All Confirmed Dates on the 2025 NASCAR Schedule
What’s Happening? The 2025 NASCAR National Series Schedules are here, new additions, wild changes, and familiar places are apart of…
The Athletic’s Jordan Bianchi reported on “The Teardown” podcast that NASCAR is “Tentatively” planning on dropping three tracks from the 2025 Playoff Schedule in favor of new ones. Atlanta (already announced), Watkins Glen, and Homestead are expected to move out of the Playoffs, with Darlington, New Hampshire, and Gateway coming in.
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Knowing where Atlanta and Darlington will end up as a result of this switch, where will other changes to the schedule end up? For the tracks entering the schedule, we must consider the weather. Here are New Hampshire and Gateway’s market’s average high temperatures for September and October according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
| Track | September | October |
| New Hampshire | 73°F | 61°F |
| Gateway | 81°F | 70°F |
Pushing New Hampshire any further back than September could be a big risk, given its location as far North as it is. The fall race was in September when the track had a fall date from 1999 through 2017. Therefore, it would make the most sense for New Hampshire to slot into the second race of the Playoffs, where Watkins Glen is in 2024.
Gateway remains warmer for longer since it is further South, but cold weather could still be an issue.
NASCAR held races in late October at Kansas Speedway in 2020 and 2021, and the weather was not ideal. It was particularly cold for the 2020 race, with highs in the 40s°F.
Homestead-Miami is currently the middle race in the Round of 8, which is held in late October. Maybe NASCAR could move Gateway earlier into the Round and slot Las Vegas further back with Martinsville as the elimination race. NASCAR could also bump Talladega into the Round, so Gateway is pushed earlier in the schedule.
Regarding the races moving out, Bianchi reported that Homestead is slotting into March for NASCAR to gain another warm weather date in the spring. We know Atlanta is moving to June 28 to open the “In-Season Tournament.”
Where does Watkins Glen slot in? With the Olympic break not on the 2025 schedule, Watkins Glen could easily move back to early-mid August, where the race has traditionally been held throughout the track’s time in NASCAR.
This could cause some shuffling both in the early part of the season and late in the season. We already discussed how this impacts the Playoffs and how there could be some shuffling in the Round of 12 and Round of 8 to accommodate the weather.
If Homestead-Miami moves to the springtime, the spring schedule needs to be changed. Bristol could move out of the mid-March slot to later in the spring to allow for dryer and warmer weather.
Other dates could be moved to Gateway’s slot in the first week of June. Dover has held races in the first week of June off-and-on throughout its history. Nashville could end up here as well since Atlanta is taking over the date in the last weekend of June for the “In-Season Tournament.” Nashville could also move into the spring, where the track held Xfinity Series weekends throughout the 2000s.
There are many things that still need to be worked out. However, the 2025 schedule is starting to take shape.
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EchoPark Speedway, or Atlanta Motor Speedway, is often touted as the most exciting track on the NASCAR circuit. What was first seen as a Frankenstein experiment, Marcus Smith’s idea to turn AMS into a baby Daytona worked out in the end. We’ve gotten great race after great race and tonight was no different as fans saw Tyler Reddick power by Carson Hocevar to go two in a row to start the season.
But not everyone had a season to remember. Many drivers and teams had a season that they’d sooner forget. These are the biggest losers of the 2026 EchoPark Speedway racing weekend.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race officials rightly got blasted online by fans after they made the extremely questionable decision to put the Truck race on Saturday on the weather clock. That would have been an understandable move if circumstances were different. But they caught flak because 1.) EchoPark Speedway has lights, 2.) the weather had moved out for the weekend, and 3.)…umm…they were only 10 laps shy from the scheduled distance anyway.
Now, we know who the defenders are. The O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Race was slated to follow, but NASCAR has pushed races off in the past. And really, how much time would the CW have lost? Ten minutes? Twenty? If that? That, in my book, makes the NCTS officials some of the biggest losers on the weekend. They owe us fans ten more measly laps for racing!
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Of any driver currently in the Chevy ranks, none has had the support thrown behind them like Corey Day. Day, a protege of proven NASCAR champion Kyle Larson, apparently has turned some heads on the dirt scene. Makes sense, since Larson himself said that he’d rather win the Chili Bowl than the Daytona 500. But unlike other drivers, such as Connor Zilisch, who have excelled in other racing disciplines outside of NASCAR, Day’s career so far has been lukewarm at best. And his race yesterday was the epitome of a rookie race, ladened with senseless mistakes.
