2000 NASCAR Busch North Series

The 2000 Busch North Series, NASCAR Touring schedule will highlight 19 championship point events at 14 race tracks across the Northeast, it was announced Wednesday by Tom Deery, NASCAR vice president Weekly Racing Series. In addition to stops at some of the Northeast's leading facilities, the series will debut at a new speedway and return to a facility that hosted two events during the inaugural 1987 season.

Waterford Speedbowl in New London, Conn., will play host to the series for the first time on Saturday, Aug. 5 when the full-fendered machines take to the .333-mile semi-banked oval.

The series will return to Seekonk (Mass.) Speedway on Saturday, May 27 for the first time since 1987. Former NASCAR Busch Series Grand National Division champion Chuck Bown and 1999 Seekonk Speedway Pro Stock track champion Rick Martin won the two events run in 1987 on the tricky .333-mile oval.