Resurrection of the Brickyard 400? 

I just want the fans to actually show up after begging for it so much

One thing that didn't help the Brickyard's image was when it replaced Daytona as the 4th of July race, which was considered an arguably *greater* staple of the NASCAR schedule. To many it was an obvious desperation move for ratings.

I personally hope that the Brickyard 400 returns next year!

While the crowd reaction during Casey Mears qualifying run in 2004 was special, specifically with Turner Sports highlighting the significance with the voice of the late Tom Carnegie, both Darrell Waltrip's and Brett Bodine's qualifying runs in the first and second rounds leading up to the 2000 Brickyard 400, specifically DW's, will go down as one of the 10 Best Stock Car Racing Moments at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

As an Indiana Hoosier, I actually felt a little betrayed by NASCAR when the road course replaced the oval. The Indy oval is an extremely sacred tradition for my state, whether it be the Indy 500, or the Brickyard 400. These races are crown jewel events that not only brought good attention to their respective sports, but much needed tourism and revenue to our state as a whole. Not to mention, the racing, let alone the personalities of the drivers, are what keep us coming back, knowing that our favorite drivers are going to put on their best performances for us. On sacred ground that has weathered 2 world wars, and has hosted some of the greatest moments for IndyCar, NASCAR, F1, and Motocross… you don’t mess with tradition. You don’t replace the century old oval with a road course that has wrecked an entire nascar field due to poor rumble strips, and that has been the sight of a ridiculous F1 tire war badly handled by the FIA that caused a riot so bad that the state police had to intervene. Bring back the Brickyard 400, and so that the events that led to the decline of the Brickyard won’t happen again, simply have Goodyear or another tire company build tires that can handle the track surface.

Pocono is the closest comparison to Indy and the Next Gen car has put on good racing for the past two years. Give the Next Gen car a chance to prove its worth

A split weekend with Saturday on the Road Course, Sunday on the Oval. The Xfinity return to IRP.

We need that oval back. The road course can stay in the double header with IndyCar like NBC has been promoting

I went to the Brickyard 400 in 1996, 1999, and 2001, and it was an amazing event and was people everywhere for all days. Miss those days.

The 2020 Brickyard 400 was an absolute classic. You had the top 2 guys for the season, Hamlin and Harvick, dual for the finish, but with a few laps to go, Hamlin hit the wall. While it did see an infamous late race caution, it was a good race nonetheless. Indianapolis is not an easy track despite its simple layout. Out of the 15 unique winners of the Brickyard 400, 10 of them went on to win at least one championship, and those 5 drivers that didn't win a championship beat the best on that day. I know Paul Menard had to fend off Jeff Gordon in 2011 to win that race. If Busch and Truex didn't take each other out, Kasey Kahne probably wouldn't have won in 2017. I don't get why NASCAR thought it would be a great idea to replace the oval with the road course. The freaking track attacked the drivers like it was Mario Kart when the freaking curb exploded or whatever. That right there should have been an omen to go back.

Brickyard 400 was great, but the 200-mile race on road course is also good. But if Nascar decides to return to using oval, It would be nice to see IndyCars still having a race at road course on same weekend (like it has been since 2020). I hope they don't break up the Nascar/IndyCar double-header weekend.

Another event that needs to return to Indy in addition to the Brickyard 400 is the US GP for F1. Apart from the 2005 debacle with Michelin & the fallout because of that (which was an absolute PR nightmare for F1 in this country) it was a well attended & liked event on the schedule with many of the teams & manufacturers viewing it as an important event to impress consumers in the biggest automotive market in the world. While COTA, the Vegas Strip & Miami are super modern in terms of their ability to host F1, they have none of the tradition & history that Indy has & it is very important that F1 races there again, especially if they want to be considered a major series in this country.

Fun fact... From 1998-2001... The winner of the brickyard 400 would also be champion😎

I think it should come back if it races like Pocono. If it doesn’t, stick with the road course or go to IRP.

With some radical changes, yes. I would double the points haul because of its status. Or, maybe even say no stage breaks at the crown jewel races (Indy, Daytona, Charlotte, Darlington, Talladega).

Im watching this while waiting for Moobs to restart his stream...

NASCAR announced that they are returning to the oval course next year! I am definitely getting pumped to see how the race will be!

what if we make the brickyard a right turned oval? would be an interesting sight to see at indy, or any oval for that matter..

