- 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
The 2009
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be the sixty-first season of professionalstock car racing in the United States, which will begin atDaytona International Speedway inDaytona Beach, Florida with the 2009Budweiser Shootout , a race for the top six teams of the four brands in the 2008 season onFebruary 7 th, with the first points race being the2009 Daytona 500 to be held onFebruary 15 th. The 2009Chase for the Sprint Cup will start onSeptember 20 th with theSylvania 300 atNew Hampshire Motor Speedway inLoudon, New Hampshire , and endingNovember 22 nd with theFord 400 atHomestead-Miami Speedway inHomestead, Florida .chedule
The biggest changes for 2009 in a NASCAR schedule realignment adds the Pepsi 500 at
Auto Club Speedway to the 2009 Chase, the shifting of the AMP Energy 500 atTalladega Superspeedway to a later autumn date, and the placement of the Pep Boys Auto 500 atAtlanta Motor Speedway toLabor Day weekend as a night race. Additionally, there will be a fourth bye week between the Sharpie 500 atBristol Motor Speedway and the Pep Boys 500. The schedule changes are listed in boldface on the chart below."NOTE: All race dates, names, distances, television and radio stations and start times are subject to change."
(R) — Rookie of the year candidate. × — This car ran as the #66 in 2008. ° — This car ran as the #70 in 2008.
TV and Radio
In their third year of the current NASCAR television agreement, FOX will carry the Bud Shootout, the Daytona 500 and the first 13 races through Dover's June race. Fox-owned SPEED Channel will air the Gatorade Duels and Sprint All Star Race XXV. TNT will then pick up the next six races starting at Pocono including the summer race at Daytona, the Coke Zero 400 with its' "wide open format" coverage and ending at Chicago. The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard will start ESPN/ABC's coverage, including the entire Chase for the Sprint Cup on ABC.
On radio,
Sirius XM Radio will carry all races in the series. Terrestrial radio rights are being handled as follows:
*Motor Racing Network will carry races at tracks owned by their corporate sibling,International Speedway Corporation as well as the races at Dover and Pocono;
*Speedway Motorsports, Inc. -ownedPerformance Racing Network will carry events from those SMI tracks, and will joinly produce the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard with theIndianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network .ESPN and MRN will be the broadcasters at the annual Sprint Cup Banquet in
New York City from The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel onDecember 4 th.
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