The incident that hurt the most was the one where he wrecked his fellow HMS/JRM teammates, Carson Kvapil and Justin Allgaier. He simply just took them out while racing for the race lead. Though he was, somehow, able to rebound to finish the race in the 4th position, yesterday was a sloppy performance that even Corey himself acknowledges that he’d rather put behind him.
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Chastain did it again! And now, the feelings are mixed. Remember when Ross Chastain used to just send drivers willy-nilly, and it really got on fans’ nerves? Well, thankfully, he’s calmed down in recent years and has become a more respectable veteran of the sport. That is not to say that he still doesn’t have his…moments. Saturday night at the O’Reilly Auto Parts race, Ross Chastain, going for the win, entered turn 1 and sent leader Austin Hill.
Hill was the overwhelming favorite to win this race, and fans have grown sick of him. So, really, this was a welcome return to form for Chastain, a version of him that used to be loathed by fans. Thus, while fans might have won out by Chastain doing what he does best and slaying Austin Hill, the RCR team, and really, anyone who has Chastain in their rearview mirror in the closing laps, are the real losers this weekend.
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There were a couple of drivers who ended 2025 on a sour note and were looking to turn things around and start 2026 strong. One of those has to be Josh Berry and his entire Wood Brothers team. After floundering around with Harrison Burton for a few seasons, the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford got the shot in the arm that they needed with a new crew chief and Josh Berry as their new driver. They led a bunch of laps at Atlanta in 2025, only for a wreck with 10 laps to go to take them out of contention. Not to worry, though: they followed it up with a win at Las Vegas.
But since that win, the team suffered a steep decline heading into the summer months. By the time the postseason rolled around, they had the single worst Playoff performance in history with three straight last-place finishes. Though he had a promising start to the season with a 9th-place run in the Daytona 500, it was the same old same old tonight. Berry showed some speed in the first stage but ultimately crashed after Christopher Bell forced the issue in the beginning of Stage 2. It’s a familiar routine for the Wood Brothers. Yet another last-place finish. That makes them one of the biggest losers of the weekend. If only they could have capitalized.
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This one’s a tired subject, so I won’t dwell on it too long. Kyle Busch’s late career decline at Richard Childress Racing should be studied. Though he showed speed early on, it was yet again a single-car spin that ended his day prematurely. Granted, he didn’t spin completely on his own. He was tagged from behind by Noah Gragson. But, that was after he checked up twice and recklessly pulled up in front of him in a hole that was barely there. Yet another disappointing outing for Rowdy Nation.
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The checkered flag has flown in the second race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Season. And, at the end of the day, it was Tyler Reddick who went back-to-back to win at EchoPark Speedway. Tonight, Reddick became the sixth NASCAR Cup Series driver to win the first two races of the season. He is the first since NASCAR Hall of Famer Matt Kenseth did it to kick off the 2009 season.
But, of course, Reddick wasn’t the only one to have a great start to the season. Several drivers leave Atlanta with a great points day, including Carson Hocevar, Bubba Wallace, William Byron, and Ryan Blaney. Here are the highlights of tonight’s race:
From an awful showing in the 2025 Playoffs to yet another last-place finish, Josh Berry’s 2026 season is off to a rough start. Today, he got together with Ty Gibbs after Gibbs had an awful start to the year last year. The No. 54 was able to turn it around later in the season, though. But, for their 2026 outing, there’s a lot left to be desired. Check it out.
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Kyle Busch’s 2025 season was abysmal. But, after he put his No. 8 RCR Chevy on the pole for the 2026 Daytona 500, things seemed to be looking up. He smartly survived last week by lying back on the last lap and safely navigating through the crash, finishing 15th. And he was a contender early in this race. However, late, Kyle Busch continued his dismal legacy at RCR by spinning after contact with Noah Gragson. His day ended prematurely. Check it out:
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We got our first big crash of the race at Lap 224 when both Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano got loose in front of the field. You can read all about that incident with the link below:
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Things started to get real for the NASCAR Cup Series drivers as we got inside 40 laps to go. We got our first Big One of the afternoon at Lap 224. It was triggered as the field came out of Turn 4 and entered the dogleg. Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin, both whose cars were upset by the dirty air, got together. Logano was able to scoot on virtually unscathed. However, Hamlin turned in front of the pack, collecting several stars and heavy hitters. Here’s what happened:
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