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2022 NASCAR Cup Series schedule highlights
By Staff Report | Published: January 3, 2022 15
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Now that the 2022 calendar year has begun, scroll through to see some highlights in the upcoming NASCAR Cup Series schedule.
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Clash will take place on Feb. 6 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The season-opening exhibition will be the first NASCAR race at the storied athletic venue. This is the first time NASCAR’s prelude to the Daytona 500 will run somewhere other than Daytona International Speedway.
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The 64th running of the Daytona 500 will take place on Feb. 20 at Daytona International Speedway and will once again mark the official kickoff of the NASCAR Cup Series season. Televised live on FOX, the Daytona 500 will also feature the points-racing debut of the Next Gen car.
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Auto Club Speedway returns to the NASCAR Cup Series schedule on Feb. 27, after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race in Fontana, California, will kick off a West Coast swing that will also feature events at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Phoenix Raceway.
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The popular Circuit of The Americas road course in Austin, Texas, returns for a second go-around on March 27. The 3.41-mile, 20-turn course made its NASCAR Cup Series debut on May 23, 2021, with Chase Elliott claiming the inaugural victory in a rain-shortened event.
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The Bristol Dirt Race is back for another season on April 17. Joey Logano won the inaugural event on March 29, 2021 as Bristol Motor Speedway hosted NASCAR’s first Cup Series race on dirt since 1970.
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The NASCAR All-Star Race returns to Texas Motor Speedway on May 22. This will be the second year in a row the mid-year classic is staged at the 1.5-mile track, and it comes a littler earlier than the June date in 2021.
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World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway makes its NASCAR Cup Series debut on June 5. The 1.25-mile track on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River near St. Louis has hosted national series events in the NASCAR Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series dating back to 1998.
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Country music and NASCAR collide once again as Nashville Superspeedway returns on June 26. This race comes after an off-week for NASCAR’s top series, and it will kick off NBC’s coverage and a stretch of 10 races to end the regular season.
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Road America returns on July 3 and will be one of three road courses in a final regular-season stretch that also includes left and right turns at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (July 31) and Watkins Glen International (Aug. 21).
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The combination of Daytona International Speedway (Aug. 27) and Darlington Raceway (Sept. 4) will once again provide a dramatic and nostalgic backdrop for the end of the NASCAR Cup Series’ regular season and the start of the playoffs.
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Kansas Speedway jumps up to the second race in the Round of 16 on Sept. 11. It will provide drivers with a test on a 1.5-mile track to go with Darlington Raceway and Bristol Motor Speedway (Sept. 17) in the opening round.
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The Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course returns as the Round of 12 elimination race on Oct. 9 after races at Texas Motor Speedway (Sept. 25) and Talladega Superspeedway (Oct. 2) earlier in the Round of 12.
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Homestead-Miami Speedway (Oct. 23) returns to the playoffs as the middle race in the Round of 8, sandwiched between Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Oct. 16) and Martinsville Speedway (Oct. 30).
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For the third straight season, Phoenix Raceway will be the venue for Championship Weekend with all three national series wrapping up their title battles at the 1-mile desert gem.