NASCAR Is Making Big Changes To Qualifying For 2025

NASCAR is updating the practice and qualifying schedules for its race weekends for 2025.

New formats are being introduced for the various types of tracks it visits and the round two seeding that put drivers from qualifying Group A on the outside lane and Group B on the inside lane is being dropped.

Cup Series practice is being expanded to 25 minutes over two groups at most tracks, with the Daytona 500 getting a 50-minute session the day before qualifying.

The Daytona, Talladega and Atlanta superspeedways will continue to use a two-group qualifying session with single-lap qualifying and the fastest 10 cars going to a second round. The top 10 will then be seeded based on their lap times in that round, while the rest of the field will be filled out according to their first round times.

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Road courses will feature two 20-minute qualifying groups with best laps used for seeding and short track qualifying will be a single round with each car getting two qualifying laps. Intermediate track qualifying will be a single-round, one lap affair.

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“The updated P&Q schedule will include more practice time, consistency in procedure across all three series and a return to simplified starting lineup rules,” NASCAR said in a news release on the change.