers.
I would be impressed if NASCAR built a temporary track inside of a baseball stadium...It would open even more possibilities.
Ahh...raceball I'm just imagining officials red flag it for an argument with a crew chief on the start finish line. Just kicking up marbles at each other.
So who will be our Angel Hernandez?
The Committee™️
*Somehow Tommy Lasorda gets thrown out during the race even though he's been dead for 5 years at this point.*
Someone needs to see if Bobby Cox is available
Hire the FIA to run the race.
"RICARDO, BUNCH OF HILLBILLIES ON THE SPLITER! I SEE FUCK ALL!" "Copy that, Lewis. We checking... we checking..."
I know this is a joke, but that reminds me: I’d love to see something similar to the 2011 Bristol Speed Trials again. Maybe even bring in much different series like Indycar, IMSA Sports Cars, maybe even foreign series like V8 Supers and F1! That would be epic, I think.
Would make dales cameo in baseketball even more perfect
Not too much tho. Any race in a baseball stadium would have to be in February or November. There are only a few stadiums that could host in those months and most are in markets that already have a race.
LA, San Diego, Houston (if the open dome isn't a monoxide issue) are the only possibilities I see. Maybe the minor league parks in like a Mobile/New Orleans/Pensacola but even then, those cities have actual race tracks that can attract just as many people (Mobile International Speedway, NOLA Motorsports Park, Five Flags)
Agreed. Much as I'd love a Fenway Park race in central Boston, February Boston weather automatically makes that a non-starter. And there's no way NASCAR can nail down a fall date, just in case we ~~somehow~~ make it back to the World Series.
If we're talking LA and exhibition races, Dodger Stadium, SoFi Stadium and Long Beach road courses are some neat options. NASCAR should buy Irwindale Speedway TBH. That'll help it get saved.
February works. Keep the Clash in LA and just give a points race to AHR in Mexico City.
Pit crews pouring out of pit road to fight opposing pit crews.
Who needs a pit wall? The crews will come out of the dugouts.
Don’t forget the PR team coming from the bullpen and arriving after everything is done.
*Fenway. Fenway.* ***FENWAY. FENWAY.*** >!Watch it get postponed because of... thundersnow. In July, lmao.!<
Imagine the spotters all camped out on top of the monster
The Dodgers' parking lot can fit like 20 Dodgers' stadiums inside of it. They'll do it in the lot.
NASCAR has its issues but a willingness to try new things isn’t one of them. I love them pushing the envelope. This seems cool.
What a wild statement considering that willingness to try new things was their single biggest issue 10 years ago
For real! Love this wild shift the current leadership is doing. *May it never cease!*
I would 1000% fly across the country to see this, I’ve been to almost all of the mlb stadiums at this point and Dodger Stadium ranks near the top for me
Which is exactly why NASCAR wants to do this. Would you do the same if it was hosted at Irwindale?
Considering Irwindale has a capacity of 6,000, I would say anybody who is suggesting it isn’t even worth responding to lol
Exactly. I’m so glad they’re not in control of deciding what goes on the schedule.
Would be a must see event. This is what the sport is going for instead of an established track in that market
https://preview.redd.it/havgkhmd7xmc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8288cd0692551becf62447723cc481a2a1f60e0 My brain didnt read the “R” and thought this became a reality
The best part of this track was the likelihood of goring yourself on the pit entrance by exiting the corner too high
"You said DODGE? I thought you said DODGER?" https://preview.redd.it/s68dtxkq0xmc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=236e9849e6e1a30410bb3bf2555e92dd4734d0ac
Was this the one that had pit lane underneath the stands?
For the last time, Dodge isn’t coming back! /j
This would be absolutely hilarious to see. Also if Ricky Stenhouse doesn't run the Ball Park Franks scheme here, we riot.
Race in the streets of Scranton you cowards
Oakland
> Scranton you cowards *That's what she said.*
Does Goodyear make a racing snow tire?
