Chevrolet Removes Camaro Branding Prior to 2025 NASCAR Season
What’s Happening? GM announced that it would cease production of the Camaro following the release of the car’s 2024 edition. This…
The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Season is right around the corner. While there are changes before every NASCAR season, this year feels unlike any other. The sport is making major changes in 2025; and while there are many, here are five must-know changes ahead of the 2025 NASCAR season.
What’s Happening? GM announced that it would cease production of the Camaro following the release of the car’s 2024 edition. This…
One of the key storylines heading into 2024 was the discontinuation of Camaro production and the questions surrounding how Chevrolet or General Motors would introduce a replacement body moving forward.
While fans pitched ideas such as the Chevy Malibu and Cadillac CT5, they awaited the new body design for 2025. However, as the season grew close to the playoffs, there was no news about what the manufacturer would do.
But in a turn of events, a diecast preview in early September revealed the answer to fans’ questions.
The mock-up of Ross Chastain’s 2025 Busch Light scheme showed that the word Camaro was removed from the rear bumper and replaced with “CHEVROLET.” While the ZL1 remains, the Camaro branding is gone entirely; Chevy is also removing the Camaro branding from its Xfinity Series cars this season.
What’s Happening? Ahead of a change-filled 2025 season, NASCAR officially released its 2025 TV Schedule and where to watch on Wednesday….
As part of a new media rights deal, the NASCAR Cup Series has two new homes for 2025. FOX and NBC will maintain their traditional open and close to the season. However, Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports are sandwiched in the middle.
While TNT is familiar ground for NASCAR, the streaming options of Max, Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service, which will simulcast TNT’s races, and Amazon Prime Video are new territory for NASCAR. The schedule breaks down with FOX/FS1 and NBC/USA broadcasting fifteen races each as Prime Video and TNT/Max broadcast five apiece.
The new platforms will also have familiar faces in the booth as current NBC analyst Steve Letarte joins his former co-analyst Dale Earnhardt Jr. and former FOX play-by-play talent Adam Alexander in the booth.
Along with TNT’s portion of NASCAR coverage comes a new portion of the NASCAR schedule. TNT will host a $1 million 32-driver tournament throughout its five-race schedule.
The final three races on Prime Video — Mexico City, Michigan, and Pocono — will qualify drivers for the new tournament. This will be handled by tracking the finishes of both full-time and part-time drivers to decide the seeding of the bracket.
Each round is a single race, starting at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Jun. 28. In each race, a driver will square off against another, and the driver with the better finish advances to the next round. Overall, the schedule looks like this:
Fans are mostly excited about this format. The diverse schedule and the head-to-head matchups create the potential for an upset.
Ahead of this season, NASCAR is creating a new, consistent format for practice and qualifying.
Last season, NASCAR introduced what fans consistently said was a confusing new qualifying format consisting of two rounds for two groups to qualify for different rows rather than a meshed field. For example, a driver from Group A would qualify for the outside row, while a driver from Group B would qualify for the inside row.
To make it even more confusing, NASCAR left the Xfinity and Truck Series out of this new format. However, for the 2025 season, NASCAR will reintroduce a non-round or traditional qualifying format for all three series with almost no differences. The new qualifying for all three series looks like this:
As part of the new TV deal, aside from FOX’s coverage of Clash, Daytona 500, and All-Star Race practice and qualifying, Prime Video will have coverage for the first half of the season, and TruTV and Max will cover the second half.
What’s Happening? The 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports lawsuit will continue for some time. However, many developments will occur along…
Last season, one of the most interesting storylines was the 2025 NASCAR Charter Agreement negotiations. After a dramatic ending to negotiations in which two teams refused to sign and ultimately held out and sued NASCAR, this story remains incomplete as dominoes from the agreement will fall for months and possibly years to come.
The latest update is the new agreement limits teams from expanding beyond three Charters. This means that a team that currently has three Charters cannot lease or buy another Charter.
Fortunately, for the final two teams that own four Charters, Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports, they will be grandfathered into the new system. This rule change also means that the only Cup Series teams able to expand with a Chartered entry are:
Charters allow teams valuable revenue sharing with NASCAR and automatic entry into every points race. This change follows a year of wild Charter news in which the four Charter-owning Stewart-Haas Racing closed.
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