NASCAR Friday schedule 2025: Here’s what today’s schedule at Richmond Raceway looks like

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series and Truck Series teams are scheduled to be at the 0.75-mile short track, Richmond Raceway, on Friday, August 15, as the action of the season’s 25th weekend kicks off.

NASCAR Truck Series teams will kick off the day with practice and qualifying at 2:05 p.m. ET and 3:10 p.m. ET, before ending the day with the eero 250 main event on Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET.

The Cup Series teams will compete in a practice and qualifying session at 4:30 p.m. ET and 5:40 p.m. ET ahead of the main event.

The weather forecast for Friday in Richmond, Virginia, is predicted to be partly cloudy with a high temperature of 89 degrees and a 16% chance of rain at the start of the Truck Series race.

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Complete NASCAR’s Friday schedule at Richmond Raceway

Here’s the complete schedule for Friday’s on-track action across the NASCAR Cup and Truck Series at Richmond Raceway:

Friday, August 15, 2025

Garage Open

9 am ET – 11:30 pm ET: Truck Series

11 am ET – 6:30 pm ET: Cup Series

Track activity

2:05 pm ET – 3 pm ET: Truck Series practice

3:10 pm ET – 4 pm ET: Truck Series qualifying

4:30 pm ET – 5:30 pm ET: Cup Series practice

5:40 pm ET – 6:30 pm ET: Cup Series qualifying

7:30 pm ET: Truck Series race (250 laps & 187.5 miles)

Friday’s NASCAR Truck action at Richmond Raceway will be streamed on FS1, and Cup action is on truTV.

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Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway: Qualifying order

Below is the qualifying order for the 2025 Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway:

Group A:

1. Corey Heim - 41.900
2. Jesse Love - 40.100
3. Cole Custer - 34.000
4. Josh Berry - 31.700
5. Cody Ware - 31.100
6. Ty Dillon - 30.600
7. John Hunter Nemechek - 29.300
8. Todd Gilliland - 28.900
9. Kyle Larson - 28.800
10. Ty Gibbs - 28.200
11. Justin Haley - 27.900
12. Brad Keselowski - 27.400
13. Riley Herbst - 27.300
14. Noah Gragson -24.600
15. Ricky Stenhouse Jr -23.900
16. Kyle Busch - 20.200
17. Zane Smith - 20.000
18. Michael McDowell - 19.900
19. Austin Dillon - 18.900

Group B:

1. Chase Elliott - 18.800
2. Carson Hocevar - 18.600
3. Denny Hamlin - 18.400
4. Alex Bowman - 16.700
5. Austin Cindric - 15.700
6. Erik Jones - 14.700
7. Joey Logano - 13.700
8. Daniel Suarez - 13.600
9. AJ Allmendinger - 13.100
10. Ryan Preece - 12.700
11. Ross Chastain - 11.200
12. Bubba Wallace - 8.900
13. Tyler Reddick - 8.400
14. Shane van Gisbergen - 8.200
15. Ryan Blaney - 6.000
16. Chase Briscoe - 5.900
17. Chris Buescher - 5.100
18. William Byron - 3.100
19. Christopher Bell - 2.600