NASCAR Live Race Updates: Wurth 400 at Texas

Welcome to the Racing America On SI Live Race Updates page for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Be sure to refresh this post throughout Sunday’s race as the Live Race Updates story will be updated regularly with the biggest moments from the 400-mile race around the 1.5-mile oval in Fort Worth, Texas, including lead changes, crash replays, the winner of the race, finishing results, and more.

Lap 26: Back to Green!

Austin Cindric, and Josh Berry lead the field into Turn 1, as the Wurth 400 is back under the green flag following the first caution flag period of the race.

Lap 24: Lead Change as Hamlin Crew Mixed Up Signals

Denny Hamlin was apparently supposed to pit with the rest of the field on the pit sequence under caution, but the team mixed up their communication. Hamlin has now come to pit road, which has relinquished the lead to Austin Cindric, who leads for the first time today.

Hamlin was busted for speeding, but was already going to drop to the rear for pitting under a closed pit road. Ryan Blaney, John Hunter Nemechek, and Ty Dillon also had pit road penalties, which dropped them to the rear.

Lap 23: Lead Change!

Denny Hamlin took the race lead after he decided to stay on the racetrack under this caution, while everybody else hit pit road.

Austin Cindric, Josh Berry, and Chris Buescher, who elected to take two tires on the round of pit stops, came off of pit road first, second, and third. Carson Hocevar, the race leader, was fourth off of pit road, but was the first driver who took four tires.

Lap 21: Gragson Brings Out First Caution

While attempting to get around Daniel Suarez in the outside lane in Turn 2 on Lap 21, Noah Gragson lost control of his No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang Dark Horse, and went for a spin to bring out the first caution of the race.

Gragson was able to steer, and gas up his car, which was backing toward the outside wall enough to keep it from slamming into the outside wall, and his car spun harmlessly to the apron on the inside of the track.

Lap 16: Hocevar Continues to Lead From Pole

Carson Hocevar has dominated the opening laps of the Wurth 400 at Texas, and he has now stretched his race lead out to 1.801 seconds over William Byron on Lap 16. Austin Cindric sits third, Michael McDowell is fourth, and Kyle Larson is in fifth.

Lap 6: Daniel Suarez, and Joey Logano on the Move Early

Daniel Suarez (started 25th) and Joey Logano (started 27th) have made some ground up in the opening laps of the Wurth 400 at a Texas Motor Speedway track, which has proven to be tough to make passes at.

Suarez and Logano have both sliced forward six spots from their starting positions. Suarez runs 19th, while Logano is up to 21st.

Green Flag!

First-time NASCAR Cup Series polesitter Carson Hocevar and William Byron lead the field into Turn 1 on the opening lap of Sunday’s Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Byron got a great initial start and clung to the side of Hocevar’s No. 77 car from the finish line to the backstretch, but Hocevar pulled forward with the lead going into Turns 3 and 4 to lead the opening lap.

3:32 PM ET: Shea Whigham Delivers Command to Start Engines

Actor Shea Whigham, who stars in the upcoming film Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, delivered the command to start engines for Sunday’s Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. The cars have come to life, and will roll onto the 1.5-mile speedway momentarily to perform the pace laps ahead of today’s 267-lap event.

3:25 PM ET: National Anthem Complete!

Corporal Don Graves, a 100-year-old survivor of Iwo Jima, delivered the United States National Anthem ahead of Sunday’s Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. Up next will be the command to start engines.

No Cars To The Rear

NASCAR has confirmed that currently, no drivers will have to drop to the rear of the field prior to the green flag of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway.

NASCAR has also revealed the official pre-race festivities schedule:

Sunday’s pit road speed limit has been set at 45 mph, and the pace car will travel around the 1.5-mile speedway at 55 mph. The estimated fuel window for the NASCAR Cup Series car at Texas is 75 laps.

Wurth 400 Race Info

The Wurth 400 will be televised on FS1 and can be streamed on the FOX Sports App with a valid television provider login. Television coverage of the event will begin at 3:30 PM ET. The Performance Racing Network (PRN) and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will provide the event radio broadcast.

For subscribers of the Max streaming service, NASCAR Driver Cam, which streams live in-car camera footage from every car in the field, will be available for today’s race.

The overall race purse, which teams will fight for their portion of in Sunday’s race is a total of $11,055,250.

The race distance is 267 laps around the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway, which equates to a 400.5-mile race distance.

The race will be broken into three Stages. Stage 1 will end at the conclusion of Lap 80, Stage 2 will end at the conclusion of Lap 165, and the race is scheduled to finish at the end of Lap 267, barring an overtime finish.

The winner of Stages 1 and 2 will be awarded one Playoff Point, and the overall race winner will be awarded five Playoff points. The Playoff Points will be added to the reseeded point totals if the drivers make it into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, and the Playoff Points will be carried through each round of the Playoffs.

The top-10 finishers in Stages 1 and 2 will also receive regular-season championship points. The Stage Winners will receive 10 points for the Stage Win, and the point total will decrease by one point for the top-10 finishers in each Stage.

Chase Elliott is the defending race winner of the Wurth 400 at Texas. Elliott will start from the 29th position driving the No. 9 NAPA 100 Chevrolet Camaro for Hendrick Motorsports.

Carson Hocevar Scores First Pole of Cup Series Career

On Saturday, Spire Motorsports driver Carson Hocevar flashed incredible speed in his No. 77 Chili’s Ride the Dente Chevrolet. Hocevar paced practice, and followed his success in practice with an eye-opening 28.175-second (191.659 mph) lap time on his pole-winning run in qualifying.

The lap, which bested Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron by 0.014 seconds, was the fastest turned at Texas Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Cup Series since the 2018 season.

At a track, where passing is incredibly difficult, Hocevar will start with the best track position imaginable, but the 22-year-old is also quite excited about the prospect of utlizing the No. 1 pit stall on pit road in Sunday’s race.

“What better place to get on a pole. I’m normally so hard on myself, and I still didn’t think I nailed that lap at all. Super proud of this team. And proud because I’ve never been the No.1 pit stall,” Hocevar explained. “I’ve had a lot of issues with pit road, and we’ve had a lot of bad luck. So, I finally get the No. 1 pit stall, so I’m pumped about that.”

Wurth 400 Starting Lineup

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