Eh, they can do it in the summer. I'm more worried about if Goodyear makes a pothole tire
Funny you mention potholes. I was going through some of my old photos the other day and came across this. It was the Pocono Cup race in June 2010. Some asphalt came up at the pit exit. It was a little to the side the direct line drivers normally took, and they did put some asphalt in to patch it. In the finest tradition of PennDOT, they put some cones around it so drivers wouldn't hit the hole so they could continue the race while the patch material cured. https://preview.redd.it/3kfdvdupqxmc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=512ca7e9e1344af2070d8c6c234b70dd41934544
Yeah that just screams Pennsylvania. By me there was a massive pothole in the middle of a pretty major road. Their solution? Fill it with so much asphalt that it basically became a ramp. I guess convex is better than concave.
It actually is because the edges of a pothole are usually vertical, not convex, concave is at least rounded
Get out of here with your science
Gary , Indiana 500 or we riot.
Motor City 500. Going 6 wide down Woodward Ave
Anchorage Alaska 250
The electric city!
From the Tricky Triangle to the Tiny Triangle
In true Dodger fashion, someone will lead almost the entire race then choke it away in the final laps.
But then they’ll win a rain shortened race one year. /s (Dodger fan, but I couldn’t resist)
nah the bullpen hasn't been THAT awful. What's more likely is it will be a dominant regular season and get scorched by a silly high variance playoff format.
So, denny?
Will the Dodgers offer be in deferred payments?
Interesting.. so 16th Street Speedway, but in LA..?
The same place came to my mind
As a former grounds crew intern, I would love to be a fly on the wall when they tell the director of sports turf they’re laying asphalt on his infield
Plenty of stadiums handle dirt events and switching back to grass just fine.
You’re not wrong, but it’s also not a fun task and if you can avoid it, you avoid it. That being said, I’d be all for watching a race in Dodger Stadium, lol.
it's like Dodge Raceway Stadium from the EA games came to life, just with a hard R lmao
Larson is sweating bullets as we speak.
hey alexa, play "sweating bullets" by megadeth
Paint bases on the asphalt to make sure the cars touch them all every time they complete a lap, and penalize anyone who misses one.
Put it at Tropicana Field you cowards
Free tickets* to anyone who's willing attend dressed in Giants attire. *Not legally binding. I will not be giving anyone tickets.
If Dodge doesn't take the opportunity to make a comeback at Dodger Stadium, I'll be let down.
https://preview.redd.it/xwg317ilpymc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b261fbad9fc39d6d8e74af830a84b736593cfd94 They also know how to throw a party for the last 150 years.
I really want to see what layout they would have there.
[Could look like this](https://youtu.be/TktjNyou3RE?feature=shared). CASCAR, Vintage Modifieds and TQ Midgets raced at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto in the early 90’s. The track had one corner with a tighter radius than the other. This was an attempt to bring racing back to to Exhibition Stadium after the very successful track there in the 50’s and 60’s had closed down. In fact, that track was where Richard Petty made his first Grand National start.
They wanna race everywhere in Southern California except the actual racetrack that was in Southern California.
They're learning the same lessons that F1 and Indycar have. It's a lot easier to go to the people than make the people come to you.
You know what, I’m down. The seating would give amazing views of the whole track
Yankee Stadium next
Fuck that, run 'em at Fenway. If nothing else, the memes will be ***glorious.***
Tilt the green monster a bit to create banking. Have em racing on the monster.
Better start leaving now to beat the traffic
Dumb question, how big are the tunnels? A street course that goes through and has the start/finish line inside a stadium would be sick.
Just build the damn track. Jesus.
Why?
Ratings and money. That’s why. NASCAR knows people will buy tickets to see this and watch on it on tv. Sports in general are gravitating towards tv ratings and money. That’s the world we’re in now.
CAN WE RACE ON A REAL TRACK PLEASE????
This would be in addition to Formula E who are in long term discussions to have a race at Dodger Stadium.
