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.

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.

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 Cookout Clash, the first of two exhibition races for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, is scheduled for 7 p.m. (CT) on Sunday, Feb. 2, at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

2025 Daytona 500: How to Watch and Schedule of Events. ... Chase Elliott, coming off a win in the Bowman Gray Clash, in another former champion without a win in the season-opener.

NASCAR slows again after Chase Elliott won the Clash at Bowman Gray. Next up is the Daytona 500. The Super Bowl could change that in future years.

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 ...

Chase Elliott wins The Clash at Bowman Gray, eyes Daytona 500. ... Clash is a non-points event that was held at Daytona International Speedway from 1979 to 2021 as the warm-up act to the Daytona 500.

#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 ...

The Daytona 500 is one of NASCAR's biggest races. The Daytona 500 takes place each year at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The tri-oval track is 2.