Fox wants a change? UPDATE 3 Las Vegas/Rockingham to switch? No? There is talk Fox does not want to begin its 2002 telecasts with the Rockingham race, currently second on the schedule. NBC has the rights to the Daytona 500 to open the 2002 season(Sporting News) UPDATE: hearing the Las Vegas Cup race could be moved to the 2nd wwekend of the 2002 Cup Schedule and Fox would start their 2002 race broadcasts with that race UPDATE 2: Sources tell me that Las Vegas will still have the first Sunday of March race date, and that unless NASCAR leaves an open date after Daytona (unlikely) some race will be run between Vegas and Daytona(6-18-2001) UPDATE 3: There have been reports that Fox would rather not return at Rockingham, the site for the second race on this year’s schedule, preferring to have Las Vegas moved to the second race in 2002. “We’d be very happy to start with Rockingham,” said Ed Goren, president of Fox Sports. “There are some scheduling issues NASCAR is dealing with. At one point, because it was our first race they were looking at the possibility of going to Vegas but there were some conflicts with hotel space. “We will just sit down with the folks at NASCAR over the next week or so to take a look at next year’s schedule and hopefully try to put together a schedule that works for NASCAR but also produces the best opportunity to continue to increase ratings.”(That’s Racin’)(6-25-2001)