Lets just use the race tracks that are already built 🤷♂️
Just give us the Autoclub short track, lil bro. Doing way to much to impress some mid hoes.
Just stop doing this. Take a race to a god damn race track. How about Laguna Seca? Or any other race track out there dying to hold a race.
Aside from the fact that Laguna Seca isn't really a good stock car track, and having both Laguna Seca and Sonoma would be a questionable business decision, what good does Laguna Seca (over 300 miles from Los Angeles) do for the Southern California market? At that point, you might as well call Phoenix a Southern California race, it's about as close to LA as Laguna Seca is. (Edit: Hell, Las Vegas is actually closer to downtown LA than Laguna Seca - Laguna Seca is 312 miles away, Las Vegas is 282 miles.) What other racetrack in Southern California is anywhere fucking close to being Cup-ready?
A 3 turn race track?
I have this hilarious and very original idea for what we could paint on the wall on the exit of the final turn
Pocono aka “the Tricky Triangle” has three turns. As long as all the turns equal up or out to 360 degrees it doesn’t matter.
The Short Pond Straight.
I just don't see the appeal of these.
OK um this would be kind of awesome. I would fly out for this
Fans: man it'd be cool if Dodge came back. NASCAR: DODGE........RS? DODGER STADIUM? YOU GOT IT!
This is a fun idea and all, but please just build a proper long-term track if you plan on doing point-paying races there.
I feel like doing a street course for The Clash in LA would be a better idea until Auto Club becomes a short track (? on where exactly though). NASCAR's short track package is also still questionable on performance, & no one asked for Chicago but we got it & it worked for the time being.
You could probably build a nice short road course in the Dodger Stadium Parking lot.
Anyone who just says "why don't we just go to a local short track" is a moron that doesn't even understand what NASCAR is trying to do. I would implore you all to Google the meaning of "brand recognition" and how to build it.
Literally. People don’t know how basic business works. Do something original that attracts people. This right here is the definition of original. Nobody else but NASCAR has thought about racing inside baseball stadium.
Would the track be the same size, smaller or bigger?
Probably bigger. Baseball fields are bigger than football fields
Well, Marlins Park did host the race of champions, so a race at Dodger Stadium isn't a farfetched idea.
FTD but cool idea
Kyle Field
...We running baseball stadiums now? I mean, I've always ***wanted*** them to come to Fenway, but my understanding was that it'd be too much of a shit show for them to even try. I respect the will to mix thinks up, at least.
It’s Mcormick field again but with Ohtani banners
Diamond track ? Noice
Race on the warning track all the way around the diamond while the baseball game is still playing. If outfielders get run over by a car then so be it.
How much more narrow is that curve around home plate compared to the coliseum? Im assuming it would be an egg-shaped track
Replace one of the Vegas races with a race in the Sphere you cowards!
Formula E is trying to race there too. Would be unlikely but very funny if they could somehow coexist.
They could even realistically do a race on the ring in the parking lot around the stadium. Certainly wouldn’t be as cool but from what I can tell on google maps, it’s a near perfect oval with plenty of room for temporary seating and exhibition space.
NASCAR won't be alive again until we race on the Autobahn
Have fun with the traffic haha
dodger stadium is even smaller than the coliseum for those wondering, baseball has been played inside the coliseum before, and i’m not sure that I like NASCAR going the monster jam route, and with that being said Angel Stadium is better than Dodger Stadium.
Dodgers fans will get to the stadium by the end of stage 1 and leave halfway through the final stage.
If only they still had Auto Club
McCormick field throwback
Big fan of this idea. Just like I was of the LA Coliseum Clash. A "stadium series" of events for NASCAR does nothing to hurt it, but only grow the fanbase.
LA resident here. wish they'd take the couple mil theyve been spending at the colosseum and would spend at a baseball park and put it into Irwindale. we'd have a home for Cup in socal while building auto club 2.0, and when that track is done we'd have a better weekly track to grow the racing fanbase here beyond just the Cup series
Love it, please make it happen.
