NASCAR Saturday schedule 2025: Here’s what today’s schedule at Darlington Raceway looks like

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series teams are scheduled to be on the 1.366-mile egg-shaped oval track on Saturday (April 5) as the action of the season’s eighth weekend kicks off at Darlington Raceway. It’s a Throwback Weekend.

The NASCAR Cup Series drivers will participate in practice and qualifying sessions at 12:35 pm ET and 1:40 pm ET, respectively, ahead of the Goodyear 400 main event on Sunday, April 6.

Meanwhile, Xfinity Series teams will also compete in practice and qualifying before concluding the day with the Xfinity Series Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 at 3:30 pm ET.

The weather forecast on Saturday in Darlington expected partly cloudy skies with a near-record high temperature of 88 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity Series race.

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Complete NASCAR’s Saturday schedule at Darlington Raceway

Here’s the complete schedule for Saturday’s on-track action across NASCAR’s top two-tier series at Darlington Raceway:

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Garage Open

7 am ET – 3 pm ET: Cup Series

8:30 am ET – 9 pm ET: Xfinity Series

Track activity

10:05 am ET – 11 am ET: Xfinity Series practice

11:10 am ET – 12 pm ET: Xfinity Series qualifying

12:35 pm ET – 1:30 pm ET: Cup Series practice

1:40 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET: Cup Series qualifying

3:30 pm ET: Xfinity Series race (147 laps & 200.8 miles)

All Saturday’s NASCAR Cup action at Darlington will be streamed on Prime, while the Xfinity race can be watched on CW.

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Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway: Qualifying order

Here’s the qualifying order for the 2025 Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway:

Group A:

1. Austin Hill - 58.700
2. JJ Yeley - 41.000
3. Erik Jones - 35.300
4. Shane van Gisbergen - 34.000
5. Cole Custer - 33.600
6. Cody Ware - 32.100
7. Riley Herbst - 31.600
8. Noah Gragson - 29.900
9. Austin Cindric - 29.500
10. Josh Berry - 28.400
11. Justin Haley - 27.400
12. Brad Keselowski - 27.200
13. John Hunter Nemechek - 22.900
14. AJ Allmendinger - 21.800
15. Carson Hocevar - 21.700
16. Daniel Suarez - 21.300
17. Austin Dillon - 20.700
18. Alex Bowman - 20.400
19. Ricky Stenhouse Jr - 20.300

Group B:

1. Chris Buescher - 20.100
2. Ty Gibbs - 18.400
3. Zane Smith - 18.400
4. Ty Dillon - 18.000
5. Kyle Busch - 17.000
6. William Byron - 15.700
7. Todd Gilliland - 13.900
8. Michael McDowell - 13.200
9. Tyler Reddick - 11.900
10. Ryan Blaney - 10.700
11. Chase Briscoe - 10.200
12. Ryan Preece - 9.400
13. Ross Chastain - 8.400
14. Joey Logano - 8.300
15. Bubba Wallace - 4.500
16. Kyle Larson - 4.100
17. Chase Elliott - 3.700
18. Christopher Bell - 2.600
19. Denny Hamlin - 2.500

Fans can watch all NASCAR Cup Series teams and drivers at Darlington Raceway on Saturday and Sunday on FS1.