Series Slates as Part of 2020 Schedule Announcement
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (April 3, 2019) – NASCAR today announced the 2020 schedules for both the NASCAR Xfinity Series™ and NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series™, and both include a return to race tracks that were part of the original schedule for each series – venues that have been absent from the respective slates for more than a decade.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (March 26, 2019) – A champion crowned in the desert. The Last Great Colosseum becomes a postseason factor. A tricky doubleheader. The birthplace of NASCAR bookends the regular season.
NASCAR today announced significant, dynamic changes to the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, with intriguing shifts during both the regular season and the Playoffs.Paragraph
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Formula One team AT&T Williams and Swiss watch makers Oris extended their sponsorship agreement for another three years until 2010. This came from sports business.com's daily newsletter. Another item in that same issue talked about the upcoming Olympics to be held in Bejing, China that speculated that the opening ceremony could draw up to 1 billion live viewers! Wouldn't that get the attention of the various US, Australian and international circuits. Motor racing interests will salavate to think about that potential. Especially F1's Bernie Eccelstone who rules the F1 roost from his posh offices in the Knightsbridge section of London.
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LOUDON, N.H. (July 14, 2012) – For the third straight season Brad Keselowski will sit on the pole for Saturday afternoon’s F.W. Webb 200 Nationwide Series race. Keselowski’s time of 29.067 seconds (131.035 mph) was 0.055 faster than Kasey Kahne, who earned a front-row position for the second straight day. Kahne will also start second in Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series LENOX Industrial Tools 301.
Keselowski was the top qualifier in each of the last two seasons, with Kyle Busch going on to earn the checkers in each of those races.
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