New Hampshire Motor Speedway officials have scheduled a press conference for this afternoon with the 2011 schedule at the track being the topic at hand.

So what will be going on at the track?

It seems the most likely scenario that will be laid out is a change back to what used to be for the track’s annual summer Sprint Cup Series weekend and a one-week change for the track’s fall event.

New Hampshire Motor Speedway officials are expected to announce that the track’s usual late June event will move to a mid-July date. The Lenox Industrial Tools 301 went from a mid-July race to a late June event (and once early July event) in 2007.

Article source: http://blogs.courant.com/autoracing/2010/08/changed-weekends-likely-for-bo.html

It looks as if it’s official that all the worry about New Hampshire Motor Speedway losing one of its two Sprint Cup Series events in 2011 was for naught.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway officials announced Tuesday that the facility will once again host just one Sprint Cup event in 2011.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway are both owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc.

Article source: http://blogs.courant.com/autoracing/2010/08/two-sprint-cup-series-events-a.html

Last Sunday, after getting wrecked by Hendrick Motorsports driver Jimmie Johnson in the Sprint Cup Series event at Pocono Raceway, it was a quite terse Kurt Busch who met with the media after the incident.

Busch was quite a bit more animated Friday at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International when talking about the brewing feud between himself and Johnson and Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports teammates.

“The guys at Hendrick are pretty boys and they get on People Magazine covers and that’s their job,” Busch said during a press conference at Watkins Glen. “My job is to go out and race cars and that’s what I focus on. I like to race the cars and race them hard, race them smart and I feel like that if what happened last week, which we’ll talk about racing because that’s what we should be talking about, if the roles we’re reversed and the [my] car wrecked the [Johnson], I would have been hung.

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