Networks, Start Times Revealed for 2025 NASCAR Schedules

On Wednesday, NASCAR officially unveiled the start times and networks for the 2025 NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, and Craftsman Truck Series campaigns.

While the majority of start times are consistent with the 2024 NASCAR schedules, there are some changes — of varying magnitude — for the upcoming season.

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series campaign begins with an exhibition event at Bowman-Gray Stadium on February 2. Coverage for the event will be at 8:00 PM ET on FOX.

FOX Sports will carry coverage of the first 14 weeks of the NASCAR Cup Series campaign — with 12 points-paying events and two exhibition races. Five of those races (Clash, Daytona, Atlanta, COTA, and Talladega) will be on FOX, with the remaining nine on FS1.

Amazon Prime Video takes over coverage of NASCAR’s premier division on Memorial Day Weekend, beginning with the Coca-Cola 600 on May 25 at 6:00 PM ET.

All three of NASCAR’s National Series events will return to under-the-lights action at Nashville Superspeedway in 2025, with the Cup Series event beginning at 7:00 PM ET on June 1. Xfinity (CW) will take place at 7:30 PM ET, with Trucks (FS1) at 8:00 PM ET.

The inaugural NASCAR Cup Series event at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez will start at 3:00 PM on June 15. The Xfinity Series will broadcast its event on Saturday at 4:30 PM ET (CW).

TNT Sports begins its coverage of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series campaign at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday, June 28 at 7:00 PM ET, as the event returns to the Summer.

The following week, the Chicago Street Course will get an updated start time, moving ahead to 2:00 PM ET. The highly-anticipated event has run into weather concerns in both seasons that it has been contested.

NBC Sports will have broadcast coverage of the final 14 events of the NASCAR Cup Series campaign, beginning at Iowa Speedway on August 3 at 3:30 PM ET.

The start time at Las Vegas in October (October 12) has been pushed back to 5:30 PM ET.

Of this final portion of the year, NBC will broadcast four events (Daytona, Talladega, Martinsville, and Phoenix), while USA Network will take on the remaining nine.

In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, CW Sports will have broadcast rights for all 33 events in 2025, beginning at Daytona on February 15 at 5:00 PM ET.

Portland International Raceway will run its event later in the afternoon at 7:30 PM ET on August 30. The following week, World Wide Technology Raceway will return to the Xfinity Series calendar with a night race, at 7:30 PM ET.

The seven events in the NASCAR Xfinity Series post-season will begin either at 4:00 PM ET or 7:30 PM ET. All of that coverage will remain on The CW.

In the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, as far as networks are concerned, FOX will carry three events (Homestead, Michigan, and Lime Rock Park) instead of the one it had carried in seasons past.

The season will begin at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, February 14 at 7:30 PM ET.

Homestead-Miami Speedway returns to a Friday evening race (March 21st at 8:00 PM ET), while Rockingham Speedway returns to the schedule for the first time in more than a decade (April 18 at 5:00 PM ET.)

Throughout the season, the rarity of early-afternoon events has become slightly more common in the Truck Series, with races at North Wilkesboro (May 17 at 1:30 PM), Michigan (June 7 at Noon ET), Lime Rock Park (June 28 at 1:00 PM), Darlington (August 30 at Noon ET), and New Hampshire (September 20 at Noon ET).

The season will finish at Phoenix Raceway on October 31 at 7:30 PM ET.