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There actually is another stadium in Montana. And my personal choice for Big Sky Country would be that-Bobcat Stadium @ MSU Boseman. It's just over 20,000 seats, is more open air, has better scenery & I'm thinking of attending there online. It's actually a rival of UM Missoula @ 12:46.
Another thing to consider would be ventilation. with some of the domes I don't think there is enough ventilation for 20+ stock cars and you'd just give a bunch of people carbon monoxide poisoning.
Kenny Wallace once tweeted about racing at the old Rams stadium. It was pointed out they have plenty of ventilation to remove carbon monoxide for a race, and there have been some races there before.
@@randomcub922 Monster trucks only have about 3 vehicles running at the same time. plus they take a couple of minutes in between to prepare the grounds for the next truck. There is time for the carbon monoxide to clear unlike actual racing which sees cars running continuously for 4 hours.
I said this on the video's last upload, so I hope you don't mind if I say it again: For such a quintessentially American sport as NASCAR, who would've thought that Richard Petty (a man so successful that he was dubbed the King of said sport) started his first Cup race in *Canada,* of all places? A country which, fittingly enough, had an _actual_ king only six years before.
There's only one solution, Richard Petty needs to claim the Canadian crown when Lizzie kicks it. I mean, based on previous examples King Richards go over better than King Charleses. Read how the first King Charles was dealt with.
5:55 Jake basically saying that water is wet, by saying the Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a work of architecture. Every building is a work of architecture, even public shithouses. He propably meant to say that it was an architectural work of art, but what he says made me laugh anyway lmao
@@UnHappyHarvick I think it was a real track they based it on. Most of the EA fantasy tracks were either exact copies of tracks that no longer operated (example: Nazareth) or they took a layout from a track and created a new environment (example: Old Spice is a layout from Riverside International Speedway). If there isn’t a different stadium then I think I’m getting confused with Bowman Grey
For the reason why South Bend is named as such from a native Hoosier, it’s located on the southern bend of the St. Joseph River before it turns West towards Lake Michigan.
TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville would be a better venue I think for a stadium race in FL. Its about 90 min south of Daytona and back in the 50's Jacksonville used to host NASCAR Races. The Stadium can hold nearly 70k fans and is right off of two major Highways with downtown infrastructure to host all those fans. So it would be easy to get to for both teams and fans alike. (In the weeks leading up to the 3 FL races the NASCAR haulers can be seen driving along the highways there.)
Fun Fact: Memorial Stadium in Nebraska's capacity of 87,000 means when it's sold out, it becomes Nebraska's third largest city. And it's sold out every game since 1962. Oh Nebraska, never change.
14:00 the multiple towns between MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford and Red Bull Arena in Harrison would like a word about this parking lot you’re talking about…though in fairness it’s also a lot of wetlands in between so I guess some egrets or whatever would like a word also.
Here's one cool thing if NASCAR did decide to race at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, during a segment break, it would be awesome for the drivers to wave to the kids and their families at the Children's Hospital that overlooks the stadium, just like what the Hawkeyes do for their football games.
Very fascinating video as always! As an Indonesian, the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in the capital city of Jakarta would suit well for an international NASCAR stadium race.^^
International NASCAR races? Absolutely cool idea. I do believe Empire (old Wembley) Stadium is available in London. Find a few cricket grounds to hold races in, they are oval shaped. Aussie-rules football stadiums can be used in Australia as they are ovals as well. Use Croke Park in Dublin and hold Gaelic football, hurling, and other Gaelic sports exhibition matches during the week.
@@LadyAnuB From this Aussies point of view, while I'd love to nominate the mighty Melbourne Cricket Ground with its seating capacity of 100k, the ground is almost completely circular - probably not ideal for a NASCAR track. While there is also the Calder Park 'Thunderdome' to the north-west of Melbourne, which _did_ host NASCAR races back in the 80s, I'm not sure of its condition or seating capacity these days. Therefore my vote would have to go to the most famous Australian Racetrack, Mount Panorama (also known as Bathurst). Yeah it's not a sports track, but when it's not being used as a racetrack is actually a public road! Watch the 2021 Bathurst 1000 highlights and tell me you wouldn't love to see NASCARs belting up and down the mountain: th-cam.com/video/Z5MfH6YSCn0/w-d-xo.html
One thing that wasn’t considered was if these stadiums could actually fit some kind of oval or track in general. The coliseum had very tight radius in the turns. Most of these stadium are even worse..... I would have analyzed ability to fit some kind of functional oval before I consider capacity
I've spent no more than 24 hours in Utah, total. I can tell you firsthand it absolutely IS the beehive state. Pulled over on a salt flat because the rental box truck I was driving was smoking. Found the transmission was throwing fluid all over the place. Decided I'd rather be stuck in Salt Lake City than in the middle of nowhere and jumped back in, only to find the truck completely surrounded by a swarm of bees as soon as I shut the door.
What a collab of some of my fave content creators! Loved it! One thing though: as a Buckeye, why doesn’t the Shoe get love because it’d be “too big” and “too far” from population centers (????) but Happy Valley, which has a larger capacity and in the middle of Appalachia on here?
For the same reason he left Bryant-Denny in Alabama off this list: College football fan jealousy. Any and every team that's at or around the level they wish their favorite teams were these "fans" must act like they don't exist. It makes them feel better about how mediocre their own teams are. If they'd take a fraction of that time they spend crying and complaining about the good teams and use it to improve their own team, then maybe their team would be something other than an easy W for the big boys. I guarantee you someone like Nick Saban doesn't spend a single second thinking about an opposing team until they're on the schedule. If he does, he sure as hell wouldn't let anyone know about it.
The 1939 NFL Championship Game between Green Bay and NY was played at the Dairy Bowl, aka State Fair Park aka The Milwaukee Mile. The Start Finish line is lined up with the 50 yard line.
Love this list. Being from Wisconsin, seeing a nascar race at Lambeau would be awesome. Wisconsin is short track heaven in my opinion. And with nascar no longer going to the Milwaukee mile for truck/ xfinity races for quite a while now, it would be insane. Wouldn’t miss it.
Fun fact about the Hoosier State. Did you know it is upside down? South Bend is in the north, North Vernon is in the south, and French Lick is nothing like how it sounds.
I think having a "Summer Stadium Series" would b a decent idea. Tale like a 1-2 month break from the main Cup series and have teams compete for a separate championship. That's the only way I would think stadium racing would work: if they were ran as exhibition races or a separate series/championship.
Said this in the original upload, so I'll repost that comment here: State Farm Stadium could actually theoretically host a NASCAR event, so long as it's dirt, as the stadium has had no issue hosting Monster Jam and AMA Supercross. Another option is Chase Field, home of the MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks, though that would probably have to be a dirt track as well, depending on how NASCAR and Chase Field wants to go about hosting a race there. Coincidentally enough, Chase Field also used to host Monster Jam and AMA Motorcross events.
