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SPEEDWAY – Purdue University and Dallara came together to celebrate the start of a partnership that will connect Purdue motorsports engineering students to the prominent industry leader in the heart of the world’s racing capital. Dallara and Purdue leaders, including Dallara President Giampaolo Dallara, who founded the company in 1972, praised the collaboration during a […]

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SPEEDWAY – Purdue University and Dallara came together to celebrate the start of a partnership that will connect Purdue motorsports engineering students to the prominent industry leader in the heart of the world’s racing capital.

Dallara and Purdue leaders, including Dallara President Giampaolo Dallara, who founded the company in 1972, praised the collaboration during a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 24 at the Dallara Experience Hub on Main Street in Speedway. The partnership pairs Purdue’s unique motorsports engineering program — the only undergraduate, ABET-accredited such program in the country — and Dallara, the largest multinational Italian race car manufacturer, inside Dallara’s U.S. headquarters, just one mile from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Time, TV schedule for Cup Series

The NASCAR Cup Series race weekend at Nashville Superspeedway begins with practice and qualifying on May 31 for the Cracker Barrel 400. The concrete surface and unique corners provide a challenge for the Cup Series field in what will be the fifth annual race at the track. Keep an eye on Coca-Cola 600 winner and […]

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The NASCAR Cup Series race weekend at Nashville Superspeedway begins with practice and qualifying on May 31 for the Cracker Barrel 400.

The concrete surface and unique corners provide a challenge for the Cup Series field in what will be the fifth annual race at the track.

Keep an eye on Coca-Cola 600 winner and former Nashville race winner Ross Chastain, who has five top-10 finishes in his last seven Cup points races including last week’s victory.

Here is what you need to know about NASCAR Cup qualifying at Nashville.

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Qualifying time: 4:40 p.m. CT Saturday (Practice begins at 3:30 p.m. CT)
TV: Amazon Prime Video (streaming) (Watch Amazon Prime with a free trial) | Radio: SiriusXM and MRN
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video; NASCAR.com and SiriusXM for audio (subscription required)
Track: Nashville Superspeedway (1.33-mile oval) in Lebanon, Tennessee

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Cracker Barrel 400 showcases roots, history

Cracker Barrel has roots in Middle Tennessee that will be showcased with the NASCAR Nashville race. Cracker Barrel has roots in Middle Tennessee, and it will be on full display during the NASCAR race weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. NASCAR’s best drivers from all three national series will be running races at the 1.33-mile oval, highlighted […]

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Cracker Barrel has roots in Middle Tennessee that will be showcased with the NASCAR Nashville race.

Cracker Barrel has roots in Middle Tennessee, and it will be on full display during the NASCAR race weekend at Nashville Superspeedway.

NASCAR’s best drivers from all three national series will be running races at the 1.33-mile oval, highlighted by the Cracker Barrel 400 at 6 p.m. CT on June 1.

Cracker Barrel got its start in Middle Tennessee, actually in the same town that will be hosting NASCAR racing.

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Cracker Barrel first opened on Sept. 19, 1969 in Lebanon, Tennessee, as found on the store’s history page.

Dan W. Evins opened the first “Old Country Store” and made everything from scratch, including the famous corn bread.

In just eight years, Evins saw the success of Cracker Barrel and worked with investors, mostly local friends and other associates, and expanded with 13 stores from Kentucky to Georgia in 1977.

A big step in the company’s growth was becoming publicly traded, which helped the company blossom through the 1980s and 1990s, finally reaching a $1 billion in market value in 1992.

According to the store’s website, there are nearly 660 locations in 44 states across the country.

Now, Cracker Barrel’s location in Lebanon, the original store from 1969, is just 17 miles from Nashville Superspeedway, approximately a 20-minute drive, and has signed a multi-year deal to be the race’s title sponsor.

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Fifty-one Cracker Barrel stores are located in Tennessee. Cracker Barrel is headquartered on a 98-acre campus in Lebanon.

“Over 55 years ago, we opened our doors in Lebanon, and this partnership with Nashville Superspeedway feels like a homecoming,” Cracker Barrel chief marketing officer Sarah Moore said in a release. “Middle Tennessee is foundational to our beginnings — country hospitality, hard work and a commitment to putting people at the heart of everything we do. The Cracker Barrel 400 lets us share that with NASCAR’s global audience while honoring the community where it all began.”

