The offseason for NASCAR has been pretty busy, as usual. When your season runs from February through November, there isn’t a lot of down time, especially since the first race of the year — the Daytona 500 — is also the most important.
Some items of note:
- Satellite radio coverage is moving from XM to Sirius who is already running full page color ads in USA Today
- Tony Stewart joins Howard Stern and others with his own radio show on Sirius
- For TV coverage, NBC and FX are out while Fox, Speed Channel, ABC, ESPN and TNT will split the races; for details of this 8-year, $4.8B deal, see this Wikipedia article
- DirecTV will offer live in-car coverage for certain drivers (for an additional cost, unfortunately)
- Goody’s Headache Power replaced by Tylenol – I’m not even sure what to say about this
Update 2006-02-07: Also see more details about the NASCAR TV Schedule.
Start counting down the days…
| Date | Race | Track |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Feb-07 | Budweiser Shootout | Daytona |
| 15-Feb-07 | Gatorade Dual 150s | Daytona |
| 18-Feb-07 | Daytona 500 | Daytona |
| 25-Feb-07 | Auto Club 500 | California |
| 11-Mar-07 | UAW-DaimlerChrylser 400 | Las Vegas |
| 18-Mar-07 | Golden Corral 500 | Atlanta |
| 25-Mar-07 | Food City 500 | Bristol |
| 1-Apr-07 | Advance Auto Parts 500 | Martinsville |
| 15-Apr-07 | Samsung/Radio Shack 500 | Texas |
| 21-Apr-07 | Subway Fresh 500 | Phoenix |
| 29-Apr-07 | Aaron’s 499 | Talladega |
| 5-May-07 | Chevy American Revolution 400 | Richmond |
| 12-May-07 | Dodge Charger 500 | Darlington |
| 19-May-07 | NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge | Lowes (Charlotte) |
| 27-May-07 | Coca-Cola 600 | Lowes (Charlotte) |
| 3-Jun-07 | Neighborhood Excellence 400 | Dover |
| 10-Jun-07 | Pocono 500 | Pocono |
| 17-Jun-07 | Michigan 400 | Michigan |
| 24-Jun-07 | Dodge / Save Mart 350 | Infineon (Sears Point) |
| 1-Jul-07 | LENOX Industrial Tools 300 | Loudon |
| 7-Jul-07 | Pepsi 400 | Daytona |
| 15-Jul-07 | USG Sheetrock 400 | Chicagoland |
| 29-Jul-07 | Allstate 400 at The Brickyard | Indianapolis |
| 5-Aug-07 | Pennsylvania 500 | Pocono |
| 18-Aug-07 | AMD at The Glen | Watkins Glen |
| 19-Aug-07 | GFS Marketplace 400 | Michigan |
| 25-Aug-07 | Sharpie 500 | Bristol |
| 2-Sep-07 | Sony HD 500 | California |
| 8-Sep-07 | Chevy Rock and Roll 400 | Richmond |
| 16-Sep-07 | Sylvania 300 | Loudon |
| 23-Sep-07 | MBNA NASCAR RacePoints 400 | Dover |
| 30-Sep-07 | Banquet 400 | Kansas |
| 7-Oct-07 | UAW-Ford 500 | Talladega |
| 13-Oct-07 | UAW-GM Quality 500 | Lowes (Charlotte) |
| 21-Oct-07 | Subway 500 | Martinsville |
| 28-Oct-07 | Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 | Atlanta |
| 4-Nov-07 | Dickies 500 | Texas |
| 11-Nov-07 | Checker Auto Parts 500 | Phoenix |
| 18-Nov-07 | Ford 400 | Homestead |