What we’re hearing about NASCAR’s 2024 schedule, Silly Season, and more: Mailbag
1 year, 8 months ago

What we’re hearing about NASCAR’s 2024 schedule, Silly Season, and more: Mailbag

New York Times  

From NASCAR’s next television contract to what the 2024 schedule may look like to the ongoing game of musical chairs that is Silly Season to the regular season winding down with some big names on the playoff bubble, there is plenty of ground to cover in The Athletic’s NASCAR mailbag. The probability is higher that SHR finds its way back to the front again versus a mid-tier team making a huge performance jump up to where they’re consistently winning races and vying for championships. The pieces are there for some seismic moves to unfold over the next few weeks and months, considering that: SHR naming Josh Berry to replace the retiring Kevin Harvick was a bit of a surprise; we still don’t have clarity on if Aric Almirola will retire or who SHR would sign to fill his seat if he does; nor do we know what Kaulig Racing will do to replace Haley; or how Front Row Motorsports will set its lineup. Adding a race here gives NASCAR another short track on the schedule, and any concerns about too many tracks within close proximity could be resolved by NASCAR shifting one of Kansas’ two dates here.

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All 38 races on the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, ranked by anticipation
1 month, 3 weeks ago

All 38 races on the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, ranked by anticipation

New York Times  

It’s time for our fourth annual Most Anticipated NASCAR Races list, ranked in order of how much we’re looking forward to each one. Mexico City On Father’s Day Weekend, NASCAR is taking its premier Cup Series to Mexico City’s Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez for the first international points-paying race since 1958. Coca-Cola 600 Everything about last year’s 600 was a bummer, …

F1 2024 schedule: Race calendar for record-setting season
3 months, 3 weeks ago

F1 2024 schedule: Race calendar for record-setting season

The Independent  

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NASCAR’s 2025 Cup Series schedule changes, ranked from best to worst
7 months ago

NASCAR’s 2025 Cup Series schedule changes, ranked from best to worst

New York Times  

With the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule now revealed, it’s time to assess all the changes. The headlines will be about NASCAR’s new race in Mexico City and a return to Bowman Gray Stadium, but there are also plenty of other nuggets to evaluate. Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez has been reconfigured since NASCAR’s last visit and now is an annual stop …

NASCAR expected to make multiple changes to 2025 playoff schedule: Sources
9 months ago

NASCAR expected to make multiple changes to 2025 playoff schedule: Sources

New York Times  

NASCAR is expected to make big changes to the 2025 Cup Series playoff schedule that include new tracks being added while others are shifted to the regular season, sources briefed on the decision told The Athletic. Both World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, just outside of St. Louis, and New Hampshire Motor Speedway are expected to shift from having June …

NASCAR planning in-season tournament in 2025, with opening race in Atlanta
10 months, 1 week ago

NASCAR planning in-season tournament in 2025, with opening race in Atlanta

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Following the lead of the NBA, the NASCAR Cup Series is planning a five-race, bracket-style tournament in the midst of the 2025 season, beginning with a night event at Atlanta Motor Speedway. You lose some excitement.” Atlanta, which has produced some of NASCAR’s most thrilling races since the track was redesigned with higher banking, gets the honor of …

NASCAR storylines: What to expect from the Cup Series this season
1 year, 1 month ago

NASCAR storylines: What to expect from the Cup Series this season

LA Times  

Days after a difficult and largely ignored start to its 2024 season, NASCAR is ready to plow into its regular season in its traditional fashion, holding its biggest event first instead of last. Chase Elliott, top left, leads a pack of driver during the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Kyle Larson doing the ‘double’ …

NASCAR 2024 season resolutions: What top teams, drivers need for a good year
1 year, 2 months ago

NASCAR 2024 season resolutions: What top teams, drivers need for a good year

New York Times  

This is the time of the year when NASCAR teams identify weaknesses and then work feverishly to address them, especially imperative with the start of the 2024 season mere weeks away. That same talent and moxie is also why Bell should win more during the regular season, something he’s done just three times in four years. Busch winning three times …

2024 NASCAR Cup schedule explained: Why Iowa’s in, Montreal’s not and more
1 year, 5 months ago

2024 NASCAR Cup schedule explained: Why Iowa’s in, Montreal’s not and more

New York Times  

The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule is out, and as has been the case for the past handful of years, it features several changes designed to enhance its 38-race calendar. Whether NASCAR and Montreal race organizers can revisit these talks for 2025 is still to be determined, but NASCAR remains committed to having an international points race on the Cup …

