NASCAR announces 2011 schedules: NASCAR announced today the 2011 schedule for its three national series, highlighted by several key changes for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. All three national series, NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, will begin their seasons at Daytona International Speedway's "Speedweeks," with a weekend culminated by the Daytona 500. All three national series, NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, will begin their seasons at Daytona International Speedway's "Speedweeks," with a weekend culminated by the Daytona 500. The traditional "non-points" Budweiser Shootout at Daytona will provide fans a NASCAR Sprint Cup preview, on Saturday night, Feb. 12, followed by qualifying for the "Great American Race" to be held on Sunday, Feb. 13. All three series will end their seasons with another tradition, Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Nov. 18-20.
The 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will consist of 25 races, one of which will be announced at a future date. Phoenix International Raceway, which traditionally hosted the penultimate race in November, will host the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on Friday, Feb. 25. Darlington Raceway, which returned to the schedule in 2010 after an absence of six years, moves from August to Saturday, March 12. Michigan International Speedway's truck race, previously held in June, will accompany its late-summer NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday, Aug. 20. Two additional date shifts in the fall have stand-alone events at Kentucky Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway, moving a month later on the schedule. The series races at Kentucky on Saturday, Oct. 1 followed by Las Vegas on Saturday, Oct. 15. Complete schedule is posted on the 2011 Camping World Truck Series Schedule page.(8-18-2010) > http://jayski.com/cts/2011cts-sched.htm
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