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NASCAR’s three national series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, this weekend, with the Truck Series on Friday, the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series on Saturday and the Cup Series’ YellaWood 500 on Sunday, October 25, at 2 p.m. ET on NBC.
There is no practice for any series this weekend. Each series goes straight to qualifying, then races the same day or the next, according to the weekend TV schedule posted by Hendrick Motorsports. All times below are Eastern.
Friday, October 23: Truck Series
- Qualifying: 12:30 p.m., FS1 and FOX One
- Love’s RV Stop 225: 4 p.m., FS1 and FOX One. Radio: MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
The Truck race is 85 laps (226.1 miles), with stages ending on laps 20 and 40.
Saturday, October 24: O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and Cup qualifying
- O’Reilly Auto Parts Series qualifying: 11 a.m., ESPN app
- Cup Series qualifying: 1 p.m., truTV. Radio: MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
- The Progress Group 250 (O’Reilly Auto Parts Series): 3:30 p.m., The CW and the ESPN app. Radio: MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
The O’Reilly race is 94 laps (250.04 miles), with stages ending on laps 25 and 50. Cup qualifying is single-car runs and sets Sunday’s starting lineup.
Sunday, October 25: YellaWood 500
- Pre-race: 1:30 p.m., NBC
- YellaWood 500: 2 p.m., NBC, with HBO Max streaming. Radio: MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
- Post-race: USA Sports YouTube channel, the USA app and USANetwork.com
The race is 188 laps (500.08 miles). Stage 1 ends on Lap 98, Stage 2 on Lap 143, and the final stage runs to Lap 188. That puts a long 98-lap first stage ahead of two 45-lap stages, the same breakdown used in the spring race, according to NASCAR.com.
What’s at stake in the Chase
Talladega is the eighth race of the 10-race Chase. Kyle Larson leads Christopher Bell by five points after Phoenix, with Chase Briscoe 24 points back and Denny Hamlin 31 back, according to the standings after Phoenix. Forty cars are entered for the 40 starting spots.
Carson Hocevar won the spring race at Talladega in April, his first career Cup win. Chase Briscoe won the YellaWood 500 last October.
How to stream the weekend
Friday’s Truck sessions stream on FOX One. Saturday’s O’Reilly sessions stream on the ESPN app, and Cup qualifying airs on truTV. Sunday’s race streams on HBO Max, which also carries a driver-cam feed. Live-TV streaming services that carry NBC, FS1, truTV and The CW, such as YouTube TV, DirecTV and Hulu + Live TV, also cover the full weekend.
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