{"id":195259,"date":"2025-10-07T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195259\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:00:08","slug":"las-vegas-cup-xfinity-playoff-weekend-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195259\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Cup, Xfinity playoff weekend schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img width=\"1056\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/25LAS1mt1859-e1759844829153.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy figure-img img-thumbnail img-fluid wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"false\" rel=\"preload\" importance=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>            Photo credit: Nigel Kinrade Photography        <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fanbuzz.com\/racing\/nascar\/nascar-seeks-settlement-conference-in-new-court-filing-23xi-racing-front-row\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR playoffs<\/a> continue with the opening race of the Round of 8, which takes the teams in two national series <a href=\"https:\/\/fanbuzz.com\/racing\/nascar\/spongebob-squarepants-xfinity-car-las-vegas-race-sam-hunt-racing-trevor-bayne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to Las Vegas Motor Speedway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Cup Series teams will both be in action this weekend as the remaining playoff drivers in each series attempt to lock up spots in the Championship 4. Joey Logano and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racing-reference.info\/race-results\/2024_Las_Vegas_2\/B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AJ Allmendinger achieved this feat<\/a> in last season&#8217;s playoff races.<\/p>\n<p>Logano&#8217;s win, in particular, <a href=\"https:\/\/fanbuzz.com\/racing\/las-vegas-wins-boosts-paul-wolfe-to-nascar-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">made crew chief Paul Wolfe the active leader<\/a> in wins among crew chiefs. He broke his tie with <a href=\"https:\/\/fanbuzz.com\/racing\/nascar\/rodney-childers-finds-new-home-for-2026-nascar-season-jr-motorsports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodney Childers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend will feature a shortened schedule. Teams will be at the track on Friday, but they will not have any on-track sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas Motor Speedway forecast and weekend schedule<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/nv\/las-vegas\/date\/2025-10-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Friday forecast: <\/a>The WeatherUnderground forecast calls for rain showers in the morning and then scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/nv\/las-vegas\/date\/2025-10-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Saturday forecast:<\/a> The forecast calls for sunny skies throughout the day. A high of 81 degrees and a 10% chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity Series race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/nv\/las-vegas\/date\/2025-10-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sunday forecast:<\/a>\u00a0The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies throughout the day. A high of 78 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the Cup Series race.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Oct. 10, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; 10 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series garage hours<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Oct. 11, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n<p>11 a.m. &#8211; 7 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series garage hours<br \/>\n12:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series garage hours<br \/>\n2 &#8211; 2:55 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series practice (CW app)<br \/>\n3:05 &#8211; 4 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series qualifying (CW app)<br \/>\n4:30 &#8211; 5:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series practice (truTV, Max, radio coverage on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<br \/>\n5:40 &#8211; 6:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series qualifying (truTV, Max, radio coverage on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<br \/>\n7:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series race (201 laps, 301.5 miles. CW, Radio coverage on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Oct. 12, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n<p>2:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series garage hours<br \/>\n5:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series race (267 laps, 400.5 miles. USA Network, streaming on NBC Sports app, in-car cameras on Max, Radio coverage on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Nigel Kinrade Photography The NASCAR playoffs continue with the opening race of the Round of 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,8354,7576,82],"class_list":["post-195259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}