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BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Beginning in 2004, California Speedway will get a second NASCAR Winston Cup date -- Sunday night during Labor Day weekend. This first official move of the Winston Cup Series' "realignment 2004" was announced Friday.

International Speedway Corporation, which is at least part owner of 12 of the 23 facilities that host Winston Cup races, shuffled its lineup at three race tracks to put in effect the change.

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The remainder of the 2004 Winston Cup schedule is expected to be announced later this summer.

California Speedway has held a single Winston Cup event each year since 1997. The track is in Fontana, which is about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, in a coveted media market. The 92,000-seat 14-degree banked oval was built for about $120,000,000 in the mid-1990s by Roger Penske.

In 2004 North Carolina Speedway, a 60,113-seat oval in Rockingham will lose its second date on the schedule, in the fall. This season Rockingham's spring race was held Feb. 23, a date that has been weather-plagued through the years.

The Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, a 60,000-seat oval, will replace Rockingham's fall date. The Southern 500 has been held on Labor Day weekend for 53 years at Darlington, the 1.336-mile South Carolina oval.


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Darlington maintains its spring event, held annually in March since 1957.

The move cuts the number of Winston Cup races in the Carolinas to five: Two at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.; two at Darlington; and one at Rockingham.

As recently as 1996, eight races were held in the Carolinas, including two at the defunct North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway and the second at Rockingham.

News conferences were also held simultaneously Friday in Darlington and Fontana to announce the changes.


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WooHoo!! Look out Fontana!! Here I come!!

Originally posted by MrsSpeed
Lucky girl!! You get to go driver stalking 2 times a year.

Yeah!! Jarrett had better watch himself!! Maybe I'll try to pinch Elliott's butt like in the Coke commercial!! Buwhahahahahaa

no fair i wanna go driver stalkin

Originally posted by MrsSpeed
LOL!! I love that commercial. Bobby running that cold bottle of coke on his forehead. *thud*

Yeah!!!!! That part about does me in too!! LOL!!

woo hoo! you take bobby and leave ryan to me

I Dont live far from Darlington ( The lady in Black ) I go to all the races There If Any of Y'All Are Going to any of the Races There Let me Know ..

Originally posted by sinned96
Hey Annie I went to the last race in April. Where you there? It was my first Nascar race It was pretty cool.

I didn't make it this year My MIL was in the hospital after suffereing her 2nd heart attack. She died the day after Mother's day. Needless to say, my live at that time was waiting for phone calls, making calls and sending emails to family members.


But~~There's always next year!!