Chase Elliott wonders if NASCAR needs to end its Cup Series seasons earlier in the year to avoid the NFL's season as much as possible.
The 2020 Cup Series champion said this weekend at Bristol that he didn’t “see any reason” that NASCAR should have its Cup Series season compete with the NFL. The 2022 Cup Series season ends on Nov. 5, the same Sunday that is Week 9 of the NFL season.
NASCAR instituted a playoff format in the Cup Series in 2004 as it was in the midst of an unprecedented popularity boom and wanted to be a competitor to the NFL on Sundays. That competition is a first-round TKO by the NFL at this point. NASCAR race viewership is dwarfed by NFL game audiences on Sundays in the fall as NASCAR typically sees its biggest TV numbers of the season at the beginning of the year when there is limited sports competition.
But with 36 races on the schedule, it’s hard to see how NASCAR can end the season any earlier than it does without races in the middle of the week or a much earlier start to the season. The 2023 Cup Series schedule was released in the days before the Bristol race and again features 37 races over 38 weeks from the Daytona 500 on Feb. 19 to the season finale at Phoenix on Nov. 5.
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