{"id":72885,"date":"2025-07-18T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72885\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:42:08","slug":"roofs-on-nascar-tracks-bristol-could-be-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72885\/","title":{"rendered":"Roofs On NASCAR Tracks? Bristol Could Be First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all in on roofing NASCAR tracks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>July 18, 2025 9:57 AM EDT\u2022<strong>Updated<\/strong>July 18, 2025 9:57 AM EDT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fb\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"tw\">Twitter<\/li>\n<li class=\"email\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"link\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Some folks may call me a Lib, but I don&#8217;t care. I&#8217;m all in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/nascar-cup-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR <\/a>putting retractable roofs on every single track.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Well, OK. Not every single track. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s feasible at places like Daytona or Talladega. But at Bristol Motor Speedway? The Last Great Colosseum? Oh, hell yes. Let&#8217;s make it happen!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">And, wouldn&#8217;t you know it \u2026 Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith told NASCAR on Fox&#8217;s Kevin Harvick this week that not only is putting a roof on Bristol a dream of his, but it&#8217;s absolutely &#8220;doable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Dream big!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get this done, NASCAR<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;The dream, I think the thing that would be awesome to do, and we could do it, is to put a roof on Bristol one day. Would love that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Yeah. And I mean, then the things you could do there, it would be, you know, we\u2019ve got a baseball game coming up next month in Bristol. We\u2019ve got we\u2019ve, we\u2019ve done a football game. You know, we could do WrestleMania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">You could have, you know, who knows what, the biggest UFC fight in the world. Yeah, a roof on Bristol would be a big dream. That\u2019d be pretty wild. It\u2019s doable. It\u2019d be loud. We can hang the biggest TV in the world over the top of Bristol. We can put a roof on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Amen, Marcus. Let&#8217;s get to work!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Again, I&#8217;ve long vouched for something like this in NASCAR. It seems so outlandish that nobody really broaches the topic, but it sounds possible at certain tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Bristol. Martinsville. Darlington (although I wouldn&#8217;t touch that one). Richmond. The short tracks could 100% be fitted with a retractable roof. And those, by the way, are the ones that could use it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">All of those places are in cold-weather areas, which means spring races there usually get a ton of rain\/snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Throw a retractable roof on there and BAM \u2013 let&#8217;s go racing, boys!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Obviously, it would have to be retractable because of, I assume, the whole carbon monoxide thing. Right? The same reason you shouldn&#8217;t close that pesky garage door when the car&#8217;s on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Now, NASCAR has also floated the idea of really killing their fanbase and going completely electric down the road, so perhaps it doesn&#8217;t have to be retractable? Who knows?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Regardless, I&#8217;d love Marcus Smith to put his nuts on the table and go for it here. Why not? You ain&#8217;t hurting the integrity of the track. You&#8217;re gonna ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/sports\/nascar-racing-gives-towns-like-bristol-tennessee-economic-boost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help the local economy.<\/a> You&#8217;d eliminate potential weather delays, which, in turn, may even mean you get NASCAR&#8217;s championship race down the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Hell, you may even be able to throw your hat in the ring for a Super Bowl at some point. You don&#8217;t think greedy Roger Goodell wouldn&#8217;t entertain the idea? Of course he would. You can jam over 140,000 people in that place. It would be amazing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Sure, it would probably cost taxpayers billions of dollars, but whatever! You only live once.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Let&#8217;s get a roof on Bristol and start cracking some skulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m all in on roofing NASCAR tracks. 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