How likely would the Road to the Brickyard 400 be probable in 2018?

I feel like I am wanting to see the Road to the Brickyard 400 in 2018 be probable, especially if its for the 25th Running of the Brickyard 400. I've brought up in past blogs, the 3 probable candidates, Soldier Field in Chicago, Gaylord OU Memorial in Norman and the Superdome in New Orleans.

I really wonder what if we had a season to the road to the Brickyard 400? I wonder how safely functionable would the Star be for Motorsports Activities, even though it is the size of Bazemore Hyder Stadium in Valdosta, or having a standalone Dirt Track at AT and T Stadium or how safe would the Cotton Bowl Stadium and a Dirt Track get together, much less safe concerts or football? Or, NRG Stadium had Dirt Track Racing Season like the Rodeo.

The challenge is Dirt Track Promoters wouldn't play nice over being booked over and if there is a "good" way, sell up the stadium just to stir up racing interest back into the community? It is not like Verizon's Cutting Checks for Infrastructure the same as keeping Central High Football on Campus in Little Rock to keep the stadium safe.

I wonder if there is a good way to think of having a rodeo season like Mesquite on these bigger venues? Or, if we where to return the favor on Stadium Racing that is not Mickey Thompson, Monster Trucks or Supercross, is there a business interruption concern like if we had a street race anywhere? Or, if we had a season like we had to make it bigger, would people naturally want to commit or would they lose interest or patience after a while if there is not a quality or standard product? If we leered in ooh and ahh over William Byron winning the A-Main like we where slack jawed or Petty-Pearson Rivalry happened all over again, it'd be a better image. Besides the inevitable lack of World of Outlaws or IHRA, would there be more plastic chunks thrown the further we go along on the existing series, because they hadn't seen anything like it, or would people's general attitudes toward the bigger venues be just as bad and not be any better than the small venues?

What if the Lancia Stratos returned to Rally Racing?

Reading about the mammoth larger than life Rally Monsters of Group B of the Mid 1980s, I am wildly curious what if the Lancia Stratos actually returned to Rally Racing? Other than hearing a holy ghost in action like Jeff Scott ripping a Touchdown for Mississippi into the Night against Vanderbilt that we had no business otherwise, but, I feel for curiousity sake, why not let it rip.

For serious, it feels as if no option is as frivolous or off the table within reason. With rally racing being the toughest 4 Wheel Racing anywhere on the planet Earth and rightly so, and I think the fans would deserve some right of seeing these giants roar.

I don't think I'd want to just be another promotional that leaves people as quickly as it came back, but, if we did some version of rallying in America like from Racetrack to Racetrack or to properly give credit to Pike's Peak again and try to portray the Pikes Peak and the Baja 1000 as a proper Road to rather than another aspirational offering.

Getting the Lancias sold outside Italy would be no easy task. The Lancias would have been off our shores since 1982 and we'd have to do a Stadium Truck or Stadium Racing Series better than we did now. To think of an American equal of the 1970s and 1980s, we'd have to think the infamous Pro Stock Mountain Motors that where more of a sandlot to the point they had no real way of sticking long term.

Would there be desire to get Lancia across the Atlantic? In reality, there'd have to be a true educated community to by those cars, but to aftermarket those parts. We've called Dallara every different name not printable, but, if we had someone really interested in those cars and their parts, it wouldn't matter who it would be making those aftermarket parts within reason.