NASCAR Saturday Schedule 2025: Here’s what today’s schedule at Talladega Superspeedway looks like

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series teams are scheduled to be at the 2.66-mile-long track, the Talladega Superspeedway, on Saturday, October 18, as the action of the season’s eighth playoff race continues.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series teams will kick off the day with qualifying, followed by the United Rentals 250 main event at 4 pm ET.

The NASCAR Cup Series teams will also compete in the qualifying at 1:30 pm ET ahead of the main event on Sunday evening.

The weather forecast for Saturday in Talladega predicts mostly sunny with a high temperature of 86 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity Series race.

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Complete NASCAR Saturday schedule at Talladega Superspeedway

Here’s the complete schedule for Saturday’s on-track action across the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series playoff races at Talladega Superspeedway:

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Garage Open

1 pm ET – 7 pm ET: Cup Series

9:30 am ET – 4:30 pm ET: Xfinity Series

Track activity

11:30 am ET – 1 pm ET: Xfinity Series qualifying

1:30 pm ET – 3 pm ET: Cup Series qualifying

4 pm ET: Xfinity Series race (94 laps & 250.04 miles)

Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity action at Talladega Superspeedway will be broadcast on CW, and Cup action will air live on truTV.

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YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway: Qualifying order

Below is the qualifying order for the 2025 YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway:

1. Anthony Alfredo - 42.200
2. Casey Mears - 40.700
3. Austin Hill - 40.100
4. Ty Dillon - 35.500
5. Cody Ware - 35.300
6. BJ McLeod - 32.800
7. Cole Custer - 29.800
8. Ty Gibbs - 29.500
9. Carson Hocevar - 29.300
10. Justin Haley - 28.200
11. John Hunter Nemechek - 28.100
12. Shane van Gisbergen - 26.700
13. Zane Smith - 24.900
14. Todd Gilliland - 23.700
15. Josh Berry - 23.000
16. Riley Herbst - 22.400
17. Daniel Suarez - 22.400
18. Austin Dillon - 22.000
19. AJ Allmendinger - 20.800
20. Ross Chastain - 19.400
21. Noah Gragson - 19.000
22. Ricky Stenhouse Jr - 18.500
23. Bubba Wallace - 18.400
24. Erik Jones - 17.700
25. Michael McDowell - 17.500
26. Chris Buescher - 13.500
27. Brad Keselowski - 13.000
28. Kyle Busch - 12.200
29. Austin Cindric - 11.900
30. Ryan Preece - 11.700
31. Alex Bowman - 8.800
32. Tyler Reddick - 6.200
33. Ryan Blaney - 29.000
34. William Byron - 26.700
35. Chase Elliott - 14.400
36. Joey Logano - 6.300
37. Chase Briscoe - 4.000
38. Christopher Bell - 3.000
39. Kyle Larson - 2.000
40. Denny Hamlin - 1.000