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Race: Coca-Cola 600 – Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009
Time: 5:35 PM EST (scheduled green flag)
TV: 5:00 PM EST on SPEED
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Preview: Tony Stewart won his first race as owner/driver of Stewart-Haas
Racing in last week’s Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. This week, the cars are back on the same track, but for a much different race.
Race: Sprint Cup All-Star Challenge – Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009
Time: 7:30 PM EST Sprint Showdown / 9:00 PM EST Sprint All-Star Race
TV: 7:00 PM EST on SPEED
Preview: This weekend, NASCAR drivers and fans take a week off from points racing to focus on fun and funds … a non-points paying event with a guarantee of at least $1 million to the winner of the Sprint All-Star Challenge. The race consists of four short segments and will include some mandatory pit stops, with the final segment a 10-lap free-for-all.
Race: The Southern 500 – Darlington Raceway
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time: 7:35 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 7:00 PM EST on FOX
Preview: Darlington Raceway is a venerable NASCAR venue in the heart of stock car racing’s traditional southeastern home base.
With the carnage that was the Aaron’s 499 at Talladega still fresh on the minds of drivers, the NASCAR circuit moves on to Virginia this weekend for the first of its two season stops at Richmond International Raceway. The action at Saturday night’s running of the “Crown Royal presents the Russ Friedman 400” should be much tamer and according to sentiment ringing from Talladega, safer than last week’s proceedings.
Race: Crown Royal Presents The Russ Friedman 400 – Richmond International Raceway
Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time: 7:43 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 7:00 PM EST on FOX
Preview: Richmond International Raceway is a historic NASCAR venue with over 100 Cup races run here dating back to 1953.
Race: Aaron’s 499 – Talladega Superspeedway
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Time: 2:16 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 1:00 PM EST on FOX
Preview: From the flat one-mile oval course at Phoenix International Raceway to the high-banked 2.66-mile tri-oval of Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR fans are getting a big contrast in racing speeds and styles from last weekend to this one.
Race: Subway Fresh Fit 500 – Phoenix International Raceway
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009
Time: 8:46 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 8:00 PM EST on FOX
Preview: There are a lot of unknowns going into this weekend’s race, the first Saturday night race in the 2009 Sprint Cup season.
Race: Samsung 500 – Texas Motor Speedway
Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009
Time: 2:16 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 1:30 PM EST on FOX
Preview: After two weeks of short track shakin’ and bakin’, the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit heads to the 1.5-mile quad-oval of Texas Motor Speedway, where speeds routinely top 200 miles per hour on the straights.
Race: Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 – Martinsville Speedway
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009
Time: 2:16 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 2:00 PM EST on FOX
Preview: NASCAR drivers might need some Goody’s Headache Powder by the time Sunday’s race on the Martinsville “paperclip” is over.
Race: Food City 500 – Bristol Motor Speedway
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009
Time: 2:16 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 1:30 PM EST on FOX
Preview: “Welcome to the Holy Grail of Motorsports.” That’s the greeting on the Bristol Motor Speedway website. NASCAR has been visiting this eastern Tennessee short track since the early 1960s. Fans used to enjoy the beatin’ and bangin’ that Bristol was known for, but since a repaving project in 2007, the track has developed a second groove that suits drivers, if not so much the fans.
Race: Kobalt Tools 500
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009
Time: 2:15 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 1:30 PM EST on FOX
Preview: Atlanta Motor Speedway bills itself as the track “where the fast go faster.” Many NASCAR drivers list it as among their favorites because it is a fast, multi-groove track that gives them options for racing lines. It’s the kind of track that suits Kyle Busch, who won last weekend from the rear of the field in Las Vegas and also won this race last year – the first for Toyota at the Cup level.
The guys of NASCAR make their annual stop in Sin City this Sunday and Sportsbook.com has the odds and a great contest.
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Leading the field for Sunday will be Matt Kenseth, who is in search of his third straight win to start the 2009 season, and his third career trip to Victory Lane at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Race: The Shelby 427
Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009
Time: 4:46 PM EST (scheduled Green Flag)
TV: 3:30 PM EST on FOX
Preview: There have only been 11 Cup Series races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, one per year since 1998.The track was reconfigured in 2006 including the installation of a new surface and progressive banking. Drivers like the width of the track and the options for multiple racing grooves, but complain about a rough, bumpy racing surface.
Carl Edwards is favored to win Sunday’s Shelby 427 Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which he narrowly won last year.
In betED.com Auto Racing betting odds, Edwards is at +350, followed closely by three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson at +400.
NASCAR heads west for the next two weeks starting with a Sunday evening affair at Auto Club Speedway.
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NASCAR takes its Sprint Cup Championship Tour to Fontana, CA for the Auto Club 500 this Sunday.
Matt Kenseth won the Daytona 500 last weekend and jumped to number one in the NASCAR Power Rankings, but some of the best drivers in the world could leapfrog him after a victory or good showing at Fontana.
