The news is that New Hampshire Motor Speedway will keep its two Sprint Cup races, at least for 2011. While fans and management of NHMS breathed a sigh of relief, it’s still entirely possible that one of the Cup events at the Loudon, NH, track could still move in the near future. Sources reveal that if International Speedway Corp., part of the France family racing empire, had agreed to move its race to late February of next year from this November, O. Bruton Smith of Speedway Motorsports, Inc., would have moved the NHMS spring race to Vegas for the NASCAR Chase To The Nextel Cup finale in a New York Minute. Speculation tells us that the two Cup races at NHMS are not chiseled in stone, especially if attendance continues to fall.
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