TMS confirms IndyCar doubleheader again in 2012

The IndyCar Series twin race format will return to Texas Motor Speedway in 2012, and the track's two NASCAR stops will be highlighted by a Saturday night spring race and the eighth Chase race, it was announced Tuesday night.

The TMS schedule starts with the Samsung Mobile 500 on Sat., April 14, and will be the first Saturday night race of the Sprint Cup season. NASCAR returns to Texas on Nov. 4, for a Sunday afternoon race — the eighth stop in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR's playoff format.

Situated between those two Cup weekends is the Firestone Twin 275s, the twin races in the IndyCar Series that debuted last year at TMS. Those two races will be Sat., June 9, and will follow the Indianapolis 500 — the series takes a week off after the Indy 500 before coming to Texas.