NASCAR Cup Series 2025 schedule: Mexico City, Bowman Gray Stadium among major additions for next season

New additions for NASCAR in 2025 include an international trip and an old favorite in North Carolina

By Steven Taranto

Aug 29, 2024 at 2:14 pm ET • 3 min read

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NASCAR announced its schedule for the 2025 season on Thursday, formally revealing a number of major date realignments as well as two new racetracks added to the Cup Series calendar. The NASCAR Cup Series will race outside the United States for the first time in its modern era in Mexico City, while also moving the season-opening Clash from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum back home to Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C.

After announcing several weeks ago that the February Clash would move to Bowman Gray Stadium, marking the first Cup Series event since 1971 for the first asphalt track that NASCAR ever raced on, the sport announced Tuesday that Mexico City's Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez would host a Cup Series race beginning next June. The event marks the first Cup Series race held internationally in the sport's modern era, and the first since NASCAR's premier series raced in Toronto, Canada in 1958. Mexico City's date will come from Richmond Raceway, which drops from two race dates to just one for the first time since 1958.

Among the other major changes to next year's schedule include:

After three years, NASCAR will no longer race on Easter Sunday, with that week serving as an off week as it traditionally had been. The Easter break will mark the lone off weekend of the 2025 season.
Circuit of the Americas moves from the sixth race of the season to the third race of the season, setting up a West Coast swing that will include Austin, Texas, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.
Darlington Raceway's spring race moves from Mother's Day Weekend to early April.
Texas Motor Speedway's lone race date moves from April to early May.
Nashville Superspeedway's race date moves from late June to the beginning of June, immediately following the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Michigan and Pocono return to June dates as well.
Sonoma and Dover's race dates have both been moved to July. Iowa Speedway's race date has been moved from June to August.
Atlanta, Watkins Glen, and Homestead-Miami have been moved out of the playoffs, with Gateway and New Hampshire moved into the playoffs instead. The Southern 500 at Darlington has also returned to being the playoff-opening race, and the Coke Zero Sugar 400 is once again the regular-season finale after a scheduling quirk due to this year's Olympic break pushed the season forward a week.
Talladega Superspeedway's playoff race has been moved into the Round of 8, with that race now set to potentially determine a place in the Championship 4.
In the Xfinity and Truck Series, the legendary Rockingham Speedway has returned to the schedule in both series for the first time since 2004 and 2013, respectively. The Truck Series also gains an entirely new racetrack with NASCAR's first-ever trip to Lime Rock Park in Connecticut.

A return to our racing roots!
A historic event in Mexico City!
A new-look #NASCARPlayoffs!

The 2025 schedule is here! pic.twitter.com/PRgPXVGA4R
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) August 29, 2024

2025 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule

(* -- Denotes non-points race)

Feb. 2 -- Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium*

Feb. 16 -- Daytona 500
Feb. 23 -- Atlanta Motor Speedway
Mar. 2 -- Circuit of the Americas (Austin, Texas)
Mar. 9 -- Phoenix Raceway
Mar. 16 -- Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Mar. 23 -- Homestead-Miami Speedway
Mar. 30 -- Martinsville Speedway
Apr. 6 -- Darlington Raceway
Apr. 13 -- Bristol Motor Speedway
Apr. 27 -- Talladega Superspeedway
May 4 -- Texas Motor Speedway
May 11 -- Kansas Speedway
May 18 -- All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway*
May 25 -- Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte
Jun. 1 -- Nashville Superspeedway
Jun. 8 -- Michigan International Speedway
Jun. 15 -- Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez (Mexico City)
Jun. 22 -- Pocono Raceway
Jun. 28 -- Atlanta Motor Speedway
Jul. 6 -- Chicago Street Course
Jul. 13 -- Sonoma Raceway
Jul. 20 -- Dover Motor Speedway
Jul. 27 -- Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis
Aug. 3 -- Iowa Speedway
Aug. 10 -- Watkins Glen International
Aug. 16 -- Richmond Raceway
Aug. 23 -- Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona