NASCAR Driver Kyle Busch Calls For Major Playoff Change

It's an interesting idea, but NASCAR has made it clear that they want Championship venues that are less likely to be subject to bad weather since the season ends in November.

“Weather is a big part of it,” NASCAR executive vice president Ben Kennedy said recently, via On3. “Being in early November, we want to make sure we’re in a warm-weather climate and that it’s an atmosphere that a lot of our fans can come out and enjoy and not get the risk of a snowstorm or anything.

“We want to make sure that we’re in a big market, a large metro [area] that can really embrace us. We want to make sure it’s marketed and promoted the right way, that it feels like a world-class championship facility. And Phoenix was that for a number of years. We’re going to be putting some capital into Homestead-Miami as well.”

Kennedy has also stated that a Championship venue needs to produce "traditional NASCAR racing," a trait which pretty much rules out superspeedways like Daytona in particular.

“Never say never, but I think we’ve unanimously agreed that it needs to look and feel like what we would expect traditional NASCAR racing to look and feel like,” Kennedy said. “Short tracks, intermediate tracks, mile tracks are all on the board. Superspeedways, I think we all feel like right now we wouldn’t consider that as a championship venue, not that Daytona isn’t a championship caliber venue.”

Kennedy said that we should "never say never," but it's hard to imagine NASCAR overcoming a stance like that anytime soon.

Sorry, Dayonta fans.