After seeing the entry list for this weekend I genuinely hope the oval doesn't come back. We never get this many new faces in the sport at ovals and quite frankly this is good for the growth of the sport. When I saw Denny Hamlin absolutely cream the wall in 2020 while leading I knew that I had seen the death of that event. And hell, if AJ's win in 2021 never happened we might not be seeing some of these part timers come in and try their hand at the road courses

uhhh I don't remember asking for the brickyard 400 to go away, absolutely hate the rc for stock cars, (and Charlotte's roval, but thats a comment for another time) anyway, hope the oval does come back

Before they totally scrap the current road course layout, I think they should try the road course in reverse. It would eliminate the sharp 90 degree turn at the end of the straight. It would flow much better and even make for drag races off the last corner to the line! It would also get rid of that pesky curb hop situation we always have on the chicane. Example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NyCNhONDlhY.htmlsi=mg3YV9J29P79DR9f

Get rid of Indy, go to either Iowa Speedway or add a second Cup date at WWT Raceway outside of St Louis

I really like some of David Land's ideas.

Going back in stock car history, heat racing might be a good solution. We simply divide the 400 miles like this: Heat 1 (30 laps = 75 miles) Heat 2 (30 laps = 75 miles) Main race (100 laps = 250 miles) Instead of qualifying according to normal rules, just do 2 heat races on Saturday. The starting grid is simply based on championship points or metric system, heat 1 = odd ranks, heat 2 = even ranks. There are stage points for heat 1 and heat 2 and playoff points for the respective winners. The 15 best drivers from both races qualify for the main race, the others all receive 2 championship points as DNQ/DNS and don't start at Sunday. The main race is run completely without stages. A rule carried over from Allstar race: only green laps count, cautions do not count towards heat or main race distance.

They better have a test for tire compounds before they do want to go back to the oval. If the tires are a bust the race is a bust

The Super Monaco GP menu music hits hard

The oval is definitely more prestigious and in my opinion more prestigious then Daytona and Darlington. I don't mind the road course and honestly think they should keep it on the schedule running the same weekend as Indycar, but the oval definitely needs to come back. I'm not sure whose brilliant idea it was to get rid of it in the first place, they and those who were begging for it to go away should honestly have their heads examined.

Simple answer, have both.

I have a very radical opinion about Indianapolis and the Nascar calendar. I believe it is possible to do 2 races in the same year and calendar in the Cup Series at least, maybe putting the Brickyard 400 on a special and prestigious date, maybe putting this race a week before the Indy 500, and then, a playoff race in the road course, or even the opposite, but I think that Indianapolis can indeed bring good races regardless of the type of layout.

Here's my Soiution to solve the NASCAR at Indy Dilemma, and I say keep the Indy Road Course and the Indy Oval and add in IRP as well, but this is what I would do: Indy Speedweeks, 3 Weeks of Action at Indianapolis held from the Last Saturday of April until Mother's Day Saturday: • Last Saturday of April - IRP (300 Laps, 8 pm ET) • 1st Saturday of May - Indy Road Course (72 Laps, 11 am ET) (Run it Backwards and use the Old F1 Layout, for both IndyCar and NASCAR) • Mother's Day Saturday - Brickyard 400 (11 am ET)

Love the Super Monaco GP Music.

The Bristol night race to me should be considered a crown jewel

I’ve gone to Indy the past few years. The oval would give me a reason to keep going instead of driving to another track. But mostly it could be great because of the car. It’s why I want the Roval gone. Charlotte oval is such a banger now, that the roval isn’t needed anymore.

I would be happy for the Indy oval to come back, but I’m grateful we got the road course. It has provided several years of fun racing after a boring ten years, helped usher in a new era of road course racing, got the Dinger back to Cup Victory Lane, and reminded fans of the importance of the oval. Whatever happens, I’m grateful that NASCAR gets to race at Indy at all and I get to see it. There are a lot of entitled fans that have no scope of the quality of racing we have enjoyed the last few seasons.

Bring it back! Adopt the Daytona 500 qualifying format. Drop the stage cautions. And for gods sake make sure the race is marketed as the "Brickyard 400" and not some nonsense like the "Allstate 400 powered by blah blah at the Brickyard".

The first race I ever saw was the Indy road course 2021 and I thought it was pretty cool But I also want to see the oval

And eliminate the stages and bring back strategy, why doesn't nascar do that to all races? I'm fine w points for stages if they do it w/o waving the caution flag for all races!

