Bubba Wallace Wants This Track to Host 5 NASCAR Races, While Tyler Reddick Has a More “Anytime, Anywhere” Approach to the Same

Over the past decade, NASCAR has made ‘Change’ its middle name. There have been fresh starts throughout, be it the new schedules or discovering race tracks with untapped potential. Even the street race in Chicago is something the NASCAR community hadn’t seen before. There have also been quite a few new races added – Circuit of The Americas, Nashville Superspeedway, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, among others. Thus, NASCAR keeps bringing about new changes to the way it functions. 

However, what often remains overlooked is what the racers, who actually have to execute these changes, feel about it. Be it the location of the race or its duration or the kind of track being raced on, drivers have often had to say something about it. Most recently, 23XI teammates, Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace, were asked some questions about their opinion on the current system of NASCAR. What they had to say was more or less in contrast to one another.

Bubba Wallace goes North, and Tyler Reddick goes South

Over the last few years, NASCAR has made itself the epitome of change and diversity. Be it dirt races, superspeedways, or road courses, you name it, NASCAR’s done it. While conducting a discussion regarding this diversity of courses that NASCAR maintains, The Athletic derived that Bubba Wallace would prefer to have less number of road course races. Is he even wrong? Road courses are perhaps what makes NASCAR drivers the most wary. In addition to that, the danger factor in these courses is quite high, and even drivers like Brad Keselowski don’t feel the most confident when it comes to them. 

As per the Athletic, he said, “One or two less road courses. And I’d like to make sure we maintain some routes to our local short tracks and to the short tracks that have made NASCAR so strong over the years. I don’t think we’re terribly far off on the balance.” Surprisingly, for Tyler Reddick, on the other hand, it’s a case of ‘the more the merrier’.

In the same interview, Tyler Reddick reveals he wants to see even more races in NASCAR. For him, racing seems to be more important than prepping. He wants more races because that is the only way he can race more and prep less. 

When asked if there was any particular track that they would want NASCAR to add to its schedule, the two 23XI drivers yet again had pretty contrasting answers. Reddick claimed to be willing to race “anytime, anywhere.” It seems like all that matters to him is just the racing part. He is agreeable to almost everything else. Wallace, however, has a very specific answer. 

“Kansas about five times would be good. Vegas, Charlotte, Darlington, Michigan — places where we’re good at.”

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It is clear that the 2021 Talladega winner wants to make sure that they can capitalize on all the tracks where there’s a possibility of him scoring better. He finished and ranked within the Top 5 at Vegas, Kansas, Charlotte as well as Darlington this year. So, it is only logical on his part to ask for more races in these tracks.

With only 6 races remaining till the playoffs, Wallace certainly needs factors like this to work out to make it to the top 16 list.  

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Kevin Harvick would not have kept any element of monotony in NASCAR, had it been up to him. While he likes the newly introduced Chicago Street course, he would’ve definitely not made racing there a yearly endeavor. To The Athletic, he mentions that he would ensure constant rotation in the schedule of the championship, so as not to make it repetitive year after year.

He would rotate them in such a manner that the last 10 races would be a healthy mix of all kinds of races- short tracks, road courses, etc. Keeping the traditional races like Daytona 500 and Coca-Cola 600 intact, he would move about every race for the purpose of spontaneity. 

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While Bubba Wallace’s dream of having more races in his favorite 5 tracks is definitely not coming true in 2023, fans are keeping an eye on what he does to make it to the playoffs in the final 6 races of the season.