Weekend Schedule: New Hampshire and Iowa

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series will head from the tough traffic in Kentucky to New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend for races on the mile long racetrack. The Camping World Truck Series will also be racing this weekend, but not at New Hampshire. The series will stop by the Iowa Speedway for their next race of the season.

This weekend also marks the final Sprint Cup Series race of the year on TNT. ESPN will take over the coverage following this weekend's event for the remainder of the season.

Here is the tentative schedule for this weekend's on track activities:

Friday, July 15, 2011:

10:30 a.m. ET - Nationwide Series practice (No TV)

11:30 a.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (SPEED)

1:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series final practice (SPEED)

3 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series Qualifying (SPEED)

5:30 p.m. ET - Camping World Truck Series practice (No TV)

7:30 p.m. ET - Truck Series final practice (No TV)

Saturday, July 16, 2011:

9:30 a.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (SPEED)

10:30 a.m. ET - Nationwide Series Qualifying (SPEED)

11:45 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series final practice (SPEED)

2:35 p.m. ET - Truck Series Qualifying (No TV)

3:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series Race (ESPN)

8 p.m. ET - Truck Series race (SPEED)

Sunday, July 17, 2011:

1 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series Race (TNT)

Kentucky Tentative NASCAR Schedule:

This is it. After all those years of wondering when Kentucky would ever get to host a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, they will finally be able to do that with a sold out crowd.

The top series of NASCAR will be joined by the Camping World Truck Series and Nationwide Series, which have all been at the speedway before, unlike the Sprint Cup Series.

The Sprint Cup Series race is on Saturday night, meaning there will be much activity during the week days at Kentucky. In fact, vehicles hit the track on Wednesday, although there is no live TV coverage of those events.

Here is the tentative weekend (or mid week, if you would like to call it that) schedule for the NASCAR weekend at Kentucky:

Wednesday, July 6, 2011:

4 p.m. ET - Camping World Truck Series practice (No TV)

6 p.m. ET - Camping World Truck Series practice(No TV)

Thursday, July 7, 2011:

10 a.m. ET - Truck Series final practice (No TV)

11:05 a.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (No TV)

3 p.m. ET - Truck Series Qualifying (Will air on SPEED at 6 p.m. ET)

4 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (No TV)

6:10 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series practice (No TV)

8 p.m. ET - Camping World Truck Series race (SPEED)

Friday, July 8, 2011:

9 a.m. ET - Nationwide Series final practice (No TV)

11:30 a.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (SPEED)

1:30 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series final practice (SPEED)

3:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series Qualifying (SPEED)

5 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series Qualifying (SPEED0

7:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series Race (ESPN)

Saturday, July 9, 2011:

7:30 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series Race (TNT)

Weekend Schedule: Get ready for some two car drafting

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to their third restrictor plate race of the season at the historic Daytona International Speedway for the Coke Zero 400. The Sprint Cup Series will be joined by the NASCAR Nationwide Series, which races their final plate race of the season. The Camping World Truck Series has the weekend off yet again, but will hit hte track next weekend for the Kentucky triple header.

This weekend, TNT will use the momentum of the high RaceBuddy and television ratings to bring the tradition of "Wide Open Coverage," which features the plan of no full screen commercials on green flag laps. The past few seasons, TNT has been successful with this format, showing all green flag laps. During cautions, local, full screen commercials tend to be shown.

On track activity starts on Thursday this weekend since it is a night race.

Here is the tentative weekend schedule:

Thursday, June 30, 2011:

2:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series practice (SPEED)

4 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (SPEED)

5:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series final practice (ESPN2)

6:30 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series final practice (SPEED)

Friday, June 1, 2011:

2 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series Qualifying (ESPN2)

4 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series Qualifying (SPEED)

7:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series race (ESPN)

Saturday, June 2, 2011:

7:30 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series race (TNT)

Weekend Schedule: Time to go left and right

While the Camping World Truck Series has the weekend off, the Sprint Cup Series and the Nationwide Series head to two different road courses as the summer stretch continues.

