LOUDON, N.H. – There’s been plenty of speculation about what will happen to the schedule at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2011.

This much is certain as of right now, both race weekends will definitely be changing at the track next year.

That became fact today when officials at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. announced they would host the Sprint Cup Series in 2011 on June 26. That weekend has been the home of New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 event.

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New Hampshire Motor Speedway officials will hold a press conference Wednesday concerning the 2011 schedule at the facility.

A media advisory from the track indicated a “Major Announcement” at the track.

NHMS executive vice president and general manager Jerry Gappens and New Hampshire governor John Lynch will be on hand for the Wednesday afternoon press conference.

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Since the Sprint Cup Series made the first of two annual visits to New Hampshire Motor Speedway in late June, speculation has been overwhelming that the facility would likely lose one of its two Sprint Cup Series weekends in 2011.

Many in the national media have made it sound as if New Hampshire Motor Speedway losing one of its dates after this season was all but a done deal.

It was expected that Speedway Motorsports Inc., the company that owns New Hampshire Motor Speedway, would do some date swapping within the family of facilities it controls. It was thought that SMI officials would pull one date from Atlanta Motor Speedway and one from New Hampshire Motor Speedway and uses those changes to put a Sprint Cup Series event at Kentucky Speedway and have a second date for Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

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As the all-time winningest driver at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Ted Christopher of Plainville has proved himself up to the task of conquering the granite state’s biggest racing oval.

Saturday night he also showed he can battle with the best on a New Hampshire bullring.

Christopher held off Erick Rudolph on a green-white-checkered finish to win the 179-lap Monadnock 200 Saturday at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, N.H. It was the first Whelen Modified Tour event at the quarter-mile trick since 1990.

Rudolph, of Ransomville, N.Y., held on for second and Ron Silk of Norwalk was third.

The victory, the second of 2010 for Christopher, moved him into sole possession of third place on the Whelen Modified Tour’s all-time career win list.

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SALISBURY – A week ago at New Hampshire Motor Speedway it was a Sprint Cup Series star Ryan Newman stealing victory away from the regulars of the Whelen Modified Tour.

Saturday, for the second consecutive event, it was another non-regular walking away with the big trophy.

Forty-nine year old road course specialist Dale Quarterley of Westfield, Mass. used a daring late pit stop and came back through the field to win the Whelen Modified Tour Lime Rock 100 Saturday at Lime Rock Park.

It was the first event at Lime Rock Park in the 26-year history of the Whelen Modified Tour and the first road course the division has competed at since Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International in 2000.

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LOUDON, N.H. – The high-pitched wail of an IndyCar Series car running at speed returned to New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sunday for the first time since 1998.

Two-time IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti, coming off his second Indianapolis 500 victory last month, took three laps around the 1.058-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval Sunday just prior to the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Lenox Industrial Tools 301.

New Hampshire Motor Speedway officials announced Sunday morning that the IndyCar Series would return to the track next season with an event scheduled for July 30, 2011.

LOUDON, N.H. – While the Sprint Cup Series Lenox Industrial Tools 301 weekend rolls on at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the simmering feud between track management and local officials concerning the price of police protection at the facility continues on.

The Concord (N.H.) Monitor is reporting that, despite track management’s insistence that other Speedway Motorsports Inc. facilities don’t pay local communities for police protection, most other tracks owned by the corporation are indeed paying local communities for that protection.

LOUDON, N.H. - Since the Nationwide Series first took to the 1.058-mile oval New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval Friday the focus has been on the resumption of NASCAR Danica-mania.

Saturday morning though it was Brad Keselowski shifting the focus in the way of his Penske Racing Dodge.

Keselowski was fastest in qualifying this morning for this afternoon’s Nationwide Series New England 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

It was Keselowski’s first Nationwide Series pole at New Hamsphire Motor Speedway and sixth career pole in the division. Keselowski, who also competes in the Sprint Cup Series for Penske Racing, set a fast lap of 29.376 seconds (129.657 mph).