NASCAR Reveals $1 Million In-Season Tournament for 2025

What’s Happening?

NASCAR announced on Monday that they will implement an In-Season Tournament for a $1 million grand prize starting in 2025. The tournament will feature 32 drivers in a single elimination bracket during the 5 races aired on TNT during the summer.

• The tournament will be a single-elimination bracket-style head-to-head tournament featuring 32 drivers across 5 races. The final 3 races of the Amazon Prime portion of the schedule will determine the bracket, with the best finishes of those races deciding who is seeded where. Bob Pockrass reports that Atlanta could be the opening race of the tournament in the summer.
• Denny Hamlin originally came up with the concept of an in-season tournament during the 2023 season. He even said that Marcus Smith expressed interest in the concept and that interest went through other NASCAR executives.
• Fans are very intrigued by this news. Most of them credit Denny Hamlin for the original concept, and they are excited to see how it does.

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