They should do what they do for road courses, and make it so the stages don't make a caution, AND they should make it so that no charter spots are guaranteed. TBH, I think they should do that for all 4 crown jewel races. They should so away with stage cautions on all tracks over 2 miles, anyway, so that Michigan, Daytona, Pocono, and Indy always race like that, in addition to the road courses. I would say California, too, but they're turning that into a short track, so... Michigan and California are basically clones of one another, anyway.

I just hope the Tire test goes well after this weekend, because I do not want another 2008 or 2020 Brickyard 400 situation when multiple tire issues happened. If that's not the solution, then just axe Indianapolis altogether, and either go to IRP, or somewhere else

I’m confident the tire test will go well at the Indy ov… Rectangle

What we've once again learned is that "NASCAR fans" aren't a monolithic entity who all want the same thing. With that said, I'm partial to the road course, but I understand that it'd need significant modification to make it not a wreck-fest. I'm hoping that if we get a race at the brickyard that it produces good racing and a fun time! Though I'm also happy with having it be NASCAR's Monaco GP too.

LG❕ Of course We want The Bricks 🧱🧱

Not really related but can we get a Daytona Road Course night race?

I'd suggest both stay on the schedule. And put it at the spot of Pocono, which I want pushed into the play-offs.

I traveled 7+ hours for this to be my first ever nascar race in 2008 and I almost passed out of boredom and constant cautions. Will try this race one more time considering I live near by the track now and it being over 15 years. Dirty air & next gen car though has me worried though with it being a single lane track. tire test better go well or corrected or I’m gonna be pissed if I happen to attend two of the worst modern day nascar races in scorching hot summer weather.

Again, you know it's really weird or really bad when Mike Helton shows up mid-race in the booth. Also, I cannot keep a straight face anytime I hear Dale call the curb big one.🤣🤣🤣

You keep road course and oval or you rotate every year too make it more special for each

That 08 race was a travesty. Just learned from Jr that the drivers chose that tire at a test earlier in the year over a harder, more durable compound. Crazy how you can take something away from NSACR fans and after a few years we’re clamoring for it back. Don’t think Texas will be the same, everyone wants that dumpster fire of a track off the schedule.

I'd be up for getting rid of stage racing at ALL of the tracks, not just the Brickyard!

You want to know what the next generation looks like on the indy oval? Just like Pocono

The Brickyard died in 2008. After that you couldn’t revive it. It was done.

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Put goodyear in a room and tell them "if you can't make a tire that works here, someone else is getting a chance to." - I like the Indy road course better for the stock cars but I'm fine if that makes me the odd man out.

The drivers would hate it.. but what produces the best racing at indy is underpowered slippery tire cars like indy lights. If NASCAR would plate them and remove a lot of downforce for a indy specific setup they would run good

One thing above all things is that if we go back to the oval Goodyear HAS to get the tyre right. Even the last Brickyard 400 to date was plagued venomously by tyre failures, including Denny Hamlin who had the dominant car all day. It can't happen again. Or else we may end up seeing Cup at IRP. 😂😂

Adding some unique rules to all the "crown jewels" not just Indy would be a great idea. No guaranteed start for charters no stages are both great ideas. Maybe 3 wide restarts? Not the initial start that would be just a copy of Indycar but on restarts why the heck not? Its better than inverting the field at least LOL. I went to the 400 in 97 and it really didnt do much for me but it was neat to see and be at IMS. I think the goings on at the road course have been all good exciting things if I am being honest. The curb coming up was spectacular if it had happened a second time in two races that would be awful but those once in a lifetime happenings shouldn't be hated now if a driver would have been hurt or worse yeah that would make the outlook different but the same can be said for any time someone attempts murder by intentionally wrecking another driver.

Ok. Bring Back The Brickyard 400. But Like I Said... There's Too Many Road Courses. Especially, Having Both The Charlotte Roval, And The Indianapolis Road Course, And That's Why. Except Circut Of The Americas, Sonoma Raceway, And Watkins Glen International.

Make just like Indy, no gaurunteed starting position, 3 wide start, no stages, on labor day weekend (Indy is on memorial day), then take the practice and qualifying formats from Indy and make it a weekend ordeal, just Indy Indy Indy all over everything

Yes the indy 400 needs to come.back

It would be cool of they could run both, but I don't think the packed schedule would allow for it.

Marty Robbins

Night race

honestly, keeping both would be amazing. The racing at the RC is always exciting plus having indy oval back on the calander just means we get another staple to add to the sport.

If the racing is a disaster like 2008, then what? Back to the road course? IRP? or give up on the Indy area in general?