This is not Cracker Barrel’s first time to sponsor a NASCAR Cup Race. The Cracker Barrel 500 was run as the fourth Cup Series race of the season at Atlanta Motor Speedway from 1999-2001.

Joey Logano won last year’s race at Nashville Superspeedway.

When is 2025 NASCAR Nashville race?

The 2025 Cracker Barrel 400 is set for 6 p.m. CT on June 1 at Nashville Superspeedway.

NASCAR Nashville race streaming, Amazon Prime

The NASCAR Nashville race is streaming on Amazon Prime with Adam Alexander, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte in the broadcast booth.

If you are subscribed to Amazon Prime, you have access to Prime Video’s NASCAR broadcasts. If you are not yet subscribed to Amazon Prime Video, you can do so here with a 30-day free trial that will cover the remainder of the broadcast partner’s schedule.

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NASCAR Saturday schedule at Nashville Superspeedway

The Xfinity and Cup series will be on the concrete of Nashville Superspeedway for nearly eight hours of nonstop practice, qualifying and racing Saturday. The action on the 1.333-mile oval will begin at 2 p.m. with Xfinity practice leading into qualifying. The Cup cars will be on track from 4:35-6:30 p.m. for practice and qualifying […]

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The Xfinity and Cup series will be on the concrete of Nashville Superspeedway for nearly eight hours of nonstop practice, qualifying and racing Saturday.

The action on the 1.333-mile oval will begin at 2 p.m. with Xfinity practice leading into qualifying. The Cup cars will be on track from 4:35-6:30 p.m. for practice and qualifying for Sunday’s race.

The Xfinity race will begin at 7:30 p.m. Defending winner John Hunter Nemechek is absent from the entry list, but 2022 winner Justin Allgaier is in the field along with Cup veteran Ross Chastain, who won the Coca-Cola 600 this past Sunday.

Nashville Superspeedway schedule

(All Times Eastern)

Saturday, May 31

Garage open

11 a.m. – 7 p.m. — Cup
12:30 p.m. – 12:45 a.m. — Xfinity

Track activity

2 – 2:55 p.m. — Xfinity practice (CW App)
3:05 – 4 p.m. — Xfinity qualifying (CW App)
4:35 – 5:35 p.m. — Cup practice (Prime, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
5:45 – 6:30 p.m. — Cup qualifying (Prime, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
7:30 p.m. — Xfinity race (188 laps, 250.04 miles, Stage 1 at Lap 45, Stage 2 at Lap 90; CW, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

Weather

Saturday: Mainly sunny with a high of 83 degrees and winds from the north-northwest at 10 to 15 mph. It’s expected to be 79 degrees with a 7 percent chance of rain at the start of the Xfinity race.

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Kyle Larson or Denny Hamlin?

College World Series; Women’s College World Series; NFL OTAs | 2MD College baseball’s 64-team tournament is set to begin; the Women’s College World Series is down to 8 teams; Dolphins, Jaguars, Bucs OTAs. The wagering public is betting that Kyle Larson has turned the page. Not just literally, flipping that calendar from May to June, […]

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The wagering public is betting that Kyle Larson has turned the page.

Not just literally, flipping that calendar from May to June, but figuratively — putting the Indy-Charlotte double (rhymes with trouble) in his mirror, perhaps never to be visited again.

Most weeks, it seems folks bet on Kyle Larson just because he’s Kyle Larson and has this great reputation along with NASCAR’s gold-standard equipment.

“I don’t know, I guess just because it’s Kyle Larson in the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports car.”

Just about every week, with very few exceptions, Kyle is either the odds-on favorite or co-favorite. And just about every week, he fails to win. No knock there, because guess what, even Richard Petty lost more than he won.

(Well, except for that one year, 1967, when he won 27 times and failed to win 21 times.)

But in this particular instance, I’m here to tell you there’s solid reasoning for putting your money on Kyle Larson. Very solid.

Concrete, in fact.

Several weeks back, Kyle won at Bristol, one of two fully concrete tracks on the Cup Series schedule (Martinsville has some concrete in the turns). The previous week, he finished 37th.

