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Indianapolis Motor Speedway is expected to announce Wednesday the addition of a Nationwide Series race to its 2012 Brickyard 400 weekend. The race will be held on Saturday afternoon, a day after NASCAR's Grand-Am Series will compete on the road course, according to sources familiar with the announcement. Losing a Nationwide Series race will be Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis  formerly known as Indianapolis Raceway Park and O'Reilly Raceway Park. IMS officials have been asking for a Nationwide race for several years and finally are getting one at the expense of one of the best short-track races on the Nationwide circuit. Lucas Oil Raceway has a capacity of 30,000, and apparently NASCAR and the track couldn't agree on a sanction fee to keep the Nationwide event at the 0.686-mile track. The track might still have a Camping World Truck Series event but without the doubleheader feature of the trucks and Nationwide, it remains to be seen whether the track wants to do all the preparations for just one event. The track has been a part of the Nationwide Series since the series debuted in 1982, with Morgan Shepherd winning the track's first race. Kroger has sponsored the race each year, making it the longest continuous race entitlement in the sport.(SceneDaily.com)(7-5-2011)