{"id":530956,"date":"2026-03-12T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530956\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:51:09","slug":"nascar-at-las-vegas-spring-weekend-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530956\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR at Las Vegas Spring Weekend Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NASCAR Cup Series and the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvms.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.lvms.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Motor Speedway<\/a> this weekend. The Craftsman Truck Series has a week off and returns to competition on March 20 at Darlington Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Davis, lead vocalist for Korn, will serve as the Grand Marshal of the Cup Series Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, March 15, and give the command to start engines. <\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2026\/03\/09\/2026-nascar-cup-series-entry-list-for-las-vegas-motor-speedway-spring-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">36 cars<\/a> entered in the event, with <a href=\"https:\/\/speedwaymedia.com\/2025\/03\/16\/josh-berry-earns-first-cup-career-victory-at-las-vegas\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/speedwaymedia.com\/2025\/03\/16\/josh-berry-earns-first-cup-career-victory-at-las-vegas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Berry<\/a> returning as the winner of last year\u2019s Cup Series Spring race at the 1.5-mile track. It was his first victory in the series and the 101st for Wood Brothers Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Allgaier won the 2025 Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas in the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. He\u2019ll be back this weekend to defend his race win in the rebranded O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series.<\/p>\n<p>Notes \u2013 Cup Series and O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series<\/p>\n<p>Four full-time Cup Series drivers will also race in the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series event Saturday evening:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cole Custer: No. 0 Chevrolet \u2013 SS GreenLight Racing<br \/>\u2022 Connor Zilisch: No. 1 Chevrolet \u2013 JR Motorsports<br \/>\u2022 Chase Briscoe: No. 19 Toyota \u2013 Joe Gibbs Racing<br \/>\u2022 Kyle Larson: No. 88 Chevrolet \u2013 JR Motorsports<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Cup Series race at Las Vegas set a track record of 32 lead changes. Each of the top-three finishers in the Cup Series race at Las Vegas took four tires on every pit stop.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Allgaier\u2019s O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series win at Phoenix broke the series record for most consecutive seasons with a win at 10.<\/p>\n<p>Allgaier and Carson Kvapil are the only O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series drivers to earn stage points in each race this season.  Notably, has also finished in the top 10 in the last nine races at Las Vegas. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 14<\/p>\n<p>Noon: O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Practice \u2013 CW App<br \/>1:05 p.m.: O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Qualifying \u2013 CW App<br \/>2:30 p.m.: Cup Series Practice \u2013 Prime\/PRN\/SiriusXM<br \/>3:40 p.m.: Cup Series Qualifying \u2013 Prime\/PRN\/SiriusXM<br \/>Post Cup Series Qualifying: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/presspass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASCAR Press Pass<\/a><br \/>5:30 p.m.: O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts The LiUNA! Race<br \/>Stages 45\/90\/200 Laps = 300 Miles<br \/>CW\/PRN\/SiriusXM<br \/>Post O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts race: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/presspass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASCAR Press Pass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 15<\/p>\n<p>4 p.m.: Cup Series Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube<br \/>Stages 80\/165\/267 Laps = 400.5 Miles<br \/>FOX One\/FS1\/HBO Max\/PRN\/SiriusXM<br \/>Post Cup Series race: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/presspass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASCAR Press Pass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*All times are Eastern.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Cup Series and the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series travel to Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,86140,634,8354,109587,82,208294],"class_list":["post-530956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-las-vegas-motor-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-oreilly-auto-parts-series","tag-sports","tag-weekend-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530956","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=530956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}