NASCAR 2025 race schedule, results: Complete list of Cup Series race dates, winners, tracks, locations
From humble beginnings in the Carolinas and across the southeast, NASCAR has grown into not only the most popular form of auto racing in the United States, but also one that can attract the intrigue and attention of the rest of the world. And the places that NASCAR seeks to go, but also the place where it came from, is reflected in where its premier division will be racing in 2025.
The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season will feature not only familiar stops from the superspeedways of Daytona and Talladega to the sport's most iconic tracks like Darlington, Charlotte and Martinsville, but also two new additions to the schedule both near and far away. For the first time since 1958 and for the first time in the sport's modern era, the Cup Series will race internationally this June by going south of the border to Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.
The 2025 season opened with two spectacular finishes in speedway races at Daytona and Atlanta, both of which were determined in part by last lap crashes. William Byron charged from ninth to first on the final lap to win his second-straight Daytona 500 after Denny Hamlin and Austin Cindric got taken out on the backstretch, while Christopher Bell won Atlanta over Carson Hocevar and Kyle Larson by being ahead just as the race-ending caution came out.
Among the other major changes to this year's schedule include:
- After three years, NASCAR will no longer race on Easter Sunday, with that week serving as an off week as it traditionally had been. The Easter break will mark the lone off weekend of the 2025 season.
- Circuit of the Americas moves from the sixth race of the season to the third race of the season, setting up a West Coast swing that will include Austin, Texas, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
- Darlington Raceway's spring race moves from Mother's Day Weekend to early April.
- Texas Motor Speedway's lone race date moves from April to early May.
- Nashville Superspeedway's race date moves from late June to the beginning of June, immediately following the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Michigan and Pocono return to June dates as well.
- Sonoma and Dover's race dates have both been moved to July. Iowa Speedway's race date has been moved from June to August.
- Mexico City's date has come at the expense of Richmond Raceway, which will now have just one race weekend in August.
- Atlanta, Watkins Glen and Homestead-Miami have been moved out of the playoffs, with Gateway and New Hampshire moved into the playoffs instead. The Southern 500 at Darlington has also returned to being the playoff-opening race, and the Coke Zero Sugar 400 is once again the regular-season finale after a scheduling quirk because the Olympic break pushed the season forward a week.
- Talladega Superspeedway's playoff race has been moved into the Round of 8, with that race now set to potentially determine a place in the Championship 4.
- In the Xfinity and Truck Series, the legendary Rockingham Speedway has returned to the schedule in both series for the first time since 2004 and 2013, respectively. The Truck Series also gains an entirely new racetrack with NASCAR's first-ever trip to Lime Rock Park in Connecticut.
(* -- Denotes non-points race)
Feb. 2 -- Cook Out Clash -- Bowman Gray Stadium* (Winner: Chase Elliott)Feb. 16 -- Daytona 500 -- Daytona International Speedway (Winner: William Byron)Feb. 23 -- Ambetter Health 400 -- Atlanta Motor Speedway (Winner: Christopher Bell)March 2 -- Echopark Texas Grand Prix -- Circuit of the Americas (Austin, Texas)March 9 -- Shriners Children's 500 -- Phoenix RacewayMarch 16 -- Pennzoil 400 -- Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayMarch 23 -- Straight Talk Wireless 400 -- Homestead-Miami SpeedwayMarch 30 -- Cook Out 400 -- Martinsville SpeedwayApril 6 -- Goodyear 400 -- Darlington RacewayApril 13 -- Food City 500 -- Bristol Motor SpeedwayApril 27 -- Jack Link's 500 -- Talladega SuperspeedwayMay 4 -- Autotrader Echopark Automotive 400 --Texas Motor SpeedwayMay 11 -- AdventHealth 400 -- Kansas SpeedwayMay 18 -- All-Star Race -- North Wilkesboro Speedway*May 25 -- Coca-Cola 600 -- Charlotte Motor SpeedwayJune 1 -- Ally 400 -- Nashville SuperspeedwayJune 8 -- FireKeepers Casino 400 -- Michigan International SpeedwayJune 15 -- Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez (Mexico City)June 22 -- HighPoint.com 400 -- Pocono RacewayJune 28 -- Quaker State 400 -- Atlanta Motor SpeedwayJuly 6 -- Grant Park 165 -- Chicago Street CourseJuly 13 -- Toyota/Save Mart 350 -- Sonoma RacewayJuly 20 -- Wurth 400 -- Dover Motor SpeedwayJuly 27 -- Brickyard 400 -- Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayAug. 3 -- Iowa Corn 350 -- Iowa SpeedwayAug. 10 -- Go Bowling at the Glen -- Watkins Glen InternationalAug. 16 -- Cook Out 400 -- Richmond RacewayAug. 23 -- Coke Zero Sugar 400 -- Daytona International Speedway
NASCAR playoffsRound of 16
Aug. 31 -- Southern 500 -- Darlington RacewaySept. 7 -- Enjoy Illinois 300 -- World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway (St. Louis, Missouri)Sept. 13 -- Bass Pro Shops Night Race -- Bristol Motor Speedway
Round of 12
Sept. 21 -- USA Today 301 -- New Hampshire Motor SpeedwaySept. 28 -- Hollywood Casino 400 -- Kansas SpeedwayOct. 6 -- Bank of America ROVAL 400 -- Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval
Round of 8
Oct. 12 -- South Point 400 -- Las Vegas Motor SpeedwayOct. 19 -- YellaWood 500 -- Talladega SuperspeedwayOct. 26 -- Xfinity 500 -- Martinsville Speedway
Championship
Nov. 2 -- NASCAR Cup Series Championship -- Phoenix Raceway
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