Live NASCAR race updates: Watkins Glen

Updates by Jonathan Fjeld and Dominic Aragon

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — The NASCAR Cup Series is racing at Watkins Glen with two races left in the 2025 regular season after Sunday. Follow here for live race updates.

FINAL STAGE

LAP 77: SVG holds a 2.982-second over Buescher.

LAP 75: Top-10: SVG, Buescher, Byron, Blaney, Bell, Wallace, Reddick, Preece, Suarez, Busch

LAP 73: Keselowski hits pit road. SVG assumes the lead.

LAP 70: Brad Keselowski leads but still needs to pit. SVG, Byron, Buescher, and Blaney round out the Top-5.

LAP 62: SVG pits from the lead, as does Chastain in second. Briscoe inherits the lead for the first time today.

LAP 60: Gibbs pits from fifth.

LAP 59: Bowman and Bell, who were racing since the Top-3, pit.

LAP 56: Byron and Wallace pit under green. They were third and ninth respectively.

LAP 55: Preece, Buescher pit under green. Preece was seventh, Buescher was ninth.

LAP 54: SVG storms back to the lead after passing Blaney after the carousel.

LAP 52: Carson Hocevar spins but continues in Turn 1. He was 17th.

LAP 50: Blaney holds over a 1.5-second lead over Byron. SVG is third.

LAP 46: Busch and Hamlin tangle in the final turn. Busch spun into Hamlin.

LAP 45: Back to green with Blaney and Byron on the front row. Top-10 stayed out: Bowman, Bell, Gibbs, Preece, Elliott, Suarez, Buescher, and Hamlin

STAGE TWO WINNER: Ryan Blaney

LAP 40: Ryan Blaney stays out and wins the stage . John Hunter Nemechek crashes in the carousel while racing inside the Top-10. Rest of the Top-10: Byron, Bell, Allmendinger, Keselowski, Herbst, Bowman, Stenhouse Jr., Gibbs, Preece. 37 drivers on the lead lap.

LAP 38: SVG, Chastain and Briscoe pit under green.

LAP 35: 5 laps to go in the stage, SVG leads Blaney by .709 seconds. Chastain, Briscoe and Busch round out the Top-5.

LAP 31: SVG and Blaney lead the field back to the green flag.

LAP 29: Josh Berry spins exiting the carousel. Caution for debris. Chase Elliott had pitted prior to the caution.

LAP 25: Buescher stayed out and led the field to the green. Ryan Preece took the lead briefly before SVG charged back around in Turn 7.

LAP 22: Kyle Larson, who is scored 15 laps down in last (39th), continues to remain in the garage as his team works on break issues.

STAGE ONE WINNER: Chris Buescher

LAP 20: Chris Buescher wins Stage 1 and collects 10 points. Alex Bowman and Ryan Preece finish second and third. Fourth through 10th: Chase Elliott, John Hunter Nemechek, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ryan Blaney, SVG, Chase Briscoe, Cody Ware.

LAP 18: Leader Ryan Blaney and second-place SVG pit under green. Blaney beats SVG off of pit road.

LAP 17: Michael McDowell and Kyle Busch give up their Top-10 positions to pit. Busch overshot his pit stall and had to back up.

LAP 16: Chase Briscoe and Ross Chastain lead drivers onto pit road for green flag pit stops.

LAP 15: SVG continues to closely follow Blaney for the race lead.

LAP 11: Ryan Blaney has led every lap so far

Kyle Larson spun in turn six after starting 27th. He is off the track in 39th.

Stage is 20 laps. The race is 90 laps.

Race Start

Ryan Blaney will start on the pole with Shane van Gisbergen on the front row with him. It is the first NASCAR Cup Series road course pole for Blaney. SVG’s teammate Connor Zilisch had to withdraw from the race after injuring his collarbone Saturday in victory lane.

Go Bowling at The Glen Info

Broadcast: USA, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 90 laps / 220.5 miles
Stages: 20 / 40 / 90

Average time of race: 2:18:26

Pit road speed: 40 mph
Caution car speed: 45 mph

Fuel Window: 36 laps