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NASCAR Sprint-Cup Series
CUP: It’s A Quiet Weekend
No NASCAR Series will be on the tracks this weekend...
Mike Hembree  |  Posted March 12, 2010   Charlotte, NC
All NASCAR Series, Sprint CUP, Nationwide and Camping World Trucks are off this weekend. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Wait a minute – there’s not a Sprint Cup race to remote-control over to this weekend?

No, it’s the first off weekend of the season for the Cup traveling circus.

That’s OK. There’s almost always a Nationwide race on Cup off weekends, right? Well, maybe. But not this weekend.

So, we’ll flip over to the trucks, then.

Uh, no. No Truck race, either.

This is that oddest of weekends – one that is void of Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck races.

The engines are silent.

“We wanted a break in the season, and it just worked out that this weekend was it,” said NASCAR spokesman Jim Hunter. He said there was no grand design to work out the schedule so that all three series are idle.

There are only four “off” weekends in the Sprint Cup schedule this year. After Sunday, the Cup schedule has quiet weekends April 4, July 17 and Aug. 29.

The Nationwide Series is scheduled to race April 3 (Nashville), July 17 (Madison, Ill.) and Aug. 29 (Montreal) when the Cup cars are idle.

The Truck series also will race in Nashville (April 2) and in Madison (July 16) and on the Aug. 29 weekend (Aug. 27) in Chicago.

Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com and has been covering motorsports for 28 years. He has written several books on NASCAR, including "NASCAR: The Definitive History of America's Sport" and "Then Tony Said To Junior: The Best NASCAR Stories Ever Told". He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.

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