2025 NASCAR schedule: Where and when NASCAR national series will race (2024)

NASCAR Cup Series

Updated Aug. 29, 2024 1:27 p.m. ET

Bob Pockrass FOX NASCAR Insider

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule has a considerable change in the order of races throughout the year.

The biggest alterations come at the beginning and at the end of the season.

The only change in venues were previously announced: The preseason Clash will move from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., and NASCAR will race in June at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City with Richmond Raceway going from two Cup weekends to one.

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Among the changes early in the season is a more true West Coast swing with Circuit of the Americas (Austin) becoming the third race of the year with Phoenix and Las Vegas to follow.

NASCAR also has moved Homestead out of the playoffs to its sixth race of the year. Darlington’s "throwback weekend" moves off Mother’s Day weekend to April and Kansas Speedway fills the Mother’s Day slot.

Those early races are all part of the FOX/FS1 portion of the schedule, which will be the first 12 points races, the Clash and culminates with the all-star race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.

Prime Video (Amazon) will have the next five races, with the final three determining seeding for a $1 million-to-win in-season tournament that will be conducted in conjunction with the next five points races on TNT.

NBC and USA will have the final 14 races and many of those have been shaken up as NASCAR continues to toy with the playoff tracks.

The first round will now be Darlington (back in the playoffs after being the regular-season finale this year as part of the way the schedule fell for its traditional Labor Day date), Gateway and Bristol. Gateway is new to the playoffs.

Atlanta, which opens the playoffs this year, was moved to June to open the in-season tournament while Watkins Glen goes back to August as a nod to campers in the area who prefer a summer rather than a date when school is in session.

The quarterfinal round will be New Hampshire, Kansas and the Charlotte road course. New Hampshire replaces Talladega in this round as Talladega moves to ...

... The semifinal round will be Las Vegas, Talladega and Martinsville. Talladega replaces Homestead, which moves to earlier in the year but also is setting itself up to make a bid for the 2026 championship.

The championship in 2025 remains at Phoenix.

NASCAR’s release of its national series schedules Thursday did not include specific networks nor start times. The Xfinity Series races will all be on the CW while FS1 has the entire truck schedule (with always the possibility of a race on FOX).

Here are the 2025 schedules:

2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule

FOX/FS1

Feb. 2: Winston-Salem (Clash)

Feb. 16: Daytona 500

Feb. 23: Atlanta

Mar. 2: Austin

Mar. 9: Phoenix

Mar. 16: Las Vegas

Mar. 23: Homestead

Mar. 30: Martinsville

Apr. 6: Darlington

Apr. 13: Bristol

Apr. 20: Off (Easter)

Apr. 27: Talladega

May 4: Texas

2025 NASCAR schedule: Where and when NASCAR national series will race (2024)

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