If NASCAR could start over, and the Cup cars would have been much smaller models like the old Goody's Dash Series, this idea could legitimately make the sport more popular that it currently is. Huge cars rumbling around awkwardly on quarter mile stadium tracks is a cool change of pace, but the scale of the cars vs. the track doesn't lend itself to great action. BUT, if the cars were scaled down small models like I'm saying, IMAGINE how popular NASCAR would be! You'd have 40 cars that actually look appropriately sized for the tracks they're racing on, where 3 wide action and more room to pass is a reality, and the entire circuit could be made up of the most famous stadiums in the country, with NASCAR visiting huge urban setting after huge urban setting instead of hour-long drives out into the outskirts of cities like most tracks today. It's too late now (too much financial momentum is built around big cars on huge tracks). But if NASCAR could start all over, I think the most lucrative model would be to have chosen compact model cars, have a few races a year at huge tracks (like the Goody's Dash Series used to do), but have 80% of the races at high profile national stadiums right in the heart of major cities. I have one more idea of how these two formats could be blended. Which is, the Cup Schedule becomes roughly 50-50 between small stadium bullrings, and large high speed tracks. At the larger (more dangerous) facilities, the CUP drivers race the cars they do now. But at the smaller (safer) bullrings, the Cup drivers race compact models made by the same manufacturers they're under contract with. So the scale of the cars to the scale of the track lends to great racing. Plus, it's a better test of stock car driving skill because the champion has to demonstrate not only mastery on different track sizes, but also mastery in different stock car models. I think that blended model would be a huge hit. It'll never happen because NASCAR insists on being less popular than it could be, but that would be amazing.
War Memorial in Wyoming would be very interesting to watch. As a lifelong Wyoming resident, even I have issues breathing at 7220 feet. People do not take altitude seriously. A lot of first time out of state hunters find that out the hard way and the outcome is deadly. We call them a widows vacation. Drive out in a Yukon and go home in an airlines cargo hold in a cardboard and plywood box.
I watched the high school championships there this year and it was basically mini hurricanes in Laramie that week. I'm probably the only person from Ohio that's ever watched the WHSAA football championships for no other reason than because I could lmao. Noodle arms need not apply there so it's no surprise Josh Allen played there. Weird watching people from 6 hrs away from each other greet each other like neighbors at the grocery store lol. Wyoming is just a whole different animal
Nice video, I think a good sequel would be the best oval track in each state (that has one and built for racing) It would be interesting to learn about some tracks that don’t host NASCAR races, and while some tracks are obvious (Talladega, Michigan, etc.) due to only having one state of the art track, some states with two or more tracks, such as Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia, it would be interesting see what you or others think which is the best. Also could do the same for road and street circuits.
As far as Maryland goes, how could you miss M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore?! Has a racing history consisting of Monster Jam, and part of the Baltimore Grand Prix. The latter of the two events means NASCAR can also use a road course configuration by way of essentially reviving said Grand Prix if they chose to add support races. Bigger inside than Fedex Field, and easier to add in a track, and this place would be the better bet to bring NASCAR to the Old Line State than the dump out in Landover. Also, Hawaii NEEDS to happen. Preferably as a replacement for the All Star Race.
18:11 first of all I went to OSU so i'm offended by this choice, but seriously NASCAR has been promising us a track in the NW for pretty much all my life (just like that Portland MLB team we've been promised.) Greg Biffle is from Vancouver Washington (the New Jersey of Portland) and raced at Portland International Raceway (a road course owned by the city of Portland for...reasons) when he was Amateur. for these reasons Providence Park (the timbers stadium) would have been my pick, its a weird former baseball field from the 1890s in the middle of the city that's been turned into a MLS soccer stadium.
The hardest part of Lambeau field being a nascar track comes in the form of the system used to keep the field from freezing up like the ice bowl. Tickets would be easy sellers but would be sold out in hours given how Road America sells out their campsites meer hours after going on sale.
Davis Wade in Starkville, MS would be a very underrated venue for NASCAR! That place would be packed to the gills. A perfect place to race a week or two after the Daytona 500.
By the way slap, I just wanted to say something. I don't know if you saw it during the first upload of this video before deletion, but I wanted to say it anyway. 8 months ago I started a build to recreate North Wilkesboro Speedway to a 2/1 scale in Minecraft. I completed it a little while ago now, and I just wanted to say let you know in case you might be interested in seeing it. I doubt this will go anywhere once again, but you miss a million shots you don't take.
I love the fact that there are other content creators that watch or produce nascar content featured here in this vid. Really do wonder when soundhead will show up on the weekly podcast?
One of my dreams is to have a NASCAR Cup Race in Buffalo/Orchard Park, NY if they can't find a spot to build a new track then maybe the Highmark Stadium home of the Bills would be a perfect substitute.
As a North Carolinian I thought your pick nailed it and after going to the Stadium Series hockey game there it would be amazing. As a Hokie I can never forgive you and can never watch another video Scott Stadium/UVA are the worst 😂.
Nascar should come up north to us Canadians, heck Richard Petty made his debut at the expo stadium in Toronto, we have such an insane short track scene and so many good street courses, I feel it's only a matter of time.... (Speaking in terms of cup)
As high-altitude venues go, NASCAR has history with the Pikes Peak International Raceway in Fountain, CO, which hosted the Busch Series as recently as 2005 and is over 5500ft above sea level (above Mile High).
I appreciate the Kibbie Dome shout out, even though it didn't make the list for seating capacity. I didn't go to U of I, but Moscow was my second home city when i moved in with my then-fiancee who was a student.
Husky Stadium in Seattle would be a better choice for Washington. It holds more people than Lumen Field and has the killer view of Lake Washington. And mentioning Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne during your report for Oregon is a slap in the face. Both are from Washington, Kahne grew up only 35 miles from Seattle. The only driver from Oregon worth mentioning is recent NASCAR HOF inductee Hershel McGriff. I watched him race for years all over the Northwest.
I can’t remember where i saw it but, but the LA Coliseum was especially good for this because it’s 100ft longer than most football stadiums. End to end is 525 feet and most other stadiums are only 420ft which wouldn’t make it shorter than 1/4 mile
"I was tempted to put Connecticut's track at the Yale Bowl" Me: "Hell yeah! My back yard! What could possibly be the issue?" "...but that place is as old as dirt." "...yeah. Fair enough."
The Big House in Michigan, while not my favorite choice, is the most logical. Not far from MIS, Detroit or Detroit Metro airport, huge capacity, plus you can check out the Hudson Hornet museum in nearby Ypsilanti
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 In a perfect world that part would be in the process of being rebuilt with proper walls and to run counterclockwise. It would be expensive, but if someone could pay for it, I can see it happening
Bush Stadium in Indianapolis also had racing. It was first built in 1931 by Norm Perry, owner of the Indianapolis Indians, and was originally named Perry Stadium. I became Victory Field in 1942 due to WWII, a name that the new Indians stadium took when it was built in 1996. It became Bush stadium in 1967, after Indianapolis bought it and leased it back to the Indians. It was named after Indiana native Donnie Bush. When the Indians left Bush, Tony George bought it, renamed it the 16th Street Speedway and ran sprints there. Like anything else Tony touched, it turned to crap, and in 2013, it became an apartment complex, with the lights and much of the facade left intact.
