2025 NASCAR Cup Series

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2025 NASCAR Cup Series
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The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series will be the 77th season for NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 54th season for the modern-era Cup Series. The season will start with the Busch Clash on February 2 at Bowman Gray Stadium, followed by the Bluegreen Vacations Duel on February 13, and the 67th running of the Daytona 500 (the first points race of the season) on February 16, both at Daytona International Speedway. The season will end with the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway on November 2.

The 2025 season will be the first year under NASCAR's new TV deal that will take place until 2031. FOX will broadcast 12 races, while NBC will broadcast 14 races. Amazon and TNT will broadcast five races each.[1] In addition, the season will mark the debut of NASCAR's in-season tournament.[2]

This will be the first season without Tony Stewart's ownership of Stewart–Haas Racing,[3] Gene Haas, the other co-owner of SHR, announced he would retain the team and rebrand it as Haas Factory Team for 2025.[4] This will also be the first season without 2017 champion Martin Truex Jr. as a full-time driver, as he announced his retirement from full-time racing on June 14, 2024.[5]

Teams and drivers

Chartered teams

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Notes
Chevrolet Hendrick Motorsports 5 Kyle Larson TBA Larson is signed through 2026.[6]
9 Chase Elliott TBA Elliott is signed through 2027.[7]
24 William Byron TBA Byron is signed through 2025.[8]
48 Alex Bowman TBA Bowman is signed through 2026.[9]
JTG Daugherty Racing 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. TBA Stenhouse signed a multi-year extension in 2024.[10]
Kaulig Racing 16 A. J. Allmendinger TBA Allmendinger will return to the Cup Series full time after being in the Xfinity Series the previous year.[11][12]
31 TBA TBA
Richard Childress Racing 3 Austin Dillon TBA Austin Dillon is signed through 2025.[13]
8 Kyle Busch TBA Busch signed a two-year deal in 2022, with an option for 2025.[14][15]
Spire Motorsports 7 TBA Rodney Childers Corey LaJoie announced he was parting ways with Spire at the end of the 2024 season.[16][17] Childers replaces Ryan Sparks as the No. 7 car's crew chief.[18]
71 Michael McDowell Travis Peterson McDowell signed a multi-year deal to drive the No. 71 car, replacing Zane Smith.[19] Peterson will join McDowell as well; both driver and crew chief previously worked together at Front Row Motorsports.[20]
77 Carson Hocevar TBA Hocevar signed a multi-year deal in 2023.[21]
Trackhouse Racing 1 Ross Chastain TBA Chastain signed a multi-year extension in 2023.[22]
88 Shane van Gisbergen (R) Stephen Doran Trackhouse acquired a third charter from Stewart–Haas Racing in 2024.[23] Van Gisbergen will drive full time in 2025 after spending the season in the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series.[24] Doran will serve as the crew chief of the No. 88 car.[25]
99 Daniel Suárez TBA Suárez signed a contract extension for 2025.[26][27]
Ford Front Row Motorsports 34 TBA TBA Michael McDowell left the team at the end of the 2024 season to join Spire Motorsports.[19]
38 Todd Gilliland TBA Gilliland signed a multi-year extension in 2024.[28]
TBA Noah Gragson TBA FRM purchased a third charter from Stewart–Haas Racing in 2024.[29] Gragson signed a multi-year deal with FRM; his car number and crew chief will be announced at a later date.[30]
Haas Factory Team 41 Cole Custer Aaron Kramer Gene Haas announced he will be keeping one charter from the former Stewart–Haas Racing, along with his two Xfinity Series teams and the SHR shop.[4] Custer will join the Haas Factory Team and return to the Cup Series after two seasons in the Xfinity Series.[31] Aaron Kramer, the engineer for the RFK Racing No. 17 car in 2024, will be Custer's crew chief in 2025.[32]
RFK Racing 6 Brad Keselowski TBA Keselowski is expected to return as he is a co-owner of the team.[33]
17 Chris Buescher TBA Buescher is signed through 2026.[13]
Rick Ware Racing 15 TBA TBA
51 Justin Haley TBA Haley signed a multi-year deal in 2023.[34][35]
Team Penske 2 Austin Cindric TBA The length of Cindric's contract with Penske is unknown, but he is all but certain to return, as he is the son of team president Tim Cindric.[13]
12 Ryan Blaney TBA Both Blaney and Logano signed multi-year extensions in 2022.[36][37]
22 Joey Logano TBA
Wood Brothers Racing 21 Josh Berry TBA Berry signed a multi-year deal to drive the No. 21 car, replacing Harrison Burton.[38]
Toyota 23XI Racing 23 Bubba Wallace TBA Wallace's contract extension to continue driving the No. 23 car starting in 2025 has been put on hold until 23XI signs the new charter agreement, but is expected to return.[39]
45 Tyler Reddick TBA Reddick is signed through 2025.[13]
Joe Gibbs Racing 11 Denny Hamlin TBA Hamlin signed a multi-year extension in 2023.[40]
19 Chase Briscoe James Small Martin Truex Jr. announced his retirement after the 2024 season.[5][41] Briscoe signed a multi-year deal to drive the No. 19 car while Small returns as crew chief.[42][43]
20 Christopher Bell TBA Bell signed a multi-year extension in 2022.[44][45]
54 Ty Gibbs TBA Gibbs will return, as he is the grandson of team founder Joe Gibbs.[13]
Legacy Motor Club 42 John Hunter Nemechek TBA Nemechek is signed through 2025.[13]
43 Erik Jones TBA Jones signed a multi-year extension in 2024.[46]

