NASCAR typically releases its national series schedules for next season around this time of year, though the announcement for 2012 has yet to be made.
The 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Schedule? Our Best Guess For Race Dates
Last year, the 2011 schedule was announced on Aug. 18. But in 2009, the schedule wasn’t announced until Sept. 15.
So since we don’t know when NASCAR will finalize the 2012 race calendar, we’re taking our best guess at what we think the schedule MIGHT look like next year.
There isn’t expected to be much movement in the Sprint Cup Series. Kansas is moving from June to April and Dover is moving from May back to its traditional June date, for example, but there hasn’t been much buzz about tracks swapping dates from completely different times of the year. No tracks are expected to lose a date.
With that in mind, here’s our guess at the 2012 NASCAR schedule (keep in mind, this just a GUESS). The dates in bold type have been confirmed by the track:
Feb. 18 – Budweiser Shootout (Saturday night)
Feb. 26 – Daytona 500
March 4 – Phoenix
March 11 – Las Vegas
March 18 – Bristol
March 25 – Fontana
April 1 – Martinsville
April 8 – OFF (Easter)
April 14 – Texas (Saturday night)
April 22 – Kansas
April 28 – Richmond (Saturday night)
May 6 – Talladega
May 12 – Darlington (Saturday night)
May 19 – Charlotte All-Star Race (Saturday night)
May 27 – Charlotte Coke 600
June 3 – Dover
June 10 – Pocono
June 17 – Michigan
June 24 – Sonoma
June 30 – Kentucky (Saturday night)
July 7 – Daytona (Saturday night)
July 15 – New Hampshire
July 22 – OFF
July 29 – Indianapolis
Aug. 5 – Pocono
Aug. 12 – Watkins Glen
Aug. 19 – Michigan
Aug. 25 – Bristol (Saturday night)
Sept. 2 – Atlanta
Sept. 8 – Richmond (Saturday night)
Sept. 16 – Chicago
Sept. 23 – New Hampshire
Sept. 30 – Dover
Oct. 7 – Talladega
Oct. 13 – Charlotte (Saturday night)
Oct. 21 – Kansas
Oct. 28 – Martinsville
Nov. 4 – Texas
Nov. 11 – Phoenix
Nov. 18 – Homestead
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