Lost in the shuffle of Kevin Harvick’s recent Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series schedule critique was his proposed solution to one of the overall talking points.

Harvick made headlines for once again suggesting that the schedule has become stale and that the playoffs needed more fresh ideas like the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL event. The 2014 champion also suggested that the Championship Race needed to rotate across numerous tracks instead of remaining at Homestead-Miami Speedway each November.

"You see the Charlotte road course," Harvick said. "It is just like the road course, if we don’t ever run it again, think about all the conversation that it created. If you did it every year, it would become just another race. Those are the types of things that we need to create. We need to create events and moments."

The solution he offered was for NASCAR to take tracks with major renovation projects, like Phoenix and Richmond, and allow them to loan their dates to another track until the renovation had been completed.

NASCAR is currently in the third of a five-year sanctioning agreement with each track that hosts the Cup Series and Xfinity Series. That deal concludes in 2020.

"I think everyone is reluctant to go in and really mix it up because of the sanctioning agreements," Harvick said. "I think if you could work something out to where you could take your date and lease it to someone else but you are still in charge of that date and do that on occasion, to help create those unique events.

So to his point, the obvious track that is in position to do this would be Phoenix, which is currently gutting its entire infield, despite having a race in March. Harvick would like to see Phoenix be able to loan that date out to Gateway Motorsports Park, Iowa Speedway or another capable and willing venue.

However, Phoenix (ISM) Speedway president Bryan Sperber says he’s not sure if that’s feasible.

"I've been involved in NASCAR since 1990 and one thing I've learned is that you never say never. With that said, I'm not sure how that could work."

Las Vegas Motor Speedway president Chris Powell is even more bullish on the topic.

"I think that would be ... it's a little above my pay grade but I think you have to consider the fans," Powell said. "We have to consider them first. Not just NASCAR or the drivers or the networks, but the fans. We have to keep the fans number one. So my opinion is, if you take a race away from a large group of people, and if you've had a NASCAR date before, it doesn't serve them well to take it away."

More succinctly, Powell says this is a matter of date equity and fan loyalty. If you take the date away for even one single event, Powell believes you risk inviting them to not come back.

Auto Club Speedway track president Dave Allen says both sides have merits.

"I think Kevin makes a lot of good points, but you have to have a long runway on something like this," he said. "Coming from a track that has lost a date, I can tell you that you have to think of the fans too. For us, I think losing one date in a way made us stronger. But that hasn't always been the case in some markets.

"You have to think about sponsors and television too. There's just a lot that has to go into consideration. So if you go that route, you have to put a lot of time into it to make it's successful for everyone. But I do think a lot of good points have been made."

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