The Sprint Cup Series will be in the California area to take on the Infineon Raceway, while the Nationwide Series will be in Wisconsin to race at Road America.

Here is the tentative weekend schedule:

Friday, June 23, 2011:

1 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series practice (No TV)

3 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (No TV)

4:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series final practice (SPEED)

6:40 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Qualifying (Will be on SPEED at 11 p.m. ET)

Saturday, June 25, 2011:

12:30 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (Will air on SPEED at 2:30 p.m. ET)

1:45 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup final practice (Will air on SPEED at 3:30 p.m. ET)

3:05 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series Qualifying (No TV)

5:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series race (ESPN)

Sunday, June 26, 2011:

3 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series race (TNT)

Weekend Schedule: On To Michigan

This weekend, the Sprint Cup Series teams will head to Michigan International Speedway for TNT's second NASCAR race of the season. Joining them will be the Nationwide Series, following a weekend off while the Sprint Cup teams were in Pocono last weekend. The Camping World Truck Series has the weekend off.

Here is the unofficial schedule for the weekend:

Friday, June 17th, 2011:

11:30 a.m. ET - Nationwide Series practice (SPEED)

12:30 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (SPEED)

2 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series final practice (SPEED)

3:30 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series final practice (SPEED)

Saturday, June 18th, 2011:

11 a.m. ET - Nationwide Series Qualifying (ESPN2)

1 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series Qualifying (SPEED)

3:30 p.m. ET - Nationwide Series race (ABC)

Sunday, June 19th, 2011:

1 p.m. ET - Sprint Cup Series race (TNT, also RaceBuddy on NASCAR.com is a great way to get extra racing content)

Weekend Schedule: Trucks In Texas, Cup In Pocono

The Sprint Cup Series season is half way to the Chase as TNT's NASCAR Summer Series takes over the season coverage. This weekend, the Cup series is in Pocono, while the Camping World Truck Series is in Texas. The Nationwide Series has the week off.

Here is the unofficial schedule for the weekend. NOTE: The only truck series activity that is scheduled to be on TV is the race. The practices and qualifying has already taken place and was not televised to begin with.

Friday, June 10th, 2011:


12:30 pm ET - Sprint Cup practice (SPEED)

3:30 ET - Sprint Cup final practice (SPEED)

9 pm ET - Camping World Truck Series race (SPEED)

Saturday, June 11th, 2011:


11 am ET - Sprint Cup Qualifying (TV's coverage to begin at 11:30 ET on SPEED)

Sunday, June 12th, 2011:


1 pm ET - Sprint Cup Series race (TNT)

Weekend Schedule: Trucks, Cup in Kansas, Nationwide in Chicago

This weekend, NASCAR's top series will move from the 600 miles of Charlotte to the 400 miles of Kansas. The Sprint Cup Series will be joined by the Camping World Truck Series as they celebrate their 400th race in history. The Nationwide Series will be racing over at Chicago with Danica Patrick making a return to stock cars after much speculation that she will be competing in NASCAR full time next season. Also, NASCAR on FOX will make the end to their season this weekend. TNT will take over next week.

Here is the unofficial schedule for the weekend:

Friday, June 3rd, 2011:

12:30 pm ET - Truck Series practice (SPEED)

1:30 pm ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (SPEED)

3 pm ET - Truck Series final practice (SPEED)

4:30 pm ET - Sprint Cup final practice (SPEED)

6 pm ET - Nationwide Series practice (No TV, but live leaderboard on NASCAR.com)

8:30 pm ET - Nationwide Series final practice (No TV, but NASCAR.com leaderboard)

Saturday, June 4th, 2011:

11 am ET - Truck Series Qualifying (SPEED)

Noon ET - Sprint Cup Qualifying (SPEED)

