“You could run kind of all over the place, so hats off to the track.” “The racetrack was as good as it could be,” Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Drivers said the track widened out enough to allow them to race on multiple lanes, and those with dirt backgrounds finished in the top six positions, which lends credibility to the racing having some true dirt elements. The racing was pretty entertaining on Sunday, certainly much better than the inaugural edition and an overall improvement from last year (aside from the finish). It’s just a matter of the track prep and all those things that go along with it.” But especially after tonight, it’s shown it can put on really good racing. “Now, if it’s (at Bristol) or not, it really doesn’t make a difference to me. “We have to have a dirt race - at least one,” Chase Briscoe said. It’s important to have a diverse schedule, and a dirt race is both a nod to NASCAR’s history and an outreach to the type of grassroots fans around the country whom the sanctioning body would like to bring in. The dirt race was also created hand-in-hand with Fox, which gives NASCAR a rare Sunday night prime-time spot on broadcast television (and thus boosts viewership compared to other races). Bristol Dirt differentiates itself from the Bristol Night Race and injects life into a spring race that at times seemed to lack fan enthusiasm.But should Bristol Dirt return for a fourth year? This race has become one of the most divisive topics in NASCAR, so let’s look at three arguments for both sides now that the dust has cleared on Sunday’s race.
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