NASCAR will return to Texas Motor Speedway this weekend with its three nationwide sequence racing on consecutive days on the 1.5-mile observe north of Fort Price.
The Craftsman Truck Collection will follow, qualify and race Friday at Texas, and the Xfinity Collection will follow and qualify for Saturday’s occasion.
The Cup Collection will follow and qualify Saturday for Sunday’s 400-mile race.
Chase Elliott appears to attain his first Cup factors win since final 12 months’s Texas race, whereas Ryan Blaney seeks to finish current struggles.
Two-time Cup champion Kyle Busch is the defending winner of the truck race however isn’t entered Friday (which occurs to be his fortieth birthday). Sam Mayer received final 12 months’s Xfinity race at Texas.
Chase Elliott is the defending Cup winner at Texas and is in a 37-race winless streak since incomes his nineteenth profession victory on April 14, 2024 (he received The Conflict preseason exhibition at Bowman-Grey Stadium in February).
Connor Zilisch sustained decrease again accidents within the last-lap Talladega crash.
Texas Motor Speedway schedule
(All Occasions Jap)
Friday, Could 2
Storage open
9:30 a.m. – midnight — Truck Series12 – 7:30 p.m. — Xfinity Series2 – 7 p.m. — Cup Collection
Observe exercise
2:35 – 3:30 p.m. — Truck follow (No TV)3:40 – 4:30 p.m. — Truck qualifying (No TV)5 – 5:55 p.m. — Xfinity follow (CW App)6:05 – 7 p.m. — Xfinity qualifying (CW App)8 p.m. — Truck race (167 laps, 250.5 miles, Stage 1 at Lap 40, Stage 2 at Lap 80; FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Saturday, Could 3
Storage open
9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. — Cup Series11 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. — Xfinity Collection
Observe exercise
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. — Cup follow (Prime, Efficiency Racing Community)12:10 p.m. – 1 p.m. — Cup qualifying (Prime, MRN)2 p.m. — Xfinity race (200 laps, 300 miles, Stage 1 at Lap 45, Stage 2 at Lap 90; CW, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
Sunday, Could 4
Storage open
12:30 – 10 p.m. — Cup Collection
Observe exercise
3:30 p.m. — Cup race (267 laps, 400.5 miles, Stage 1 at Lap 80, Stage 2 at Lap 165; FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)Weekend climate
Friday: Scattered thunderstorms within the a.m. and cloudy skies later within the day with a excessive of 72 levels. Winds from the north-northeast at 10 to fifteen mph and a 50% probability of rain. It’s anticipated to be 70 levels with a 24% probability of rain initially of the truck race.
Saturday: Clouds within the morning and primarily sunny skies within the afternoon with a excessive of 77 levels and winds from the north-northeast at 10 to fifteen mph. It’s anticipated to be 72 levels with a 7% probability of rain initially of the Xfinity race.
Sunday: Principally sunny with a excessive of 78 levels and winds from the east-southeast at 5 to 10 mph. It’s anticipated to be 75 levels with a 6% probability of rain initially of the Cup race.
