{"id":7218,"date":"2025-07-13T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7218\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:05:05","slug":"live-race-updates-nascar-cup-series-at-sonoma-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7218\/","title":{"rendered":"Live race updates: NASCAR Cup Series at Sonoma 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

SONOMA, Calif. \u2014 The NASCAR Cup Series is out West in Wine Country for the 2025 Toyota\/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. Follow here for live race updates.<\/p>\n

NASCAR Cup Series Race Start at Sonoma<\/p>\n

\"\"Credit: SONOMA, CALIFORNIA \u2013 JULY 12: Shane Van Gisbergen, driver of the #88 Red Bull Chevrolet, poses for photos after winning the pole award during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series Toyota\/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway on July 12, 2025 in Sonoma, California. (Photo by Chris Graythen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen commanded pole position over Chase Briscoe in Saturday\u2019s qualifying. SVG, the winner of the last two road course races in the NASCAR Cup Series, won the pole by around three tenths of a second. <\/p>\n

SVG isn\u2019t invincible, even at Sonoma. In the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday, he lost to Connor Zilisch, his hotshot teammate who took the fight to him and won. <\/p>\n

While Zilisch isn\u2019t in Sunday\u2019s race, other drivers could take the fight to SVG \u2014 namely A.J. Allmendinger and Ty Gibbs who have been strong on road courses and need a win to get into the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NASCAR in-season tournament is also continuing with eight drivers left. Among them are teammates Erik Jones and John Hunter Nemechek who will face each other at Sonoma.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Sophia LaRiche\/TRE<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Sophia LaRiche\/TRE<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really pay much attention at the start just because the races were so goofy\u2026 and all of a sudden we\u2019re sitting here on to round three so I guess it\u2019s time to start paying attention since we\u2019re only a couple of races away from racing for a mil [$1 million],\u201d Jones said with a smile.<\/p>\n

Jones and Nemechek may be teammates but Jones wants nothing more than to beat him. <\/p>\n

\u201cI hope we can beat him this weekend. We\u2019ve been getting our road course stuff better I think Sonoma is one of my better road courses. I\u2019m happy about that, rather than Chicago. Get through that, go to Dover, see what we got, it\u2019s an okay race for us and then Indy is one of our stronger tracks. I think any of us would take a million bucks,\u201d Jones said. <\/p>\n

NASCAR Cup Series 2025 Toyota \/ Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway Info<\/p>\n

Broadcast: TNT Sports, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio<\/p>\n

Distance: 110 laps \/ 218.9 miles<\/p>\n

Stages: 25 \/ 55 \/ 110<\/p>\n

Average time of race: 2:48:16<\/p>\n

Pit road speed: 40 mph<\/p>\n

Caution car speed: 45 mph<\/p>\n

Fuel Window: 45 laps<\/p>\n

Here is when everything will start, according to NASCAR: <\/p>\n

Invocation: 12:30:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

National Anthem: 12:31:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Command: 12:38:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Green Flag: 12:50:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.<\/p>\n

A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.<\/p>\n

Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick’s final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen’s stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years \u2013 as well as up-and-coming drivers’ stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.<\/p>\n

Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SONOMA, Calif. \u2014 The NASCAR Cup Series is out West in Wine Country for the 2025 Toyota\/Save Mart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}