NASCAR Officially Reveals 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule

Addition of Bowman Gray and Mexico City, Revamped Playoff Tracks highlight big changes to 2025 Cup Series schedule.

Talladega Superspeedway will move to the middle race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 on the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, which was released on Thursday. / John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports

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	Network	Time
--	Sunday Feb. 2	Bowman Gray Stadium (The Clash)	FOX	8:00 PM
--	Thursday Feb. 13	Daytona International Speedway (Duel 1)	FS1
--	Thursday Feb. 13	Daytona International Speedway (Duel 2)	FS1
1	Sunday Feb. 16	Daytona International Speedway (Daytona 500)	FOX	2:30 PM
2	Sunday Feb. 23	Atlanta Motor Speedway	FOX	3:00 PM
3	Sunday March 2	Circuit of the Americas	FOX	3:30 PM
4	Sunday March 9	Phoenix Raceway	FS1	3:30 PM
5	Sunday March 16	Las Vegas Motor Speedway	FS1	3:30 PM
6	Sunday March 23	Homestead-Miami Speedway	FS1	3:00 PM
7	Sunday March 30	Martinsville Speedway	FS1	3:00 PM
8	Sunday April 6	Darlington Raceway	FS1	3:00 PM
9	Sunday April 13	Bristol Motor Speedway	FS1	3:00 PM
10	Sunday April 27	Talladega Superspeedway	FOX	3:00 PM
11	Sunday May 4	Texas Motor Speedway	FS1	3:30 PM
12	Sunday May 11	Kansas Speedway	FS1	3:00 PM
--	Sunday May 18	North Wilkesboro Speedway (All-Star)	FS1	8:00 PM
13	Sunday May 25	Charlotte Motor Speedway (Coca-Cola 600)	Prime Video	6:00 PM
14	Sunday June 1	Nashville Superspeedway	Prime Video	7:00 PM
15	Sunday June 8	Michigan International Speedway	Prime Video	2:00 PM
16	Sunday June 15	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez (Mexico City)	Prime Video	3:00 PM
17	Sunday June 22	Pocono Raceway	Prime Video	2:00 PM
18*	Saturday June 28	Atlanta Motor Speedway	TNT Sports	7:00 PM
19*	Sunday July 6	Chicago Street Race	TNT Sports	2:00 PM
20*	Sunday July 13	Sonoma Raceway	TNT Sports	3:30 PM
21*	Sunday July 20	Dover Motor Speedway	TNT Sports	2:00 PM
22*	Sunday July 27	Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Brickyard 400)	TNT Sports	2:00 PM
23	Sunday August 3	Iowa Speedway	USA	3:30 PM
24	Sunday August 10	Watkins Glen International	USA	2:00 PM
25	Saturday August 16	Richmond Raceway	USA	7:30 PM
26	Saturday August 23	Daytona International Speedway	NBC	7:30 PM
	PLAYOFFS	Round of 16
27	Sunday August 31	Darlington Raceway (Southern 500)	USA	6:00 PM
28	Sunday September 7	World Wide Technology Raceway (Gateway)	USA	3:00 PM
29	Saturday September 13	Bristol Motor Speedway	USA	7:30 PM
	PLAYOFFS	Round of 12
30	Sunday September 21	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	USA	2:00 PM
31	Sunday September 28	Kansas Speedway	USA	3:00 PM
32	Sunday October 5	Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL	USA	3:00 PM
	PLAYOFFS	Round of 8
33	Sunday October 12	Las Vegas Motor Speedway	USA	5:30 PM
34	Sunday October 19	Talladega Superspeedway	NBC	2:00 PM
35	Sunday October 26	Martinsville Speedway	NBC	2:00 PM
	PLAYOFFS	Championship 4
36	Sunday November 2	Phoenix Raceway	NBC	3:00 PM

*indicates in-season tournament races.