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The 2025 NASCAR National Series schedule has had some of the most dramatic changes to a schedule in several years. So what are the most drastic changes each series saw?
The NASCAR Cup Series added two tracks, one track lost a date, and the playoffs were reshuffled. Changes to the Cup Series also affected the lower series schedules.
The playoffs saw drastic remodeling, beginning with Daytona back in the cutoff spot.
WWT Raceway joins former playoff tracks Darlington and New Hampshire as new additions to the playoffs. In exchange, Atlanta, Homestead-Miami, and Watkins Glen all move to new dates in the regular season.
The regular season saw major changes due in part to the 2024 Olympic break and the previously mentioned playoff changes.
April saw the most changes, with Darlington and Bristol added in exchange for Texas, Martinsville, and Dover. Circuit of the Americas moves up in the schedule as part of a more gradual West Coast swing, while Dover and Iowa move deeper into the summer.
The first international race in the modern era will be in Mexico City at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, replacing Richmond’s spring event. Meanwhile, Bowman Gray Stadium replaces the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the host of the Clash exhibition race in February.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule saw more additions and subtractions than the Cup Series, with some moves complementing the Cup Series’ changes.
The schedule loses three race dates. Darlington loses one of two dates, while Richmond and New Hampshire lose their only dates.
Fortunately, the additions outweigh the subtractions, as all three new tracks are former hosts of the series. Notably, on Sept. 6, WWT Raceway hosts the Xfinity Series for the first time since 2010, while Mexico City returns alongside the Cup Series for the first time since 2008.
Most notably, Rockingham will host the Xfinity and Truck Series Easter weekend, with the Xfinity Series returning for the first time since 2004. However, the addition of the CW Network as the Xfinity Series’ exclusive broadcast home outweighs any changes made for 2025.
The Craftsman Truck Series is the only NASCAR National Series to add a track that has never hosted one of the big three series. Alongside this new track is the addition of one new race at a familiar venue, three returning tracks, and the loss of four others.
Like the other series, the trucks have made several race weekend changes complementary to the Cup Series. However, the most notable addition is two more race weekends, bumping the trucks from 23 to 25 races.
Both races added to the schedule are road courses, as a goal was to add more to the Truck Series. NASCAR removed several tracks to increase the number of road-course races from one to three. NASCAR entirely removed COTA, the Milwaukee Mile, and WWT Raceway, while Kansas lost one race date.
However, there are plenty of additions. Rockingham gets its first race from any NASCAR Series since 2014, while Michigan, New Hampshire, and Watkins Glen all return to the calendar. The Charlotte Roval makes its Truck Series debut in 2025, bumping Roval weekend up to a triple header.
The Roval, however, is not the only brand-new track to the Truck Series. The other track is Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., a 1.5-mile-long road course that will host the first NASCAR National Series race in Constitution State since 1970.
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