2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule revealed

The yr will start with the pre-season exhibition race on the L.A. Memorial Coliseum for the third consecutive yr, which can be 4 February at 8pm EST.

The NASCAR Mexico Collection will be a part of the occasion, competing simply earlier than the Cup Collection race.

There are some adjustments to the schedule past the Daytona 500. There can be two drafting tracks back-to-back to open the 2024 championship with Atlanta Motor Speedway slated because the second race of the yr. Auto Membership Speedway has formally been eliminated, as anticipated.

As beforehand introduced, Bristol Grime is gone and the spring race has returned to the concrete.

Nonetheless, it can now not happen on Easter Sunday — that date will now go to Richmond Raceway.

Texas Motor Speedway has been faraway from the playoffs. It beforehand opened the Spherical of 12 however in 2024, will probably be the ninth race of the season on 14 April.

North Wilkesboro Speedway will get a repave earlier than it hosts the All-Star Race for a second consecutive yr on 19 Might.

Iowa Speedway is the one new monitor becoming a member of the schedule. As introduced earlier this week, the primary Cup Collection race within the state of Iowa since 1953 will happen on 16 June.

The Chicago Road Course can be again for the second consecutive yr, going down on 7 July.

NASCAR’s extremely anticipated return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval marks the ultimate race earlier than the summer time break.

Following the Brickyard 400 on 21 July, NASCAR will take two weeks off as a result of Olympics and return with one other primetime Richmond race on 11 August.

The subsequent batch of races is the place a number of the largest adjustments happen. Daytona Worldwide Speedway is not going to be internet hosting the common season finale.

The Southern 500 at Darlington, which had beforehand been the primary race within the playoffs, will now function the common season finale. The 1 September race can have its ordinary time slot of 6pm EST with.

Daytona hasn’t moved far, now the week earlier than Darlington.

The opening spherical of the playoffs can have a really totally different look, with the addition of Atlanta because the very first race. There can be two drafting tracks within the playoffs because it joins Talladega.

Watkins Glen Worldwide will make it two highway programs as properly, becoming a member of the Charlotte Roval within the playoffs for the primary time and instantly following Atlanta within the Spherical of 16.

Kansas Speedway will take Texas’ place because the opening race of the Spherical of 12, with the six races that conclude the season remaining unchanged.

Phoenix Raceway will once more host the Championship 4 finale, which it has achieved since 2020. The finale will happen on 10 November.

“NASCAR is dedicated to delivering an annual schedule that continues to be daring and dynamic throughout all three nationwide collection whereas sustaining the famed locations that our followers love,” mentioned Ben Kennedy, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Racing Improvement and Technique.

“The 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Collection schedules strike an incredible stability between visiting lots of our conventional tracks that proceed to placed on an incredible present, and newer places like our first Cup race in Iowa and our extremely anticipated return to the streets of Chicago that create ‘bucket checklist’ moments and entice new followers to America’s main motorsport.”

Full 2024 NASCAR Cup Schedule