{"id":230064,"date":"2025-10-21T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230064\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:37:07","slug":"nascar-weekend-schedule-for-martinsville-elimination-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230064\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR weekend schedule for Martinsville elimination races"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Round of 8 ends with a packed weekend of NASCAR racing at Martinsville Speedway<\/a>. Three series will determine their Championship 4 lineups with close-quarters action at a historic track.<\/p>\n

Craftsman Truck Series teams will be in action on Friday, Oct. 24. Seven drivers will fight for the remaining three spots in the Championship 4. Corey Heim already punched his ticket with a win at the Charlotte Roval<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NASCAR Xfinity Series teams will then race on Saturday, Oct. 25. Two spots remain in the Championship 4 after Justin Allgaier and Connor Zilisch pointed their way to Phoenix<\/a>. Finally, Cup Series teams will close out the weekend on Sunday, Oct. 26. Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe hold two Championship 4 spots,<\/a> leaving two for the other drivers.<\/p>\n

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup teams will also be in action. They will kick off the schedule with a pair of Thursday races.<\/p>\n

Martinsville Speedway forecast and weekend schedule<\/p>\n

Thursday forecast:<\/a>\u00a0The WeatherUnderground forecast calls for mostly sunny skies throughout the day. A high of 68 degrees and a 1% chance of rain.<\/p>\n

Friday forecast: <\/a>The WeatherUnderground forecast calls for sunny skies throughout the day. A high of 60 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the Truck Series race.<\/p>\n

Saturday forecast:<\/a> The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies. A high of 54 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity Series playoff race.<\/p>\n

Sunday forecast:<\/a>\u00a0The forecast calls for cloudy skies. A high of 59 degrees and a 6% chance of rain at the start of the Cup Series race.<\/p>\n

Thursday, Oct. 23, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n

9:45 a.m. \u2014 Whelen Modified Tour garage hours
\n9:45 a.m. \u2014 Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup garage hours
\n12 – 12:30 p.m. \u2014 MX-5 Cup practice 1
\n12:35 – 1:05 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour practice 1
\n1:10 – 1:40 p.m. \u2014 MX-5 Cup final practice
\n1:45 – 2:15 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour final practice
\n2:30 p.m. \u2014 MX-5 Cup qualifying
\n3:30 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour qualifying
\n6 p.m. \u2014 MX-5 Cup race (100 laps, No TV)
\n7:30 p.m. \u2014 Modified Tour (200 laps, FloRacing)<\/p>\n

Friday, Oct. 24, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n

9 a.m. \u2014 Truck Series garage hours
\n12 – 5 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series garage hours
\n2:05 – 3 p.m. \u2014 Truck Series practice (FS2)
\n3:10 – 4 p.m. \u2014 Truck Series qualifying (FS2)
\n6 p.m. \u2014 Truck Series race (200 laps, 105.2 miles. FS1, Radio coverage on NASCAR Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<\/p>\n

Saturday, Oct. 25, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n

11 a.m. – 7 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series garage hours
\n11:30 a.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series garage hours
\n1 – 1:55 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series practice (CW app)
\n2:05 – 3 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series qualifying (CW app)
\n4:30 – 5:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series practice (truTV, Max, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
\n5:40 – 6:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series qualifying (truTV, Max, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
\n7:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series race (250 laps, 131.5 miles. CW, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n

Sunday, Oct. 26, schedule (Eastern Time)<\/p>\n

11 a.m. \u2014 Cup Series garage hours
\n2 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series race (500 laps, 263 miles. NBC, streaming on Peacock, in-car cameras on Max, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Round of 8 ends with a packed weekend of NASCAR racing at Martinsville Speedway. Three series will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,718,634,8354,7576,82],"class_list":["post-230064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-craftsman-truck-series","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\/230064","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=230064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}