By Jerry Jordan, Editor
The recent phenomena of the West Coast Swing will come after back-to-back races in Florida with Homestead-Miami Speedway coming a week after the season-opening Daytona 500, according to a proposed 2021 schedule first-reported by Chris Knight at Catchfence.com. But that’s not all, the proposed schedule has a host of other changes that will shake up the travel schedule of NASCAR Cup Series teams.
A hot and slick Texas Motor Speedway will get the All-Star Race on June 13 and Atlanta Motor Speedway will return to two races. Additionally, as previously reported, Kentucky Speedway comes off the schedule and Darlington Raceway picks up a second date with a race in May as Dover International Speedway cuts back to one race. The biggest changes appear to be the addition of Road America in Wisconsin, Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Tx. and the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Still in place is the doubleheader weekend at Pocono Raceway and season-finale at Phoenix International Raceway. Texas also moves to a kickoff race in the final round of the playoffs and off of the troublesome opening day of hunting season that has plagued attendance for years.
While this schedule is proposed at this time, NASCAR is expected to release the final schedule tomorrow in a press conference as several other tracks make major announcements.
Proposed 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule:
February 14 Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway
February 21 Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway
February 28 Auto Club (Calif.) Speedway
March 7 Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway
March 14 Phoenix (Ariz.) Raceway
March 21 Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway
March 28 Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway
April 4 Off-Weekend
April 10 Martinsville (Va.) Speedway
April 18 Richmond (Va.) Raceway
April 25 Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway
May 2 Kansas Speedway
May 9 Darlington (S.C.) Raceway
May 16 Dover (Del.) International Speedway
May 23 Circuit of the Americas (COTA)
May 30 Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway
June 6 Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway
June 13 All-Star Race (Texas Motor Speedway)
June 20 Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway
June 26 Pocono (Pa.) Raceway
June 27 Pocono (Pa.) Raceway
July 4 Road America (Wisc.)
July 11 Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway
July 18 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
July 25 Off-Weekend (Olympics)
August 1 Off-Weekend (Olympics)
August 8 Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International
August 15 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course
August 22 Michigan International Speedway
August 28 Daytona International Speedway
Sept. 5 Darlington Raceway
Sept. 11 Richmond Raceway
Sept. 18 Bristol Motor Speedway
Sept. 26 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Oct. 3 Talladega Superspeedway
Oct. 10 Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL
Oct. 17 Texas Motor Speedway
Oct. 24 Kansas Speedway
Oct. 31 Martinsville Speedway
Nov. 7 Phoenix Raceway