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Few changes in NASCAR's '03 schedule Posted: Monday August 19, 2002 11:36 PM
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- NASCAR released its 2003 schedules for the Winston Cup and Busch series' on Monday, with few changes. The Winston Cup season will again be 36 championship events, beginning with the Daytona 500 on Feb. 16. The schedule will end at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Nov. 16. There are no changes from 2002 in number of races or sites. However, the annual fall event at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., was switched from a Sunday afternoon race to a Saturday night event, to be run Oct. 11. By making it a night race, all three of Lowe's Cup events will be run under the lights. The track also plays host to the Coca-Cola 600 and is expected to be awarded The Winston, the annual all-star race, for a 16th consecutive year later this week. "Obviously, night races have become very popular with the fans," track spokesman Jerry Gappens said. "When we moved The Winston and the Coca-Cola 600 to a night race in the '90s, it make a tremendous difference. We think that this will be good for everyone." The only other change swapped the dates of the fall races at Talladega Superspeedway and Kansas Speedway. The series will run at Talladega on Sept. 28, and in Kansas on Oct. 5. The Winston Cup series again visits 23 tracks in 19 states. Meanwhile, the 2003 Busch series schedule was also released and will feature 34 races beginning at Daytona International Speedway and ending at Homestead. There are no changes from 2002 in terms of the number of races, but New Hampshire International Speedway and Gateway International Raceway in St. Louis will swap dates. Instead of racing at NHIS in May, the Busch series will join the Winston Cup series there in July. Gateway, which formerly had a July date, will switch to May 10.
The Busch series will visit 26 tracks in 22 states.
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