This Sunday afternoon’s Goodyear 400, the eighth race on the 2025 season, will mark the first of the NASCAR Cup Series’ two visits to Darlington Raceway. A 293-lap race around the four-turn, 1.366-mile (2.198-kilometer) egg-shaped oval at Darlington, South Carolina—also referred to as the “Lady in Black”—is planned for Sunday. Drivers and teams will be especially motivated to finish strong this weekend because the Cook Out Southern 500, which opens the playoffs, is also scheduled to be held at the “Too Tough To Tame” track in late August. Fox Sports 1 will broadcast the Cup Series instead of Fox for the fifth consecutive weekend.
Fox is not showing the Goodyear 400. The Goodyear 400 is officially the ninth race during Fox’s season-opening portion of the broadcast schedule, even though it is only the eighth event of the 2025 season. This is because Bowman Gray Stadium hosted the preseason Cook Out Clash exhibition race at this time. Fox broadcast live coverage of the season’s first three points races after the first four races, which included the Clash. The Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday won’t be shown on Fox Sports 1, making the Goodyear 400 the sixth race in a row to be broadcast on Fox Sports 1. After that, the show takes a break for Easter weekend. A week later, Fox will air its sixth and final race of the year from Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, April 27.
All three of the remaining races in Fox’s half of the calendar will be televised on Fox Sports 1 after the Jack Link’s 500. Before this year, Fox’s share of the calendar consisted of 18 races, including the two exhibition races. However, as part of a new seven-year, $7.7 billion media rights agreement, two new broadcast partners, Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports, were added, bringing the total to 14. Similarly, Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports will each be in charge of five races in between, meaning NBC’s season-ending portion of the calendar was reduced from 20 races to 14. Additionally, most of the races during NBC’s half of the schedule are on USA Network rather than NBC, just as most of the races during Fox’s half are on Fox Sports 1 instead of Fox. Ten races each were broadcast by USA Network and NBC last year. However, only four of the fourteen will be shown by NBC this year.
