NASCAR CEO Brian France Holds End of Year Press Conference

  NASCAR CEO Brian France held his end of year conference Friday afternoon, and addressed many concerns going into the final weekend of his sport’s season.

  One of the burning questions was the weather conditions for Sunday’s race. Despite the strong expectation for rain, Brian France was optimistic about actually running the race without interruption.

  “We’re trying to think through what would be the best way to do it, knowing our long-standing rule is, after the halfway point of completion, it’s a complicated event. We typically want to come away on race day with whoever watched the race, watched the event, saw the conclusion of the event. And that’s if you are over 50 percent. And we also take, it’s not lost on us all the benefits that could happen if we elected to want to compete every lap. We get that, we understand.” France said.

  “Our view now is that like a lot of things that aren’t necessarily perfect, so to speak, that’s part of our game.” France later added. “That’s part of racing that it’s part of the strategy. You saw that last week in Phoenix. That you have to anticipate weather as being a factor in deciding things, as unfortunate as that is. Hopefully t won’t be a factor on Sunday.”

  Another hot topic that was buzzing around the press conference were the rumors surrounding adding the Chase format from the Sprint Cup Series to the other race series due to its success in the Sprint cup.

  “Well,…, it won’t be exact, that’s for sure. But it has been successful. Our partners in XFINITY and Camping World would like us to explore what’s possible to have their own version of it. And we’re going to look at that. We’re going to look at that before, haven’t quite found the perfect thing for each one of those divisions. But we’ll work at it. It’s worth looking at.” France responded.

  Whether it’s response to weather in the sport or changing the format of the sport as a whole, NASCAR has a lot to go over in the offseason.