If NASCAR wants to come to Mexico again, but with Cup cars... COME TO MONTERREY PLEASE. Home of Daniel Suarez, and with 3 practical and pretty good options, 1 racetrack, and 2 soccer stadiums. - Autodromo de Monterrey (Monterrey Speedway), a nice BUT SEVERELY BUMPY road course with a pretty good 1/4 mile strecth. It can seat like 20k in attendance. - Estadio BBVA (BBVA Stadium), home of Club de Futbol Monterrey (Monterrey Football Club, AKA "Rayados"), just 25 minutes from downtown, with A LOT of roads to access, and 55k ~ 70k seats. - Estadio de los Tigres (Tigres Stadium, AKA "The volcano"), home of UANL Tigers, seating 50k, WITH EVERY MAJOR ROAD, A LOT OF BUS ROUTES AND ONE METRO LINE 500 YDS FROM THE STADIUM, and basically right at the start of Monterrey-Laredo highway, just 10 minutes from downtown. I'd love to see Daniel racing home.
Recently Auzten Stadium and Matthew Knight Arena have been remodeled to include 5000+ new seats and they're designing a retractable canvas for "The Duck Pond"
I can think of 2 places aside from the Coliseum for California. 1. Petco Park. Home of my San Diego Padres, this would make a great venue. You can ring the bell to kick things off, the swinging Friar can wave the green flag and I believe it can hold at least 50,000 people. 2. Angel Stadium. Home of the ANAHEIM Angel's (I hate their new name and so do others), this stadium holds over a touch of 45,000 and is in spitting distance from Disneyland. The checkered flag can be complimented with fireworks shooting out from the rock outcropping outside center field.
This is going to be controversial for most, but this sort of racing begs for a new type of car. You can't really have 20 stock cars roaring around for 3h without having pollution problems inside enclosed stadiums because of exhaust gasses, having a lot of race fuel in the middle of the infield and noise complaints either indoor or outdoor, since most stadiums are close to residential areas. So why not build an EV version of the next gen car? The only manufacturer that hasn't got any EV credentials though, is Dodge. Ford, Chevy, Toyota all have an EV program and could use this series as a way to develop new battery and motor technologies for their road cars. This could be a brand new series for NASCAR, cheap to run since chassis can be designed for future proofing for battery packaging and drive train swaps and regen braking gives you some juice back and saves on brakes. Make them a bit smaller to have more overtaking room on track, but keep them RWD and let them chew through tires since there aren't any refuelings. Average race speed should stay relatively high because of the quick acceleration that an electric motor can give on corner exit, but low enough to not cause serious damage to the stadiums or injure drivers/crowds. Individual heats would be short, maybe 20 to 40 miles, so multiple heats per race weekend in a cumulative point system for bringing in new talent or as an All Star format with the most popular drivers in the Cup Series grid. I completely understand that the V8 sound is very important for the atmosphere of racing, but wouldn't it be cool to be able to go see the Lightning 120 or the Thunderbolt 100 and watch your favorite drivers dicing it out upclose and personal, 2, maybe 3 cars abreast and fighting for position in a place where you don't have to walk for 25 minutes to use a bathroom or stand in line for 45 minutes for a bite to eat? How about night racing? All stadiums are already lit and battery packs could be recharged through solar panels during the day or with bio fuel generators. I get that most, if not all, would consider what I'm saying here as heresy, but I'm not saying for NASCAR to do away with ICE cars completely. That's just not possible for now and will be a while until it is. But for this sort of more intimate racing, it makes more sense using an electric stock car. Manufacturers are now heavily investing in EV technology as a way of staying competitive and in some cases, relevant, in todays market, so why not race with it? Everyone talked shit about Formula E when it started, but it now has produced some of the most exciting racing I've seen these last couple of years.
I'd actually argue that Hard Rock Stadium might be a better host in Florida, since it's hosted the Miami GP already, and if timed correctly the paved surfaces around the stadium could be used for a NASCAR race as well.
Mcmahon Stadium, in Calgary Alberta, has a seating cap of 46 020, and was built for the Calgary Stampeders, a CFL team. I would be SO happy if we got NASCAR in Canada, and within only a few hours of where I live, not on the other side of the country. Sadly, the Stampede Grandstands only have 17 000 seats. Blast it!
A short addendum to this with the biggest stadium in each province over 20,000 people would be cool. Looks like there’d be only 6 provinces included, so a short but sweet video would be cool.
I think Jack Trice would be a better fit for Iowa. Centrally located in the state, major airport hub in Des Moines. Pains me to say it as a Hawkeye but it’s probably the better fit. Also, I also call it the Smurf Turf and everyone looks at me weird when I do it
When the Charlotte Knights baseball team built a new stadium in 2014, I had a crazy idea to build a short track in the old stadium. Now that Concord Speedway closed it could have been the only paved track in the immediate Charlotte area.
I protest your FedEx Field decision. That field is in the middle of nowhere and is a pain to get to. M&T Bank Stadium would be my first choice, with second choice going to Navy-Marine Coups Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, and 3rd choice going to Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
I agree with Kinnick Stadium because of the history of the stadium. Plus, there is the well-known Iowa Wave at Hawkeye games. That is where every single fan, player, and official turn and wave at the children's hospital that sits adjacent to the stadium. If NASCAR came, that would be a first.
I love that the clash was in the Los Angeles and in the coliseum! Being from Los Angeles and born and raised in Southern California the past 28 years…california doesn’t look at nascar like it does football or basketball
As a Wisconsinite I heartily recommend Camp Randall not because it's the best but because the Madisonians would hate hate hate it and that's always a good thing.
I had a feeling they’d fall for choosing Beaver Stadium for PA. Right in the middle of nowhere kind of goes against what you were going for lol and that stadium would only partially filled. Good luck getting anywhere close to 100k. Pittsburgh would probably be the more ideal choice
One problem I have for this list is that most of these stadiums are too small. The Los Angeles Colosseum is longer and larger than your average football field. In fact, at it's max length its 200 yards long horizontally. Lambeau field on the other hand, at its max length, is only 143 yards long horizontally. (Bristol motor speedway sits in at 371 yards horizontally) And a reminder that the coliseum was a cramped event. The colosseum It was not built with American football in mind, but for Olympic level track and field events. I love the idea of playing in a stadium setting, I just think that it's not realistic playing in American football purpose built stadiums. Perhaps track-and-field stadiums (franklin field at philly, or Hayward filed in Oregon) could fill in but for now we need to start either looking international or stick with the LA Colosseum for now.
@@TylerCMilligan Bowman gray is about the same length as the Colosseum according to google earth. No stadium would be built like the Colosseum today because it has a ton of extra space on one end of the field because it wasn’t built originally for football.