Non-chartered teams

Limited schedule

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Races Notes
Toyota TBA TBA Martin Truex Jr. Cole Pearn 1 Shortly after Truex Jr. announced his retirement from full-time racing, Denny Hamlin said 23XI Racing would have a car ready for him to run the Daytona 500 or any other races should he pursue a part-time schedule.[47] Truex confirmed on September 4 that he would run the 2025 Daytona 500 with his former crew chief Cole Pearn coming out of retirement to crew chief him in the race.[48]

Other potential and rumored changes

Teams

  • Under the proposed terms of the charter agreement between NASCAR and the race teams, a provision would limit the number of charters to three per team. The exception would be Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing, as each has four charters and would be grandfathered in the proposed deal.[49] In addition, the France family would be allowed to buy charters starting in 2025.[50]
  • Andretti Global has shown interest in expanding its operations into the Cup Series.[51]

Drivers

Sponsorship

  • NASCAR is reportedly looking for a fifth premier partner for the Cup Series alongside Busch Beer, Coca-Cola, GEICO, and Xfinity, in case one of the first four partners does not renew its partnership deal.[54]

Schedule

The 2025 schedule was released on August 29, 2024 and consists of 30 oval races, 5 road course races, one street track race, and 4 non-championship races to be held on ovals.[55]

Notes: Race names and title sponsors are subject to change. Not all title sponsors/names of races have been announced for 2025. For the races where a 2025 name and title sponsor has yet to be announced, the title sponsors/names of those races in 2024 are listed.

No Race name Track Location Date Time (ET) Stage Laps[55] TV[55] Radio[55]
Regular Season
Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium  O  Bowman Gray Stadium Winston-Salem, North Carolina February 2 Fox or FS1
Bluegreen Vacations Duel  O  Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida February 13
1 Daytona 500 February 16
2 Ambetter Health 400  O  Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Georgia February 23
3 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix  R  Circuit of the Americas Austin, Texas March 2
4 Shriners Children's 500  O  Phoenix Raceway Avondale, Arizona March 9
5 Pennzoil 400  O  Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nevada March 16
6 Straight Talk Wireless 400  O  Homestead–Miami Speedway Homestead, Florida March 23
7 Cook Out 400  O  Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia March 30
8 Goodyear 400  O  Darlington Raceway Darlington, South Carolina April 6
9 Food City 500  O  Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, Tennessee April 13
10 GEICO 500  O  Talladega Superspeedway Lincoln, Alabama April 27
11 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400  O  Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas May 4
12 AdventHealth 400  O  Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kansas May 11
NASCAR All Star Open  O  North Wilkesboro Speedway North Wilkesboro, North Carolina May 18
NASCAR All-Star Race
13 Coca-Cola 600  O  Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord, North Carolina May 25 6pm Prime
14 Ally 400  O  Nashville Superspeedway Lebanon, Tennessee June 1
15 FireKeepers Casino 400  O  Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Michigan June 8
16 NASCAR Cup Series at Mexico City  R  Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Mexico City, Mexico June 15
17 The Great American Getaway 400  O  Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania June 22
NASCAR in-season tournament
18 Quaker State 400  O  Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Georgia June 28 TNT
19 Grant Park 165  S  Chicago Street Course Chicago, Illinois July 6
20 Toyota/Save Mart 350  R  Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, California July 13
21 Würth 400  O  Dover Motor Speedway Dover, Delaware July 20
22 Brickyard 400  O  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana July 27
Regular Season
23 Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol  O  Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa August 3 NBC or USA
24 Go Bowling at The Glen  R  Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York August 10
25 Cook Out 400  O  Richmond Raceway Richmond, Virginia August 16
26 Coke Zero Sugar 400  O  Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida August 23 7pm
NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs
Round of 16
27 Cook Out Southern 500  O  Darlington Raceway Darlington, South Carolina August 31 NBC or USA
28 Enjoy Illinois 300 presented by TicketSmarter  O  World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Illinois September 7
29 Bass Pro Shops Night Race  O  Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, Tennessee September 13 7:30pm
Round of 12
30 USA Today 301  O  New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, New Hampshire September 21 NBC or USA
31 Hollywood Casino 400  O  Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kansas September 28
32 Bank of America Roval 400  R  Charlotte Motor Speedway (Roval) Concord, North Carolina October 5
Round of 8
33 South Point 400  O  Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nevada October 12 NBC or USA
34 YellaWood 500  O  Talladega Superspeedway Lincoln, Alabama October 19
35 Xfinity 500  O  Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia October 26
Championship 4
36 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race  O  Phoenix Raceway Avondale, Arizona November 2 NBC or USA

Notes

Bolded races indicate an event generally known as a Crown Jewel race.

 O  Oval track
 R  Road course
 S  Street course

Confirmed schedule changes

See also

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