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Talladega swaps with Kansas in Chase in 2017 Sprint Cup schedule

Talladega will no longer be the final race of the second round of the Chase starting in 2017.

NASCAR has swapped the dates of Talladega and Kansas, meaning Kansas Speedway will be where the Chase field is cut from 12 drivers to eight.

You'll remember that there was a lot of chaos at Talladega last year. Had Dale Earnhardt Jr. beat Joey Logano he would have moved on in the Chase. Junior finished second. And there was that whole thing with the multiple wrecks on restarts (well, OK, one restart didn't count) that marred the finish of the race.

The Talladega/Kansas swap is the biggest note from the 2017 schedule. NASCAR has signed a sanctioning agreement with all its tracks for the next five years, so there weren't going to be any significant new additions to the schedule.

The spring Texas race is not a Saturday night race in 2017. It's on Sunday afternoon. And the Dover race that's May 15 (because of the five Sundays in May) in 2016 is back in June.

Here's how the schedule lays out. We'll get more information from NASCAR regarding the Talladega move this afternoon at a media availability.

Feb. 18: Daytona exhibition race
Feb. 26: Daytona 500
March 3: Atlanta
March 12: Las Vegas
March 19: Phoenix
March 26: Auto Club
April 2: Martinsville
April 9: Texas
April 23: Bristol
April 30: Richmond
May 7: Talladega
May 13: Kansas
May 20: All-Star Race
May 28: Charlotte
June 4: Dover
June 11: Pocono
June 18: Michigan
June 25: Sonoma
July 1: Daytona
July 8: Kentucky
July 16: New Hampshire
July 23: Indianapolis
July 30: Pocono
Aug. 6: Watkins Glen
Aug. 13: Michigan
Aug. 19: Bristol
Sep. 3: Darlington
Sep. 9: Richmond
Sep. 17: Chicago
Sep. 24: New Hampshire
Oct. 1: Dover
Oct. 7: Charlotte
Oct. 15: Talladega
Oct. 22: Kansas
Oct. 29: Martinsville
Nov. 5: Texas
Nov. 12: Phoenix
Nov. 19: Homestead

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Nick Bromberg

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