If Sun Devil Stadium did get the Clash at some point then it wouldn't be the first time that auto racing has been to the stadium, MTEG ended up going there back in the 90's and had a good amount of attendence (especially for off-road racing at the time)
as a chicagoan, i'd love to see a race at soldier field. it's in the heart of museum campus, right on the lake, lots of buses will get you there (or pay and arm and leg to park there). if BTS can perform there, so can nascar lol. also great choice with south bend. very popular venue for pretty much chicago, indiana, and southern michigan all at once. the big house is great call too, but ford field in detroit would be a worthy choice as well. loved this list and all the collabs featured here.
I think logistically it would be easier to hold a race at Virginia Tech. Plus, I think the people living in that part of the state would be more likely to go, also bringing people up from Tennessee. After all, VT did also play at the game in Bristol
Need to look at accessability for all of the autocarriers and equipment storage, especially in the infield which would be needed for all 40+ entries. And how easy can you also get some of this equipment in and out of the complex?
I think it would be cool if you made a video about Dennis Setzer. The guy was basically the Mark Martin of the Truck Series, having finished 2nd three years in a row from 2003-2005 and never winning a championship in his career.
I live (and race) in Wisconsin, and Lambeau field is waaaayyy too small for a NASCAR race.. there would be no straights... Miller park is bigger, and, like other baseball field stadiums, you could have a nice triangular shaped track.. be like a mini Pocono!
I don't think NASCAR will go under .2 miles. Football stadiums often likely won't cut it. 400m track stadiums will give a guaranteed 1/4 mile. That works for stuff like Franklin Field, PA, Olympic Univerity Stadium in Mexico City, and Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. Want more? Cricket and AFL ovals will do. Imagine NASCAR in the Sydney Cricket Grounds, the site of the first motor race in Australia, or Perth Stadium, or Adelaide Oval. Eden Park or Sky Stadium in New Zealand, Lord's or The Oval in England, Wanderer's in South Africa, THE ENTIRETY OF INDIA AND SRI-LANKA. Even in the US we have Central Broward Park within half an hour of Miami and just breaking 20,000. Want to go EVEN BIGGER? Horse tracks have pre-graded and laid out tracks of sufficient width between 3/4 and 1 1/2 miles.
Should’ve picked Bryant-Denny anyway, I love Legion Field, but I’m about 90% sure that a NASCAR race would cause the old girl to shake apart at this point 😂
For Maryland, did you consider M&T Bank Stadium? Better condition, easier to drive to, has a light rail, and an operator who actually might invest in it.
Legion Field in B’ham is in dire need of a renovation so what better time to build a short track and host a NASCAR event than before a massively needed reno.
The LA Coliseum only worked because of the excess track/field surface around the football field itself. Most, if not all of the stadiums you mention would end up being too narrow as a 1/4 mile, if you could get a 1/4 mile at all. Fenway and Busch might work as a short, sort of road course. Allegiant Stadium and AT&T Stadium have roll out field systems like State Farm stadium, so how are they any more feasible than State Farm? You want to run a BUSCH CLASH in UTAH?!?! Probably need a different sponsor for that event.
As cool as a race in the Superdome could be, I really wanna see another race at NOLA Motorsports Park. Indycar tried to race there in 2015, but the event got rained out, so they haven't been back. The venue itself may be a bit small, but I think that the track is really, really nice.
For Illinois, I would recommend O'Brien Field on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Sure, it can only seat around 10,000 people, but it has an actual running track around it (the Illinois high school track and field championships are held there annually), and there's a bigger NASCAR fanbase downstate than in the Chicago area. A street circuit incorporating Wrigley Field, similar in concept to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez baseball stadium section in its F1 configuration for the Mexican Grand Prix, would be an interesting idea, although that would probably require an Act of Congress because you'd have to remove parts of the ivy-covered outfield wall for that idea to work.
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South Bend gets its name because of the St. Joseph River and it’s southern bend.
You gotta do a video on oglethrope speedway in Pooler Ga and it just closed there doors 3 days ago
There actually is another stadium in Montana. And my personal choice for Big Sky Country would be that-Bobcat Stadium @ MSU Boseman. It's just over 20,000 seats, is more open air, has better scenery & I'm thinking of attending there online. It's actually a rival of UM Missoula @ 12:46.
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Thats what you get for being a Gamecock fan... lol.
I think FedEx field is down to only 65,000 seats. It would be fun to hear “We have a caution due to raw sewage on turn 3.”
This is something that awaits a visit to Oakland Coliseum 😅
I think what I find ironic is the SCCA holds a few regional autocrosses in it's parking lot already.
I think Dan Snyder has all kinds of bad juju on him for all that he did to the hallowed Redskins (oops, the Washington team 🙄) franchise.
@@stratolestele7611 The Washington Football Team is an infinitely better name for them than the actual successor name.
@@rwall514 Yes. Definitely better than the Washington Commodes!
Another thing to consider would be ventilation. with some of the domes I don't think there is enough ventilation for 20+ stock cars and you'd just give a bunch of people carbon monoxide poisoning.
I went to a motocross race that was held indoors and the fumes coming from those engines was really noticeable. Cant imagine what NASCAR would make.
Kenny Wallace once tweeted about racing at the old Rams stadium. It was pointed out they have plenty of ventilation to remove carbon monoxide for a race, and there have been some races there before.
Monster Jam holds shows in domes all the time. I think it would work
@@randomcub922 They also are only out there for a few minutes at a time. and the races last maybe 25 seconds - or a single lap at Dover.
@@randomcub922 Monster trucks only have about 3 vehicles running at the same time. plus they take a couple of minutes in between to prepare the grounds for the next truck. There is time for the carbon monoxide to clear unlike actual racing which sees cars running continuously for 4 hours.
I said this on the video's last upload, so I hope you don't mind if I say it again:
For such a quintessentially American sport as NASCAR, who would've thought that Richard Petty (a man so successful that he was dubbed the King of said sport) started his first Cup race in *Canada,* of all places? A country which, fittingly enough, had an _actual_ king only six years before.
There's only one solution, Richard Petty needs to claim the Canadian crown when Lizzie kicks it. I mean, based on previous examples King Richards go over better than King Charleses. Read how the first King Charles was dealt with.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 I'd be okay with him taking over now
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I'd most prefer a republic, but agreed.
And his first start in the U.S. took place in my neck of the woods in Buffalo at the old Civic Stadium.
@@charlespetersonjr1994 I mean Buffalo is basically Canada lol
5:55 Jake basically saying that water is wet, by saying the Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a work of architecture.
Every building is a work of architecture, even public shithouses.
He propably meant to say that it was an architectural work of art, but what he says made me laugh anyway lmao
but..... water isn't wet
it makes things wet :/
while there are many stadiums in society, we all know which one is the most ultimate…
*Dodge Raceway Stadium supremacy.*
That track has to be made eventually!
Where high-performance production cars such as Vipers, Corvettes, GT43s, and Neons do battle.
@@suzynenechek8817 It should be the Sun Devil stadium, the rich kids on their meme supercars Flexing on Mill Ave would be glad to join the race
Apologies in advance but...
