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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 26, 2015) – NASCAR today announced agreements with 23 tracks to field NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races for the next five years. Additionally, 24 tracks will host NASCAR XFINITY Series races through 2020.

NASCAR also announced its 2016 schedule for both of these national series. The schedule and actual placement of the dates within each given season’s schedule beyond 2016 will be part of the on-going discussions between NASCAR and the tracks. Details are being finalized for the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule to be announced at a later time.

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“NASCAR and the tracks take seriously our collective responsibility to the fans and each stakeholder to ensure the sport is healthy, strong and growing, so we can deliver great racing to the fans for many decades to come,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer. “The live event experience always will be important to creating a lifetime fan in NASCAR.

“Among the goals that we set out to accomplish with our track partners was to provide consistency for race fans and the industry stakeholders. We feel like we have a nice balance of that for 2016. The stability of five-year agreements positions us well to deliver fans with schedules as early as possible over the next several years. This is a new approach for our industry, and one that benefits everyone: fans, tracks, teams, drivers, OEMs, media and partners.”

NASCAR will kick off the 2016 season against the new backdrop of a completely reimagined Daytona International Speedway. DAYTONA Rising, the speedway’s $400 million redevelopment project, will be complete when both the NASCAR XFINITY Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series launch at Daytona Speedweeks. The 2016 DAYTONA 500 will be held on February 21 and will air live on FOX.

After the DAYTONA 500, NASCAR events will be held the following week at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Both series then will travel to Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway and Auto Club Speedway for the return of NASCAR Goes West.

“We learned that NASCAR Goes West worked very well in keeping momentum and interest for NASCAR in these markets,” O’Donnell said. “The tracks put a lot of effort behind making it successful and we think it can continue to have a positive impact as it gains traction from being an annual effort. The efficiency of conducting three consecutive events also is helpful to the teams and industry.”

Among the changes to the 2016 schedule:

•    Pocono Raceway will host its first NASCAR XFINITY Series event in June, with that series joining the Sprint Cup Series for a companion event at the famed three-turn track.

 

•    The spring events at Richmond International Raceway move to a Saturday and Sunday companion event for the XFINITY Series and Sprint Cup Series, from the previous Friday and Saturday schedule.

 

•    The first series stop at Dover International Speedway will move earlier in the schedule, to be held prior to the May events at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

 

•    NBC will usher in its 2016 race schedule in July at Daytona with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event moving back to a Saturday evening event.

 

•    The August Sprint Cup Series event at Michigan will move to later in the month.

 

2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule

Date Track
Feb. 13 Daytona International Speedway – Sprint Unlimited
Feb.14 Daytona International Speedway – Daytona 500 Qualifying
Feb. 18 Daytona International Speedway – Duel
Feb. 21 Daytona 500
Feb. 28 Atlanta Motor Speedway
March 6 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
March 13 Phoenix International Raceway
March 20 Auto Club Speedway
April 3 Martinsville Speedway
April 9 Texas Motor Speedway
April 17 Bristol Motor Speedway
April 24 Richmond International Raceway
May 1 Talladega Superspeedway
May 7 Kansas Speedway
May 15 Dover International Speedway
May 21 Charlotte Motor Speedway (NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race)
May 29 Charlotte Motor Speedway
June 5 Pocono Raceway
June 12 Michigan International Speedway
June 26 Sonoma Raceway
July 2 Daytona International Speedway
July 9 Kentucky Speedway
July 17 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
July 24 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
July 31 Pocono Raceway
Aug. 7 Watkins Glen International
Aug. 20 Bristol Motor Speedway
Aug. 28 Michigan International Speedway
Sept. 4 Darlington Raceway
Sept. 10 Richmond International Raceway
Sept. 18 Chicagoland Speedway
Sept. 25 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Oct. 2 Dover International Speedway
Oct. 8 Charlotte Motor Speedway
Oct. 16 Kansas Speedway
Oct. 23 Talladega Superspeedway
Oct. 30 Martinsville Speedway
Nov. 6 Texas Motor Speedway
Nov. 13 Phoenix International Raceway
Nov. 20 Homestead-Miami Speedway

