DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR, in collaboration with FOX Sports and NBC Sports, announced the 2020 race start times and network coverage for its three national series on Tuesday.
Twenty-one national series events will air on broadcast television in 2020, including the season-opening Daytona 500, set for Feb. 16 on FOX; the Coca-Cola 600, set for May 24 on FOX; the Brickyard 400, set for July 5 on NBC; and the NASCAR Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona Int’l Speedway, which will be held Aug. 29 and broadcast on NBC.
The Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona kicks off five consecutive weeks of primetime racing, as the NASCAR Playoffs commence the following week at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway before continuing to Richmond (Va.) Raceway, Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway and Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway.
All five of those events take place under the lights.
Five of the final six NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs races will air on NBC, including the Cup Series championship race from Arizona’s ISM Raceway on Sunday, Nov. 8.
The penultimate events on the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series schedule will also take place in primetime at Martinsville Speedway.
The 2020 season will mark the first time the NASCAR Xfinity Series has raced at Martinsville Speedway since 2006. Cup Series cars will get the first crack at night racing at the southwest Virginia half-mile, doing so over Mother’s Day weekend.
“With the groundswell of positive sentiment from fans over changes to the 2020 schedule, we were eager to finalize start times for all three national series as soon as possible,” said Brian Herbst, NASCAR senior vice president, broadcast and innovation. “Pulling these together so quickly is testament to the collaboration between NASCAR, its broadcast partners, and the industry, which allows fans a longer runway to plan travel and purchase tickets for races next year.”
Complete times and network schedules for all three national series can be found on the next page.