LEBANON, Tenn. — Nashville is a metropolis famend worldwide as the house of the nation music. To stroll down the streets of Decrease Broadway, and to soak up all of the sounds and sights of the town nightlife, is to be immersed absolutely within the tradition of nation music, the artists who’ve made the style well-known, and its impression on American tradition past the banks of the Cumberland River.
However simply as many musicians have made it large out of Nashville, so too have many racers. A little bit methods away from the Carolinas, racers like Darrell Waltrip, Sterling Marlin, Bobby Hamilton and extra went from racing and successful on the Nashville Fairgrounds to NASCAR stardom, affirming Nashville’s place as considered one of racing’s nice outposts and hotbeds within the southeast. And from the 5/8 mile Fairgrounds to simply off of downtown in Lebanon, the custom of racing in Nashville continues with this weekend’s Cracker Barrel 400 for the NASCAR Cup Sequence at Nashville Superspeedway.
As they’ve since NASCAR’s return to Nashville in 2021, everybody can be vying for the suitable to strum the Gibson Guitar that goes to the race winner — one which Joey Logano earned after this race resulted in a NASCAR report quintuple time beyond regulation one yr in the past that ended up having huge penalties for the season as an entire. Logano’s Nashville win and the extraordinary circumstances that led to it allowed him to make the playoffs, single-handedly sparking his inconceivable championship run.
NASCAR 2025 race schedule, outcomes: Full checklist of Cup Sequence race dates, winners, tracks, places
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The place to look at the NASCAR Cup Sequence at Nashville
When: Sunday, June 1 at 7 p.m. ETWhere: Nashville Superspeedway – Lebanon, TennesseeStream: Amazon Prime
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With the calendar now turning from Might to June and Race No. 14 of the season at hand, Nashville marks the beginning of the second half of the common season and an necessary benchmark within the race to qualify for the NASCAR playoffs this fall.
With Ross Chastain’s win within the Coca-Cola 600 every week in the past, eight drivers — Chastain, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Denny Hamlin, William Byron, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric and Josh Berry — have earned a playoff spot by advantage of successful a race. That leaves eight spots at present accessible for drivers to make the playoffs on factors, that are at present held by Chase Elliott, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, Chase Briscoe, Bubba Wallace, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Ryan Preece.
For the drivers at present in on factors, nevertheless, their maintain on a playoff spot stays extraordinarily tenuous — notably with loads of frontrunners nonetheless resulting from win, together with these at present on the other facet of the reduce line. Because it stands, the closest drivers to the playoff reduce line are at present Chris Buescher (-6), A.J. Allmendinger (-13), Kyle Busch (-14) and Michael McDowell (-21), all of whom have loads of time to place themselves in then image earlier than the summer time months finish.
NASCAR information of the week
The Nationwide Motorsports Appeals Panel has lowered a penalty given to Chris Buescher’s workforce after Kansas Speedway, ruling that whereas Buescher’s No. 17 automotive had an unlawful entrance bumper cowl, they didn’t violate the part of the NASCAR rulebook pertaining to the exhaust cowl panel. In consequence, Buescher has had his factors penalty lowered from 60 to 30 factors, whereas the remainder of his penalty (5 playoff factors, a two-race suspension for crew chief Scott Graves and a $75,000 superb) stays in place.
The penalty is an enormous assist to Buescher’s playoff probabilities as they stand, because the 30-point swing now places him simply six factors behind Ryan Preece for the final spot at present accessible on the playoff grid.
NASCAR is contemplating a rise in horsepower for brief tracks, with the sanctioning physique concentrating on a rise to 750 horsepower as early as this season with the aim of additional enhancing the racing product on these racetracks. NASCAR managing director of communications Mike Forde confirmed on an episode of Hauler Speak that the subject was introduced up throughout separate conferences with drivers and workforce house owners, and the matter is now being mentioned with the game’s engine builders.
After renovating the racetrack to the purpose that it efficiently returned to the NASCAR Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Sequence schedules, Dan Lovenheim is promoting Rockingham Speedway. Chatting with the Charlotte Observer, Lovenheim said that after efficiently constructing the historic observe again up and bringing NASCAR again to the ability, “the time is right to pass the baton to someone who can take it further than we can.”
Kaulig Racing has introduced that reigning V8 Supercars champion Will Brown will race for them on the Chicago Avenue Course in July, driving a 3rd automotive as a teammate to A.J. Allmendinger and Ty DIllon. It should mark Brown’s second profession Cup begin, because the Toowoomba, Queensland native made his Cup debut final yr driving for Richard Childress Racing at Sonoma the place he completed thirty first.
The Athletic has reported that Jim France, co-owner and CEO of NASCAR, was near a deal to financially assist an entry within the upcoming Cup Sequence race at Sonoma fielded by Spire Motorsports, with Jack Aitken — who drives for the France-owned Motion Categorical Racing in IMSA — set to make his Cup debut. Nonetheless, the plan was reportedly scrapped following backlash within the storage space over a perceived battle of curiosity.
Decide to Win
Denny Hamlin (+600) — Every little thing that unfolded within the chaotic end to final yr’s Nashville race invalidated the drive in regulation by Hamlin, who had taken the lead from Ross Chastain within the closing laps and was set to cruise to victory. Hamlin has been due for a Gibson Guitar, as he’s led at the least 70 laps (265 complete) within the final three Cup races at Nashville and likewise has two poles to go along with high 10 finishes of sixth (2022) and third (2023).
So who wins the NASCAR Cracker Barrel 400 2025, and which longshots are must-backs? Take a look at the most recent 2025 NASCAR at Nashville odds beneath, then go to SportsLine now to see the total NASCAR Nashville projected leaderboard, all from the mannequin that has nailed 21 winners, and discover out.