*!!!RICKY F'KIN CRAVEN!!!*
@@UnHappyHarvick I think it was a real track they based it on. Most of the EA fantasy tracks were either exact copies of tracks that no longer operated (example: Nazareth) or they took a layout from a track and created a new environment (example: Old Spice is a layout from Riverside International Speedway). If there isn’t a different stadium then I think I’m getting confused with Bowman Grey
RFK tweeted about possibly hosting a race at Fenway. Yes, mostly as a joke, but the thought is there.
NFL: *Exists*
NASCAR: *I'm You*
Fenway Park Roval
For the reason why South Bend is named as such from a native Hoosier, it’s located on the southern bend of the St. Joseph River before it turns West towards Lake Michigan.
13:29 I was actually in Las Vegas in early 2018 to see the Pennzoil 400 and I got to see that stadium in construction, what a huge stadium
TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville would be a better venue I think for a stadium race in FL. Its about 90 min south of Daytona and back in the 50's Jacksonville used to host NASCAR Races. The Stadium can hold nearly 70k fans and is right off of two major Highways with downtown infrastructure to host all those fans. So it would be easy to get to for both teams and fans alike. (In the weeks leading up to the 3 FL races the NASCAR haulers can be seen driving along the highways there.)
Even though I’ve already seen this before, I clicked faster than ever. I mean it’s S1apShoes how could I not!
Exactly!!
Fun Fact: Memorial Stadium in Nebraska's capacity of 87,000 means when it's sold out, it becomes Nebraska's third largest city.
And it's sold out every game since 1962.
Oh Nebraska, never change.
Don't worry, we'll never change
If it's sold out every game since 1962 they should just use "Nebraska's Third Largest City" as their tag line :P
even more fun cuz their football team is almost always one of the worst in the big 10 lol
14:00 the multiple towns between MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford and Red Bull Arena in Harrison would like a word about this parking lot you’re talking about…though in fairness it’s also a lot of wetlands in between so I guess some egrets or whatever would like a word also.
Here's one cool thing if NASCAR did decide to race at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, during a segment break, it would be awesome for the drivers to wave to the kids and their families at the Children's Hospital that overlooks the stadium, just like what the Hawkeyes do for their football games.
Very fascinating video as always!
As an Indonesian, the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in the capital city of Jakarta would suit well for an international NASCAR stadium race.^^
they could use the athletic track around the field for the race, but if that happens they'll be pushing for JIS instead
International NASCAR races? Absolutely cool idea.
I do believe Empire (old Wembley) Stadium is available in London.
Find a few cricket grounds to hold races in, they are oval shaped.
Aussie-rules football stadiums can be used in Australia as they are ovals as well.
Use Croke Park in Dublin and hold Gaelic football, hurling, and other Gaelic sports exhibition matches during the week.
@@LadyAnuB From this Aussies point of view, while I'd love to nominate the mighty Melbourne Cricket Ground with its seating capacity of 100k, the ground is almost completely circular - probably not ideal for a NASCAR track. While there is also the Calder Park 'Thunderdome' to the north-west of Melbourne, which _did_ host NASCAR races back in the 80s, I'm not sure of its condition or seating capacity these days.
Therefore my vote would have to go to the most famous Australian Racetrack, Mount Panorama (also known as Bathurst). Yeah it's not a sports track, but when it's not being used as a racetrack is actually a public road!
Watch the 2021 Bathurst 1000 highlights and tell me you wouldn't love to see NASCARs belting up and down the mountain: th-cam.com/video/Z5MfH6YSCn0/w-d-xo.html
@@StaffordMagnus Mt. Panorama would be an awesome track for NASCAR!
Melbourne Cricket Ground could have a piece or two straightened out for NASCAR.
One thing that wasn’t considered was if these stadiums could actually fit some kind of oval or track in general. The coliseum had very tight radius in the turns. Most of these stadium are even worse..... I would have analyzed ability to fit some kind of functional oval before I consider capacity
I've spent no more than 24 hours in Utah, total. I can tell you firsthand it absolutely IS the beehive state. Pulled over on a salt flat because the rental box truck I was driving was smoking. Found the transmission was throwing fluid all over the place. Decided I'd rather be stuck in Salt Lake City than in the middle of nowhere and jumped back in, only to find the truck completely surrounded by a swarm of bees as soon as I shut the door.
Fun Nebraskan Fact:
Memorial stadium has sold out 384 games in a ROW and is still counting up that streak!
What a collab of some of my fave content creators! Loved it!
One thing though: as a Buckeye, why doesn’t the Shoe get love because it’d be “too big” and “too far” from population centers (????) but Happy Valley, which has a larger capacity and in the middle of Appalachia on here?
For the same reason he left Bryant-Denny in Alabama off this list: College football fan jealousy. Any and every team that's at or around the level they wish their favorite teams were these "fans" must act like they don't exist. It makes them feel better about how mediocre their own teams are. If they'd take a fraction of that time they spend crying and complaining about the good teams and use it to improve their own team, then maybe their team would be something other than an easy W for the big boys. I guarantee you someone like Nick Saban doesn't spend a single second thinking about an opposing team until they're on the schedule. If he does, he sure as hell wouldn't let anyone know about it.
Indiana has a bend at the top of its border from Lake Michigan. That’s why it’s called south bend. Cause it’s south of the bend. Love the videos
The 1939 NFL Championship Game between Green Bay and NY was played at the Dairy Bowl, aka State Fair Park aka The Milwaukee Mile.
The Start Finish line is lined up with the 50 yard line.
Love this list. Being from Wisconsin, seeing a nascar race at Lambeau would be awesome. Wisconsin is short track heaven in my opinion. And with nascar no longer going to the Milwaukee mile for truck/ xfinity races for quite a while now, it would be insane. Wouldn’t miss it.
Aye I'm also from Wisco. Would be pretty cool to see a race there
@@isaiahhiserman4732 it would be but our turf isn’t ideal to take off and and put pavement so I think it could be done at Camp Randall Stadium
Madison’s game day atmosphere is great: I’d go Camp Randall
Fun fact about the Hoosier State. Did you know it is upside down? South Bend is in the north, North Vernon is in the south, and French Lick is nothing like how it sounds.
I think having a "Summer Stadium Series" would b a decent idea. Tale like a 1-2 month break from the main Cup series and have teams compete for a separate championship.
That's the only way I would think stadium racing would work: if they were ran as exhibition races or a separate series/championship.
Said this in the original upload, so I'll repost that comment here:
State Farm Stadium could actually theoretically host a NASCAR event, so long as it's dirt, as the stadium has had no issue hosting Monster Jam and AMA Supercross. Another option is Chase Field, home of the MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks, though that would probably have to be a dirt track as well, depending on how NASCAR and Chase Field wants to go about hosting a race there. Coincidentally enough, Chase Field also used to host Monster Jam and AMA Motorcross events.
If NASCAR could start over, and the Cup cars would have been much smaller models like the old Goody's Dash Series, this idea could legitimately make the sport more popular that it currently is. Huge cars rumbling around awkwardly on quarter mile stadium tracks is a cool change of pace, but the scale of the cars vs. the track doesn't lend itself to great action. BUT, if the cars were scaled down small models like I'm saying, IMAGINE how popular NASCAR would be!
