The 2025 Nascar Cup Series season is officially here.
The Daytona 500 begins a section of 36 sections of cuts of cuts over 38 weeks. Add the star race in May and there is only one weekend all season. It comes on Easter weekend on April 20. From there, the best series of Nascar are 28 times in 28 weeks.
Here is what you need to know before the season with our choice of championship and our contenders for the playoffs. If you should also catch up with the whole driver’s movement before the season, We have covered.
Joey Logano in an odd year
Logano became a triple champion of the series series in November when he won his fourth race of the season to capture the winner’s final in 2024. Logano won titles in 2018, 2022 and 2024, so that we can Compete in a preventive way of the title race this year, right?
It would be stupid to do so, but it should be noted that Logano never qualified for the winner’s race outside a peer year. Since 2014, Logano’s points have ended in the uniform years have been fourth, second, first, third, first and first. During the odd years, Logano has passed sixth, 17th, fifth, eighth and 12th.
Go ahead and crayez Logano for the 2026 reigning race.
Can anyone join him as a repeated champion?
Logano occupies a rare territory. He is the only active pilot with more than two serial titles of cuts, while Kyle Busch is the only other active driver with several championships.
With the retirement of Martin Truex Jr. of the full -time race, there are only four other active drivers with titles of the series of cups; Brad Keselowski (2012), Chase Elliott (2020), Kyle Larson (2021) and Ryan Blaney (2023).
All four have decent shots to get a second cup series title. They were in playoffs a season ago and three of the four finished in the first seven in the points. Blaney finished second behind Logano in Phoenix in November while Larson led a summit of 1,700 laps in 2024.
Who is the best bet to become a first champion?
There are three obvious choices among Christopher Bell, William Byron and Tyler Reddick. Byron and Reddick each completed the final a season while Bell was able to do his third consecutive title race before Nascar’s decision in the middle of the carnival which was the Martinsville autumn race.
Denny Hamlin is also perpetually included in this category. The triple champion of Daytona 500 exceeded Mark Martin as the most successful pilot never to win a title of series of the Cup. But he has not qualified for the title race since the 2021 season. Hamlin, 44, entered the 2025 season with a new team leader to Chris Gayle and, for the first time since he was at Joe Gibbs Racing, some sponsorship positions on his car. With the departure of the longtime sponsor Fedex from Nascar, advertising on Hamlin’s car seems to be fragmentary together. Does this have an effect on performance?
Nascar’s new television agreement
FOX and NBC are no longer the only two companies with sections of cuts series. Amazon will televize the cutting races for the first time in 2025, while TNT is again in the diffusion fold.
Here’s how it will work. Fox has the first 12 events of the year before Amazon Broadcast Five. TNT then had five races before NBC resumed the last 14 races of the year. Apart from the advance of Daytona 500, Prime will have a practice and qualifications for the next 16 races before TNT broadcasts the rest of the season. The CW will have the most season of the Xfinity series and the Fox networks will again broadcast the series of trucks.
If you are someone who does not subscribe to many television channels and / or Amazon Prime, you will not be able to see many NASCAR races via your antenna. Only eight of the 36 points are on the main channels of Fox or NBC and no race in May, June or July is on television live.
Plan the modifications
The only new race on the calendar is a trip to Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. The June race will be the first time that the Cup series will have run on the track, although the XFINITY series is previously contributed on the track which welcomes an F1 race each year.
Watkins Glen is back on his date in previous August and Homestead was also far from the playoffs. In their place are races in New Hampshire and Gateway, while Talladega is now a third -round qualifying series. Homestead was the perfect playoff track – and should always be the host of the title race – but it now hosts the sixth race of the season on March 23.
Who does the playoffs?
Logano, Bell, Blaney, Byron, Elliott, Hamlin, Larson and Reddick can easily be relieved in the playoffs. Chase Briscoe should also be there in his first season at Joe Gibbs Racing. Keselowski and his teammate Chris Buescher should also be solid contenders for the playoffs.
This leaves five more points in the field of 16 pilots. We believe that Josh Berry can enter for Wood Brothers. He has been their best pilot since Blaney was with the team. Add Ross Chastain, Ty Gibbs and Alex Bowman too. It’s 15.
We will give the last place to Busch, although it is a more bet on its talent than on Richard Childress Racing. The team was horrible in 2024 and lost the eliminatory benefits of Austin Dillon’s victory in Richmond because of the way he made a boost in the drivers for the victory.
The champion
We are going to take a final of Bell, Blaney, Elliott and Larson. Larson is the favorite of the pre-season to win the tile and we understand perfectly why. But we will go with Bell to win his first title in the Cup series and the first championship for a Toyota driver since 2019.
