2024 Cup Slate Features The Glen In Playoffs, Iowa Trip

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule has been released by NASCAR on Wednesday afternoon. 

NASCAR will etch another first into the record books when the Cup Series visits Iowa Speedway in the nation’s Heartland, the latest installment in a trend that has seen Cup Series debuts at the Chicago Street Race, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and World Wide Technology Raceway — among other venues — in recent years.

The seven-eighths-mile short track in Newton, Iowa, hosted the Xfinity Series and Craftsman Truck Series from 2009 to 2019, but this time the Cup Series will head to Iowa on Sunday, June 16.

“NASCAR is committed to delivering an annual schedule that continues to be bold and dynamic across all three national series while maintaining the famed destinations that our fans love,” said Ben Kennedy, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Racing Development and Strategy. “The 2024 NASCAR National Series schedules strike a great balance between visiting many of our traditional tracks that continue to put on a great show, and newer locations like our first Cup race in Iowa and our highly anticipated return to the streets of Chicago that create ‘bucket list’ moments and attract new fans to America’s leading motorsport.”

The 2024 Cup Series season will commence with the already announced third installment of the Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 4. For the first time in Cup Series history, a NASCAR Mexico Series race will precede the main event on Sunday afternoon featuring the most talented drivers from Mexico’s premier motorsports series.

The running of the 66th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona Int’l Speedway again marks the start of the Cup Series regular season on Sunday, Feb. 18.

Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., a standard on the schedule since 1997, does not appear on this year’s schedule.

Additional Highlights

• Both 2024 races at Richmond (Va.) Raceway will now take place in prime time – the first on Easter Sunday, March 31 and also on Sunday, August 11.

• A return to the concrete high-banks at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway for the spring race (Sunday, March 17).

• NASCAR’s annual All-Star Race (Sunday, May 19) will return to historic North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway. Kyle Larson took home the $1 million prize this season in NASCAR’s return to the venue for the first time since 1996.

• Round two in the streets of Chicago on Sunday, July 7, which saw Shane van Gisbergen take the checkered flag in an action-packed 2023 event.

• NASCAR will return to the traditional oval at The Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Brickyard 400 on Sunday, July 21 after a three-year stint running the road course.

• The NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs will begin one week later , with the regular season finale taking place at Darlington Raceway (Sunday, Sept. 1) and Daytona Int’l Speedway hosting the penultimate race of the regular season (Saturday, Aug. 24)

• The opening race of the NASCAR Playoffs will be at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday, Sept. 8 with the crowning of a champion in the desert at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday, Nov. 10.

• Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Int’l (Sunday, Sept. 15) will also join the NASCAR Playoffs mix and help set the tone in a new-look Round of 16.

NASCAR also unveiled schedules for the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series on Wednesday.

2024 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule