The NASCAR Xfinity Series is racing in Nashville, Tennessee, for the Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway. Let’s get you up to speed for Saturday night’s Xfinity Series race.

NASCAR Xfinity Series at Nashville Superspeedway Preview

It’s time to go racing in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee. The Tennessee Lottery 250 is the 14th race of the 2025 season. Last time the Xfinity Series raced at Nashville, it was John Hunter Nemechek and the Joe Gibbs Racing #20 team taking home the victory. Can Joe Gibbs Racing dominate like they did last year? Or will Chevy continue their absolute dominance this season?

Race Preview:

The 2025 Tennessee Lottery 250 is a 250-mile, 188-lap race around the 1.333-mile Nashville Superspeedway. It is the 26th Xfinity Series race at the track. Stage cautions will be displayed on laps 45 and 90, with the checkered flag flying on lap 188. There is a total prize purse of 1,651,939 dollars available to participants of this race. Teams will have five sets of tires for qualifying and the race.

The Track-Nashville Superspeedway:

Nashville Superspeedway, located in Lebanon, Tennessee, opened in 2001 as a 1.33-mile concrete oval track. Initially hosting races for the  NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series, it became notable for its concrete surface. After closing in 2011 due to declining attendance, the track reopened in 2021 under Speedway Motorsports ownership, hosting its first NASCAR Cup Series race. Since 2021, it has hosted all three major NASCAR Series.

The Xfinity Series has raced at Nashville 25 times in the past. Greg Biffle won the inaugural race back in 2001. Carl Edwards holds the record for wins at the speedway, five wins in 13 starts. AJ Allmendinger holds the track lap record, a 31.214-second lap, set in the 2022 running of the Tennessee Lottery 250.

Xfinity Series Points Standings:

These are the current point standings for the Xfinity Series following last week’s race at Charlotte:

1. Justin Allgaier: 522
2. Austin Hill: 450
3. Sam Mayer: 429
4. Jesse Love: 403
5. Brandon Jones: 352
6. Connor Zilisch *: 351
7. Ryan Sieg: 349
8. Carson Kvapil *: 345
9. Jeb Burton: 343
10. Sheldon Creed: 333

*Denotes Rookie

Drivers Joining The Xfinity Series Field:

The race will have some notable additions to the field for Saturday’s race. Ross Chastain will drive the #9 for JR Motorsports. Corey Day will drive the #17 Camaro for Hendrick Motorsports. Aric Almirola will pilot the #19 for Joe Gibbs Racing. Katherine Legge continues her run in the #32 for Jordan Anderson Racing. Myatt Snider will make his third start of the year, driving the #91 for DGM Racing.

READ MORE: Hendrick Motorsports Ensures Future, Signs 19-Year-old Corey Day

Who Will Win in Nashville?

It has been clear that the Xfinity Series is Chevrolet’s playground in 2025. Out of the 14 races run this season, 12 have been one by Chevrolet. 8 of those wins have been won by full-time Xfinity drivers. Those other six have been won by Cup Series racers. If you want to bet on a winner, bet on him driving a Chevrolet.

Justin Allgaier is the only winner racing in the field this Saturday. He is the points leader for the series, and after a pit-gamble gone wrong last week at Charlotte, I think he wants to get another win and extend that points lead.

READ MORE: Late Caution Derails Larson, as Justin Allgaier Wins in South Beach

Joe Gibbs Racing has the other two wins in the series in 2025. Aric Almirola has one, and Brandon Jones the other. They dominated this race in 2024, winning the pole, both stages, and the race. If anyone has the speed to upset Chevy’s dominance, it has to be JGR. Look for Almirola to lead the Toyota charge on Saturday.

Sam Mayer has put the blue ovals on his back this season. He is third in the points and has almost 100 more points than his teammate, Sheldon Creed. He has had top-five, top ten speed all season long, but has not been able to get that breakout speed for a win. Look out for Sam Mayer to again lead the Ford camp at Nashville.

How To Watch The Xfinity Series at Nashville:

Here is the schedule for the Tennessee Lottery 250:

Saturday, May 31st:

• Practice:
  • 2:00 PM Eastern
  • Coverage is located on the CW App
• Qualifying:
  • 3:10 PM Eastern
  • Coverage continues on the CW App
• The Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway:

Stay tuned for all the excitement from Nashville Superspeedway and the NASCAR Xfinity Series

Main Photo: Sean Gardner, Getty Images

Recording Date: 6/29/2024

INDYCAR

Just when it appeared Dennis Hauger might be mortal, he sent a message Friday afternoon to the rest of the INDY NXT by Firestone field during the final moments of the first practice for the Detroit Grand Prix.

Series points leader Hauger turned the quickest lap of the opening session of the weekend, 1 minute, 6.8158 seconds, in the No. 28 Rental Group car fielded by Andretti Global on his final trip around the nine-turn, 1.645-mile street circuit in downtown Detroit.

SEE: Practice Results

“Good run,” Hauger said. “We were having some issue in the middle of practice, which wasn’t ideal, and we didn’t get to do as many laps as the others. But we still found good pace. Getting laps was the most important thing with a new track (for me), and a track like this, it’s not easy to get on with quickly.

