NASCAR returns the weekend of Feb. 1 with The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium before drivers prepare for the iconic Daytona 500 and the 2025 season. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX ...

NASCAR returns the weekend of Feb. 1 with The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium before drivers prepare for the iconic Daytona 500 and the 2025 season.

Preceding the “Great American race,” the speedway will host Daytona 500 qualifying on Feb. 12 and the Duel at Daytona – two 150-mile qualifying races – on Feb. 13.

The Clash and Daytona 500 kick off 2025 schedule. Ellen J. Horrow. USA TODAY. ... Then all eyes will be on the Daytona 500, the first of 36 points races in the 2025 Cup Series season.

DAYTONA WARMUP: THE CLASH. The buildup to the Daytona 500 used to be called “Speedweeks” and span nearly two full weeks, with the exhibition Clash used as a warmup for the main event.

But he's 0 for 9 in the Daytona 500, where he's twice started from the pole but his 2021 runner-up finish is his best showing. He lost that year to underdog journeyman Michael McDowell as Elliott ...

Denny Hamlin will try to win his fourth Daytona 500, ... Chase Elliott, who won the exhibition Clash and will try to duplicate the sweep his father, Bill, pulled off in 1987.

#4 Dale Jarrett (1996, 2000) Dale Jarrett is the only driver in NASCAR history to win the Clash and the Daytona 500 in the same year twice. The North Carolina-born driver didn't start on pole but ...

From there, NASCAR moves to its most famous track, Daytona International Speedway, to kick off the regular season in earnest with the 2025 Daytona 500 on Feb. 16.Preceding the “Great American ...

That’s what the Clash was all about from 1979 to 2021, when it was the warmup at Daytona International Speedway for NASCAR’s version of the Super Bowl. The drivers used the event to see who ...

That's what the Clash was all about from 1979 to 2021, when it was the warmup at Daytona International Speedway for NASCAR's version of the Super Bowl. The drivers used the event to see who had ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One win — particularly in an exhibition race — does not guarantee anything. But if this was NASCAR of only five years ago, then Chase Elliott’s dominating victory in the ...