Time for a new thread.

NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2025 is Ricky Rudd, Carl Edwards and Ralph Moody with the Induction Ceremony set for Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Dr. Dean Sicking was named the recipient of the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR.

Schedule for the year

Race # Date Race Track
* Sun., Feb 2 Cook Out Clash Bowman Gray Stadium
* Thu., Feb 13 Daytona 500 Duels Daytona International Speedway
1 Sun., Feb 16 DAYTONA 500 Daytona International Speedway
2 Sun., Feb 23 Ambetter Health 400 Atlanta Motor Speedway
3 Sun., Mar 2 Echopark Texas Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas
4 Sun., Mar 9 Shriners Children's 500 Phoenix Raceway
5 Sun., Mar 16 Pennzoil 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
6 Sun., Mar 23 Straight Talk Wireless 400 Homestead-Miami Speedway
7 Sun., Mar 30 Cook Out 400 Martinsville Speedway
8 Sun., April 6 Goodyear 400 Darlington Raceway
9 Sun, Apr 13 Food City 500 Bristol Motor Speedway
10 Sun., Apr 27 Jack Link's 500 Talladega Superspeedway
11 Sun., May 4 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 Texas Motor Speedway
12 Sun., May 11 AdventHealth 400 Kansas Speedway
* Sun., May 18 All-Star Open North Wilkesboro Speedway
* Sun., May 18 All-Star Race North Wilkesboro Speedway
13 Sun., May 25 Coca-Cola 600 Charlotte Motor Speedway
14 Sun., Jun 1 Ally 400 Nashville Superspeedway
15 Sun., Jun 8 FireKeepers Casino 400 Michigan International Speedway
16 Sun., Jun 15 Mexico Race Autdromo Hermanos Rodrguez
17 Sun., Jun 22 HighPoint.com 400 Pocono Raceway
18 Sat., Jun 28 Quaker State 400 Atlanta Motor Speedway
19 Sun., Jul 6 Grant Park 165 Chicago Street Course
20 Sun., Jul 13 Toyota / Save Mart 350 Sonoma Raceway
21 Sun., Jul 20 Wrth 400 Dover Motor Speedway
22 Sun., Jul 27 Brickyard 400 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
23 Sun., Aug 3 Iowa Corn 350 Iowa Speedway
24 Sun., Aug 10 Go Bowling at the Glen Watkins Glen International
25 Sat., Aug 16 Cook Out 400 Richmond Raceway
26 Sat., Aug 23 Coke Zero Sugar 400 Daytona International Speedway

Playoffs Round of 16
27 Sun., Aug 31 Cook Out Southern 500 Darlington Raceway
28 Sun., Sep 7 Enjoy Illinois 300 World Wide Technology Raceway
29 Sat., Sep 13 Bass Pro Shops Night Race Bristol Motor Speedway

Playoffs Round of 12
30 Sun., Sep 21 USA Today 301 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
31 Sun., Sep 28 Hollywood Casino 400 Kansas Speedway
32 Sun., Oct 5 Bank of America ROVAL 400 Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL

Playoffs Round of 8
33 Sun., Oct 12 South Point 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
34 Sun., Oct 19 YellaWood 500 Talladega Superspeedway
35 Sun., Oct 26 Xfinity 500 Martinsville Raceway

Championship Race
36 Sun., Nov 2 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Phoenix Raceway

Feel bad for Mike, but I think the decision might be different if he raced Xfinity or Trucks last year.

This is what Mike Wallace posted on Facebook about NASCAR decision not to approve him to run the Daytona 500. He could get approved for 2026. pic.twitter.com/arKD6ZuZ8z

— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) January 14, 2025

Just a few weeks away

Feel bad for him too but I'm actually OK with the decision. We don't need F1 style points for a license, but not having driven on anything bigger than a short track since 2015 is a long time.

JR Motorsports will attempt the Daytona 500 with Justin Allgaier. No. 40 for Chris Stapleton's Traveller Whiskey brand. Greg Ives to crew chief. No current Cup plans for any additional races for JRM.

— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) January 15, 2025

All NASCAR, all the time, always free.

Introducing the NASCAR Channel, coming to @Tubi beginning January 29th! pic.twitter.com/YeAp7lhYDD

— NASCAR (@NASCAR) January 16, 2025

In. Love kicking off the year with the Daytona 500.

The primary and option tires should make things interesting.

NASCAR Cup Series tire allotment chart for the 2025 season pic.twitter.com/jI9pTrUGjJ

— Matt Weaver (@MattWeaverRA) January 23, 2025

Cars on the track tonight at Bowman Gray

If yall didn't see the reality show madhouse back 15 years ago, find a way to watch the only season they released. It'll make you very intimate with Bowman Gray

Watched a few minutes of the last chance race and…

Just not a fan of racing these cars on tracks like this…

I know everyone is always yelling "moar short tracks grass roots!!!" but these races kinda suck

Yet I'm still watching

Call your shot. Who wins tonight?

I'm going with Joey.

You have to penalize Gibbs points for that hit.

This is a mess. Which is exactly what you expect at the madhouse

Berry in the 21 going to be very interesting this year.

Good to see the wood brothers in the main. Should be a wild show with some hurt feelings

Jumpman logos blacked out. Obviously due to the lawsuit with Nascar.

Edit: didn't mean thumbs up. Not thumbs down just didn't mean thumbs up hah

Elliott dominates the field. I thought Blaney was going to win it with 50 to go, but Elliott navigated traffic pretty well.

Hendrick likely will have a rocket strapped on his ass this year. Typically happens after he gets outclassed the year prior.

Daytona practice on Wednesday.

PRACTICE.

AT @DAYTONA.

TODAY.

Prepare accordingly.

— NASCAR (@NASCAR) February 12, 2025

Briscoe much faster than everyone. Ford pretty dominant and HMS didn't qualify well. On to the duels tomorrow with Briscoe on the pole, Cindric along side him, and Truex and Johnson locked in from the non-charter cars.

Well, the rain has lifted and the track is drying.

Boogedie boogedie boogedie let's go racin' boys.

Chandler Smith did all that work and then made such a terrible move when he wasn't clear. Damn shame for him and more specifically the other guys caught up in it.

And he took a super hard hit. He hooked and smacked the wall head on.

New season; I'm pretty pumped. I don't have a "hated" driver anymore as I have gotten older. I feel like Chastain and Wallace have grown up some and even Hamlin hasn't been chirping.

Elliott and Larson are just good dudes. I will miss Truex running full time.

Small correction - I'm not a big Tyler Reddick fan.

Glad the season is starting.

Ty Dillon just about broke every car in the field that last 1/4 lap.

Buescher stacked the field up after the pit stops and it get scattered into a wreck.

Buescher tried to block and ended making a domino event behind him. Dumbass.

I honestly don't understand so much jostling for position at the end of the Duel, especially if you're already in.

Starting position in the 500 is pretty meaningless when half the field will likely get wiped out anyway.

Russ Dalrymple said:

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I honestly don't understand so much jostling for position at the end of the Duel, especially if you're already in.

Starting position in the 500 is pretty meaningless when half the field will likely get wiped out anyway.

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Agree. Only thing I can think of is they're told to do it and get some sort of financial compensation/protection if things go wrong. The duels are just an entertainment play at this point.

NEWS: The start time for the #DAYTONA500 has been moved up to 1:30 p.m. ET on Sunday.

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— NASCAR (@NASCAR) February 14, 2025

Pretty clean truck race, some talented kids out there.

Love it for Parker such a good dude