NASCAR has released the 2010 schedules for the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series.

There are some changes to each of the three series schedules, however, each of the three series will maintain the number of races they ran this year with 36 races on the Cup schedule (plus the two non-point events), 35 on the Nationwide schedule and 25 on the Truck schedule.

Daytona Speedweeks will begin a day earlier than this year with the Bud Shootout scheduled to be run on February 6th, 2010 and qualifying will be held the same day as the Shootout rather than the day after as it has been in the past.

Texas and Phoenix have swapped their April race dates; Phoenix will now be before Texas on April 10th.

The first Dover race will be run prior to the race weeks in Charlotte in May; it was run the week after the Coca-Cola 600 this year.

The Nationwide Series has swapped a few dates including a stop in Texas before Nashville and Phoenix when it normally goes to Texas after those two races and the first Dover race will moved to the middle of May and will be run in companion with the Cup race there.

The Truck Series will see the most changes out of the three. The Kansas race has been moved to a week later than this year, they will also race in Dover with Cup and Nationwide in early May, the races at Iowa and Gateway will be moved to July rather than September, Nashville’s date will be a week later in August and the race at Kentucky has moved from July to September.

Also, the trucks will be making their first ever appearance at Pocono on July 31st. That is the only track addition to any of the schedules.

The 2010 schedules are as follows:

2010 NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES SCHEDULE
Date       Site
Feb. 6     Daytona International Speedway (Budweiser Shootout At Daytona *)
Feb. 14   Daytona International Speedway
Feb. 21   Auto Club Speedway
Feb. 28   Las Vegas Motor Speedway
March 7  Atlanta Motor Speedway
March 21 Bristol Motor Speedway
March 28 Martinsville Speedway
April 10   Phoenix International Raceway
April 18   Texas Motor Speedway
April 25   Talladega Superspeedway
May 1     Richmond International Raceway
May 8     Darlington Raceway
May 16   Dover International Speedway
May 22   Lowe’s Motor Speedway (NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race *)
May 30   Lowe’s Motor Speedway
June 6    Pocono Raceway
June 13   Michigan International Speedway
June 20   Infineon Raceway
June 27   New Hampshire Motor Speedway
July 3      Daytona International Speedway
July 10    Chicagoland Speedway
July 25    Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Aug. 1     Pocono Raceway
Aug. 8     Watkins Glen International
Aug. 15   Michigan International Speedway
Aug. 21   Bristol Motor Speedway
Sept. 5   Atlanta Motor Speedway
Sept. 11  Richmond International Raceway
Sept. 19  New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Sept. 26  Dover International Speedway
Oct. 3     Kansas Speedway
Oct. 10   Auto Club Speedway
Oct. 16   Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Oct. 24   Martinsville Speedway
Oct. 31   Talladega Superspeedway
Nov. 7    Texas Motor Speedway
Nov. 14   Phoenix International Raceway
Nov. 21   Homestead-Miami Speedway
* – Denotes non-point event.

2010 NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES SCHEDULE
Date        Site
Feb. 13    Daytona International Speedway
Feb. 20    Auto Club Speedway
Feb. 27    Las Vegas Motor Speedway
March 20  Bristol Motor Speedway
April 3      Nashville Superspeedway
April 9      Phoenix International Raceway
April 17    Texas Motor Speedway
April 24    Talladega Superspeedway
April 30    Richmond International Raceway
May 7      Darlington Raceway
May 15    Dover International Speedway
May 29    Lowe’s Motor Speedway
June 5     Nashville Superspeedway
June 12    Kentucky Speedway
June 19    Milwaukee Mile
June 26    New Hampshire Motor Speedway
July 2       Daytona International Speedway
July 9       Chicagoland Speedway
July 17     Gateway International Raceway
July 24     O’Reilly Raceway Park
July 31     Iowa Speedway
Aug. 7     Watkins Glen International
Aug. 14   Michigan International Speedway
Aug. 20   Bristol Motor Speedway
Aug. 29   Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Sept. 4    Atlanta Motor Speedway
Sept. 10  Richmond International Raceway
Sept. 25  Dover International Speedway
Oct. 2     Kansas Speedway
Oct. 9     Auto Club Speedway
Oct. 15   Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Oct. 23   Memphis Motorsports Park
Nov. 6    Texas Motor Speedway
Nov. 13   Phoenix International Raceway
Nov. 20   Homestead-Miami Speedway  

2010 NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES SCHEDULE
Date         Site
Feb. 12     Daytona International Speedway
March 6    Atlanta Motor Speedway
March 27  Martinsville Speedway
May 2       Kansas Speedway
May 14     Dover International Speedway
May 21     Lowe’s Motor Speedway
June 4      Texas Motor Speedway
June 12     Michigan International Speedway
June 18     Milwaukee Mile
June 26     Memphis Motorsports Park
July 11      Iowa Speedway
July 16      Gateway International Raceway
July 23      O’Reilly Raceway Park
July 31      Pocono Raceway
Aug. 7       Nashville Superspeedway
Aug. 18     Bristol Motor Speedway
Aug. 27     Chicagoland Speedway
Sept. 3      Kentucky Speedway
Sept. 18    New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Sept. 25    Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Oct. 23     Martinsville Speedway
Oct. 30     Talladega Superspeedway
Nov. 5      Texas Motor Speedway
Nov. 12    Phoenix International Raceway
Nov. 19    Homestead-Miami Speedway

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