The track suited the stock cars before they added the grass and took away the flat in the turn. The indy cars were getting to fast, so they added the grass to tighten the corners and slow them down. Ruined the stock cars before they had a chance so to speak. They would've had two lanes with the grass gone. They don't with the grass.

Make the cars faster for this event

They should do 2 years road course. 2 years oval. Flip flop

I would like to see the brickyard come back but are the people going to come back to watch or is it going to be 2019 all over again also never know what the ontrack product is going to be

It’s just best if you don’t put it back on, the RC is just better

I miss the oval for the brickyard

i think it should come back

Well it not to far from where I live only several hours I hope I can go to a non road course chaos at the brickyard

The 400 has almost always been boring! The road course is far more exciting!

Keep It Dead and Go Race At IRP

Crazy idea, scrap Texas and move the Brickyard 400 to that date. However we also continue to run the Indycar/Nascar weekend at the Indy Road Course. It’d likely be a little more difficult than that, but that way damn near everyone wins including NASCAR.

The brickyard road course is easily the worst track on the current schedule

2008 was a black mark on the race’s record. I was there that day, but I continued going through 2017. The aero war of Gen 6 and what those cars required in terms of clean air is what killed the 400. The move to the road course in my eye was just NASCAR throwing something at the wall to see what stuck. With Gen 6 that was obviously a bad idea due to the same issues; Gen 6 and what it required to handle properly. But there’s another piece to this. The driving standards. The driving standards have become trash in NASCAR. And while I personally blame stage racing for it, that subject is open for debate. But it cannot be refuted how garbage driving standards have become in recent years. Be it lack of respect, incompetence, or outright malice. Maybe some fans get a kick out of the wreck fest that a lot of late Gen 6 and early Gen 7 races devolved into. But it hasn’t helped the racing what so ever. This year however? Indy put out a banger. There was strategy plays all through the field, excellent battles, and only a sprinkling of bad driving here and there. The race was allowed to progress and evolve naturally from beginning to end with no stoppages to drum up more excitement. It was how racing was during NASCAR’s golden era. All the road courses this far have been this way (Chicago is an outlier to this due to it being brand new to the series). I’m not against going back on the oval. When Gen 7 first ran I advocated for just one race on the oval to see how it would do. And given NASCAR and Goodyear are testing tires the next couple of days all but confirms they intend to rerun the oval. And it’s a good idea since Gen 7 has done exactly what it was supposed to do and make the racing better specifically for non short track and super speedway ovals.

If I owned Nascar I would definitely bring it back! Actually there would only be 2 road courses if I own it (Watkins glen and Sonoma). I’m not a fan of road course races in general tbh. Maybe because I suck ass at them on video games lol

My bro saw the david land video !!🤲🤲

I just hope the Brickyard gives us a good race like it used to.

How about we do a doubleheader, first on the oval, and then on the course, with the trucks on both weekends doing IRP.

Welp...

How bout turn right at indy instead of left.

If they took the grooves out of the track surface it wouldn't shred tires. Remember what it did to the Michelin tire in F1 and those cars weigh 1400 lbs.

why cant nascar take a richmond race out and replace it with 2 Indy dates, one being the RC and one being the Oval???? Richmond imo is way worse than a lot of tracks and a date needs to be removed from it.

Reject IMS. Go to IRP.

Oval is better road course is just a gimmick

The road course isn't bad but when I see Indy, I expect the oval

Who the hell was on that call at 1:45? Sounds boring and downright drunk

I think it's the combination of the gen 7 car racing insanely good on intermediate tracks and the last 2 years being a shit show. It's clear the fans will show up again for it's return.

They need to bring back the 400. Indy should have two races, one oval and one road and everyone wins.

They should do both road course and Indy 400

O'Reilly Raceway Park has better races

The brickyard 400 sucks! It's strung out boring races. How fast people forget 😕

NASCAR this needs to stop this nonsense. Let's this jump to the end where it's a international road course league with a few ovals thrown in for nostalgia. Gonna be wild when they, banned a driver for liking a racist meme, find out the international world's view on race!

Why not have another double header? One weekend they do the road course and then next week they race on the speedway. And then Indycar can still do their race on a Saturday.

I think nascar should just leave and go race at IRP instead

TBH The Brickyard 400 should have never left the schedule Even though the event was a shadow of its former self

Leave Indy and head to IRP

INDYCAR Nascar double header With the brickyard 400 back