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One win — particularly in an exhibition race — does not guarantee anything. Elliott's own father did that in 1987 when “Awesome Bill from Dawsonville” won the Clash, then won the 500 from the pole seven days later for his second victory in “The Great American Race.”

Chase Elliott pulled away from Ryan Blaney in the final laps to win the exhibition race.

Elliott led 171 of the race's 200 laps.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Larson and Josh Berry raced their way into The Clash by winning the crash-filled last chance qualifying race Sunday night at historic Bowman Gray Stadium. The 75-lap qualifying race was for all the drivers who failed to make the main event in Saturday's heat races. The “LCQ” advanced three drivers into NASCAR's preseason exhibition main event, which marked the Cup Series' first race at the “Mecca of Madhouse” since 1971.

Chase Elliott dominated Sunday night’s Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, leading 171 out of the 200 laps of the preseason event at the famed bullring. Starting from the pole position after winning his heat race Saturday night, the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver never looked back as he held off charges from […]

The 2025 NASCAR season gets underway Sunday with the Cook Out Clash, a preseason exhibition race, at historic Bowman Gray Stadium. Here's all the info.

Chase Elliott will start on the pole for Sunday's Clash after winning the first heat race.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Ryan Blaney was a little kid the first time he raced at Bowman Gray Stadium — he figures he couldn't have been older than 10 — and remembers it being the coolest thing he'd ever done in motorsports. The intensity was off the charts, on the track and in the crowd. “I was getting shot the bird by kids younger than me when I was 10,” Blaney said Saturday.

It’s time to kick off a new NASCAR season with the annual Cook Out Clash on Feb. 2 (8 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) — but in a new location. After running the Cup Series’ preseason exhibition at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for three years, the race shifts to a new […]

Christopher Bell is Joe Gibbs Racing's most recent Cup winner but that happened last June.

Practice, qualifying and heat races will be held at the short track for the 2025 Cup Series exhibition season opener.

NASCAR is back, old-school style, as 2025 opens with a return to the “Mecca of Madhouse” for Sunday night’s preseason Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium. The Winston-Salem quarter-mile notorious for its rough-and-tumble racing style and numerous fights will host its first Cup Series event since 1971 with the non-points exhibition race. “I think it’s great that the location is changing, and I think it should change every year,” Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman said.

Editor’s note: Saturday’s practices and heat races air on FS1. Sunday’s Last Chance Qualifier and Cook Out Clash air on FOX. The season-opening Cook Out Clash exhibition race will star 23 drivers in a 200-lap feature event on Sunday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. ET (FOX, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) — and, like previous […]

Tim Brown, the winningest driver at Bowman Gray Stadium, will get a chance to compete in a Cup car for the first time in his storied career.

Editor’s Note: This marks the second story in a three-part series as Spire Motorsports allows NASCAR Digital Media to cover its preparation for the 2025 Daytona 500. MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Rodney Childers walks the shop floor at Spire Motorsports feeling invigorated. There’s a rekindled spark in his eye. The hallways he strolls today are starkly […]