The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will start the 2008 season for the ninth consecutive year at Daytona International Speedway. (Ronda Greer Photo)

The 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule was announced today and for the sixth consecutive year, the championship will be contested over 25 races. The 2008 season will be the 60th anniversary of NASCAR, which was incorporated on Feb. 21, 1948.

The schedule begins at Daytona International Speedway in February, concludes at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November and features an unprecedented NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series-NASCAR Nationwide Series doubleheader at California Speedway.

The series will visit the same 22 tracks as in 2007 and in the same order as the current schedule. Fifteen events will be held in conjunction with the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series, while 10 races are scheduled as either "stand-alones" or in conjunction with NASCAR Nationwide Series races.

On Feb. 23, California Speedway will host NASCAR Craftsman Truck and NASCAR Nationwide Series events, which for three seasons have been scheduled on separate days during the track's first of two NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series weekends.

In another shift, Gateway International Raceway's event will run a week later than in 2007, on Sept. 6, the weekend following the Labor Day holiday.

Martinsville Speedway, one of four tracks to have scheduled an event in each season since the series was created in 1995, will host its 20th race on Oct. 18.

Among active tracks on the schedule, Texas Motor Speedway has hosted the most NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races. Texas will host its 21st and 22nd NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races in 2008, on June 6 and Oct. 31 and joins Atlanta Motor Speedway and Martinsville Speedway as tracks hosting two events in 2008.

2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Schedule

Date	Site
Feb 15	Daytona International Speedway
Feb 23	California Speedway
Mar 7	Atlanta Motor Speedway
Mar 29	Martinsville Speedway
Apr 26	Kansas Speedway
May 16	Lowe's Motor Speedway
May 24	Mansfield Motorsports Park
May 30	Dover International Speedway
Jun 6	Texas Motor Speedway
Jun 14	Michigan International Speedway
Jun 20	The Milwaukee Mile
Jun 28	Memphis Motorsports Park
Jul 12	Kentucky Speedway
Jul 25	O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis
Aug 9	Nashville Superspeedway
Aug 20	Bristol Motor Speedway
Sep 6	Gateway International Raceway
Sep 13	New Hampshire International Speedway
Sep 20	Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Oct 4	Talladega Superspeedway
Oct 18	Martinsville Speedway
Oct 25	Atlanta Motor Speedway
Oct 31	Texas Motor Speedway
Nov 7	Phoenix International Raceway
Nov 14	Homestead-Miami Speedway

Tentative Schedule - Subject to Change