{"id":260461,"date":"2025-11-04T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260461\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T06:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:24:12","slug":"nascar-considering-different-ideas-for-championship-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260461\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR considering different ideas for championship format"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR has \u201cconducted a series of meetings with industry representatives to volley numerous ideas\u201d for the next iteration of a championship format, according to Matt Weaver of MOTORSPORT<\/a>. NASCAR President Steve O\u2019Donnell \u201cpraised the work that has come from that group.\u201d O\u2019Donnell said the committee included \u201calmost every stakeholder in the industry — OEMs, tracks, teams, former drivers, current drivers,\u201d and they \u201ckicked around a ton of ideas.\u201d Weaver noted fans have \u201clargely rejected the one-race final to decide a champion due to the small sample size nature of the format.\u201d O\u2019Donnell said he and NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps have \u201ccertainly heard the industry, understand the challenges that are out there,\u201d so the \u201cgoal is to balance some of those moments that we\u2019ve had with the great racing, but also deliver a little bit more of I think what the fans and the industry is asking for.\u201d <\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell said that NASCAR has \u201copened itself up to having conversations about the format due the argument that something that could be perceived as random actually hurts star power.\u201d Weaver as an example noted driver Corey Heim has 11 wins in the Truck Series this year and driver Connor Zilisch has 10 in the Xfinity Series, and it is \u201cpossible that neither will win the championship and when they eventually make it to Cup, their lack of a championship undermines their success from a public facing standpoint.\u201d O\u2019Donnell said, \u201cThe one-race thing has been a factor of there\u2019s a lot of circumstances that can happen. Our fans, right or wrong, are different than other stick-and-ball sports. That\u2019s okay\u201d (MOTORSPORT, 11\/1<\/a>).<\/p>\n

CHANGE COMING: In Daytona Beach, Ken Willis wrote a \u201cfew scenarios have been tossed around.\u201d NASCAR is \u201ckind of limited\u201d if they keep the playoffs at 16 drivers and 10 races and \u201cditch the final all-or-nothing race.\u201d NASCAR could \u201ccut from 16 to 10 after three races, from 10 to four after three more, and have those four duke it out over the final four weeks.\u201d Or \u201cbreak the first two segments into four races each and make it a two-race shootout at the end.\u201d Or maybe have \u201cfive or six finalists instead of four.\u201d Whatever NASCAR decides, it \u201cseems as if a change is coming\u201d (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 11\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has \u201cconducted a series of meetings with industry representatives to volley numerous ideas\u201d for the next iteration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,139,12716,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-260461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-leadership","11":"tag-motorsports","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}