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Aug. 29—The area’s NASCAR weekend will be moving from summer to fall for the 2025 season.
New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Thursday announced the Cup Series race next year will be held Sunday, Sept. 21, and will be part of the series’ playoffs. The playoff race will be the first at the speedway since 2017.
Additionally, NHMS will host the NASCAR truck series for a playoff race the day before.
The Cup Series race will be a Round of 12 playoff encounter — the first of Round 2 — and the trucks race will be Round of 8 battle.
The trucks race that Saturday will be part of a card that will include a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour race.
“The two questions fans ask me the most are, ‘When are we getting a September race back?’ and, ‘When are we getting the trucks back?’, and now we have both,” said New Hampshire Motor Speedway Executive Vice President and General Manager David McGrath in a release. “We are so thankful to our loyal fans who have supported us during NASCAR’s annual summer stop in New Hampshire, but they wanted this, they deserve this, and we are ecstatic to not only be returning to the NASCAR Playoffs, but we are thrilled to host the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series as well.
“We’re excited to bring our race fans a high-energy weekend with intense action from the sport’s top names who will all be fighting to secure their spot in the next round of the Playoffs during arguably the most beautiful time of year in New England.”
The trucks most recently lined up at NHMS in September 2017. In recent years, the track has host NASCAR Xfinity Series events as a supplemental part of race weekend.
The speedway for years hosted two race weekends — one in the summer and one in the fall — but lost its fall weekend in 2018 to Las Vegas.
Cup Series regular Christopher Bell marked his first trip to victory lane at NHMS during that last trucks race, and he has since earned seven wins at NHMS after 11 starts across all three series that includes one trucks win (2017), four Xfinity wins (2018, 2019, 2021, 2024) and two Cup Series wins (2022, 2024).
Bell’s most recent New Hampshire win, in the Cup Series, came in June.
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