All three of NASCAR’s national series will do battle this weekend, but not all series will be at the same track.

The NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series head to the newly renamed EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway, while the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is at Lime Rock Park for the series’ first of two road course races on the year.

Here’s who will be on track this weekend.

The Quaker State 400 will be held on Saturday, June 28, at 7 p.m. ET. It will be the first race of the season broadcast on TNT.

Forty drivers are entered for Saturday’s race, meaning eveyone will make the show following qualifying, barring any entry list changes.

Corey LaJoie returns to the track with the No. 01 for Rick Ware Racing.

David Starr will drive the No. 66 for Garage 66.

BJ McLeod will pilot his familiar No. 78 for his team Live Fast Motorsports.

Connor Zilisch will make his third career Cup start in the No. 87 for Trackhouse Racing.

The Xfinity Series will contest the Focused Health 250 on Friday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. ET. The CW will broadcast the event.

There are 38 teams listed, meaning everyone will make the field on Friday, unless there are entry list changes.

Thomas Annunziata Running 1st Truck Race at Lime Rock

Nick Leitz has been tapped to drive the No. 07 for SS-Green Light Racing.

Aric Almirola will drive the No. 19 for Joe Gibbs Racing.

Patrick Staropoli will drive the No. 24 for Sam Hunt Racing.

The Jordan Anderson Racing No. 32 is back with Katherine Legge behind the wheel.

Joey Gase will drive the No. 35 for his own team, Joey Gase Motorsports. His teammate in the No. 53 is Mason Maggio.

CJ McLaughlin returns to the DGM Racing No. 91 car.

The Truck Series will do battle in the Liuna 150 on Saturday, June 28, at 1 p.m. ET. FOX Sports 1 is the place to watch the broadcast.

There are 35 trucks entered, meaning nobody goes home following qualifying, unless the entry list changes.

TRICON Garage and Brent Crews reunite this week in the No. 1.

The No. 02 for Young’s Motorsports will make the trip to Connecticut, but the driver has yet to be announced.

William Lambros will debut in the No. 2 for Reaume Brothers Racing. RBR’s No. 22 is currently entered without a driver.

Spire Motorsports has a pair of drivers making their series debuts this weekend, with Thomas Annunziata in the No. 07 and Jordan Taylor in the No. 7.

Dale Quarterley will drive the No. 32 for his own team, racing for the first time in the series since Circuit of the Americas last year.

Josh Bilicki will drive the No. 44 for Niece Motorsports.

Timmy Hill will drive the No. 56 for his family team of Hill Motorsports.

Wesley Slimp is the final driver making his series debut, running the No. 62 for Halmar Friesen Racing.

Cam Waters returns to NASCAR to run the No. 66 for ThorSport Racing.

A NASCAR team has confirmed exciting driver news ahead of this weekend’s racing action.

Spire Motorsports released an official statement on Monday announcing that their No. 07 Chevrolet Silverado will have a new driver in the cockpit for Saturday’s NASCAR Truck Series race, with Thomas Annunziata set to make his debut in the series at Lime Rock Park.

Recently, Spire confirmed that Corey LaJoie would drive the No. 07 for nine of the remaining 13 races this year. However, with LaJoie in action in the Cup Series this weekend in Atlanta, Annunziata has been given the nod.

The 20-year-old has previously had successful spells in karting, sports cars, Trans Am, and NASCAR’s developmental divisions, and has his eyes on the prize once again this weekend.

“It’s a dream to race for a top team in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for my debut race,” he explained in a team statement.

“Spire Motorsports is one of the elite teams and I hope to get them another win.”

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Annunziata to make Truck Series debut

The move comes at a race weekend where TOP LINER will be showcased as Spire Motorsports’ primary sponsor.

Annunziata has links with TOP LINER due to him racing with Burtin Racing in the Trans Am series, and his team principal at the time, Claudio Burtin, has been full of praise for the young star.

“Thomas drove for us in the Trans Am car and was on pace immediately,” said Burtin, owner at TOP LINER and team principal at Burtin Racing.

“He showed some unique car control. We look forward to mixing it up with the truck regulars and more to come!”

Spire Motorsports are a huge name across NASCAR, boasting the Nos. 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolets in the NASCAR Cup Series, the Nos. 07, 7, 71 and 77 Chevrolet Silverados in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and the No. 77 Chevrolet in the ARCA Menards Series in select events.

Saturday’s NASCAR Truck Series race at Lime Rock Park, also known as the LiUNA! 150, will start at 1 pm ET.

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The NASCAR Cup Series is set to debut its inaugural In-Season Challenge, in which 32 drivers are seeded and bracketed into a tournament, like March Madness or a tennis draw.

Eager to get back into the lucrative Southern California market, NASCAR is considering staging a Cup Series street race in the San Diego area as soon as next season.

While no commitment has been reached, San Diego appears to be one of five or six sites vying for dates on next year’s schedule, which is expected to be finalized next month and announced in August.  NASCAR has been looking at possible sites in downtown San Diego, Coronado and one other spot in San Diego County.

“Schedule negotiations are one of the best-kept secrets in NASCAR,” a source told the San Diego Union-Tribune last week. “There is always speculation at this time of year as to where NASCAR is going. But no one knows.”

