It's not an added race in CLT, it just replaces the fall race on the regular CLT oval. That in itself is a positive to me...one less 1.5 mi tri-oval race!
They actually started talking about doing the Roval last summer before the end of LAST season, but decided to wait until this season to do it...so the drivers and teams knew it was coming. They had a few drivers test on an initial track layout last summer. The only thing that was still open was the exact layout of the course and length of the race, which both changed a few times since the first Roval test they did last summer. To me, this seemed like a cool way to add another road course race and get it in the playoffs...and do something different for a change. None of the exiting tracks were going to give up a date to go to Road Atlanta or somewhere new like that, and all the tracks seem so hesitant to give up their current weekends, you wonder if Watkins Glen or Sonoma would have wanted to move into a fall date.
I think the Indy road course would be a great idea, too. As much as I appreciate the history of the Brickyard, the main track makes for terrible stock car races.
I just wonder if the new road courses might entice my boy Smoke to come out of retirement for at least an Xfinity run to try them out.
