NASCAR Saturday schedule 2025: Here’s what today’s schedule at Watkins Glen International looks like

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series teams are scheduled to be at the 2.45-mile-long road course, Watkins Glen International, on Saturday, August 9, as the action of the season’s 24th weekend kicks off at the track.

NASCAR Xfinity Series teams will kick off the day with practice and qualifying at 9:30 am ET and 10:35 am ET, before ending the day with the Mission 200 at The Glen main event on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET.

The Cup Series teams will compete in a practice and qualifying session at 12:05 pm ET and 1:10 pm ET ahead of Sunday’s (August 9) main event.

The weather forecast for Saturday in Watkins Glen, New York, is predicted to be sunny with a high temperature of 88 degrees and a 3% chance for rain at the start of the Xfinity Series race.

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Complete NASCAR’s Saturday schedule at Watkins Glen International

Here’s the complete schedule for Saturday’s on-track action across the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series at Watkins Glen International:

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Garage Open

8 am ET – 8:30 pm ET: Xfinity Series

7 am ET – 2:30 pm ET: Cup Series

Track activity

9:30 am ET – 10:20 am ET: Xfinity Series practice

10:35 pm ET – 11:30 pm ET: Xfinity Series qualifying

12:05 pm ET – 12:55 pm ET: Cup Series practice

1:10 pm ET – 2 pm ET: Cup Series qualifying

3 pm ET: Xfinity Series race (82 laps & 200.9 miles)

Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity action at Watkins Glen International will be streamed on CW, and Cup action is on truTV.

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Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International: Qualifying order

Below is the qualifying order for the 2025 Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International:

Group A:

1. No. 44 J.J. Yeley
2. No. 87 Connor Zilisch
3. No. 78 Katherine Legge
4. No. 66 Josh Bilicki
5. No. 10 Ty Dillon
6. No. 38 Zane Smith
7. No. 51 Cody Ware
8. No. 34 Todd Gilliland
9. No. 35 Riley Herbst
10. No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
11. No. 4 Noah Gragson
12. No. 88 Shane van Gisbergen
13. No. 41 Cole Custer
14. No. 99 Daniel Suarez
15. No. 71 Michael McDowell
16. No. 7 Justin Haley
17. No. 5 Kyle Larson
18. No. 54 Ty Gibbs
19. No. 8 Kyle Busch
20. No. 17 Chris Buescher

Group B:

1. No. 43 Erik Jones
2. No. 16 A.J. Allmendinger
3. No. 11 Denny Hamlin
4. No. 42 John Hunter Nemechek
5. No. 3 Austin Dillon
6. No. 21 Josh Berry
7. No. 45 Tyler Reddick
8. No. 20 Christopher Bell
9. No. 2 Austin Cindric
10. No. 77 Carson Hocevar
11. No. 1 Ross Chastain
12. No. 9 Chase Elliott
13. No. 22 Joey Logano
14. No. 6 Brad Keselowski
15. No. 48 Alex Bowman
16. No. 60 Ryan Preece
17. No. 23 Bubba Wallace
18. No. 12 Ryan Blaney
19. No. 19 Chase Briscoe
20. No. 24 William Byron