Homestead will take it UPDATE Atlanta in Oct: Atlanta Motor Speedway president Ed Clark has expressed interest in moving his Winston Cup races to different dates next season. The track hosts the Cracker Barrell 500 in March and the season-ending NAPA 500. Homestead-Miami Speedway president Curtis Gray said his facility, which has the second-to-last race of the season, would be interested in gaining the final race. The past two champions have clinched the title at Homestead-Miami. “Sure it’d be great to have the last of the season,” Gray said. “It’d be very prestigious.”(St Petersburg Times) AND Clark declined to mention which track would be willing to take the November race, but he did say he’d prefer to hold the event in September or October, “which are two of the driest months of the year in Georgia.” The last five Winston Cup race weekends at AMS have been affected by inclement weather. NASCAR has told AMS that the spring race will remain in the second week of March(AJC)(7-8-2001) UPDATE: Next season, for the first time since 1986, Atlanta Motor Speedway will not host the finale race of the Winston Cup season. Atlanta’s fall Winston Cup race in the 2002 season will be held on Sunday, Oct. 27, three weeks earlier than usual. The move, which had been pursued by officials at the speedway and Speedway Motorsports Inc., the track’s owner, because of frequent poor weather in November, should allow the Winston Cup season to conclude at Homestead, Fla. Currently, NASCAR’s BGN division ends its season at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Having the Winston Cup season end the same weekend would provide for a “championship weekend” of sorts. Before Atlanta began hosting the final race of the season in 1987, it was held at Riverside, Calif., for six seasons.(That’s Racin’)(8-2-2001) UPDATE 2: see That’s Racin’s How the 2002 schedule is shaking out along with my Tentative 2002 Winston Cup Schedule(8-3-2001) (8-2-2001)
