Here’s How The 2025 NASCAR Clash At Bowman Gray Stadium Format Works
NASCAR has released the format for the 2025 season kickoff Clash At Bowman Gray Stadium.
The exhibition event is being held at the historic quarter-mile track in Winston-Salem for the first time.
Practice will be held in three groups on Saturday, Feb. 1 and the lap times will be used to seed four, 25-lap heat races that start at 8:30 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on FS1.
The top five finishers from each heat race will advance to Sunday night’s 8 p.m. feature race while the bottom five will be entered in a 75-lap last-chance qualifier 6 p.m. ET on Sunday. Both will be broadcast live on Fox network.
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The top two from the last-chance qualifier will make it to the Clash along with the highest-finishing Cup Series driver in the 2024 points standings who did not qualify through the heat races. The Clash will run 200 laps with a caution after lap 100. Only green flag laps count in all of the races, so there is no overtime.
Bowman Gray stadium opened in 1937 and hosts college football games on its grass infield along with weekly car racing events. In 1949, it became site of the first NASCAR race held on a paved closed circuit track. NASCAR took over operations of the 17,000-seat venue last year and has updated the facility with a new SAFER Barrier wall and catch fence to prepare it for The Clash.
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The Clash was held on a temporary quarter-mile track built inside of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the past three years, but NASCAR opted against extending its stay at the stadium. Prior to that, it had been held at Daytona International Speedway as a tune-up for the Daytona 500.
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