2024 NASCAR Cup schedule: Ranking 10 notable changes, from Iowa to Atlanta
1 year, 5 months ago

2024 NASCAR Cup schedule: Ranking 10 notable changes, from Iowa to Atlanta

New York Times  

After months of speculation and hype surrounding the ever-changing possibilities of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, it finally dropped Wednesday with a thud. NASCAR certainly didn’t intend for the 2024 schedule to turn out that way, evidenced by the long delay and countless revisions to try and get it right. But ultimately, Montreal didn’t work out and instead of …

NASCAR 2024 full schedule: First look at Cup, playoff changes, Phoenix championship
1 year, 5 months ago

NASCAR 2024 full schedule: First look at Cup, playoff changes, Phoenix championship

New York Times  

The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule features an inaugural visit to Iowa Speedway, a change on where the regular season concludes, two changes to the championship playoffs, no dirt race, a return to the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and a new location for its Easter Sunday race. Richmond Raceway’s annual spring race will occur on the evening of Easter …

Why the 2024 NASCAR Cup schedule is taking so long, a Trackhouse logjam and more: Mailbag
1 year, 6 months ago

Why the 2024 NASCAR Cup schedule is taking so long, a Trackhouse logjam and more: Mailbag

New York Times  

With so much going on in NASCAR on the track, several notable names already eliminated from the playoffs, and so many unknowns about the future, readers had plenty of questions for our latest NASCAR mailbag. Let’s begin with the topic that is always a popular one during this time of the year — what the Cup Series schedule will look …

What does the ideal NASCAR Cup Series schedule look like? We asked the drivers
1 year, 8 months ago

What does the ideal NASCAR Cup Series schedule look like? We asked the drivers

New York Times  

Not too long ago, the NASCAR Cup Series schedule felt stagnant. That’s apparent when you look at what NASCAR has done since 2021 by adding new races in downtown Los Angeles, downtown Chicago, St. Louis, Texas and Nashville, plus Bristol Motor Speedway experimenting with a dirt race, Indianapolis Motor Speedway switching off its famed oval to its less heralded road …

Changes to NASCAR’s 2024 schedule? Amazon/ESPN in the TV rights mix? And more: Mailbag
1 year, 9 months ago

Changes to NASCAR’s 2024 schedule? Amazon/ESPN in the TV rights mix? And more: Mailbag

New York Times  

Just because NASCAR is on an off week doesn’t mean things slow down. But let’s keep in mind this is only the second year of the Next Gen, so any decisions NASCAR made about how the 2023 schedule shook out would’ve been based on a small sample size. In part because a number of fans believe NASCAR visits too many …

2023 NASCAR schedule: A first look at the Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series slates
2 years, 6 months ago

2023 NASCAR schedule: A first look at the Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series slates

New York Times  

Previously announced races at the new downtown Chicago street course and a return to the revered North Wilkesboro track will highlight an otherwise largely unchanged 2023 NASCAR Cup Series schedule when it is released later Wednesday, The Athletic has learned. — The spring Martinsville Cup race shifts from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon. — For the first time since 1996, …

NASCAR to resume season May 17 with seven races in 10 days
4 years, 10 months ago

NASCAR to resume season May 17 with seven races in 10 days

Associated Press  

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR plans to restart its engines with a flurry of races at two historic tracks. NASCAR said Thursday it is set to return May 17 with an elite Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, the first of seven events in an 11-day stretch across the top three series. NASCAR’s revised schedule goes only through …

Tentative revised schedule shows NASCAR’s best-case scenario, starting late May
4 years, 11 months ago

Tentative revised schedule shows NASCAR’s best-case scenario, starting late May

New York Times  

NASCAR is hoping to resume the 2020 Cup Series season with the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend, multiple sources tell The Athletic, a best-case scenario that would allow for all 32 remaining points races to be completed by early November. Though the schedule is tentative and just one of many potential scenarios, it offers insight into NASCAR’s thinking as …

Roundtable: What will the 2021 Cup schedule look like?
5 years, 7 months ago

Roundtable: What will the 2021 Cup schedule look like?

New York Times  

There are still 15 races remaining in the 2019 season — 10 of which are playoff events that will decide the championship — and there is still all of 2020. That’s not a surprise considering FOX Sports and NBC Sports have contracts in place to televise Cup races through 2024, and any reduction to the schedule also means NASCAR would …

Analysis: NASCAR did best it could in freshening schedule
6 years ago

Analysis: NASCAR did best it could in freshening schedule

Associated Press  

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An entire generation of NASCAR has spent its life tuned to a schedule so predictable events could be planned years in advance and race dates marked milestones. The move helped NASCAR shorten the season by one week, ending on Nov. 8 on Veteran’s Day weekend— the date NBC Sports requested for the finale. BIGGEST SURPRISE Do not …

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