- Busch Montreal race to be announced Monday, schedule to follow? UPDATE: hearing the long rumored Busch Series race in Montreal Canada will be officially announced late Monday afternoon, October 2nd in Montreal. The announcement may include the release of the 2007 Busch Series Schedule.(9-30-2006)
UPDATE: NASCAR has set a "Busch Series announcement in Montreal" for 5 p.m. Monday, presumably to announce the Busch Series will run in the city in 2007. Scheduled to attend the news conference include NASCAR Chairman Brian France, International Speedway Corp. Chief Operating Officer John Saunders, Groupe Motorise International General Manager Martin Spaulding and Grand American Road Racing Association President Roger Edmondson. Carl Edwards also is expected to attend. NASCAR likely will release the 2007 Busch Series schedule as well. Schedules handed out to teams last week showed the Montreal event listed for Aug. 4 on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve road course.(SceneDaily.com)(10-1-2006)
- NASCAR Nextel Cup Series 2007 Schedule Announced: The 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule was announced today [8/24], a 36-race slate starting with the 49th annual Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 18 at Daytona International Speedway. On Sunday, Nov. 18, Homestead-Miami Speedway will again host the season finale.
Other key dates:
On Sunday, July 1, New Hampshire International Speedway will host the first event in the “Race to the Chase,” the 10-race prelude to the “Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup.”
On Sunday, July 29, the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard will be held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
On the evening of Saturday, Sept. 8, Richmond International Raceway will be the final event in the “Race to the Chase.”
The week after Richmond, on Sunday, Sept. 16, New Hampshire again will have the kick-off event in the Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, which covers the season’s last 10 races and determines the series champion.
In addition to the 36-race regular schedule, the series’ two traditional “non-points” events are again slated, both for Saturday nights. The 29th annual Budweiser Shootout at Daytona will be held on Feb. 10, while the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge is set for May 19 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.
There are no changes from the 2006 schedule, in terms of sites. There are, however, several adjustments to the schedule’s order.
In July, the schedule will go from New Hampshire (July 1), to Daytona (July 7) and then Chicagoland Speedway (July 15). Previously, the order was Daytona-Chicago-New Hampshire. Also, Indianapolis’ event will close out July (July 29), followed the next week (Aug. 5) by Pocono Raceway. Previously, Pocono preceded Indianapolis. Those two races will follow the season’s final open week.
(The 2007 schedule follows on a subsequent page. Starting times and television information will be announced at a later date.)
2007 NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES SCHEDULE
Date Site
Feb 10 Budweiser Shootout at Daytona – Daytona International Speedway*
Feb 18 Daytona International Speedway
Feb 25 California Speedway
Mar 11 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Mar 18 Atlanta Motor Speedway
Mar 25 Bristol Motor Speedway
Apr 1 Martinsville Speedway
Apr 15 Texas Motor Speedway
Apr 21 Phoenix International Raceway
Apr 29 Talladega Superspeedway
May 5 Richmond International Raceway
May 12 Darlington Raceway
May 19 NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge – Lowe’s Motor Speedway*
May 27 Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Jun 3 Dover International Speedway
Jun 10 Pocono Raceway
Jun 17 Michigan International Speedway
Jun 24 Infineon Raceway
Jul 1 New Hampshire International Speedway
Jul 7 Daytona International Speedway
Jul 15 Chicagoland Speedway
Jul 29 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Aug 5 Pocono Raceway
Aug 12 Watkins Glen International
Aug 19 Michigan International Speedway
Aug 25 Bristol Motor Speedway
Sep 2 California Speedway
Sep 8 Richmond International Raceway
Sep 16 New Hampshire International Speedway
Sep 23 Dover International Speedway
Sep 30 Kansas Speedway
Oct 7 Talladega Superspeedway