“A good start. We have to keep improving for tomorrow.”

Those are ominous words for Hauger’s rivals. He has won three of the first four races this season in the INDYCAR development series and is 15 points ahead of fellow Andretti Global series rookie Lochie Hughes atop the standings.

Up next is practice at 8 a.m. ET Saturday, followed by qualifying at 11:30 a.m. (both sessions FS1, FOX Sports app, INDYCAR Radio Network). The 45-lap race starts at 10:30 a.m. ET Sunday (FS1, FOX Sports app, INDYCAR Radio Network).

2024 series Rookie of the Year Caio Collet ended up second at 1:07.1961 in the No. 76 HMD Motorsports machine, also ripping off his quickest lap late in the 45-minute session.

Rookie Max Taylor, just 17 years old, sat atop the time sheets with one minute to go but ended up still an impressive third at 1:07.2210 in the No. 18 HMD Motorsports car. Series veteran Myles Rowe was fourth at 1:07.3022 in the No. 99 Abel/Force Indy machine.

Veteran Salvador de Alba rounded out the top five at 1:07.3826 in the No. 27 Grupo Indi car of Andretti Global. That team put three drivers in the top six as Hughes’ best lap was 1:07.4375 in the No. 26 McGinley Clinic/USF Pro Championship car.

The unforgiving concrete walls around tight, bumpy street circuit in downtown Detroit collected their share of cars during the session.

Andretti Global’s James Roe brought out a red flag with heavy left-side contact in Turn 7 in his No. 29 Topcon machine, while Liam Sceats later made contact in Turn 4 in his No. 30 HMD Motorsports car shortly after the track opened following Roe’s incident.

Also making light contact without causing a red flag were rookie Tommy Smith in the No. 16 HMD Motorsports machine and veteran Niels Koolen in the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing car.

None of the drivers involved in the incidents was hurt.

13 races down, 13 races to go in the regular season for the NASCAR Cup Series. At the halfway point, there have been eight different winners with Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing [JGR] taking the lion’s share of victories.

Those fortunate eight are William Byron [Hendrick], Kyle Larson [Hendrick], Christopher Bell [JGR], Denny Hamlin [JGR], Joey Logano [Penske], Austin Cindric [Penske], Josh Berry [Wood Brothers], and newly crowned Coca-Cola 600 winner Ross Chastain [Trackhouse].

Ross Chastain, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

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But while these drivers are feeling secure, there are several others beginning to sweat. Looking closer at the standings, drivers like Chase Elliott, Tyler Reddick, and Ryan Blaney need not worry (yet). While they are winless, they do have a comfortable points margin over the cut-line. But as we’ve seen before, that could rapidly change should a few more drivers lower in the standings start grabbing wins.

Where things get more nerve-wracking is around the bubble, but there’s still no need to panic for these drivers at this time. Ryan Preece holds the 16th and final spot after taking into account the drivers beneath him who have already won, leaving on the hot seat. He is just six points ahead of his RFK Racing teammate Chris Buescher, who recently got 30 points back after a penalty appeal.

This remains an incredibly tight battle that will surely look a lot different around the cut-off race at Daytona, with eight winless drivers within 40 points of Preece. There is no margin for error right now with this group. But what about the drivers even deeper in the standings? It might be time to be a little bit worried, if not fully beginning to panic. Here’s a brief look at those drivers and their current situation: 

Ty Gibbs: 25th, -50pts out

Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

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Gibbs is still in a position to point his way in, but his season has left the No. 54 team scratching their heads. Unlike his JGR teammates, the speed just hasn’t been there. Bristol was a bright spot as he finished third, but he has eight finishes of 22nd or worse in the first 13 races as well. This comes as quite a surprise. Despite being winless in his first 100 Cup starts, Gibbs still made the playoffs last year.

Zane Smith, Front Row Motorsports Ford, Kyle Busch, Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, Joey Logano, Team Penske Ford

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Smith is with a new team in 2025 and so far, he’s improving on last year’s performance. But that still puts him just 26th in the standings with a best finish of ninth. However, it was around this point last year when he started turning things around, so perhaps we’ve yet to see the best he has to offer in the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford. He did manage to earn a pole position at Talladega, so we know he has the speed when the series heads to superspeedways.

Erik Jones, LEGACY MOTOR CLUB Toyota

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Few expected Jones to be lagging behind his teammate in 2025, but like the two names we already went over, he is. Legacy Motor Club has been struggling for speed, but there is reason to be hopeful. Recent races have shown an uptick in performance, including a top five for Jones at Texas and a solid showing in the Coke 600. Maybe all is not lost, but they need to start making big gains, now.

Noah Gragson, Front Row Motorsports Ford

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Gragson has been a bit like his FRM teammate Smith. The potential is there, but the execution is not. A top ten at COTA, a top five at Talladega, and another top ten at the Coke 600 show that they can put together strong races, and Gragson is a proven multi-time winner in the Xfinity Series. But the weeks when they’re off, they are very off, and that’s left him buried in the standings. 

