NASCAR unveiled next year's Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series schedules Tuesday at 5 p.m. Gordon and teammates Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne were wrapping up the first day of a two-day test at Martinsville when the announcement was made. Headlining the moves for the Sprint Cup Series are changes for events at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway and Darlington Raceway. Atlanta's Sprint Cup race had been held on the Labor Day weekend since 2010. Bristol's spring race will be run in April instead of March while Darlington, which hosted the annual Southern 500 on Labor Day weekend from 1950 through 2003 before moving to a May date, moves back to the first weekend in September.*
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