Start your engines, NASCAR fans—the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series officially gets underway this Sunday with the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium. While this exhibition race doesn't count toward the season standings,

This weekend in Winston-Salem -- a little ways off from the tobacco farms and not far from the greater Charlotte area -- the Carolina winter will heat up and the earth will roar back to life with the beginning of a new year for NASCAR with its annual preseason exhibition race,