I had never really thought of its overall effect on NASCAR’s following, but I am also a hater of cookie cutter 1.5 mile tracks. Texas is a boring ass race, KCisa boring ass race, Charlotte, Chicago, LasVegas, ditto.
The exceptions I’d make is Atlanta and Darlington. Those two have had some really entertaining races.
I’ll take watching a race at Bristol or Martinsville (or the old flat Rockingham) any day to one of those ‘Jeff Gordon’ tracks.

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