1997 NASCAR Busch Series
The 1997 NASCAR Busch Series season began February 15 and ended November 9. Randy LaJoie of BACE Motorsports won the championship.
1997 team chart
List of full-time teams at the start of 1997.
Part-time teams
Gargoyles 300
The Gargoyles 300 was held February 15 at Daytona International Speedway. Elliott Sadler won the pole.
Top ten results
Goodwrench Service 200
The Goodwrench Service 200 was held February 22 at North Carolina Speedway. Mark Martin won the pole.
Top ten results
Hardee's Fried Chicken 250
The Hardee's Fried Chicken 250 was held March 1 at Richmond International Raceway. Randy LaJoie won the pole.
Top ten results
2001 NASCAR Busch Series
The 2001 NASCAR Busch Series season began February 17 and ended November 10. Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing was champion.
Teams and drivers
List of full-time teams at the start of 2001.
NAPA Auto Parts 300
The NAPA Auto Parts 300 was held February 17 at Daytona International Speedway. Joe Nemechek won the pole.
Top ten results
Failed to qualify: Christian Elder (#38), Andy Kirby (#49)
Alltel 200
The Alltel 200 was held February 24 at North Carolina Speedway. Greg Biffle won the pole.
Top ten results
Failed to qualify: none
Sam's Town 300
The Sam's Town 300 was held March 3 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Matt Kenseth won the pole.
Top ten results
Failed to qualify: none
Aaron's 312
The Aaron's 312 was held March 12 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Ryan Newman won the pole.
Top ten results
Failed to qualify: none
SunCom 200
The SunCom 200 was held March 17 at Darlington Raceway. Ryan Newman won the pole.
2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series
The 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series began on February 16 at Daytona International Speedway with the Camping World 300, and ended on November 15 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the Ford 300. This was the first season in which NASCAR's second-tier series was known as the Nationwide Series, ending the 26-year sponsorship by Anheuser-Busch's Busch Beer. The seven-year agreement gives Nationwide Insurance the exclusive rights to tie its brand to NASCAR's second most popular racing series.
Schedule
The following table shows the 2008 schedule published by NASCAR.
♣ — Race ran at night, or started in the late afternoon and finished at night.
2008 team chart
Complete schedule
Part-time schedule
Television
The 2008 TV schedule followed the same format as 2007, with most races broadcast on ESPN2 and six races broadcast on ABC when ESPN2 broadcast larger sporting events. All races were to be shown live on free-to-air TV in Australia on Ten HD
2008 season races
See List of 2008 NASCAR races for a complete list and schedule of the 2008 season races.
1994 NASCAR Busch Series
The 1994 NASCAR Busch Series season began February 19 and ended October 22. David Green of Labonte Motorsports won the championship.
1994 team chart
Complete schedule
List of full-time teams at the start of 1994.
Part-time schedule
Goody's 300
The Goody's 300 was held February 19 at Daytona International Speedway. The #30 of Michael Waltrip won the pole and ran well until he lost the right half of his rear spoiler late in the race.
Top ten results
Goodwrench 200
The Goodwrench 200 was held February 26 at North Carolina Speedway. Robert Pressley won the pole.
Top ten results
Hardee's 250
The Hardee's 250 was held March 5 at Richmond International Raceway. The #44 of David Green won the pole.
Xfinity Series
The NASCAR Xfinity Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. It is promoted as NASCAR's "minor league" circuit, and is considered a proving ground for drivers who wish to step up to the organization's top level circuit, the Sprint Cup Series. Xfinity Series races are frequently held in the same venue as, and a day prior to, the Sprint Cup race scheduled for that weekend, encouraging fans to attend both events.
The series was previously called the Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series in 1982 and 1983, the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series from 1984 through 2003, the NASCAR Busch Series from 2004 through 2007, and the NASCAR Nationwide Series from 2008 through 2014.
History
The series emerged from NASCAR's Sportsman division, which had been formed in 1950 as NASCAR's short track race division. It was NASCAR's fourth series (after the Modified and Roadster series in 1948 and Strictly Stock in 1949). The sportsman cars were not current model cars and could be modified more, but not as much as Modified series cars. It became the Late Model Sportsman Series in 1968, and soon featured races on larger tracks such as Daytona International Speedway. Drivers used obsolete Grand National (now Sprint Cup) cars on larger tracks but by the inception of the touring format in 1982, the series used older compact cars. Short track cars with relatively small 300 cubic inch V-8 motors were used. Drivers used smaller current year models featuring V6 motors.
2007 NASCAR Busch Series
The 26th season of the NASCAR Busch Series began on February 17 with the Orbitz 300 at Daytona International Speedway and concluded on November 17 with the Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Carl Edwards clinched the Busch Series championship on November 3 during the O'Reilly Challenge with 2 races remaining. The 2007 season was the final season of the series under Anheuser-Busch's sponsorship. In 2008 the Busch Series became the NASCAR Nationwide Series sponsored by insurance company Nationwide Insurance with a $70 million contract for 7 years.
Top stories
Busch Whackers
The domination of the series by the Busch Whackers continued in 2007. In the first 28 races, only two drivers not with regular NEXTEL Cup schedules drove their cars to victory from start to finish: Stephen Leicht (Meijer 300, Kentucky Speedway) and Jason Leffler (Kroger 200, O'Reilly Raceway Park). A third, Aric Almirola was the official winner of the AT&T 250 at the Milwaukee Mile; Almirola qualified the car for Denny Hamlin, who was racing at Sonoma in the Cup Series and was not scheduled to start, but was forced to as Hamlin was delayed in returning from Sonoma. Hamlin was placed in the car after arriving and drove nearly the entire race, winning, but he failed to receive credit because he failed to start.
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