NASCAR XFINITY Series 2016 schedule

Date Track
Feb. 20 Daytona International Speedway
Feb. 27 Atlanta Motor Speedway
March 5 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
March 12 Phoenix International Raceway
March 19 Auto Club Speedway
April 8 Texas Motor Speedway
April 16 Bristol Motor Speedway
April 23 Richmond International Raceway
April 30 Talladega Superspeedway
May 14 Dover International Speedway
May 28 Charlotte Motor Speedway
June 4 Pocono Raceway
June 11 Michigan International Speedway
June 19 Iowa Speedway
July 1 Daytona International Speedway
July 8 Kentucky Speedway
July 16 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
July 23 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
July 30 Iowa Speedway
Aug. 6 Watkins Glen International
Aug. 13 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Aug. 19 Bristol Motor Speedway
Aug. 27 Road America
Sept. 3 Darlington Raceway
Sept. 9 Richmond International Raceway
Sept. 17 Chicagoland Speedway
Sept. 24 Kentucky Speedway
Oct. 1 Dover International Speedway
Oct. 7 Charlotte Motor Speedway
Oct. 15 Kansas Speedway
Nov. 5 Texas Motor Speedway
Nov. 12 Phoenix International Raceway
Nov. 19 Homestead-Miami Speedway
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TALLADEGA, Ala. — An Earnhardt was charging through the field with championship implications on the line, and a raucous Talladega crowd stood and screamed at his every move.
 
What year was it again?
 
Dale Earnhardt Jr. continually controlled the draft Sunday in the CampingWorld.com 500, sweeping through the field both early and late in the race, looking every bit like his father did 15 years ago in one of “The Intimidator’s” most historic victories.
 
It was like father, like son. The only difference was the ending.
 
Junior finished second this Sunday in Alabama, as he was behind leader Joey Logano when a caution flag dropped on the green-white-checkered finish. That froze the field, relegating Earnhardt Jr. — who led 61 of 196 laps — to a runner-up result.
 
It was a second-place that ousted Earnhardt from the postseason, and also deprived him of a chance to orchestrate one final bit of magic at a track that has been, well, magical for the Earnhardt family.
 
“I was just doing everything I thought I could do,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “I’m real proud of myself, proud of my team. We got nothing to be disappointed about.”
 
Earnhardt spoke amid a backdrop of boos — not for him, but from the Talladega crowd that was reacting to Logano’s jubilatory burnout and trip to Victory Lane.
 
The noise came down, and then so, too, did the aluminum cans, the fans washing the track with their unfinished beer.
 
“We’ve got a lot of Earnhardt fans in Alabama,” Junior said, a lilt in his voice. “They aren’t happy unless we win, and that’s the way I like it.”
 
Those fans went home unhappy, but Earnhardt was at peace with the end-race execution.
 
The driver of the No. 88 withstood vibrations, a pit penalty and the daring decision to jump out of the single line of cars late in the race and create a second a line to push toward the lead — if no one had followed him, Earnhardt Jr. would have been freight-trained to the back of the field.
 
But he went, and then he went, picking off cars like a series of jumps in checkers, sprinting and strategizing his way to the front of the field, the crowd volume rising with each successful pass.
 
“I just told myself that I was going to work as hard as I could every single lap,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “When they lined up around the top, I’d never been in that situation to have to pass those guys when they’re lined up like that. I clawed and clawed and clawed and got up into the top three, finally into second.
 
“We did everything we had to do today, we just came up a little short.”
 
His captivating charge through the field was set up by a penalty on pit road, something that has plagued the No. 88 team throughout the Chase. This time it was his crew going over the wall too soon during green-flag pit stops on Lap 121.
 
The punishment was a pass-through penalty that sent Earnhardt Jr. from running third in the lead pack to running 27th all alone. He would have been caught and lapped if a caution did not come — and one came on Lap 132 when Justin Allgaier‘s engine expired.
 
Another caution — just the second of the day — fell on Lap 186 with Junior in third place. Leader Greg Biffle pitted for fuel, making the top four Logano, Earnhardt, Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon. Logano opted to start up top, which wasn’t the preferred line Sunday, but it kept Earnhardt from lining up directly in front of his HMS teammate Gordon, who had a powerful car all weekend and was prepared to push his teammate.
 
“I know there were a lot of people pulling for Dale Jr. today, and I was one of them,” Gordon said after climbing out of his car on pit road. “I wanted to help him so bad.”
 
Logano didn’t give him the chance, a strategic move that Gordon said was the smart play. That was of no consolation, of course, to the Earnhardt Jr. fans at the track, or the man himself.
 
A win at Talladega would have done more than send Junior to the next round of the postseason. It would have added another chapter to his Talladega tome, a book already rich with stories and success.
 
“I’m more proud of the drive I had today than the two wins this year,” Earnhardt Jr. said.
 
There’s no need to ask “What if?” either. Junior already knows what would have happened if the race had stayed green, and he had the chance to race for the win.
 
“Hell yeah I had him,” Earnhardt Jr. said of catching Logano. “Of course we had him.”