You'd have 40 cars that actually look appropriately sized for the tracks they're racing on, where 3 wide action and more room to pass is a reality, and the entire circuit could be made up of the most famous stadiums in the country, with NASCAR visiting huge urban setting after huge urban setting instead of hour-long drives out into the outskirts of cities like most tracks today.
It's too late now (too much financial momentum is built around big cars on huge tracks). But if NASCAR could start all over, I think the most lucrative model would be to have chosen compact model cars, have a few races a year at huge tracks (like the Goody's Dash Series used to do), but have 80% of the races at high profile national stadiums right in the heart of major cities.
I have one more idea of how these two formats could be blended. Which is, the Cup Schedule becomes roughly 50-50 between small stadium bullrings, and large high speed tracks. At the larger (more dangerous) facilities, the CUP drivers race the cars they do now. But at the smaller (safer) bullrings, the Cup drivers race compact models made by the same manufacturers they're under contract with. So the scale of the cars to the scale of the track lends to great racing. Plus, it's a better test of stock car driving skill because the champion has to demonstrate not only mastery on different track sizes, but also mastery in different stock car models.
I think that blended model would be a huge hit. It'll never happen because NASCAR insists on being less popular than it could be, but that would be amazing.
War Memorial in Wyoming would be very interesting to watch. As a lifelong Wyoming resident, even I have issues breathing at 7220 feet. People do not take altitude seriously. A lot of first time out of state hunters find that out the hard way and the outcome is deadly. We call them a widows vacation. Drive out in a Yukon and go home in an airlines cargo hold in a cardboard and plywood box.
Though some might not have much of an issue if they were around in Xfinity in 05-08 with the Mexico City race, which was 7300+ feet.
I watched the high school championships there this year and it was basically mini hurricanes in Laramie that week. I'm probably the only person from Ohio that's ever watched the WHSAA football championships for no other reason than because I could lmao. Noodle arms need not apply there so it's no surprise Josh Allen played there. Weird watching people from 6 hrs away from each other greet each other like neighbors at the grocery store lol. Wyoming is just a whole different animal
Nice video, I think a good sequel would be the best oval track in each state (that has one and built for racing) It would be interesting to learn about some tracks that don’t host NASCAR races, and while some tracks are obvious (Talladega, Michigan, etc.) due to only having one state of the art track, some states with two or more tracks, such as Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia, it would be interesting see what you or others think which is the best. Also could do the same for road and street circuits.
As far as Maryland goes, how could you miss M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore?! Has a racing history consisting of Monster Jam, and part of the Baltimore Grand Prix. The latter of the two events means NASCAR can also use a road course configuration by way of essentially reviving said Grand Prix if they chose to add support races. Bigger inside than Fedex Field, and easier to add in a track, and this place would be the better bet to bring NASCAR to the Old Line State than the dump out in Landover. Also, Hawaii NEEDS to happen. Preferably as a replacement for the All Star Race.
18:11 first of all I went to OSU so i'm offended by this choice, but seriously NASCAR has been promising us a track in the NW for pretty much all my life (just like that Portland MLB team we've been promised.) Greg Biffle is from Vancouver Washington (the New Jersey of Portland) and raced at Portland International Raceway (a road course owned by the city of Portland for...reasons) when he was Amateur. for these reasons Providence Park (the timbers stadium) would have been my pick, its a weird former baseball field from the 1890s in the middle of the city that's been turned into a MLS soccer stadium.
The hardest part of Lambeau field being a nascar track comes in the form of the system used to keep the field from freezing up like the ice bowl. Tickets would be easy sellers but would be sold out in hours given how Road America sells out their campsites meer hours after going on sale.
It's also only 70 miles away from Lambeau.
Davis Wade in Starkville, MS would be a very underrated venue for NASCAR! That place would be packed to the gills. A perfect place to race a week or two after the Daytona 500.
By the way slap, I just wanted to say something. I don't know if you saw it during the first upload of this video before deletion, but I wanted to say it anyway. 8 months ago I started a build to recreate North Wilkesboro Speedway to a 2/1 scale in Minecraft. I completed it a little while ago now, and I just wanted to say let you know in case you might be interested in seeing it. I doubt this will go anywhere once again, but you miss a million shots you don't take.
Dude that sounds super cool! I hope slap sees your comment
What can you do with it in Minecraft? Just look at it?
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*yes.*
@@daBEAGLE1017 you could replace the track material with blue ice and race boats on it
10:45 Well that aged like milk
GO BLUE BABY WOOO
2 S1ap videos in a month? Yes!
(Yes I know they are practically a carbon cut copy of each other)
I love the fact that there are other content creators that watch or produce nascar content featured here in this vid. Really do wonder when soundhead will show up on the weekly podcast?
One of my dreams is to have a NASCAR Cup Race in Buffalo/Orchard Park, NY if they can't find a spot to build a new track then maybe the Highmark Stadium home of the Bills would be a perfect substitute.
As a North Carolinian I thought your pick nailed it and after going to the Stadium Series hockey game there it would be amazing. As a Hokie I can never forgive you and can never watch another video Scott Stadium/UVA are the worst 😂.
"iowa speedway is on shaky ground" boy oh boy slap i got news for you. greatest short track race of 2024, fight me.
Nascar should come up north to us Canadians, heck Richard Petty made his debut at the expo stadium in Toronto, we have such an insane short track scene and so many good street courses, I feel it's only a matter of time....
(Speaking in terms of cup)
The Cup Series should really go to CGV and CTMP
Which track in Canada would in your opinion be the best for this then?
I want to see them race around Mont Tremblant, only because of how frustratingly technical that track would be in a stock car.
Benz stadium, Vegas and bank stadium are PERFECT
As high-altitude venues go, NASCAR has history with the Pikes Peak International Raceway in Fountain, CO, which hosted the Busch Series as recently as 2005 and is over 5500ft above sea level (above Mile High).
I appreciate the Kibbie Dome shout out, even though it didn't make the list for seating capacity. I didn't go to U of I, but Moscow was my second home city when i moved in with my then-fiancee who was a student.
go cougs
My grandfather has old video footage of Richard Petty and Tiny Lund racing at Ona Speedway in West Virginia back in the 60’s!
Nice to see this back
Great Video S1ap! Seeing Emplemon was awesome!
Husky Stadium in Seattle would be a better choice for Washington. It holds more people than Lumen Field and has the killer view of Lake Washington. And mentioning Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne during your report for Oregon is a slap in the face. Both are from Washington, Kahne grew up only 35 miles from Seattle. The only driver from Oregon worth mentioning is recent NASCAR HOF inductee Hershel McGriff. I watched him race for years all over the Northwest.
I can’t remember where i saw it but, but the LA Coliseum was especially good for this because it’s 100ft longer than most football stadiums. End to end is 525 feet and most other stadiums are only 420ft which wouldn’t make it shorter than 1/4 mile
"I was tempted to put Connecticut's track at the Yale Bowl"
Me: "Hell yeah! My back yard! What could possibly be the issue?"
"...but that place is as old as dirt."
