Have you ever been having fun with these of NASCAR motion?
It has been two straight weeks, opening the 2025 season, of high-speed, heavy-traffic motion and and theatrics related to it. And never simply on Sundays, but in addition with the preliminary motion from the Vehicles and Xfinity Sequence, each at Daytona and Atlanta.
Been thrilling, hasn’t it?
Nicely, it is throughout. For now, anyway.
This week delivers such a unique animal, you won’t acknowledge it. After two weeks of high-banked ovals (of a form), the racers should adapt to a technical structure with 20 turns and, right here and there, a number of locations the place it pays to truly try a cross.
TWO-WHEEL ROOTS:
Sure, it is time for the most recent episode of Austin Metropolis Limits within the Texas capital, on a unique structure than NASCAR employed in earlier visits to the Circuit of the Americas.
COTA can make the most of a few completely different layouts, and this yr, NASCAR is shifting from the three.4-mile course to 1 roughly a mile shorter however nonetheless with 20 turns, which must be attention-grabbing for viewers and plenty of work for the drivers.
Here is the way to test it out over the weekend.
Friday: Xfinity Sequence observe and qualifying, and there is an app for that
5 p.m.: Xfinity Sequence observe (CW app).
6 p.m.: Xfinity Sequence qualifying (CW app).
Saturday: Xfinity race caps the day at COTA
11 a.m.: Cup Sequence observe (Amazon Prime).
12:30 p.m.: Cup Sequence qualifying (Amazon Prime).
2:30 p.m.: Xfinity Sequence, Targeted Well being 250 (CW).
Sunday: NASCAR Cup Sequence race at COTA in Austin
3:30 p.m.: Cup Sequence, EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix (Fox).