“..Phoenix Is Just Bad..” – NASCAR Spotter Brett Griffin Cites Kyle Larson’s Example to Make His Case for the Championship Weekend Venue

Published 06/05/2022, 5:14 PM EDT

Recently, NASCAR announced that in the coming season as well, the Phoenix Raceway will host the championship weekend. This announcement attracted a lot of criticism from the NASCAR community as fans felt the title decider should be moved to a different track.

But the question is, where to? Homestead? Nashville? Daytona?

While the options are all as enticing as the next, NASCAR spotter Brett Griffin wants, not a change of venue, that too, but before that, a change of approach.

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“If I were in that shoes, I would move the championship weekend every single year to a new market,” Griffin said in a recent episode of the Door Bumper Clear podcast. “Because it’s worth doing that for the sport.”

NASCAR announces that the championship weekend will return to Phoenix in 2023.
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) May 31, 2022

“We gotta talk about the health of the sport, and running that race at Phoenix is just bad every single year. I said it when it was Homestead every year. Like I love the Homestead racetrack, but running there every single year,” he continued. “Who’s gonna be better if we go to Homestead every single weekend? Kyle Larson!”

“Stop taking it to the same damn place every single year.”

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In a recent interview, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver described why he can’t do anything about the All-Star race. “That is out of my pay grade,” he said.

“We have had some great races as we have gone through the season and going to different venues and having different things happen. If it was mine, I would do things probably in a different way, but it is not mine, I just drive,” Harvick continued.

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“It is like I tell my son, make a couple billion dollars and then you can buy it and decide what the schedule looks like.”

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Shaharyar is an F1 & NASCAR writer at EssentiallySports. A graduate in Journalism from Amity University, he has been a passionate follower of motorsports for a better part of the decade. A Max Verstappen and Ferrari supporter, he dreams of a pairing of the two in future.

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Ankit Sharma