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CUP: NASCAR To Require Drivers To Choose One Series To Earn Points
Beginning this year, drivers will only be eligible for the championship in one NASCAR national series...
Bob Pockrass  | http://www.scenedaily.com  |  Posted January 12, 2011   Charlotte, NC
Full-time Sprint Cup driver Brad Keselowski poses with the 2010 Nationwide Series champion's trophy at the NASCAR Nationwide/Camping World Truck Series awards banquet. (Photo: Getty Images)
NASCAR drivers, as expected, will have to declare which series they will earn championship points in during the 2011 season when they apply for their annual NASCAR license.

Nationwide Series driver Kenny Wallace confirmed in a Twitter post Monday that he had to select a series (Sprint Cup, Nationwide or truck) in which he would compete for a championship when filling out forms to be able to compete in NASCAR.

The move will prevent full-time Sprint Cup drivers from competing for the Nationwide Series title.

NASCAR officials would not confirm the new policy but are expected to announce it in the next two weeks. The move is not a surprise, however, as team owners and other NASCAR sources have said since November they expected the implementation of the policy this year.

NASCAR Chairman Brian France said in November that NASCAR needed to implement a policy that would give the Nationwide Series more of an identity.

“That’s the kind of policy things that we will try to weigh properly and make sure that we are developing more stars with their own identity [and], at the same time, not throwing out a lot of things that are working,” France said.

“It’s delicate of how to do that, but we have been at this for a number of months studying the idea of making [the Nationwide Series] more so its own identity.”

The last five Nationwide titles have been won by Sprint Cup regulars – Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski.

Only two drivers – Edwards and Keselowski – had announced plans to compete in both series in 2011.

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