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TALLADEGA, Ala. — The new green-white-checkered finish rule at Talladega Superspeedway, which NASCAR changed from a maximum of three attempts to just one last week, figured heavily into the conclusion of — and eventual Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup eliminations in — Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500.
 
An initial effort at a green-white-checkered finish was waved off after Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Larson spun from the middle of the pack down onto the apron and in the infield. Because the field had not reached the start/finish line before the caution flag came, NASCAR ruled that did not count as the lone attempt to finish.
 
On the ensuing attempt, Kevin Harvick got into Trevor Bayne, sending Bayne’s car spinning into traffic and bringing out another yellow flag just as the lead pack entered Turn 1. That counted as the one green-white-checkered attempt, NASCAR ruled, and officials used loop data and video feeds to determine that Joey Logano was ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr. at the time of the caution, when the field was frozen.
 
WATCH: Breakdown of final restart

Logano was declared the winner, leaving Earnhardt Jr. to claim second place — the driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet needed a win to advance to the Eliminator Round.
 
It also led to confusion throughout the garage as to which four drivers had been eliminated from the postseason — and why the first incident didn’t actually count as a first attempt.
 
“We stopped the attempt before anybody crossed the green or the checkered or the start/finish line,” NASCAR Vice Chairman Mike Helton said after emerging from the NASCAR hauler. “We just reset everybody except for the cars that were involved in the accident and the cars that pitted. Then we had the second incident — and on that one we had one attempt because we had cars that crossed the start/finish line.”
 
Driver reaction varied from acceptance to confusion.
 
Earnhardt Jr. himself, despite being on the wrong side of the tight 1-2 finish with Logano, was fine with the call — and the rule.
 
“I feel like no matter the rules, when the race is over, I can live with the result as long as everyone else is going by the same rules,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “So I felt like, per the rule book, it sorted out and I finished second. I’m OK with that.”
 
Not everyone was as diplomatic. Kyle Busch, who was the final driver to advance to the next round, finishing one point ahead of Ryan Newman, said he was surprised that the first restart attempt was waived off — but that it was NASCAR’s prerogative.
 
“It did surprise me how (NASCAR) called it, but past that — it’s their ball, it’s their field, it’s their bat, it’s their everything,” Busch said. “Play along. … I felt like either way, if the race would have gone green and we would have finished two laps, which I know never happens here, that we would have had a good shot to pass a few guys and get ourselves farther up also. There was a bunch of different scenarios there that could have and maybe would have played out a little bit differently.”

Newman reacted strongly to the situation.

“I’ll be honest. I am extremely disappointed in the situation and what all transpired,” Newman said. “I’m not happy coming up one position short under these circumstances.”

RELATED: Drivers’ reaction on social media
 
NASCAR officials announced the green-white-checkered rule change Oct. 20, citing the need to balance excitement and safety.
 
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event on Saturday also had a lone green-white-checkered ending.
 
“It is what it is,” Helton said. “I think every time we make a procedural rule, whether it’s one, two, none, as long as we do our job right, everybody’s got the same playing field.”

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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Elvis, the Care Bears and the cast of “Toy Story” were among the many characters in the driver’s lot at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday night.

 

While Talladega Boulevard thrummed with music and, uh, other activities a few hundred yards away, the kids of the NASCAR garage enjoyed a round of trick-or-treating at a Halloween event put on by Motor Racing Outreach.

 

Here are some of the costumes:

 

 

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UPDATE: NASCAR statement on Talladega results


TALLADEGA, Ala. — Kevin Harvick walked away from Sunday’s elimination race at Talladega Superspeedway with a Chase berth and a fighting chance to compete for his second straight title. Harvick’s 15th-place result in the 500-mile event put him seventh in the standings and apart of the final eight moving onto the third round of the Chase.

 

But it’s the reigning Sprint Cup Series champion’s final restart — not his advancement — that had the garage buzzing hours after the checkered flag waved.

 

Harvick and Trevor Bayne wrecked on a green-white-checkered attempt to end the race, causing a “Big One” before the main pack had even reached the start/finish line. The result froze the field and, as NASCAR worked to determine which eight drivers would advance to the Eliminator Round, sent the Stewart-Haas Racing driver onward in the postseason.

 

RELATED: Drivers question finish, laud Dale Jr.

 

“I was just trying to get out of the way once I got going there,” Harvick told FOX Sports after the race. “I thought I could get going better than I did the first time and I just didn’t get going. So as I was pulling up, I was looking to the inside waiting for them to shoot the gap and I hit the 6.”

