Egos stand in wan of an IndyCar/NASCAR doubleheader

Tony Stewart (R) says egos prevent an IndyCar/NASCAR doubleheader

Tony Stewart says Texas Motor Speedway would be the ideal venue to host a doubleheader weekend featuring a NASCAR Cup race and an IndyCar race would be a must-see event for racing fans.

“This would be the perfect place to do it," said Stewart, who hosted his 12th annual ‘Smoke Show’ at TMS on Wednesday.

“I think it’d be really cool. It’d be a weekend on my calendar that I’d make sure I would be at."

“We would love to do a doubleheader," Eddie Gossage told the Star-Telegram.

“I don’t know that many people who could pull that off, but there’s no question we could pull that one off. We’ve made sure both IndyCar and NASCAR know about it.

“I don’t get any sense that it’s a real priority for either right now. When and if the conversation is had, we’ll be in the conversation. Whether it turns out that way? I don’t know.

“We’ve been very successful in both Cup and IndyCar for a long time. Hopefully if it happens anywhere, it would happen here. But I don’t see it anytime in the near future."

Why not?

“There’s too many egos involved. That’s why it hasn’t happened in motorsports," Stewart said. “When I say egos, the egos in IndyCar and the egos in NASCAR wanting to be the trump card in the deal. If they can let their egos down and think about what the fans like versus what they think, there’s a possibility you could have a really, really cool weekend here."

Yes, if each series wanted to make it work, it could work.

There would be some issues such as finding the right date and different tire compounds that each series leaves on the track, but that would become minutiae in the big picture.

As Stewart put it, “Man, I think that’s about as big of a kick-ass weekend you could ever ask for in motorsports."