{"id":584690,"date":"2026-04-05T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584690\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:12:09","slug":"why-is-there-no-nascar-cup-series-race-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584690\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there no NASCAR Cup Series race today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> race this Sunday! What’s up with that?<\/p>\n

If you, like us, are missing the sounds and sights of cars flying around the track this Sunday, don’t worry. It’ll be back soon.<\/p>\n

This is simply NASCAR’s<\/a> continued return to an old tradition of not holding a race on Easter Sunday, which dates back to 1971.<\/p>\n

There was no scheduled Easter Sunday race for half a century (although there was one 1989 race at Richmond which was the result of a postponement) up until 2022, when NASCAR covered Bristol Motor Speedway with dirt and went racing.<\/p>\n

They did that again in 2023 before scrapping the dirt race altogether and replacing it in the Easter weekend slot with a trip to Richmond in 2024. The break in racing returned in 2025 though, and looks as though it might be here to stay.<\/p>\n

NASCAR TODAY: Blaney issues Hamlin crash verdict as Harvick talks Wallace frustration<\/a><\/p>\n

When will the NASCAR Cup Series return?<\/p>\n

Cup Series action will return as soon as next weekend for the Food City 500 at Bristol, going back to short-track racing after Martinsville last time out.<\/p>\n

Kyle Larson<\/a> absolutely dominated last year’s race, taking both stages and the race win while leading 411 of the 500 laps. 2026 hasn’t been the defending champion’s year so far, sitting ninth in the standings without a race win, but a repeat of last year’s performance would change that significantly.<\/p>\n

When will the next break from the NASCAR Cup Series be?<\/p>\n

After this weekend, there won’t be another weekend without a Cup race until the start of August, with no race between the Brickyard 400 on July 26 at Indianapolis and the Iowa Corn 350 on August 9 at, you guessed it, Iowa.<\/p>\n

That off-week will end a run of 16 straight racing weekends (including the All-Star Race on May 17), before a new 14-race run starts to take us to the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Remaining NASCAR Cup Series 2026 Schedule<\/p>\n

Date
\n Race
\n Track
\n Time (ET)
\nTV<\/p>\n

April 12Food City 500Bristol Motor Speedway3pmFS1
\nApril 19AdventHealth 400Kansas Speedway2pmFOX
\nApril 26Jack Link’s 500Talladega Superspeedway3pmFOX
\nMay 3W\u00fcrth 400 presented by LIQUI MOLYTexas Motor Speedway3.30pmFS1
\nMay 10Go Bowling At The GlenWatkins Glen International3pmFS1
\nMay 17NASCAR All-Star RaceDover Motor Speedway3pmFS1
\nMay 24Coca-Cola 600Charlotte Motor Speedway6pmPrime
\nMay 31Cracker Barrel 400Nashville Superspeedway7pmPrime
\nJune 7FireKeepers Casino 400Michigan International Speedway3pmPrime
\nJune 14NASCAR Cup Series Race at PoconoPocono Raceway3pmPrime
\nJune 21Anduril 250San Diego Street Race4pmPrime
\nJune 28Toyota\/Save Mart 350Sonoma Raceway3.30pmTNT Sports
\nJuly 5NASCAR Cup Series Race at ChicagolandChicagoland Speedway6pmTNT Sports
\nJuly 12Quaker State 400 Available At WalmartEchopark Speedway7pmTNT Sports
\nJuly 19Window World 400North Wilkesboro Speedway7pmTNT Sports
\nJuly 26Brickyard 400Indianapolis Motor Speedway2pmTNT Sports
\nAugust 9Iowa Corn 350 Powered by EthanolIowa Speedway3.30pmUSA
\nAugust 15Cook Out 400Richmond Raceway7pmUSA
\nAugust 23NASCAR Cup Series Race at New HampshireNew Hampshire Motor Speedway3pmUSA
\nAugust 29Coke Zero Sugar 400Daytona International Speedway7.30pmNBC
\nSeptember 6Cook Out Southern 500Darlington Raceway5pmUSA
\nSeptember 13Enjoy Illinois 300World Wide Technology Raceway3pmUSA
\nSeptember 19Bass Pro Shops Night RaceBristol Motor Speedway7.30pmUSA
\nSeptember 27Hollywood Casino 400Kansas Speedway3pmUSA
\nOctober 4South Point 400Las Vegas Motor Speedway5.30pmUSA
\nOctober 11Bank of America 400Charlotte Motor Speedway3pmUSA
\nOctober 18Freeway Insurance 500Phoenix Raceway3pmUSA
\nOctober 25Yellawood 500Talladega Superspeedway2pmNBC
\nNovember 1Xfinity 500Martinsville Speedway2pmNBC
\nNovember 8NASCAR Cup Series Championship RaceHomestead-Miami Speedway3pmNBC<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Cleetus McFarland earns first NASCAR finish after eventful race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s no NASCAR Cup Series race this Sunday! What’s up with that? If you, like us, are missing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-584690","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\/584690","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=584690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}