Guess where Kyle finished last week? That’s right, 37th.

And this week he’s racing on NASCAR’s other fully concrete track: Nashville Superspeedway. Is victory set in stone? No. Nor concrete. But as always, Kyle isn’t a bad bet. Just don’t expect a big return.

NASCAR favorites: Ross Chastain joins the ‘cool kids’ club

+450: Kyle Larson

+550: Denny Hamlin

+650: Christopher Bell

+700: William Byron

+850: Ryan Blaney

+900: Ross Chastain, Tyler Reddick

Ross the Boss has been hanging near the lead pack much of the season, and has sometimes entrenched himself among the big-shots. Then last week in Charlotte, he picked up his first win of 2024. And this week, he’s jumped a few spots on the odds pylon and finds himself among the faves.

NASCAR’s next favorites: Chase Elliott still gets (some) support

+1400: Chase Elliott

+1750: Joey Logano

+2250: Brad Keselowski

+2500: Kyle Busch, Chris Buescher, Ryan Preece, Chase Briscoe

+3000: Josh Berry, Carson Hocevar, Ty Gibbs, Alex Bowman

Yeah, it was arbitrary. Chase could’ve been left among the favorites above, but that seemed like a big jump from the guys at +900 to Chase’s +1400. Also here, anyone else getting an itchy trigger finger about Kez? He finally avoided the demons last week and finished fifth on a long night. We know he’s beyond ready. And frankly, beyond due.

The middle wave: Didn’t Zane Smith almost win at Nashville last year?

+5000: Bubba Wallace, Austin Cindric, AJ Allmendinger

+7500: Noah Gragson

+10000: Michael McDowell, Corey Heim, Daniel Suarez

+15000: Zane Smith, Austin Dillon, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Erik Jones

+20000: John Hunter Nemechek

Zane finished second by less than a tenth of a second to Joey Logano last year at Nashville. So why is he at +15000? Because since then, he’s had three top-10s.

Yes, $100 can win you 100 Grand, but ….

+25000: Shane van Gisbergen, Todd Gilliland, Justin Haley

+50000: Riley Herbst, Ty Dillon, Cole Custer

+100000: Chad Finchum, JJ Yeley, Cody Ware

Lightning does strike, it’s true. But you’d literally need lightning, and a lot of rain, along with ill-timed pit stops for one of the longest of longshots to win at the Cup level. But look there at +25000, where you’ll see Justin Haley. Do your own research on that one.

— Email Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com

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HBCU grad wins second career NASCAR race

Rajah Caruth has won his second career race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck series winning at Nashville Motor Speedway on Friday night. The HBCU graduate from Winston-Salem State University snapped a 32-race winless streak dating back to Las Vegas in the spring of 2024. With the win, Caruth automatically qualifies for the NASCAR playoffs and […]

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Rajah Caruth has won his second career race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck series winning at Nashville Motor Speedway on Friday night. The HBCU graduate from Winston-Salem State University snapped a 32-race winless streak dating back to Las Vegas in the spring of 2024. With the win, Caruth automatically qualifies for the NASCAR playoffs and will be eligible to compete for the championship at the end of the season.

Caruth came out of the pits in first place after the second stage of the race thanks to quick work by his pit crew. He entered the pits in third place, and after gaining those two crucial spots he never relinquished the lead. But it was close and drama-filled as the laps unfolded.

Rajah Caruth holds off the competition

Caruth had to hold off Corey Heim, the top driver and points leader in the Truck series, who was on the bumper of the NO. 71 Chevrolet all the way to the checkered flag. Heim pulled side by side by Caruth at one point in the final laps but couldn’t complete the pass. Layne Riggs eventually caught up to Heim and their battle for second place gave Caruth just enough cushion to take home the victory. Heim who has four wins this year held on for second, Riggs finished third.

“I was just asking myself, how bad do I want it. I just try my best and we had clean air and their stuff was better, but I just I just did my best. That was it,” he said during his postgame interview on FS1.

Rajah Caruth led a race-high 61 laps on Friday night. Heading into the race Caruth was 13th in the points standings. The NASCAR Craftsman Truck series is back on Saturday June 7 at Michigan International Speedway. The race will be televised on Fox at noon EST.

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