{"id":404582,"date":"2026-01-12T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:33:30","slug":"2026-nascar-cup-series-schedule-with-start-times-tv-broadcast-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404582\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NASCAR Cup Series schedule with start times, TV broadcast assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONCORD, N.C. –\u00a0Talk about wanting to pick up right where you left off …\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Kyle Larson<\/a>, the No. 5 HendrickCars.com<\/a> Chevrolet team and Hendrick Motorsports<\/a> in general, that would be an accurate statement entering the 2026 NASCAR Cup\u00a0Series season. Larson enters the year as the defending champion after capping off his second career title at Phoenix Raceway in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The organization wouldn’t mind a start like the one that came in 2025 either. Chase Elliott won last year’s preseason Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium and the exhibition event will again kick off the premier series slate on Sunday, Feb. 1. William Byron<\/a> followed that up with a second-straight win in the DAYTONA 500 and this year’s Great American Race is set for a 2:30 p.m. start on Feb. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like any season, the 2026 campaign<\/a> comes with its own set of changes. The Cup Series will return to Chicagoland Speedway for the first time since 2019. Alex Bowman won the most recent race at the 1.5-mile, D-shaped oval.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Alex Bowman scored a victory at Chicagoland Speedway in 2019. The Cup Series will return to the track for the first time since then, this year.<\/p>\n

Another return sees the Cup Series head to North Wilkesboro for a points-paying event for the first time since 1996. Jeff Gordon won the last such event at the track with Terry Labonte also picking up a victory that season en route to his second career championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over July 4th weekend, all three NASCAR series will run at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego with the Cup Series<\/a> event set for Sunday, July 5. And it all concludes with the championship race, which will return to Homestead-Miami Speedway for the first time since 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Again, TV assignments for the 2026 schedule will be split up among Fox, FS1, Prime, TNT, NBC and USA Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here’s a look the full schedule with start times and channels for every race:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Where is the NASCAR race this weekend?<\/p>\n

(TV network in parentheses)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sunday, Feb. 1:\u00a0The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, 8 p.m. (FOX)Thursday, Feb. 12:\u00a0The Duel at Daytona, 7 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, Feb. 15:\u00a0DAYTONA 500, 2:30 p.m. (FOX)Sunday, Feb. 22:\u00a0Atlanta Motor\u00a0Speedway, 3 p.m. (FOX)Sunday, March 1:\u00a0Circuit of the Americas, 3:30 p.m. (FOX)Sunday, March 8:\u00a0Phoenix Raceway, 3:30 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, March 15:\u00a0Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 4 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, March 22:\u00a0Darlington Raceway, 3 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, March 29:\u00a0Martinsville Speedway, 3:30 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, April 12:\u00a0Bristol\u00a0Motor Speedway, 3 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, April 19:\u00a0Kansas Speedway, 2 p.m. (FOX)Sunday, April 26:\u00a0Talladega Superspeedway, 3 p.m. (FOX)Sunday, May 3:\u00a0Texas Motor Speedway, 3:30 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, May 10:\u00a0Watkins Glen International, 3 p.m. (FS1)<\/p>\n

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Sunday, May 17:\u00a0All-Star Race at Dover Motor\u00a0Speedway, 3 p.m. (FS1)Sunday, May 24:\u00a0Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, 6 p.m. (Prime)Sunday, May 31:\u00a0Nashville Superspeedway, 7 p.m. (Prime)Sunday, June 7:\u00a0Michigan International Speedway, 3 p.m. (Prime)Sunday, June 14:\u00a0Pocono Raceway, 3 p.m. (Prime)Sunday, June 21:\u00a0Naval Base Coronado, 4 p.m. (Prime)Sunday, June 28:\u00a0Sonoma Raceway, 3:30 p.m. (TNT)Sunday, July 5:\u00a0Chicagoland Speedway, 6 p.m. (TNT)Sunday, July 12:\u00a0Atlanta Motor Speedway, 7 p.m. (TNT)Sunday, July 19:\u00a0North Wilkesboro\u00a0Speedway, 7 p.m. (TNT)Sunday, July 26:\u00a0Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor\u00a0Speedway, 2 p.m. (TNT)Sunday, Aug. 9:\u00a0Iowa Speedway, 3:30 p.m. (USA Network)Saturday, Aug. 15:\u00a0Richmond Raceway, 7 p.m. (USA Network)Sunday, Aug. 23:\u00a0New Hampshire Motor Speedway, 3 p.m. (USA Network)Saturday, Aug. 29:\u00a0Daytona International Speedway, 7:30 p.m. (NBC)<\/p>\n

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PLAYOFFS<\/p>\n

Sunday, Sept. 6:\u00a0Southern 500 at\u00a0Darlington Raceway, 5 p.m. (USA Network)Sunday, Sept. 13:\u00a0World Wide Technology Raceway, 3 p.m. (USA Network)Saturday, Sept. 19:\u00a0Bristol\u00a0Motor Speedway, 7:30 p.m. (USA Network)Sunday, Sept. 27:\u00a0Kansas Speedway, 3 p.m. (USA Network)Sunday, Oct. 4:\u00a0Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 5:30 p.m. (USA Network)Sunday, Oct. 11:\u00a0Charlotte ROVAL, 3 p.m. (USA Network)Sunday, Oct. 18:\u00a0Phoenix Raceway, 3 p.m. (USA Network)Sunday, Oct. 25:\u00a0Talladega Superspeedway, 2 p.m. (NBC)Sunday, Nov. 1:\u00a0Martinsville Speedway, 2 p.m. (NBC)Sunday, Nov. 8:\u00a0Homestead-Miami Speedway, 3 p.m. (NBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONCORD, N.C. –\u00a0Talk about wanting to pick up right where you left off …\u00a0 For Kyle Larson, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-404582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404582","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=404582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}