Evernham to Dodgers confirmed.
Race in Busch Stadium?
I didn’t register the D and was hyped that Dodge was in the conversation again
Just quit with these bullshit gimmicks and go to real racetracks…..
RIPfontana
I dont understand the appeal to racing these cars on the smallest tracks possible. The Clash is an awful race.
Agree. "We're trying to attract new fans to the sport!" By drawing them to an inferior racing product.
For crying out loud, they'll soon be in talks to put a track inside the Staples Center(not calling it the crypto arena or whatever it is)
Can we please just stop with this nonsense
Okay so hear me out. Knock down the walls for the bullpens and you can have the track go straight down the foul lines but then out into the parking lot.
As someone who's been going to Fontana since 2011 and refused to go to the Coliseum, I would 100% go to a race at Dodger Stadium. I hope this happens!
Why?
Why not some other wild LA street circuits: - [Downtown LA Figure 8](https://imgur.com/iETmlBq) - [Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills](https://imgur.com/CwL81Vr) But yes Irwindale is a nice actual track alternative nearby.
Now I definitely wish they would have left Auto Club alone.
Just stop doing this. Take a race to a god damn race track. How about Laguna Seca? Or any other race track out there dying to hold a race.
We had a great track there, buuuuuuuuut…….
Dodger Raceway Stadium lfg!
I’m divided. On the one hand, it would be pretty cool to see it happen in the modern day. I live in Indianapolis and when our baseball team moved to their new stadium, Victory Field, the old one, Bush Stadium, was converted into a dirt track for a few years known as 16th Street Speedway. So it’d be interesting to see it at an MLB park. But on the other hand… imagine if Vin Scully was still alive and would call this race. That would’ve been EPIC! But sadly, it’s not possible anymore.
I mean. The parking lot is huge like ridiculously huge. They could easily make a street course. Idk how an oval or triangle would work however
Well, the KC royals will be moving stadiums in the coming years, I think this coming season is their last in the current stadium. Kauffman is one of the largest baseball stadiums in terms of play area. Could make for an interesting short road course. Imagine filling the stands of a baseball stadium for a NASCAR race. We already got similar with the LA colosseum but that was a tiny oval.
We have a vote on the downtown stadium next month, if it passes we are in Kauffman through 2027. If it fails they are in the K maybe another year after that before they move to their new KCK stadium or Nashville stadium
What if they went rally cross style and did part of the course inside the stadium and the other part outside in the parking lot? Idk if that’s possible on this dodger stadium but that would be something to look into instead of making another Tiny bullring inside a baseball stadium
Ok but can we go to Wrigley Field too?
California hates Nascar. Doesn’t matter how much money you throw at it will never catch on.
Please no. What’s wrong with racetracks that exist.
Baseball stadiums have been turned into race tracks before. Grimes Stadium in Fredericksburg, PA became Fredericksburg Speedway in 1965 and ran until 1976. I know my dad went to a lot of races there and I've heard of cars crashing into the dugouts. The baseball diamond dimensions were kept and it created some pinch points with the turns.
LA was the only stadium with the size for it, big enough for a racetrack. Modern stadiums are so much smaller and wouldn't put in a great race due to the microscopic sizes. Something older like the stadiums NASCAR and other Motorsports used to actually race in would be better suited for the purpose. (Bowman for one, if LA is off the table)
NASCAR jumped the shark
We've done this before i believe, now we just need a race at an airport to check off all the old random places NASCAR has raced at. Edit: after further review, i think it was a modifed divison, and i was confused with Soldiers Field that NASCAR raced on in the past. But if a modified division can make it work, i think we can!
we all know that the next stadium they should race at is Dodge Raceway Stadium
How big would the track be?
Sounds rediculous imo. Just another gimmick race. Just build an actual track in LA if they are so adamant on going there.