Next year’s NASCAR schedule not finalized

NASCAR President Mike Helton says that the sanctioning body is working on the schedules for next season, but that they are not finalized yet. He also addressed the length of races and other issues Friday morning at Daytona International Speedway.

Helton said that NASCAR is working on the 2008 schedules and that, so far, the sanctioning body doesn't foresee any changes in the Chase For The Nextel Cup segment of the season.

As to the length of races, Helton said that the sanctioning body wasn't necessarily aiming for a three-hour window, but that it was monitoring the length of events.

"We went through a cycle where we modified several races from 500 miles to 400 miles and different things," he said. "I remember that cycle a few years back. Currently we don't see anything that is high on the radar of changing the distance of events right now." More at Scenedaily.com