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CUP: Phoenix Race Moving To February
Phoenix International Raceway's first NASCAR Sprint Cup race in 2011 will be held Feb. 27...
Mike Hembree  |  Posted August 10, 2010   Charlotte, NC
Phoenix International Raceway is in line for a repaving project. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Phoenix International Raceway will announce this week that it will retain two Sprint Cup races next season and that the “spring” event will be moved from April to February, SPEED.com has learned.

The season’s first PIR race will be scheduled Feb. 27 and will be a 312-lap, 500-kilometer event.

The change is part of dramatic switches in next year’s schedule. Among the biggest are the additions of a second race at Kansas and a new event at Kentucky. Auto Club Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway are losing dates.

Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.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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