Should NASCAR have more night races?

This may seem like an arbitrary topic to this post, but I picked it because New Hampshire, the last track the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series visited, is looking to install lights to allow it to host a night race possibly starting in 2015. New Hampshire has two Cup dates, the other being in September, and the town of Loudon currently prohibits the track from night activities, something that is trying to be changed, with great support from many NASCAR fans.

NASCAR has become overrun with night races in the past 20 years as more tracks install lights for night racing. Kansas is the latest track to make a foray into night racing, and other tracks without lights are hoping to get them. One at which fans probably want to see a night race the most is Talladega, the sister track of Daytona, which got its lights in 1998 and moved the summer 400-mile race to Saturday night. While some people think night races make for added drama and excitement in NASCAR, others believe there should be more races held during the day, as was the custom in NASCAR's classic years. These people actually have gotten their wishes a couple of times in the past couple of years, with races like Chicagoland and the spring dates at Texas and Phoenix both moving back to daytime after being held at night for a few years.

It looks like right now, NASCAR itself is all for night racing, and will do whatever it takes to make more proposed night races a reality. One reason some people do not like this is that they believe night racing is focused more on the sense of drama racing under the lights gives rather than the actual racing, and that NASCAR just wants to get ticket sales back up. But there are some night races that I believe are truly deserving, like for example the wildly popular summer race at Bristol (one of NASCAR's first night races in 1978) and both races at Richmond. I like those "short track Saturday nights." But others like New Hampshire, Kansas and Talladega I think should be exclusively daytime tracks. And I think that sums up my thoughts on that.