2 pm ET - Truck Series race (SPEED)

4:30 pm ET - Nationwide Series Qualifying (ESPN2)

8 pm ET - Nationwide Series race (ESPN)

Sunday, June 5th, 2011:

1 pm ET - Sprint Cup Series race (FOX)

Weekend Schedule for NASCAR's Memorial Day Weekend

Racing and Memorial Day weekend - a match that has been together for years and years. The Indianapolis 500 for Indy car, and 600 miles for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series all in one day, making a race fan's dream come true. Here is the weekend NASCAR schedule, as the teams prepare for one of the biggest weekends of the year.

Thursday, May 26th, 2011:

2 pm ET - Nationwide Series practice (SPEED)

3:30 pm ET - Sprint Cup Series Practice (SPEED)

5:10 pm ET - Nationwide Series final practice (SPEED)

7 pm ET - Sprint Cup Series Qualifying (SPEED)

Saturday, May 28th, 2011:

10 am ET - Nationwide Series Qualifying (ESPN2)

11:30 am ET - Sprint Cup Series practice (SPEED)

12:50 pm ET - Sprint Cup Series final practice (SPEED)

2:30 pm ET - Nationwide Series Race (ABC)

Sunday, May 29th, 2011:

6 pm ET - Sprint Cup Series Race (FOX)

Charlotte Motor Speedway and Iowa Weekend Schedule

It is a big weekend for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Camping World Truck Series teams as they are near their homes in Charlotte. To make the intensity higher, the Sprint Cup stars will get to race for $1 million at the All Star race. The Nationwide Series will be in Iowa on Sunday since the Sprint Cup Series will be racing on Saturday night. This is a big event for Iowa racing fans so expect a big crowd there.

Here is the unofficial schedule for this weekend's events.

Friday May 20, 2011:

9 am ET - Truck Series practice (SPEED at 9:30 am)

10:20 am ET - Truck Series final practice (SPEED)

Noon ET - Sprint Cup Showdown final practice (SPEED)

1:30 pm ET - Sprint Cup All Star final practice (SPEED)

4 pm ET - Nationwide Series practice (No TV, but you can follow along on NASCAR.com's live leaderboard)

4 pm ET - Truck Series Qualifying (SPEED)

5 pm ET - Showdown qualifying (SPEED)

6 pm ET - All Star Race Qualifying (SPEED)

6:15 ET - Nationwide practice (No TV, but NASCAR.com leaderboard)

8 pm ET - Truck Series race (SPEED)

Saturday, May 21, 2011:

10 am ET - Nationwide Final Practice (No TV, but NASCAR.com leaderboard)

4:40 pm ET - Nationwide qualifying (No TV, but NASCAR.com Leaderboard)

7:30 pm ET - Showdown Race (SPEED)

9 pm ET - All Star Race (SPEED)

Sunday, May 22, 2011:

2 pm ET - Nationwide Series Race at Iowa (ABC)

Nashville On Track Schedule

It may be Easter weekend, and there may be no Sprint Cup Series race, however that doesn't stop the guys and girls of the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series. The two will be in Nashville Tennessee today and tomorrow for some racing action before heading back home to their families for the holiday.

Here is a rundown of the events taking place at Nashville, along with the TV schedule.


(ALL TIMES EASTERN)

Friday, April 22, 2011:
11:00 am - Truck Series Practice (Not on TV)

12:30 pm - Truck Series Practice (Not on TV)

3:30 pm - Nationwide Series Practice (Not on TV, but can be followed by NASCAR.com's live leaderboard)

5:00 pm - Truck Series qualifying (SPEED, trucks will hit the track at approximately 5:10)

6:30 pm - Nationwide Series final practice (ESPN2)

8:00 Pm - Truck Series race (SPEED)


Saturday, April 23, 2011:
Noon - Nationwide Qualifying (ESPN)

3:00 pm - Nationwide Race (ESPN)