Street courses are big for corporate and TV dollars. They look fantastic if pulled off correctly and showing potential investors and partners those events is what drives that cash, which is the most important thing. Even if older fans or fans of the old style like Rockingham or Dover, where the money is, no one gives 2 shits about it. You can still have them mixed in, but the survival of the sport is actually with pulling off more unique spectacle events because that's where the money is. NASCAR cannot survive running a ton of 1.5 mile tracks, like 3 short tracks, and oversaturating a specific market by running at multiple tracks all in the same general area (like how there's a bunch of tracks all within a few hrs of each other in VA/NC). They need events like this, the Coliseum race, trying COTA instead of the 1.5 track, etc all mixed in. Even if means other tracks get cut to one date, its what they're gonna have to do because its necessary for the long term health of the sport. It's not like they did in the early to mid 00s where they cut a bunch of duplicate dates and replaced them all with cookie cutter tracks. They're doing it a smarter way this time around by looking at variety (road courses, street courses, shorter tracks, etc)
