new thing with this playoffs we didn't have any brand continuity no identity the playoffs kept changing and and how how it happened kept changing and the amount of people to get in kept changing and it was very very frustrating and i lost a lot of i lost a lot of pride in it um i lost the importance of it i lost a lot of belief in it right the the my my passion for this whole sport and love for it waned a little bit in those moments when the when the when the playoffs kept bouncing around from this net and the other well we found a little continuity here lately right there's been it's kind of sustained as far as the field size and the elimination and how it happens how it plays out has had a little bit of of of continuity and i like that and i want that and i think we're building some identity uh that could be we're building equity in the system now right now that it's sustained and found some stability right am i right i think you're NUMBER_TOKEN right i'm it's making me want to ask you another question what do you think about changing the final race venue i'm okay with it like so like the identity because see i was sort of i never liked homestead and then all of a sudden when we did it over and over again homestead became like the final place and then they moved to phoenix and i'm like i don't think i like this but now i'm digging it but i bet as soon as i really go all in it'll change something else and then that's the kind of stuff that you're talking about like it's like i i don't have enough time to really find the appreciation in something before it's gone yeah and you know well the um i i hear what you're saying mike and i miss homestead being in the in the mix right and next year with the schedule we go there later in the playoffs and i think that's going to be a great fit for homestead i think that track needs to matter it was sort of an afterthought being placed at the beginning of the year like it was when we moved away from there it's kind of thrown into the first half of the year and we just kind of went through the motions um it when we went out there and and when we went out there in the spring to race there obviously with the pandemic it was a weird vibe nobody was there but it didn't feel as important it felt like we had turned our back on it right i know that's not what nascar did but that's how it felt like it had been cast aside but now it's going to be placed late in the season i think homestead is going to be a great great stop on the schedule next year i can't wait for it to have some some be an impact and an important moment in the season and it will um and then but right now i love where we are with phoenix i know that last year or last couple years the way the race went at phoenix has caused some conversation about us changing that date or moving to another place because it the vibe wasn't there but this year it was they earned it man i heard i wasn't out there but i heard that everywhere you went in town like you knew that the nascar
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