{"id":135445,"date":"2025-08-10T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135445\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:41:08","slug":"nascar-insider-calls-for-fewer-road-courses-after-horrible-race-at-watkins-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135445\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insider calls for fewer road courses after ‘horrible’ race at Watkins Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday\u2019s NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International was the Shane van Gisbergen<\/strong> show, as the Trackhouse Racing driver dominated the field<\/a> en route to picking up his fourth win of the season. Van Gisbergen\u2019s dominance aside, Jeff Gluck<\/strong> of The Athletic did not have a favorable opinion of the race. <\/p>\n

Speaking on \u201cThe Teardown<\/a>\u201d podcast after the race, Gluck called it the \u201cworst race I\u2019ve seen.\u201d Gluck called for fewer road courses on the schedule as a result of what he watched over the course of two hours and change at Watkins Glen. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the moment right now, I want fewer road courses,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cIn fact, I\u2019m revising my previous of \u2018Hey, maybe only three or four a year is fine.\u2019 I mean, I\u2019m almost let\u2019s get back to one or two at this point, and I don\u2019t know what you cut, but this is horrible. SVG aside, this just was not any sort of a good race today. In my mind, this is the worst race I\u2019ve seen. I don\u2019t see any redeeming qualities in this race. This was a really bad stinker. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anything would have changed it \u2014 maybe you take SVG, and the field is so much closer, and it would have been competitive, and Christopher Bell<\/strong> passed Chris Buescher<\/strong> on the last lap, blah, blah, blah. SVG is in the race, the Next Gen car is the car they\u2019re racing, they do have stage breaks, so would that have changed some strategy? Probably not, there\u2019s probably nothing you can do to thwart SVG. So, I don\u2019t know what you do, but let\u2019s face it \u2014 he\u2019s [van Gisbergen] is stinking up the show and the races with the Next Gen car on road courses aren\u2019t good anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASCAR insider goes off on current road course product<\/p>\n

Sunday at Watkins Glen didn\u2019t provide many fireworks the same way last year\u2019s race did when Buescher made a last lap pass on van Gisbergen. The New Zealand native made easy work of his competition, beating Bell to the start-finish line by 11.116 seconds. <\/p>\n

Van Gisbergen\u2019s road course supremacy has been a constant this season, as he\u2019s won four of the five this season with still one to go. Next season, we know there will be one less road course on the schedule with Mexico City and Chicago off, and San Diego in. Five road course races is still about two to three too many for Gluck. <\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any argument to keep this current number of six per year. This is not good,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cThis race was two hours and 10 minutes or something crazy like that\u2026 when you get to a two-hour race and you\u2019re just like, \u2018I can\u2019t wait for this to end, no more please, we\u2019ve seen enough,\u2019 that\u2019s not good. The NASCAR road course product right now is really, really hurting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International was the Shane van Gisbergen show, as the Trackhouse…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-135445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115006884015463436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}