NASCAR Officially Reveals 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule
On Thursday, August 29, NASCAR officially revealed the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. As previously announced, the season will be kicked off at the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium on February 2, which will host The Clash, an annual preseason exhibition event. While only an exhibition event, this will mark the first time the NASCAR Cup Series has competed at Bowman Gray since the 1971 season.
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As a result of the addition of Bowman Gray, the LA Memorial Coliseum, which hosted The Clash from 2022 to 2024, will not return to the schedule in 2025.
The Daytona 500 will continue its role in the season-opening points race, a distinction the crown jewel event at Daytona International Speedway has held since the 1982 season.
Among the notable changes to the schedule include the previously announced June date in Mexico City, which will replace the spring race at Richmond Raceway as Richmond will carry just one race date in 2025. The event in Mexico City will mark the first NASCAR Cup Series points-paying race to be contested internationally since 1958.
The lone off weekend for the NASCAR Cup Series in 2025 will be Easter weekend, which will mark the first time since the 2021 season that the NASCAR Cup Series will not compete on Easter Sunday.
There will be an in-season tournament, which will take place during the five-race TNT Sports stretch on the schedule beginning with Atlanta Motor Speedway in June, and concluding with the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July. The driver who wins the tournament will take home a $1-million prize.
Homestead-Miami Speedway, Watkins Glen International, and Atlanta Motor Speedway, which all are playing host to a Playoff race in 2024, will move out of the Playoffs for the 2025 season. Darlington Raceway's Southern 500, World Wide Technology Raceway (Gateway), and New Hampshire Motor Speedway will take the three vacant race dates inside the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
Talladega Superspeedway's Playoff race will also see a date shift as the 500-mile, 188-lap event around the 2.66-mile superspeedway will move to the 34th race of the season, which means a driver could theoretically advance to the Championship 4 with a win at Talladega.
2025 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule
Race No. | Date | Track | TV Partner |
|---|---|---|---|
-- | Sunday | Bowman Gray Stadium | FOX Sports |
-- | Thursday | Daytona International Speedway | FOX Sports |
-- | Thursday | Daytona International Speedway | FOX Sports |
1 | Sunday | Daytona International Speedway | FOX Sports |
2 | Sunday | Atlanta Motor Speedway | FOX Sports |
3 | Sunday | Circuit of the Americas | FOX Sports |
4 | Sunday | Phoenix Raceway | FOX Sports |
5 | Sunday | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | FOX Sports |
6 | Sunday | Homestead-Miami Speedway | FOX Sports |
7 | Sunday | Martinsville Speedway | FOX Sports |
8 | Sunday | Darlington Raceway | FOX Sports |
9 | Sunday | Bristol Motor Speedway | FOX Sports |
10 | Sunday | Talladega Superspeedway | FOX Sports |
11 | Sunday | Texas Motor Speedway | FOX Sports |
12 | Sunday | Kansas Speedway | FOX Sports |
-- | Sunday | North Wilkesboro Speedway | FOX Sports |
13 | Sunday | Charlotte Motor Speedway | Prime Video |
14 | Sunday | Nashville Superspeedway | Prime Video |
15 | Sunday | Michigan International Speedway | Prime Video |
16 | Sunday | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | Prime Video |
17 | Sunday | Pocono Raceway | Prime Video |
18* | Saturday | Atlanta Motor Speedway | TNT Sports |
19* | Sunday | Chicago Street Race | TNT Sports |
20* | Sunday | Sonoma Raceway | TNT Sports |
21* | Sunday | Dover Motor Speedway | TNT Sports |
22* | Sunday | Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Brickyard 400) | TNT Sports |
23 | Sunday | Iowa Speedway | NBC Sports |
24 | Sunday | Watkins Glen International | NBC Sports |
25 | Saturday | Richmond Raceway | NBC Sports |
26 | Saturday | Daytona International Speedway | NBC Sports |
PLAYOFFS | Round of 16 | ||
27 | Sunday | Darlington Raceway (Southern 500) | NBC Sports |
28 | Sunday | World Wide Technology Raceway (Gateway) | NBC Sports |
29 | Saturday | Bristol Motor Speedway | NBC Sports |
PLAYOFFS | Round of 12 | ||
30 | Sunday | New Hampshire Motor Speedway | NBC Sports |
31 | Sunday | Kansas Speedway | NBC Sports |
32 | Sunday | Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL | NBC Sports |
PLAYOFFS | Round of 8 | ||
33 | Sunday | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | NBC Sports |
34 | Sunday | Talladega Superspeedway | NBC Sports |
35 | Sunday | Martinsville Speedway | NBC Sports |
PLAYOFFS | Championship 4 | ||
36 | Sunday | Phoenix Raceway | NBC Sports |
*indicates in-season tournament races.
TOBY CHRISTIE