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NASCAR needs a pretty big overhaul, but it all boils down to two things: The cars are boring, the schedule is boring.
How to fix? Well, first off, drop the stage racing, drop the overtime rules, reduce all races except the Daytona 500, Coke 600, and Brickyard 400 to 300 mile races. The Chase isn't as big a deal as some make it out to be, so flip a coin on whether or not to drop it.
Too many 1.5-mile cookie cutters on the schedule. Any such track that gets more than one race should run one of them either on the infield road courses or with a Trenton-style dogleg on the backstretch. The latter would probably be best since NASCAR does not need, and should not shift to, a terribly road course heavy schedule. They should look into Portland's road course to help try and tap the Pacific Northwest market.
They need some short tracks BETWEEN half a mile and a full mile - Iowa should be able to handle a Cup race.
A dirt track race or two would be nice as well.
The cars are a fair simpler to address: They need to lose a couple hundred pounds and shave a few inches off their height. Lowering the center of gravity and lightening them up a bit will make them much racier and more exciting(as well as allow bodywork that looks even MORE like the road cars).
Put simply, the NASCAR Cup cars should either look like the Euroseries cars or Trans Am cars without the wing, and should corner like an Australian Supercar.
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