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Networks Announce Start Times for 2025 NASCAR Season
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Networks Announce Start Times for 2025 NASCAR Season

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

The upcoming season marks the beginning of a brand new broadcast rights deal for NASCAR that will see four different channels – FOX Sports, Amazon Prime Video, Warner Brothers Discovery and NBC Sports – share the 36-race NASCAR Cup Series schedule. .

RELATING TO: 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule

In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, CW Sports will provide comprehensive coverage of the 33-race NASCAR Xfinity Series campaign. Meanwhile, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will continue its relationship with FOX Sports.

RELATING TO: 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series Schedule AND 2025 NASCAR Truck Series Schedule

2025 . Tackle the Winston-Salem quarter-mile course.

In two weeks, the first points-paying event of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series campaign will begin with the 67th Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM ET (FOX).

FOX Sports will be responsible for broadcasting the opening 14 weeks of the NASCAR Cup Series campaign, which will include 12 point-earning events as well as the Clash and the All-Star Race.

Nine of those 14 events will be shown on FS1, while the other five (Clash, Daytona, Atlanta, COTA and Talladega) will be shown on FOX.

FOX Sports will wrap up its portion of the season with the NASCAR All-Star Race returning to North Wilkesboro Speedway for the third consecutive year on May 18, 2025 at 8 PM ET (FS1).

Amazon Prime will continue its streaming service for the next five weeks, and the streaming service’s first NASCAR event will be the Coca-Cola 600 on May 25, 2025 at 6 PM ET (Prime Video).

The following weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Nashville Superspeedway, returning as a night race on Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM ET (Prime Video). The first NASCAR Cup Series event in Mexico City, Michigan and Pocono will also air on Prime Video.

Warner Brothers Discovery (via HBO Max and TNT Sports) will take over the second five-race stretch of the summer, kicking off the in-season tournament at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 7pm ET (TNT). ).

Chicago Street Race, which has faced weather issues in its previous two iterations, has been moved up earlier in the day to 2pm ET (TNT) on Sunday, July 6, 2025. Sonoma, Dover and Brickyard 400 will also be shown on TNT.

Then, to finish the season, NBC Sports takes over coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series for its final stretch of 14 races, including 10 races in the postseason.

NBC Sports coverage covers the NASCAR Cup Series for the final 14 events of the season, beginning Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM ET (USA) at Iowa Speedway.

The opening race of the semifinal round of the Playoffs, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, will be moved back a few hours from the 2024 race time, which will take place on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM ET (US). .

Only four races (Daytona, Talladega, Martinsville and Phoenix) will be shown on NBC, while the other nine races will air on USA Network.

In the NASCAR Xfinity Series, CW will own the entire 33-race season in 2025, starting with the season opener at Daytona International Speedway. This event is scheduled for Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET.

The 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series campaign, entirely broadcast by FOX Sports, will begin on Friday, February 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM ET (FS1).

Three events from the 25-race NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule (Homestead, Michigan and Lime Rock Park) will air on FOX, a change from the single event in previous seasons.

Early afternoon starts, once a rarity on the NASCAR Truck Series schedule, became more common for the upcoming season; five events (North Wilkesboro, Michigan, Lime Rock, Darlington and New Hampshire) all start before 2pm ET.