NASCAR has scouted the San Diego area for potential street courses and is working with Sports San Diego — the organization that produces the Holiday Bowl and Rady Children’s Hospital Basketball Invitational and backs sports tourism in the San Diego area. Sports San Diego did not respond to inquiries.

Southern California hasn’t hosted a regular-season NASCAR race since 2023, when Auto Club Speedway closed. Plans to rebuild that track as a half-mile oval have stalled.

In 2023-24, NASCAR held its preseason Busch Clash all-star race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. But that race has been moved to Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C.

“NASCAR sees San Diego as it does Las Vegas,” said the source, “a destination-style venue, which makes it even more attractive than some other potential sites.”

However, San Diego also faces a number of obstacles — starting with finding a spot on an already packed schedule. NASCAR’s premier series runs from February through the first weekend of November.

This year’s schedule includes a street race in Chicago and the recently run inaugural road race in Mexico City. Both sites are seeking extensions to hold races beyond this year. There is also talk that if the Chicago street race contract isn’t extended, NASCAR could return to the nearby oval at Chicagoland Speedway.

Earlier this year, NASCAR said it wanted to explore “new and unique” street courses given the success at Chicago. Although the first two Chicago events were plagued by rain, the economic impact of each event was estimated at more than $200 million.

NASCAR was very happy with the inaugural Mexico City race, although the logistics and travel issues made it a difficult venue for teams.

Montreal, Philadelphia and Denver have also expressed interest in hosting a NASCAR street race. Montreal’s proposal has backing from the Canadian government. The Philadelphia proposal, which has the historic Franklin Field as its focal point, is tied to Pennsylvania’s Pocono Speedway losing one of its two traditional NASCAR races.

Were NASCAR to renew its contracts with both Chicago and Mexico City, there might not be an opening on the 2026 schedule unless NASCAR expands its schedule deeper into November. Adding a 39th and 40th date has been discussed before, but has met resistance from teams due to the already short off-season. NASCAR has raced as late as Nov. 20 in the past.

There has also been discussions to revise the playoff format at the end of the season and add a race to the regular season.

NASCAR has tight control of its race sites and schedule. Were the San Diego area to be granted a street race, it likely would appear early on the schedule where the Auto Club Speedway date used to be (late February or early March).

This is not the first time a car race has been proposed for downtown San Diego. In 1992, Long Beach Grand Prix founder Chris Pook wanted to move his IMSA sports car race to downtown San Diego after staging it for six years at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. But every course plotted by Pook ran into problems due to crossing railroad tracks and government regulations and restrictions.

IndyCar briefly looked at San Diego earlier this century with a course using Harbor Drive and Pacific Highway. But the tracks and train traffic proved to be an insurmountable barrier.

Coronado hosted the Coronado Speed Festival vintage car races from 1997 to 2015 at the North Island Naval Air Station as part of Fleet Week. But the Navy placed restrictions on what attendees could bring onto the base.

Originally Published: June 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM PDT

When NASCAR heads to Atlanta this weekend to race at the newly renamed at EchoPark Speedway, 40 Cup cars will be present for what is sure to be yet another thrilling race at the Georgia track.

The Cup Series has only reached 40 entries twice this year before Atlanta, and they were both crown jewel events. 41 cars started the Daytona 500 with the field expanding beyond max capacity due to Helio Castroneves taking the Open Exemption Provisional. There were also 40 cars taking part in the Coca Cola 600 for NASCAR’s longest race with Ross Chastain making history as he drove from 40th to first to win the event.

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Atlanta will be the latest race to feature 40 cars with four open entries beyond the 36 full-time chartered teams. Corey LaJoie will be piloting the No. 01 Ford for Rick Ware Racing in his fourth start of the year, which follows his stint as a analyst for Prime Video.

Rising star Connor Zilisch will be driving a fourth entry for Trackhouse, again piloting the No. 87 Chevrolet with sponsorship from Red Bull. Zilisch, who won the most recent NASCAR Xfinity race at Pocono with Dale Jr. as his crew chief, will be making his third Cup start of the year.

The other two open entries will be B.J. McLeod in the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet and 57-year-old David Starr in the No. 66 Garage 66 (formerly MBM Motorsports) Ford Mustang.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series will be joining the Cup Series at Atlanta while the NASCAR Truck Series heads north to compete at Lime Rock Park for the very first time.

NASCAR Cup entry list — EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta)

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LONG POND, Pa. — Alex Bowman holds the final playoff spot with nine races left in the Cup regular season after his 11th-place finish Sunday at Pocono Raceway.

Bowman fell a spot to just above the cutline in the standings. He entered Pocono three points ahead of Chris Buescher, who held the final playoff spot. Buescher finished fourth Sunday and scored 48 points to Bowman’s 27 to leapfrog Bowman.

Buescher also passed Bubba Wallace in the playoff standings after Wallace finished 36th and scored one point after an accident.

Bowman holds a 20-point lead on Ryan Preece for the final playoff spot heading into Saturday night’s race at EchoPark Speedway, the track formerly known as Atlanta Motor Speedway. Wallace is 29 points ahead of Preece. Buescher is 38 points ahead of Preece.

The playoff field will be set after the Aug. 23 race at Daytona International Speedway on NBC.

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Here is a look at the playoff standings. Those in yellow have scored a win this season.