"...yeah. Fair enough."
The Big House in Michigan, while not my favorite choice, is the most logical. Not far from MIS, Detroit or Detroit Metro airport, huge capacity, plus you can check out the Hudson Hornet museum in nearby Ypsilanti
You should consider doing a similar video but about "what's the best venue for NASCAR in Europe?" at some point.
If only the old Monza ring was still an option.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 To be fair, Italy's got a LOT of options for tracks. I do bet they'd be great to see in Imola.
There's only one option for Germany -the Nurburgring- actually its the Lausitzring
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 In a perfect world that part would be in the process of being rebuilt with proper walls and to run counterclockwise. It would be expensive, but if someone could pay for it, I can see it happening
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At least sim racing can give us tracks like that, or the old Interlagos layout.
Bush Stadium in Indianapolis also had racing. It was first built in 1931 by Norm Perry, owner of the Indianapolis Indians, and was originally named Perry Stadium. I became Victory Field in 1942 due to WWII, a name that the new Indians stadium took when it was built in 1996. It became Bush stadium in 1967, after Indianapolis bought it and leased it back to the Indians. It was named after Indiana native Donnie Bush.
When the Indians left Bush, Tony George bought it, renamed it the 16th Street Speedway and ran sprints there. Like anything else Tony touched, it turned to crap, and in 2013, it became an apartment complex, with the lights and much of the facade left intact.
If NASCAR wants to come to Mexico again, but with Cup cars...
COME TO MONTERREY PLEASE. Home of Daniel Suarez, and with 3 practical and pretty good options, 1 racetrack, and 2 soccer stadiums.
- Autodromo de Monterrey (Monterrey Speedway), a nice BUT SEVERELY BUMPY road course with a pretty good 1/4 mile strecth. It can seat like 20k in attendance.
- Estadio BBVA (BBVA Stadium), home of Club de Futbol Monterrey (Monterrey Football Club, AKA "Rayados"), just 25 minutes from downtown, with A LOT of roads to access, and 55k ~ 70k seats.
- Estadio de los Tigres (Tigres Stadium, AKA "The volcano"), home of UANL Tigers, seating 50k, WITH EVERY MAJOR ROAD, A LOT OF BUS ROUTES AND ONE METRO LINE 500 YDS FROM THE STADIUM, and basically right at the start of Monterrey-Laredo highway, just 10 minutes from downtown.
I'd love to see Daniel racing home.
Thanks for the Ona Speedway shoutout, S1ap! If you ever are up this way and want to do a S1ap on location I can make that happen!
Recently Auzten Stadium and Matthew Knight Arena have been remodeled to include 5000+ new seats and they're designing a retractable canvas for "The Duck Pond"
I can think of 2 places aside from the Coliseum for California.
1. Petco Park. Home of my San Diego Padres, this would make a great venue. You can ring the bell to kick things off, the swinging Friar can wave the green flag and I believe it can hold at least 50,000 people.
2. Angel Stadium. Home of the ANAHEIM Angel's (I hate their new name and so do others), this stadium holds over a touch of 45,000 and is in spitting distance from Disneyland. The checkered flag can be complimented with fireworks shooting out from the rock outcropping outside center field.
This is going to be controversial for most, but this sort of racing begs for a new type of car. You can't really have 20 stock cars roaring around for 3h without having pollution problems inside enclosed stadiums because of exhaust gasses, having a lot of race fuel in the middle of the infield and noise complaints either indoor or outdoor, since most stadiums are close to residential areas. So why not build an EV version of the next gen car? The only manufacturer that hasn't got any EV credentials though, is Dodge. Ford, Chevy, Toyota all have an EV program and could use this series as a way to develop new battery and motor technologies for their road cars.
This could be a brand new series for NASCAR, cheap to run since chassis can be designed for future proofing for battery packaging and drive train swaps and regen braking gives you some juice back and saves on brakes. Make them a bit smaller to have more overtaking room on track, but keep them RWD and let them chew through tires since there aren't any refuelings. Average race speed should stay relatively high because of the quick acceleration that an electric motor can give on corner exit, but low enough to not cause serious damage to the stadiums or injure drivers/crowds. Individual heats would be short, maybe 20 to 40 miles, so multiple heats per race weekend in a cumulative point system for bringing in new talent or as an All Star format with the most popular drivers in the Cup Series grid.
I completely understand that the V8 sound is very important for the atmosphere of racing, but wouldn't it be cool to be able to go see the Lightning 120 or the Thunderbolt 100 and watch your favorite drivers dicing it out upclose and personal, 2, maybe 3 cars abreast and fighting for position in a place where you don't have to walk for 25 minutes to use a bathroom or stand in line for 45 minutes for a bite to eat? How about night racing? All stadiums are already lit and battery packs could be recharged through solar panels during the day or with bio fuel generators.
I get that most, if not all, would consider what I'm saying here as heresy, but I'm not saying for NASCAR to do away with ICE cars completely. That's just not possible for now and will be a while until it is. But for this sort of more intimate racing, it makes more sense using an electric stock car. Manufacturers are now heavily investing in EV technology as a way of staying competitive and in some cases, relevant, in todays market, so why not race with it? Everyone talked shit about Formula E when it started, but it now has produced some of the most exciting racing I've seen these last couple of years.
You said “Wade Davis Stadium” as well as “Starksville” (it’s actually Starkville) and I can’t live that down as a Mississippi State student.
I'd actually argue that Hard Rock Stadium might be a better host in Florida, since it's hosted the Miami GP already, and if timed correctly the paved surfaces around the stadium could be used for a NASCAR race as well.
Mcmahon Stadium, in Calgary Alberta, has a seating cap of 46 020, and was built for the Calgary Stampeders, a CFL team. I would be SO happy if we got NASCAR in Canada, and within only a few hours of where I live, not on the other side of the country.
Sadly, the Stampede Grandstands only have 17 000 seats. Blast it!
A short addendum to this with the biggest stadium in each province over 20,000 people would be cool. Looks like there’d be only 6 provinces included, so a short but sweet video would be cool.
Or maybe 7. Does Ottawa count as part of Ontario?
The Alabama shade was hilarious! Love it!!
I think Jack Trice would be a better fit for Iowa. Centrally located in the state, major airport hub in Des Moines. Pains me to say it as a Hawkeye but it’s probably the better fit. Also, I also call it the Smurf Turf and everyone looks at me weird when I do it
20:05 Tennessee already has a NASCAR stadium race.
17:59 hahaha I’ve been quoting this for years and I’m glad someone still remembers and appreciates it
I’m a clevelander. 100% let’s race at Burke lakefront airport! The cleveland Grand Prix was awesome
When the Charlotte Knights baseball team built a new stadium in 2014, I had a crazy idea to build a short track in the old stadium. Now that Concord Speedway closed it could have been the only paved track in the immediate Charlotte area.
I protest your FedEx Field decision. That field is in the middle of nowhere and is a pain to get to. M&T Bank Stadium would be my first choice, with second choice going to Navy-Marine Coups Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, and 3rd choice going to Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Real talk though, the Battle at the Beach needs a comeback.
