Several IRL drivers have recently expressed a desire to drive stock cars at some point.
Maybe it's time to form a new stock car circuit to compete with NASCAR. There are several new tracks which can't get a Nextel Cup race, and some of the old tracks are losing races to the new, boring, cookie-cutter speedways in Chicago, Las Vegas, Kansas, and California.
Heck, they're even talking about building new generic speedways in New York and the state of Washington.
As far as the cookie-cutter tracks, I do wish they would make them look a bit different, add some kind of twists ... one of my favorite tracks ever was the old Trenton, N.J., track, which had a dogleg in the middle of the backstretch for some reason ... but IMHO 1.5 to 2 miles is absolutely the optimum size for a track for Cup cars. I think we've seen in the last few years at Daytona and Talladega that there is a reason no one is building 2.5 mile tracks with 30 degree banking anymore.