No. 4 crew chief Rodney Childers said after the race that “the motor was blowing up,” referring to Harvick’s late-race engine troubles that had caused him to fall back prior to the final restart.


“He’s trying to get out of the way, but not lose too many spots — it’s easy,” Childers said.  “We’re not the ones that invented this (expletive).”

But others weren’t so sure — many thought motor-troubled Harvick caused the wreck intentionally to end the race and thus, hold onto his Chase position.

 

WATCH: Big wreck behind leaders as Logano wins under caution

 

“That’s a crappy way for Harvick to have to get in the Chase is to wreck somebody — what I believe on purpose,” Bayne said after the race. “Maybe it wasn’t … the restart before that he had engine problems and got out of the way. I think he realized if the caution came out he was gonna be fine, so I go by and get hooked in the left-rear.

 

“Harvick is a really good driver. I think he knows the limits of his car and where it’s at, that’s why I think it was intentional.”

 

Matt Kenseth, who was one of the four drivers eliminated from the Chase on Sunday, seconded Bayne’s sentiment.

 

“(Harvick) pulled out of the way the first time because he knew he was blowing up and this time he said he was going to hold his lane, so we went up to go around him and then he clipped the 6 (Trevor Bayne),” Kenseth said after the race. “He knew if he put him in a slow spin the race was over and he’d make it.”

 

Kenseth’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin, who battled problems with his car and was eliminated after getting caught up in the wreck, tweeted “What a joke we have a car with no motor wreck the field to end the race.”

 

Intentional or not, the No. 4 team’s in-car audio prior to the restart revealed the crew knew Harvick needed something drastic to happen for him to advance to the next round of the Chase.

 

“Hopefully they wreck right past the start-finish line, might end up with something,” Childers said on the radio. “If not we’ll be out. Everybody’s done a good job all day though, no matter what.”

 

Another team member piped up, saying that he knew Harvick “ain’t got much option, but I would try to block as many positions as you can because that’s really what it’s going to come down to.”

 

Officials and team members met post-race at the NASCAR hauler to review the controversial restart and determine whether or not the No. 4 car’s actions were intentional and if action was needed.

 

The conclusion was no.

 

“What we saw, there’s no evidence right now that there’s anything the 4 car did that was questionable other than moving out of line,” NASCAR Vice Chairman Mike Helton said. “…”Obviously there are some of the teams that have questioned what the 4 car did on the restarts. We went back and walked through with him but procedurally from NASCAR, we don’t see anything there that was of suspect.”

 

“So far,” he added, saying the sanctioning body would review footage from different angles in case something fell “out of the woodwork in the next 24 hours.”

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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Country music superstars Eric Church, Blake Shelton, Toby Keith and Kid Rock will headline the first annual Dega Jam music festival, officials announced in a press conference Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. The festival will take place at Talladega July 1-3, 2016.

“We’ve heard that Talladega Superspeedway is the biggest and baddest track of them all,” said Quint Davis, producer/director of Dega Jam. “If we’re going to come here with a country music festival, it better be the biggest and the baddest of them all.”
 
In addition to the headliners, the extensive festival lineup features 45 groups and artists. There will be 15 bands on three stages per day during the weekend, with Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd, Billy Currington, Lee Brice, Martina McBride and Sara Evans also among playing.
 
“If you think about that line-up, and you’re picking a place in the southeastern United States that could host a whole bunch of people, and there just happened to be a little short track down in Alabama that’s got about 2,700 acres of useable land … we can handle bigger crowds than probably any other facility because we have all that land,” said Grant Lynch, chairman of Talladega Superspeedway. “Virtually, we have unlimited camping, that’s going to be a big part of this festival.”
 
“… I think it’s a perfect fit for a race track to serve in this role. Quint and his team are going to be the best partners we could have reached out to.”
 
Tickets and VIP packages are available for purchase now, with early-bird weekend passes offered for a limited time. Visit DegaJam.com to purchase tickets, view the full line-up and learn more about the weekend.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s team was penalized for having too many men over the wall during a round of green flag pit stops on Lap 121 of Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500, and it was a factor in keeping the Hendrick Motorsports driver from advancing in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup

Earnhardt needed to come back to pit road to serve a pass-through penalty to put him at the tail end of the lead lap.

“Don’t panic; things will work out,” Earnhardt told his team over his radio. “Shake it off. You’ve been doing great all day.”

They almost did work out, as Earnhardt found himself back in the lead with 30 laps to go, then lined up side-by-side with race-winner Joey Logano on the final, green-white-checkered restart before a wreck behind him forced the No. 88 to a second-place finish.

