NASCAR releases 2021 Cup Series Schedule

Connor Ferguson

6 years ago

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - JULY 04: Chase Briscoe, driver of the #98 Highpoint.com Ford, leads Austin Cindric, driver of the #22 Menards/Richmond Ford, and Noah Gragson, driver of the #9 Switch Chevrolet, during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 04, 2020 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Throughout the day, NASCAR will be revealing its full 2021 schedule with different announcements over social media.

However, the full schedule has been leaked by Catchfence.com and The Athletic. It can be seen below.

NASCAR releases 2021 Cup Series Schedule

The season will kick off with the usual weekend event in the Non-Points clash race at Daytona being moved to the road course on a Tuesday date.

Following Daytona, the series will head to Homestead-Miami prior to its annual west coast swing.

The rest of the early chunk of the schedule stayed relatively the same, until Bristol’s spring race date came up. The track will be covered in dirt and NASCAR will run its Cup Series race there at the very least – making it the first modern day dirt race for the series.

Two months later, during NASCAR’s usual All-Star Race date, the tour will go to Circuit of the Americas for the first time ever while the All-Star Race moves to Texas Motor Speedway.

The trip to Circuit of the Americas is NASCAR’s first stop there, and first of six road course points races on the 2021 schedule.

Also new to the schedule is Road America as well as Nashville Superspeedway.

Both Kentucky Speedway and Chicagoland saw its races taken away and Iowa Speedway is not included on the slate.

The schedule also saw the removal of the Brickyard 400 – one of NASCAR’s crown jewels – in favor of running the race at the road course at Indianapolis instead.