FORT WORTH, Texas — NASCAR is finally about to lose its wings.

"We're hoping within the next two of three races that we'll be able to be at a point where we say it's time to take the wings off and put the spoiler on," NASCAR president Mike Helton said Monday.

While Helton didn't provide a specific date for the expected removal of the wings from the cars, that timeline coincides with the March 28 race at Martinsville that most teams have expected to be the first with the more traditional-looking rear spoilers.

Speaking at Texas Motor Speedway's media day, Helton said there was a "pretty doggone good chance" that the spoilers would be on the car when the series races at the 1Z\x-mile, high-banked track April 18. The first on-track testing of the new spoiler package was done during a tire test at Texas in January.

"I think by the time we come here in April, we can have a race or two under our belt with the spoiler," Helton said.

There are two more Sprint Cup races before the series goes to the half-mile Martinsville, which will come only days after NASCAR's planned open test at Charlotte. Texas is the second race after that.