2025 NASCAR in-season tournament

2025 NASCAR In-Season Challenge

Tournament information
Date	June 28 – July 27, 2025
Venue(s)	Atlanta Motor Speedway Chicago Street Course Sonoma Raceway Dover Motor Speedway Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Teams	15 (full-time)
Purse	US$1 Million

The 2025 NASCAR In-Season Challenge (initially titled the NASCAR In-season tournament) will be a multi-stage motorsport tournament that will be played during the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. It will be the first edition of the NASCAR In-Season Challenge. All 36 full-time drivers in the series will participate in the tournament and races will also count toward the regular season and playoff standings as normal.

Format

Main article: NASCAR in-season tournament § Format

The tournament will consist of eight regular season races that will be run during June and July. For the first three races, all full-time drivers in the series are eligible to compete. Race winners will automatically qualify for the bracket, and be joined by the drivers with the best finish in any of the three races, with ties to be broken by total race points. The 32 drivers with the best performances move on to the next phase of the tournament.

The last five races will be conducted in a single elimination bracket. In each round, the driver in each matchup with the better finish advances, while the other is eliminated. This process will continue until only two drivers remain; the driver with the better finish in that race will be the tournament champion and win a $1 million bonus.

Schedule

No	Race name	Track	Location	Date	Time (ET) [1]	TV [2]	Radio	Report
Qualification / Seeding Races
1	FireKeepers Casino 400	O  Michigan International Speedway	Brooklyn, Michigan	June 8	2 PM	Prime Video	MRN	Report
2	NASCAR Cup Series at Mexico City	R  Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	Mexico City, Mexico	June 15	3 PM			Report
3	The Great American Getaway 400 presented by VISITPA	O  Pocono Raceway	Long Pond, Pennsylvania	June 22	2 PM			Report
Round of 32
4	Quaker State 400 available at Walmart	O  Atlanta Motor Speedway	Hampton, Georgia	June 28	7 PM	TNT	PRN	Report
Round of 16
5	Grant Park 165	S  Chicago Street Course	Chicago, Illinois	July 6	2 PM	TNT	MRN	Report
Quarter-Final
6	Toyota/Save Mart 350	R  Sonoma Raceway	Sonoma, California	July 13	3:30 PM	TNT	PRN	Report
Semi-Final
7	Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400	O  Dover Motor Speedway	Dover, Delaware	July 20	2 PM	TNT	PRN	Report
Final
8	Brickyard 400 presented by PPG	O  Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	July 27	2 PM	TNT	IMS	Report

Notes

Bolded races indicate an event generally known as a Crown Jewel race.

 O  Oval track
 R  Road course
 S  Street course

Bracket

	Atlanta					Chicago					Sonoma					Dover					Indianapolis
	1
	32
	17
	16
	9
	24
	25
	8
	5
	28
	21
	12
	13
	20
	29
	4
	3
	30
	19
	14
	11
	22
	27
	6
	7
	26
	23
	10
	15
	18
	31
	2

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Broadcasting

The seeding races will be streamed on the new package to be shown on Amazon Prime Video. ^[3] All tournament races will be shown on TNT. ^[4]

References

1. "NASCAR announces start times and networks for 2025". NASCAR . November 13, 2024. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
2. "NASCAR reveals milestone 2025 Cup Series schedule, complete with international flair, return to roots". NASCAR . August 29, 2024. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
3. "NASCAR announces historic media rights agreements with FOX, NBC, Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery". NASCAR.com. November 29, 2024. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
4. "TNT Sports to kick off NASCAR return with Atlanta's Night Race in June 2025". Atlanta Motor Speedway. May 13, 2024. Retrieved May 18, 2024.