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NASCAR is making changes to its practice and qualifying (P&Q) procedures that it believes will enhance the starting lineup process for all three of its national series: NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series and CRAFTSMAN Truck Series. By aligning P&Q sessions for all three categories, NASCAR is intending to simplify procedures, produce more practice time for its three series, produce more consistency in its procedures and return to a more simplified starting lineup set of rules.<\/p>\n
NASCAR intends to have a single round of qualifying, with each driver\u2019s starting spot determined only by the car\u2019s qualifying results. Still, there will be different rules for superspeedway P&Q, as noted below.<\/p>\n
Additionally, there will be an added practice session prior to DAYTONA 500 qualifying at Daytona International Speedway this February. The 50-minute practice before qualifying is scheduled for Wednesday, February 12 at 10:05AM ET and will be followed by DAYTONA 500 Media Day from noon through 7PM. Daytona 500 Busch Light Pole Award qualifying follows at 8:15PM ET.<\/p>\n
In 2025, FOX Sports will broadcast P&Q for The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, the DAYTONA 500, the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Raceway, as well as P&Q for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series. Prime Video is broadcasting NASCAR Cup Series P&Q for the first half of the season – excluding the events outlined above; TNT Sports will broadcast P&Q on Max and truTV for the second half of the NASCAR Cup Series season, while details for NASCAR Xfinity Series P&Q sessions, airing on CW platforms will be announced in the future.<\/p>\n
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Standard P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n Short Track P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n Superspeedway Qualifying<\/span><\/p>\n Road Course P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n NASCAR XFINITY SERIES<\/span><\/p>\n Standard P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Short Track P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Superspeedway Qualifying<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Road Course P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES<\/span><\/p>\n Standard P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n Short Track P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Superspeedway Qualifying<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Road Course P&Q<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Expanded Practice Weekends<\/span><\/p>\n The following weekends will have an expanded practice session.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>NCS: The Clash, DAYTONA 500, COTA*, All-Star Race, Mexico City, Indianapolis, Phoenix Championship<\/span><\/p>\n NXS: Daytona-1, Rockingham, Mexico City, Indianapolis, WWTR, Phoenix Championship<\/span><\/p>\n NCTS: Daytona, Rockingham, Michigan, Lime Rock, Watkins Glen, New Hampshire, Charlotte Roval, Phoenix Championship<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>* At Circuit of the Americas (COTA) the NASCAR Cup Series will use the same format as the 2024 events at Watkins Glen and the Charlotte Roval, where cars are assigned to two groups and have two 20-minute practices for each group, resulting in 40 minutes total per car. The COTA practice session will lead directly into qualifying, NASCAR said.<\/span><\/p>\n By Anne Proffit<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASCAR makes big changes to qualifying for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":99096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,5029],"tags":[549,9391,4437,3176],"class_list":["post-99091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-racing","tag-daytona-500","tag-nascar-craftsman-truck-series","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-xfinity-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NASCAR-logo-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-pMf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99132,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99091\/revisions\/99132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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