{"id":83496,"date":"2025-08-20T10:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83496\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:51:07","slug":"daytona-weekend-schedule-tv-weather-info-for-nascar-cup-and-xfinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83496\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytona weekend schedule, TV, weather info for NASCAR Cup and Xfinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Center of Racing will welcome the Xfinity and Cup Series this weekend for consecutive nights of NASCAR racing at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n

After Xfinity and Cup qualifying Friday afternoon, the 2.5-mile superspeedway will play host to a 100-lap Xfinity race at 7:30 p.m. ET. Ryan Truex is the defending race winner but isn\u2019t entered in the 39-driver field.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s Cup race is the 2026 regular-season finale and will set the 16-driver field for the playoffs. Defending winner Harrison Burton won\u2019t be in the field (but will be racing Friday in the Xfinity race).<\/p>\n

Daytona International Speedway weekend schedule<\/p>\n

(All Times Eastern)<\/p>\n

Friday, Aug. 22<\/p>\n

Garage open<\/p>\n

Noon – 11:45 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series10 a.m. – 7 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series<\/p>\n

Track activity<\/p>\n

3 – 4:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity qualifying (CW App)5:05 – 6:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup qualifying (truTV, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)7:30 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity race (100 laps, 250 miles; Stage 1 at Lap 30, Stage 2 at Lap 60; CW, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)<\/p>\n

Saturday, Aug. 23<\/p>\n

Garage open<\/p>\n

4:30 – 11:45 p.m. \u2014 Cup Series<\/p>\n

Track activity<\/p>\n

7:30 p.m. \u2014 Cup race (160 laps, 400 miles; Stage 1 at Lap 35, Stage 2 at Lap 95; NBC, Peacock, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)Weekend weather<\/p>\n

Friday<\/a>: Scattered thunderstorms with a high of 89 degrees and winds from the southwest at 5 to 10 mph and a 60% chance of rain. It\u2019s expected to be 81 degrees with a 55% chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity race.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/a>: Scattered showers and thunderstorms throughout the day with a high of 87 degrees and a 40% chance of rain. It\u2019s expected to be 81 degrees with a 45% chance of rain at the start of the Cup race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Center of Racing will welcome the Xfinity and Cup Series this weekend for consecutive nights of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-83496","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\/83496","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=83496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}