Category: Motor Sports

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 […]

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.