NASCAR released its 2023 Cup Series schedule Wednesday, and although there aren’t too many adjustments compared with this year’s lineup, the changes that are included are fairly big.
In recent years, NASCAR has been revamping it’s schedule so it now includes more road course races, a greater variety in track types and some novelty races, like the preseason Clash at the Coliseum and the Bristol Motor Speedway dirt race. For 2023, many of the recent updates to the schedule remain the same, and there’s two new tracks added — though one is for an exhibition race.
So now that the 2023 NASCAR schedule is finally out, here are our key takeaways.