Category: Motor Sports

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 […]

The prerace exhibition moves to a short track in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

NASCAR’s new seven-year media rights agreement for the NASCAR Cup Series begins in 2025 with four best-in-class distribution partners — FOX Sports, NBC Sports, Amazon‘s Prime Video and TNT Sports, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Those four broadcast partners will deliver live coverage of all 38 NASCAR Cup Series races. Here’s a quick breakdown […]

The NASCAR Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series traveled to Rockingham Speedway for a test session. View the up-close action during the event at 'The Rock.'

The Clash was once about getting a coveted coat. That might seem hard to conceive now for an event that has crisscrossed the country twice in the past three years while mushrooming into a preseason extravaganza, bringing NASCAR to fresh, untapped and occasionally under-appreciated markets. But during the exhibition race’s 33-year run at Daytona International […]

CONCORD, N.C. — Overheard conversation in the NASCAR Cup Series garage: “Kind of weird, isn’t it? It’s like a test session without a test.” And so it was Thursday afternoon at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosted pre-race inspection for a race it’s not hosting. NASCAR competition officials scrutineered and approved the 39 entries for the […]

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season unofficially begins on Sunday night.

TNT Sports today announced the launch of a brand-new NASCAR Driver Cam experience — exclusive to Max — that will offer motorsports fans the ultimate all-access pass to every driver for every race throughout the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. Launching with the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium this Sunday, Feb. 2 (8 […]

The exhibition event kicks off the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season

Tommy Baldwin Racing announced today that Luke Baldwin will pilot the historic No. 7NY to compete for Rookie of the Year honors on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour in 2025. Baldwin will compete in at least 12 of the 16 events on the circuit, beginning with the season opener at New Smyrna Speedway‘s World Series […]