I agree with Kinnick Stadium because of the history of the stadium. Plus, there is the well-known Iowa Wave at Hawkeye games. That is where every single fan, player, and official turn and wave at the children's hospital that sits adjacent to the stadium. If NASCAR came, that would be a first.
23:23 REALLY?! Lambeau?! Not Madison?!
I love that the clash was in the Los Angeles and in the coliseum! Being from Los Angeles and born and raised in Southern California the past 28 years…california doesn’t look at nascar like it does football or basketball
That’s the problem with nascar fans……the events have to be in the south smh
I would absolutely love to see a NASCAR race at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Got a main-line train that goes straight to the stadium too
As a Wisconsinite I heartily recommend Camp Randall not because it's the best but because the Madisonians would hate hate hate it and that's always a good thing.
I had a feeling they’d fall for choosing Beaver Stadium for PA. Right in the middle of nowhere kind of goes against what you were going for lol and that stadium would only partially filled. Good luck getting anywhere close to 100k. Pittsburgh would probably be the more ideal choice
One problem I have for this list is that most of these stadiums are too small. The Los Angeles Colosseum is longer and larger than your average football field. In fact, at it's max length its 200 yards long horizontally. Lambeau field on the other hand, at its max length, is only 143 yards long horizontally. (Bristol motor speedway sits in at 371 yards horizontally) And a reminder that the coliseum was a cramped event. The colosseum It was not built with American football in mind, but for Olympic level track and field events. I love the idea of playing in a stadium setting, I just think that it's not realistic playing in American football purpose built stadiums. Perhaps track-and-field stadiums (franklin field at philly, or Hayward filed in Oregon) could fill in but for now we need to start either looking international or stick with the LA Colosseum for now.
Bowman Gray Stadium has entered the chat.
@@TylerCMilligan Bowman gray is about the same length as the Colosseum according to google earth. No stadium would be built like the Colosseum today because it has a ton of extra space on one end of the field because it wasn’t built originally for football.
8:30 NICE Slap-shoes is a legend
If Sun Devil Stadium did get the Clash at some point then it wouldn't be the first time that auto racing has been to the stadium, MTEG ended up going there back in the 90's and had a good amount of attendence (especially for off-road racing at the time)
as a chicagoan, i'd love to see a race at soldier field. it's in the heart of museum campus, right on the lake, lots of buses will get you there (or pay and arm and leg to park there). if BTS can perform there, so can nascar lol. also great choice with south bend. very popular venue for pretty much chicago, indiana, and southern michigan all at once. the big house is great call too, but ford field in detroit would be a worthy choice as well. loved this list and all the collabs featured here.
The "smallest" stadium on you list is actually the only one big enough to hold a quarter mile track like the one in LA.
Any field that could double as both a football and soccer field could do it
I think logistically it would be easier to hold a race at Virginia Tech. Plus, I think the people living in that part of the state would be more likely to go, also bringing people up from Tennessee. After all, VT did also play at the game in Bristol
I knew state college was gonna be the pick, but as a yinser myself, I really wanted Heinz Field, or whatever it's called now, to host it.
Need to look at accessability for all of the autocarriers and equipment storage, especially in the infield which would be needed for all 40+ entries. And how easy can you also get some of this equipment in and out of the complex?
I think it would be cool if you made a video about Dennis Setzer. The guy was basically the Mark Martin of the Truck Series, having finished 2nd three years in a row from 2003-2005 and never winning a championship in his career.
I live (and race) in Wisconsin, and Lambeau field is waaaayyy too small for a NASCAR race.. there would be no straights... Miller park is bigger, and, like other baseball field stadiums, you could have a nice triangular shaped track.. be like a mini Pocono!
That’s so interesting I never would’ve thought a official NASCAR race track was small enough to fit in a football stadium.
I was hoping for Neyland for Tennessee and y'all didn't disappoint!
EmpLemon didn’t even mention the GatorNationals ALSO IN GAINESVILLE.
That’s how fitting a venue the Swamp is.
The swamp is a dump
as someone who went to U of I and as been to football games in the Kibbe Dome, i would LOVE to see a race in there, it would be insane
Fun fact, Greg raced at and won at Portland International Raceway in the truck series.
I don't think NASCAR will go under .2 miles. Football stadiums often likely won't cut it. 400m track stadiums will give a guaranteed 1/4 mile. That works for stuff like Franklin Field, PA, Olympic Univerity Stadium in Mexico City, and Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.
Want more? Cricket and AFL ovals will do. Imagine NASCAR in the Sydney Cricket Grounds, the site of the first motor race in Australia, or Perth Stadium, or Adelaide Oval. Eden Park or Sky Stadium in New Zealand, Lord's or The Oval in England, Wanderer's in South Africa, THE ENTIRETY OF INDIA AND SRI-LANKA. Even in the US we have Central Broward Park within half an hour of Miami and just breaking 20,000.
Want to go EVEN BIGGER? Horse tracks have pre-graded and laid out tracks of sufficient width between 3/4 and 1 1/2 miles.
Another thing to keep in mind is the only reason it worked at the Coliseum is they have to renovate it for the Olympics in 2028 anyway
Mile High stadium already hosts the Monster Jam Stadium Series. so it holding a NASCAR venue would be sick.
Should’ve picked Bryant-Denny anyway, I love Legion Field, but I’m about 90% sure that a NASCAR race would cause the old girl to shake apart at this point 😂
For Maryland, did you consider M&T Bank Stadium? Better condition, easier to drive to, has a light rail, and an operator who actually might invest in it.
Aaayy emplemon!! Great crossover, even better content creators
I love the cameos. Love all these guys.
Legion Field in B’ham is in dire need of a renovation so what better time to build a short track and host a NASCAR event than before a massively needed reno.
The LA Coliseum only worked because of the excess track/field surface around the football field itself. Most, if not all of the stadiums you mention would end up being too narrow as a 1/4 mile, if you could get a 1/4 mile at all. Fenway and Busch might work as a short, sort of road course. Allegiant Stadium and AT&T Stadium have roll out field systems like State Farm stadium, so how are they any more feasible than State Farm? You want to run a BUSCH CLASH in UTAH?!?! Probably need a different sponsor for that event.
As cool as a race in the Superdome could be, I really wanna see another race at NOLA Motorsports Park. Indycar tried to race there in 2015, but the event got rained out, so they haven't been back. The venue itself may be a bit small, but I think that the track is really, really nice.
Also, McGuire-Dix makes a lot of sense given that New Egypt is a stone's throw away as is Philly.
For Illinois, I would recommend O'Brien Field on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Sure, it can only seat around 10,000 people, but it has an actual running track around it (the Illinois high school track and field championships are held there annually), and there's a bigger NASCAR fanbase downstate than in the Chicago area. A street circuit incorporating Wrigley Field, similar in concept to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez baseball stadium section in its F1 configuration for the Mexican Grand Prix, would be an interesting idea, although that would probably require an Act of Congress because you'd have to remove parts of the ivy-covered outfield wall for that idea to work.