Xfinity Series, Craftsman Truck Series to return to Rockingham in 2025
The 2025 schedules for the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series were announced on Thursday, featuring a return to the historic Rockingham Speedway in April and a first-ever race for the Truck Series at road course Lime Rock Park.
Additionally, for the first time since 2011, the Craftsman Truck Series schedule will expand from 23 to 25 races, a testament to the demand for its unique style of racing and intense competition.
Both series will kick off their respective seasons at Daytona International Speedway, with the Truck Series set for a Feb. 14 green flag and the Xfinity Series on Feb. 15.
Like 2024, both series will turn to Atlanta Motor Speedway the following week. The Xfinity Series then heads to Circuit of The Americas for a March 1 visit, while the Truck Series breaks for two weeks.
While the Cup Series rests on Easter weekend, the Xfinity and Truck Series will return to Rockingham Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina. The Truck Series remains NASCAR’s most recent visitor to “The Rock,” with races in both 2012 and 2013 — won by Kasey Kahne and Kyle Larson, respectively. Trucks will hit the track for a race on Friday, April 18, for its first event at the 1-mile oval since April 2013.
The Xfinity Series has competed at “The Rock” 42 times since 1982, but its last appearance came in February 2004, when Jamie McMurray won his fourth consecutive Rockingham Xfinity start. The series is set to return on April 19.
“We are really making sure that we’re doing our part to develop our drivers for the Xfinity Series and eventually the Cup Series that are coming through the Craftsman Truck Series as well,” said Jusan Hamilton, NASCAR managing director of competition operations. “So all those different elements are factoring into some of those divisions and also just making sure that each of the venues has a good balance of being able to see the Truck Series in the spring, for example, and see the Xfinity Series later in the year, especially for those venues that we go to multiple times in the season. So we’re factoring each of those elements and that’ll continue to build. I wouldn’t say the goal was to completely revamp the schedule, but the goal was to continue that growth pattern and also make sure we’re doing a service to the fans and industry.”
On June 14, the Xfinity Series will make its international return to Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, the road course in Mexico City, where the series first raced in 2005. The series will be joined in Mexico City by the NASCAR Cup Series, which makes its first point-paying appearance outside the United States since 1958 on June 15. There have been four Xfinity Series races at the facility, with Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, Juan Pablo Montoya and Kyle Busch each scoring wins from 2005-08.
The Truck Series will visit two new road courses in 2025. Lime Rock Park makes its inaugural appearance on the NASCAR calendar with a stand-alone Truck Series race scheduled for June 28. The second additional road course comes as part of a new-look postseason for the Truck Series.
The opening Round of 10 for the Truck Series Playoffs kicks off at Darlington Raceway before races at Bristol Motor Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which will serve as the first elimination race for the series. The Round of 8 will then kick off Oct. 3 with the Truck Series’ debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, with Talladega Superspeedway and Martinsville Speedway left to help decide the Championship 4 ahead of the finale at Phoenix Raceway.
The Xfinity Series’ postseason remains largely unchanged. World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway will host the division’s regular-season finale on Sept. 6 before the playoffs begin at Bristol. Kansas Speedway and the Charlotte road course will conclude the opening Round of 12 before Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Talladega and Martinsville host Round of 8 races to determine the Championship 4 field.
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