The 2025 NASCAR season is entering its home stretch.
With just four races left before the playoffs begin, the race for the championship is on — and it’ll be on NBC and USA Network.
NBC Sports is taking over the reigns from TNT starting this weekend at Iowa Speedway, and running through the championship at Phoenix Raceway in November.
Here’s a preview of everything to come for NASCAR on NBC in 2025, including the schedule, watch info, broadcasters and playoff predictions:
What is the NASCAR on NBC schedule for 2025?
NBC Sports will air the final 14 races of the 2025 season. The schedule features three short tracks, two superspeedways, two road courses and seven unique intermediate tracks.
Here’s the full schedule for NASCAR on NBC:
| Race | Track | Title | Track details |
| Regular season | Iowa Speedway | Iowa Corn 350 | 0.875-mile, banked oval |
| Regular season | Watkins Glen International | Go Bowling at The Glen | 2.454-mile, 11-turn road course |
| Regular season | Richmond Raceway | Cook Out 400 | 0.750-mile, D-shaped oval |
| Regular season | Daytona International Speedway | Coke Zero Sugar 400 | 2.5-mile, high-banked tri-oval |
| Round of 16 | Darlington Raceway | Cook Out Southern 500 | 1.366-mile, egg-shaped oval |
| Round of 16 | World Wide Technology Raceway (Gateway) | Enjoy Illinois 300 | 1.250-mile, flat oval |
| Round of 16 | Bristol Motor Speedway | Bass Pro Shops Night Race | 0.533-mile, high-banked oval |
| Round of 12 | New Hampshire Motor Speedway | New Hampshire 301 | 1.058-mile, flat oval |
| Round of 12 | Kansas Speedway | Hollywood Casino 400 | 1.5-mile, tri-oval |
| Round of 12 | Charlote Motor Speedway Roval | Bank of America ROVAL 400 | 2.32-mile, 17-turn road course |
| Round of 8 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | South Point 400 | 1.5-mile, tri-oval |
| Round of 8 | Talladega Superspeedway | YellaWood 500 | 2.66-mile, high-banked tri-oval |
| Round of 8 | Martinsville Speedway | Xfinity 500 | 0.526-mile, paperclip-shaped oval |
| Championship | Phoenix Raceway | NASCAR Championship Race | 1-mile, dogleg oval |
How to watch NASCAR on NBC this season
All NBC Sports races will air on either NBC or USA Network this year. Here’s the weekly breakdown:
- Iowa: USA Network
- Watkins Glen: USA Network
- Richmond: USA Network
- Daytona: NBC
- Darlington: USA Network
- Gateway: USA Network
- Bristol: USA Network
- New Hampshire: USA Network
- Kansas: USA Network
- Charlotte: USA Network
- Las Vegas: USA Network
- Talladega: NBC
- Martinsville: NBC
- Phoenix: NBC
NASCAR streaming on NBC and Peacock
All 14 races will be available to stream online with your TV provider at NBC.com. You can also view them with the NBC Sports app (all races) or USA Network app (races on USA Network).
Select races will also stream live on Peacock: Daytona, Talladega, Martinsville and Phoenix.
NASCAR on NBC announcers and broadcast team 2025
The 2025 NASCAR on NBC broadcast team has the same lead trio as it did at the end of last season.
Leigh Diffey (play-by-play) is the lead announcer, along with analysts Steve Letarte and Jeff Burton in the booth at every track. Pit road reporters will rotate throughout the season, but the group includes Marty Snyder, Parker Kligerman, Kim Coon, Dave Burns and Dillon Welch. Dale Jarrett, Brad Daugherty and Kyle Petty will rotate on the pre- and post-race show crew, with Snyder hosting those shows.
How to watch NASCAR this weekend at Iowa
Here’s the broadcast schedule for Iowa this weekend:
Saturday, Aug. 2
- Practice: 1:30 p.m. ET, truTV and HBO Max
- Qualifying: 2:40 p.m. ET, truTV and HBO Max
Sunday, Aug. 3
NASCAR playoff standings update
Only 16 of the 36 full-time drivers make the playoffs — and 13 spots are already locked up by race winners. That leaves just three spots available for the highest winless drivers in the points standings, as of now.
Any new winners in the next four races would move the cutline down. There’s also still the (low) possibility that there are four new winners, in which case the lowest-ranked winning driver would miss the playoffs. That has never happened in NASCAR history, though, and the odds remain extremely slim at this point.
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Bubba Wallace’s historic win at the Brickyard last weekend put him into the playoffs for the second time in the last three years. Entering Iowa, his 23XI Racing teammate Tyler Reddick is the highest-ranked winless driver.
Here’s the playoff picture with four races left in the regular season:
- Denny Hamlin, 4 wins
- Kyle Larson, 3 wins
- Christopher Bell, 3 wins
- Shane van Gisbergen, 3 wins
- Chase Elliott, 1 win
- William Byron, 1 win
- Ryan Blaney, 1 win
- Chase Briscoe, 1 win
- Bubba Wallace, 1 win
- Joey Logano, 1 win
- Ross Chastain, 1 win
- Austin Cindric, 1 win
- Josh Berry, 1 win
- Tyler Reddick, +138 points above the cutline
- Alex Bowman, +63 points
- Chris Buescher, +42 points
- Ryan Preece, -42 points below the cutline
- Kyle Busch, -81 points
- Ty Gibbs, -95 points
- A.J. Allmendinger, -124 points
NASCAR championship favorites, picks, predictions
At this point in the season, there are four clear championship favorites that have separated themselves in the standings.
Elliott, Byron, Larson and Hamlin are all within 20 points for the regular season title — and they will be the favorites come playoff time. Elliott and Byron have had the consistency, while Larson and Hamlin have higher highs but lower lows.
While those four look unbeatable right now, the last three years have shown the volatility of this playoff format. Logano won titles in 2022 and 2024 despite subpar regular season, while his teammate Blaney did the same in 2023. Much like the MLB postseason, it all comes down to getting hot at the right time. Team Penske has perfected that strategy, and they could very well do so again in 2025.
The pick for the 2025 title is Hamlin, who has the most playoff points right now and is beyond due to finally win a championship. The 44-year-old veteran has the most wins ever by a driver without a title, but this year could be the moment his late-season luck finally turns. Hamlin has previous wins at eight of the 10 playoff tracks, including all tracks in the Round of 8 and two victories at championship-host Phoenix.
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