{"id":221946,"date":"2025-10-18T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221946\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:58:09","slug":"nascar-saturday-schedule-at-talladega-superspeedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221946\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Saturday schedule at Talladega Superspeedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talladega Superspeedway will feature roughly six hours of qualifying and racing Saturday with the Cup and Xfinity series.<\/p>\n<p>Xfinity drivers will begin qualifying at 11:30 a.m. ET for their 94-lap race at 4 p.m. Austin Hill, who has been eliminated from the playoffs, is the most recent Xfinity winner at Talladega. Sammy Smith won there last October.<\/p>\n<p>Cup Series qualifying will begin at 1:30 p.m. to set the field for Sunday\u2019s 500-miler that Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won a year ago. Austin Cindric won at Talladega in April to qualify for the playoffs (the Team Penske driver was eliminated after the Round of 12).<\/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\/1760781489_404_\" 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 Saturday schedule<\/p>\n<p>(All Times Eastern)<\/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)Weather<\/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 86 degrees and a 5% 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talladega Superspeedway will feature roughly six hours of qualifying and racing Saturday with the Cup and Xfinity series.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-221946","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\/221946","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=221946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}