{"id":214583,"date":"2025-10-15T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214583\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:21:08","slug":"talladega-playoff-weekend-schedule-tv-weather-info-for-nascar-cup-xfinity-and-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214583\/","title":{"rendered":"Talladega playoff weekend schedule, TV, weather info for NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of three consecutive tripleheader weekends to end the 2025 season, Talladega Superspeedway will play host to the NASCAR Truck, Xfinity and Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Each day will feature a different national series on the 2.66-mile oval, which will have only qualifying and racing with no practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The Craftsman Truck Series will hold an 85-lap race Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday will be a 94-lap event for the Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n<p>The Cup Series will hold the second of its twice-yearly 500-mile races Sunday in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>After being in the playoffs for the past 21 seasons, this marks Talladega\u2019s first appearance in the Round of 8.<\/p>\n<p>As the middle race of the second round last year, the race winners were Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Cup), Sammy Smith (Xfinity) and Grant Enfinger (Truck).<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Talladega has potential to dramatically shake up points in Cup, Xfinity, Truck playoffs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/talladega-has-potential-to-dramatically-shake-up-points-in-cup-xfinity-truck-playoffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"AUTO: APR 27 NASCAR Cup Series Jack Link's 500\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760523668_340_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chase Elliott enters Sunday\u2019s Cup race below the cutline, but he is one of two current playoff drivers who has won in the last nine races at Talladega.<\/p>\n<p>    Talladega Superspeedway weekend schedule<\/p>\n<p>(All Times Eastern)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Oct. 17<\/p>\n<p>Garage open<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; 7 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series9:30 a.m. &#8211; 4:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series11 a.m. &#8211; 10:30 p.m. \u2014 Truck Series<\/p>\n<p>Track activity<\/p>\n<p>12:30 p.m. &#8211; 2 p.m. \u2014 Truck qualifying (FS2)4 p.m. \u2014 Truck race (85 laps, 226.1 miles; Stage 1 at Lap 20, Stage 2 at Lap 40; Fox, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Oct. 18<\/p>\n<p>Garage open<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; 7 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series9:30 a.m. &#8211; 4:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series<\/p>\n<p>Track activity<\/p>\n<p>11:30 a.m. &#8211; 1 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity qualifying (CW App)1:30 &#8211; 3 p.m. \u2014 Cup qualifying (truTV, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)4 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity race (94 laps, 250.04 miles; Stage 1 at Lap 25, Stage 2 at Lap 50; Fox, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, Oct. 19<\/p>\n<p>Garage open<\/p>\n<p>11 a.m. &#8211; 9 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series<\/p>\n<p>Track activity<\/p>\n<p>2 p.m. \u2014 Cup race (188 laps, 500.08 miles; Stage 1 at Lap 60, Stage 2 at Lap 120; NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)Weekend weather<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/al\/talladega\/date\/2025-10-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Friday<\/a>: Partly cloudy with a high of 85 degrees and a 3% chance of rain with winds from the south to southeast at 5 to 10 mph. It\u2019s expected to be 83 degrees with a 0% chance of rain at the start of the Truck race.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/al\/talladega\/date\/2025-10-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Saturday<\/a>: Mostly sunny with a high of 85 degrees and a 2% chance of rain with winds from the south at 5 to 10 mph. It\u2019s expected to be 84 degrees with a 0% chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity race.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/al\/talladega\/date\/2025-10-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sunday<\/a>: Morning rain showers and isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon with a high of 77 degrees and a 59% chance of rain. It\u2019s expected to be 75 degrees with a 33% chance of rain at the start of the Cup race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first of three consecutive tripleheader weekends to end the 2025 season, Talladega Superspeedway will play host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-214583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214583","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=214583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}