Now owned by NASCAR, the Illinois oval keeps stock car racing present in the area, while the downtown street event is retooled for a possible future return to the calendar.<\/p>\n
Mexico City, meanwhile, may also reappear in the future, with the FIFA World Cup to be played in the country next year from June to July.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the other non-points event, the NASCAR All-Star Race, will move to the Monster Mile at Dover International Speedway.<\/p>\n
That move comes as North Wilkesboro Speedway returns to the schedule proper for the first time since 1996.<\/p>\n The storied venue, which dates back to 1947, has held the last two All-Star Races.<\/p>\n The season will once again kick off with the non-points-paying Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium on February 1st, followed by the 68th Daytona 500 on February 16th.<\/p>\n The ten-race Playoffs will feature Darlington, World Wide Technology Raceway, Bristol, Kansas, Las Vegas, the Charlotte Roval, Phoenix, Talladega and Martinsville.<\/p>\n Rounding out the year will be the Championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 8th, replacing Phoenix, which has concluded the season since 2020.<\/p>\n After a gruelling 2025 with only one off weekend, in 2026, the calendar features two breaks, the first falling at Easter and the second in August.<\/p>\n SVG fans: pack your bags!<\/p>\n While there may be one less road course on the schedule, Shane van Gisbergen still has ample opportunity to shine.<\/p>\n Certainly, the San Diego Navy Base race is prime for the taking, with the now five-time Cup Series race winner having claimed two of his victories at the inaugural races on the Chicago Street Circuit<\/a> and at Mexico City<\/a>.<\/p>\n That event is scheduled for June 21st.<\/p>\n This year, he has also been successful at Watkins Glen International<\/a>, which is has been brought forward several months from its traditional late-summer date to May 10th, and Sonoma Raceway<\/a>, which is slated for a week after San Diego on June 28th.<\/p>\n The first road course of the year is set for the Circuit of the Americas on March 1st, while the last, the Charlotte Roval, is set for October 11th.<\/p>\n Otherwise, he has proven to be sharp on the shorter tracks, with the Kiwi this year claiming the pole position for the All-Star open race at North Wilksboro.<\/p>\n Earlier in the year at Bowman Gray, he qualified in 10th and finished ninth in the main event.<\/p>\n This weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series regular season wraps up at Daytona International Speedway, ahead of the ten-week-long Playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE 2026 NASCAR Cup Series calendar has leaked, with numerous changes set to spice up next year\u2019s competition.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-81513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-repco-bathurst-1000-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/)
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