"It’s insane that a race track that hosts a NASCAR Cup Series playoff event in the year 2021 does not have lights. Lights should be as standard as SAFER barriers in NASCAR, especially for tracks that are owned and operated by NASCAR.

I can understand tracks like Dover International Speedway or Pocono Raceway, which are owned by smaller corporations, not having lights. But it is unacceptable for a NASCAR-owned track like Talladega not to have lights. The fact that it doesn’t have lights and is still in the playoffs is even more ridiculous." - Clayton Caldwell, on the idea that every track in the playoffs must have lights.