NASCAR
2025 Racing Season Schedules Unveiled for Three NASCAR National Series
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – New tracks, old tracks, international flair, and a Playoff shakeup are the highlights of NASCAR’s 2025 racing season. Schedules were dropped Thursday for next year’s NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, and Craftsman Truck Series. Racing kicks off at NASCAR’s oldest venue, with thousands of miles of racing in the windshield.
The NASCAR Cup Series will see two new additions to its 2025 lineup. The preseason Clash moves onward from the L.A. Coliseum, and for its first time ever will be held at famed Bowman Gray Stadium. The 1/4-mile bullring around the football field in Winston-Salem, North Carolina is NASCAR’s longest running venue, and has a storied reputation as ‘The Madhouse.’ This is the first racing action of 2025, with its green flag falling on February 2. This prelude will be two weeks before the 67th Running of the Daytona 500.
As previously announced earlier this week, Cup will also spend Father’s Day weekend in June at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City (6/15). This marks the first points-paying international Cup date in 67 years.
Xfinity will also see a few new adds to their slate of races. The series ‘Where Names are Made’ will return to Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway (4/19), as well as Mexico City alongside Cup cars (6/14). Their regular season finale will also be a homecoming to World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway (9/6). Xfinity cars have not raced on the Illinois track since 2010. Rockingham will take place over Easter weekend, the lone time off for Cup teams where Xfinity has top billing.
The Craftsman Truck Series is where arguably the biggest changes are taking place. For starters, their schedule is raised back up to 25 race dates, the most since 2011. Some of their new stops include Rockingham (4/19), Lime Rock Park (6/28), and the Charlotte Roval (10/3). Truckers also make return trips to Michigan (6/7), Watkins Glen (8/8), and New Hampshire Motor Speedway (9/20). Rockingham last hosted Truck Series action in 2013, while Lime Rock and the Roval are all-new additions.
“It’s no secret we’ve been bullish about growing NASCAR beyond our borders, and the 2025 schedule is an important and thrilling first milestone in that journey,” said Ben Kennedy, NASCAR Executive Vice President, Chief Venue and Racing Innovation Officer. “In addition to racing in Mexico, we’ve been able to bring back more historic and fan-favorite venues for the first time in decades across our national series. Not only will this combination of venues maintain the high levels of excitement and anticipation for NASCAR racing, but it also delivers one of the most diverse and challenging schedules anywhere in motorsports.”
Being welcomed into the NASCAR Playoffs will be Darlington, Gateway, and New Hampshire. Atlanta, Homestead, and Watkins Glen all shift back to regular season dates. Richmond Raceway also loses their spring race weekend for the move to Mexico City. Daytona’s summer race also moves back to the coveted regular season finale date for Cup, a week before the Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway opens the Playoffs.
See the full schedules for all three racing series below. Exact start times and networks for each race will be announced at a later date.
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Written by Peter Stratta
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