Short Tracks to “Cookie Cutters“: Inside NASCAR’s 1990s Track Shift

For the past 20 years, so-called “Cookie Cutter Tracks“ on the NASCAR schedule have been criticized for a lack of excitement. Today, “More Short Tracks“ is a common phrase in racing. But in the 1990s, short tracks were being pushed out of racing. “Rubbin is racing,“ but some people though it was unprofessional, short tracks couldn’t hold enough cars, tracks need to be in big cities, and intermediate tracks were the future. When nearly a dozen major race tracks were built in the late-90s, most of them were 1