The 2010 schedule situation appears to be pretty much status quo with Dover’s Sprint Cup date shifting back to mid-May [May 16th], more a result on the way next year’s calendar falls with Easter [April 4th] and Memorial Day [May 31st]. There won’t be any big changes on the Nationwide and Truck Series slates with Milwaukee’s future still very much up in the air. The trucks will return to Darlington in the Spring and there’s a report Pocono will also be added to its schedule.(RacingOne), have a very rough 2010 Schedule posted, see my 2010 Sprint Cup Series Schedule page. Very little has been announced by any race tracks for 2010 yet.(8-11-2009)
UPDATE – Kentucky to get Cup race in 2011?: Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith was hoping to get Kentucky on the schedule, likely taking a date away from Atlanta, but the former owners of the speedway refuse to drop their lawsuit against NASCAR. Until that happens, NASCAR won’t consider Kentucky for a date. But otherwise, expect next year’s schedule will be like this year’s schedule — except for two exceptions. If you were paying attention to Sunday’s press conference in which Michigan International Speedway officials announced a reduction in ticket prices, you may have noticed a change in date for the track’s first 2010 race. The date was June 13, a week earlier than normal. And there’s another shift: The Dover race will move from the weekend after Memorial Day weekend to early May. These changes come because there is an extra weekend in between the Mother’s Day race date at Darlington and the Memorial Day race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, and one less weekend between then and the Fourth of July weekend. (ESPN Insider)(8-22-2009)