The HMS driver needed to win the race to advance, and thus has been eliminated from the Chase.

Junior led a race-high 61 laps.

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Part of the roof of Denny Hamlin‘s No. 11 Toyota started to break off midway through Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, forcing the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to pit road to fix the issue.

Hamlin took his Camry to pit road on Lap 88 after NASCAR told the team to bring the car in because his roof hatch was coming off, but in an effort to make a quick adjustment and not lose a lap, the fix was not secure enough and he had to come back in.

 

Roof hatches are not used in all races. They are installed at superspeedways as a safety measure to give drivers an alternate exit from the car.

Because the issue took Hamlin off the lead lap, it hindered Hamlin’s chances of continuing on in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.


The JGR driver recuperated to get back on the lead lap, but was caught up in a wreck on the final restart, relegating him to a 37th-place finish, putting him out of the Chase.

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New green-white-checkered rule comes into play

The CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway represented the final race of the Contender Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, and Joey Logano officially swept the round by winning at Charlotte, Kansas and now Talladega. See who advanced to the Eliminator Round and whose title dreams have come to an end.

Advancing:
Joey Logano
Carl Edwards
Brad Keselowski
Jeff Gordon
Kurt Busch
Martin Truex Jr.
Kevin Harvick
Kyle Busch


Eliminated:
Ryan Newman
Denny Hamlin
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Matt Kenseth


RELATED: Junior’s Chase run ends

Up next:
Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500, 1:15 p.m. ET, Nov. 1 at Martinsville Speedway (NBCSN/Live Extra, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). This will be the opening race of the Eliminator Round, and the advancing drivers will see their point totals reset to 4,000.

Who it favors
Most wins: 8 — Jeff Gordon
Best driver rating: 119.1 — Jeff Gordon
Best average finish: 6.9 — Jeff Gordon

Who it hurts
Fewest top 10s: 5 — Martin Truex Jr., Kurt Busch, Joey Logano, Carl Edwards
Worst driver rating: 70.1 — Martin Truex Jr.
Worst average finish: 22.2 — Martin Truex Jr.

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The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series are at Martinsville Speedway this week, while the NASCAR XFINITY Series is off. Sprint Cup Series practice, qualifying and the race can be watched on NBCSN and CNBC as well as NBC Sports Live Extra. Camping World Truck Series events will be televised on FS1.


All times are ET

SUNDAY, NOV. 1:


ON TRACK
— 1:02:30 p.m.: Intro Presentation of Colors by: Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Color Guard Team
— 1:02:50 p.m.: Invocation by: Jonathan Falwell, Sr Pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, VA
— 1:03:30 p.m.: National Anthem by: NC State Marching Band, “The Power Sound of the South”
— 1:05:00 p.m.: Flyby TOT: The Bandit Flight Team (Turn 4 to 1)
— 1:10:00 p.m.: “Drivers, Start Your Engines” by seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and long-time Goody’s spokesperson: Richard Petty Circle K Southeast Director of Marketing Tom Harman
— 1:15 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500  (500 laps, 263 miles), NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)



PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)
— 9:30 a.m.: Jerry Cook and David Gilliland
— 10:30 a.m.: Ned Jarrett
— 10:45 a.m.: Goody’s with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
— 5:15 p.m.: Post-NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race



FRIDAY, OCT. 30:


ON TRACK
— 11:30 a.m.-12:55 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, NBCSN/Live Extra (Results)
— 1-1:55 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice, FS1 (Results)
— 2:30-3:50 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series final practice, FS1 (Results)
— 4:20 p.m: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, Live Extra, CSN Mid Atlantic, CSN Chicago, CSN Northwest, CSN Bay Area, TCN (Philadelphia) (Results) (Note: This will be shown live on Live Extra, and on tape delay at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN.)


GARAGECAM (Watch live)
— 11 a.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
— 2 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)
— 10 a.m.: Stewart-Haas Racing announcement with Danica Patrick
— 10:30 a.m.: Joey Logano
— 10:45 a.m.: Timothy Peters
— 1 p.m.: Carl Edwards
— 2 p.m.: Jeff Gordon
— 5:45 p.m. Post-NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying


SATURDAY, OCT. 31:

ON TRACK

— 9-9:55 a.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, CNBC/Live Extra (Results)
— 10:15 a.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Keystone Light Pole Qualifying, FS1 (Results)
— noon-12:50 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice, CNBC/Live Extra (Results)
— 1:30 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Kroger 200 (200 laps, 105.2 miles), FS1 (Results)


PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)
— 3:15 p.m.: Post-NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race