NASCAR released the 2010 schedule for all three of their top touring series Tuesday.
Among the highlights…
In the Sprint Cup Series:
Qualifying for the Daytona 500 will be held on Saturday, Feb. 6, the same day as the Budweiser Shootout. Previously, qualifying was held the day after the shootout.
The first Dover race was put before the two-week stop in Charlotte for the All Star Race and Coca-Cola 600 and Texas and Phoenix swapped dates in April.
Also, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will have four “off” weeks including the traditional Easter holiday on April 4.
In the Nationwide Series, a Nashville-Phoenix-Texas run on April 3, April 9 and April 17 will replace a Texas-Nashville-Phoenix spring lineup. Also the first Dover race will be run earlier than usual, on May 15, in companion to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
In the Camping World Truck Series, the Iowa Speedway and Gateway International Raceway events will be two months earlier, on July 11 and 16. And Kentucky Speedway’s date moves from July to Sept. 3.
Oh and on July 31st the trucks will race at Pocono.
So what do you think about the schedule? What does the fact that no tracks lost a race and no tracks were added to the schedule say about the health of the sport?
Perhaps the most controversial move, to some, was adding a truck series race at Pocono, a track many say provides some the least exciting racing in NASCAR. Do you think the truck series can provide the kind of exhilarating racing some critics contend is needed at Pocono?
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Comments
I guess it is hard to comment a whole lot on the NSCS sked, I do like the earlier NNS race at Iowa Speedway (I'm close to it), but I'm totally against a NCWTS race at Pocono. Pocono races have become very uninteresting. I record all races except Pocono, I find other things to do that race & just check the results afterwards.
To me the schedule is irrelevant. Reason being NASCAR is a shadow of its formal self. No longer do we have actual showroom cars and a wide spectrum of driver personality, instead we have generic cars (COT), with rare exception--generic drivers, generic tracks, generic fans, and in the end generic races. NASCAR needs to return to it's roots.
yawn... as per the Eagles' "Sad Cafe" - "Things in this world change very slowly if they ever change at all".
What's to comment on. Looks pretty much the same as last years, which didn't change much from the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that.
The schedule realignment that should have taken place when the chase format was started still hasn't taken place. What's amazing is that Atlanta proved that changing a date can have a huge positive effect on attendance but NASCAR doesn't seem to pay attention.
Not enough changes on the schedule to make any difference. Pocono has to be one of the worst tracks to watch a race -- they go way far away on the backstretch for a LONG time. If it's a humid day, the cars completely disappear from view. I doubt that having a truck race there will help.
Boring races with boring cars on boring tracks - that's what NASCAR is these days.
My opinion is no tracks on the schedule should lose a date except any track that has 2 dates built after 1980 and no new track should ever be allowed to have 2 dates. The only way an older track should lose its second date is if they don't keep up with the times and reinvest in its infastructure. You reward the local areas and tracks and fans who brought you to the dance and supported you when you needed it.
Race every weekend @ Bristol or build more Bristol style tracks.
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