CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR launched its 2023 schedule on Wednesday that features beforehand introduced races on the new downtown Chicago avenue course and a return to North Wilkesboro in North Carolina together with just one notable date shift.

The Cup Sequence schedule is essentially unchanged from the 2022 model, with the ten playoff tracks the identical, the exhibition Conflict once more returning to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Daytona 500 opening the season on Feb. 19.

The one notable date change is a second cease at Richmond Raceway being moved from August to July, and the shared NASCAR and IndyCar weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway moved from July to August. The occasion will once more be on Indy’s highway course.

NASCAR stated the Feb. 26 race at Auto Membership Speedway in Southern California would be the final on its 2-mile format. NASCAR has wished to transform the power into a brief monitor however the pandemic delayed any progress.

Speedway Motorsports introduced final week it was transferring the annual All-Star race to North Wilkesboro Speedway, and the race might be Could 21. Texas Motor Speedway hosted the All-Star Race the previous two years, and the shift to North Wilkesboro leaves Texas with just one Cup race for the primary time since 2004.

There might be solely two Cup races held on Saturday nights subsequent yr, at Daytona in August and Bristol in September. Atlanta Motor Speedway can even maintain one among its two Cup races, on Sunday, July 9, at evening.