Roush wants longer races
NASCAR Nextel Cup team owner Jack Roush has called for longer races when the series makes it rare visits to road courses
The Nextel Cup road races at Sears Point and Watkins Glen may be demanding for drivers and teams focused primarily on oval racing, but team owner Jack Roush doesn't thing the events are demanding enough. In an interview with the Gaston Gazzette, Roush said he thinks the road race events should be made longer.
"I think it would be beneficial to hold these races for longer than 180 miles," said Roush. "For many years I competed in endurance racing, and it would be a positive, I think if we had an incentive to make these cars durable."
The actual length of last Sunday's race in Sonoma was 219 miles. Roush suggested 350 miles as an ideal, although such a length would likely make for races exceeding the ideal time duration for television.
Longer road races would hardly be unprecendented for NASCAR. During the 1960s and '70s, NASCAR ran road races at old Riverside Raceway in California that were 500 miles in length, although it subsequently shortened Riverside events to 311 miles in the '80s.
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