Oct 13 Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Oct 21 Martinsville Speedway
Oct 28 Atlanta Motor Speedway
Nov 4 Texas Motor Speedway
Nov 11 Phoenix International Raceway
Nov 18 Homestead-Miami Speedway
*Non-championship points events Tentative-Subject to Change.(NASCAR PR)(8-24-2006)
- Pocono 2007 race dates in June and August: per the Pocono Raceway website, there will be two Nextel Cup races at Pocono in 2007, the first weekend being June 8-10, 2007 and the second one being August 3-5, 2007.(8-7-2006)
- NHIS 1st race July 1st in 2007 UPDATE other sched changes?: many New Hampshire International Speedway ticket holders got their renewals for the first NHIS 2007 race, and the date is July 1st, the race is usually the third weekend in July. With the 4th of July on a Wednesday in 2007, the Pepsi 400 is scheduled to run on July 7, 2007. No word on the NHIS race date in September 2007.(6-16-2006)
UPDATE On the schedule front, there are indications that next year's Cup slate will have a different look to it. New Hampshire's first race will be moved up two weeks to July 1st and rumors in the garage have a second Las vegas race and a possible Kentucky Speedway date showing up on the calendar.(RacingOne)(6-20-2006)
- Two More New Races in 2007? Despite NASCAR's insistence that the current 36-race Nextel Cup tour is maxed out and that no new race dates can be added, without cutting a date from a current track, there have been rumblings that two new races may well be added in 2007. Bruton Smith is politicking heavily for a second Nextel Cup race at his Las Vegas track. And he says he wants to buy Darlington. And Kentucky Speedway's suit against NASCAR to get a Nextel Cup date may have taken a twist in Kentucky's favor, with the judge indicating he wants to learn more about how NASCAR and the International Speedway Corp. operate. A similar suit resulted last year in NASCAR granting a Nextel Cup date to Texas Motor Speedway, effectively at the expense of North Carolina Motor Speedway, which was then closed.(Winston Salem Journal)(3-20-2006)
- 2007 Cup Sched changes? A new television package and concerns over attendance and TV ratings for some events could lead to a change in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series schedule, with changes coming as early as 2007, some in the sport believe. NASCAR typically doesn't begin the process of signing sanctioning agreements and putting its schedule together for the following year until it has visited tracks on the current schedule. However, with a new eight-year agreement that includes Fox, Speed, TNT and ABC/ESPN partners beginning in 2007, NASCAR may consider shuffling some dates to improve both ratings and attendance figures. "I haven't heard anything yet," car owner Richard Childress said March 4, "but I wouldn't be surprised. "I think with the new TV package, you better be prepared for what may have to happen. I think that [the TV package] will dictate not only the time of the race [on the schedule] but where we may even go as well." The season-opening Daytona 500, which was broadcast on NBC, pulled in 37.2 million viewers and a record 11.3 household rating according to the network, making it the highest-rated NASCAR event in the sport's history. The following week's race in Fontana, Calif., however, registered a 7.4 rating, down from a 7.9 rating the previous year. Attendance for the California race, as well, appeared to be down.(SceneDaily.com)(3-9-2006)
- Pepsi 400 in Nov 2007? error or cat out of the bag? UPDATE denied & changed: on a Castrol GTX sweepstakes page, the grand prize is listed as:
(1) Grand Prize: 4-day/3-night trip for two (2) to the 2007 Pepsi 400 race currently scheduled for November 2007 in Daytona, FL. Sooo, is that an error [oops] in the contest rules/prizes or did they slip and let the 'cat out of the bag' telling us that the Pepsi 400, held on the July 4th weekend for years, is gonna be moved in 2007 to be part of the chase and end the season where it began? See the contest and links on my Racing Contest page, it is towards the bottom as it ends 12/31/06.(3-8-2006)
UPDATE: been told by Daytona International Speedway reps that the Pepsi 400 will be run on July 7th, 2007 and NOT moved to November in 2007. The contest info has now been changed to relect the correct date of July 2007.(3-8-2007)