Justin Haley, Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

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Haley’s team just wants to go a few weeks without losing any more personnel. Crew chief Rodney Childers abruptly parted ways with Spire mid-season and they lost several (good) crew members to Hendrick Motorsports. While both of his Spire teammates have challenged for race wins, Haley has been falling behind and has recorded no finish higher than tenth. Around Gragson and Haley is where drivers and teams are likely less concerned about points at this point and are thinking more about how they can hit a home run and score a victory.

Daniel Suarez, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

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Suarez locked himself into the 2024 playoffs with a win in the second race of the year. He almost did something similar early this season, but lost out in a battle with Josh Berry for the Las Vegas win. Suarez has had brief moments of speed and Trackhouse just won the Coke 600 with his teammate Chastain, but the consistency isn’t there at all. Suarez hasn’t led more than 12 laps in any single race, and the four DNFs due to crashes haven’t helped either. He’s likely in a must-win mindset and he has some good opportunities coming up to do just that, but just as Chastain did one week ago, he will have to capitalize when those moments arrive.

Ty Dillon, Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

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T. Dillon is nowhere near his veteran teammate AJ Allmendinger at Kaulig Racing, finishing no higher than 12th in any race this year. Dillon’s return to the Cup Series has been a struggle and winning a race in the Cup Series is something he is 0-258 in achieving. With the lack of speed that has plagued this No. 10 team, his only hope likely sits with the drafting races at Atlanta and Daytona.

Brad Keselowski, Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford

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A true shocker. The 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion made the playoffs last year and before a top-five finish in the Coke 600, Keselowski has been nowhere. Nine finishes of 26th or worse in the first 13 races, five DNFs due to crashes in what has been the worst season of his career. His teammates are battling around the bubble while Keselowski lags 100 points behind them. It’s a confusing situation as no one, including Keselowski, expected to see the No. 6 Ford in this position.

Shane van Gisbergen, Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

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SVG is the lowest of the three Trackhouse drivers, but he is also leading the ROTY standings with his only rival just one point behind him. No one expected the three-time Supercars champion to come in and immediately find his way on ovals, but he wasn’t making any progress either … until recently. A 20th at Kansas and a 14th in the Coke 600 are his best oval finishes of the year, both coming in the last two races. He even earned pole position for the All-Star Open at North Wilkesboro. And as strange as it may sound, SVG likely has a better chance of making the playoffs than many of the drivers ahead of him. He’s a road racing ace and while he missed out on a win at COTA (finishing sixth), there are four more road courses left in the regular season. He is fully capable of winning all of them, and this Kiwi only needs one to shake up the entire playoff picture.

Riley Herbst, 23XI Racing Toyota

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Another rookie like SVG, also driving a newly created third team but for 23XI Racing. Unfortunately, he does not have the benefit of a track where he knows he can win like SVG. Herbst’s best result this year is 14th and he has been deep in the pack during most races. He has to win, but where can he make that happen? 

Cole Custer, Haas Factory Team

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We all knew 2025 would be a struggle for the Haas Factory Team. After Stewart-Haas Racing shut down, all that remains is a single-car effort with Custer behind the wheel. He has no finishes higher than 13th, and 11 of the first 13 races have seen him finish outside the top 20. And yet, he was also half-a-lap away from potentially winning the Daytona 500 when he crashed in the battle for the win. With how the rest of the season has gone, he surely has Daytona circled later this summer as perhaps his only chance to put Gene Haas into the playoffs.

Cody Ware: 36th, -200pts out

Cody Ware, Rick Ware Racing Ford; Cole Custer, Haas Factory Team Ford

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There’s no way to sugarcoat this. Ware is last among all full-time drivers, a full 75 points behind his nearest competition. Ware’s best finish is only 24th and nine of the first 13 races have seen him finish 30th or worse. While I’m tempted to say there’s no hope, that’s never truly the case in this championship format. Last year, Harrison Burton entered Race #25 of 26 at Daytona dead last among full-time drivers, and he went on to win the race.

TNT Sports and Max today announced the driver selections for NASCAR Driver Cam’s Featured Multiview during this Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 from Nashville Superspeedway, with streaming coverage beginning approximately 30 minutes before the green flag:

Josh Berry, notching his first career victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this season (March 16). 

Denny Hamlin, securing two wins this season – his first at Martinsville Speedway (March 30) and another at Darlington Raceway (April 6) – giving him a sixth-place position in the overall standings. 

Ricky Stenhouse, with one top-five and two top-10 finishes this season. 

Chase Elliott, voted “Most Popular Driver” for seven consecutive seasons, sits fourth in the standings with three top-five finishes this season. 

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B/R Racing’s X and Instagram platforms will also host four head-to-head polls through this Friday featuring eight additional drivers for fans to vote on which four will be featured on a special “Fan Selected” Multiview stream on Max.

Individual Driver Cams will also be available for all drivers in the NASCAR All-Star Open earlier in the evening on Sunday.

The NASCAR Driver Cam experience — exclusive to Max — offers motorsports fans the ultimate all-access pass to every driver for every race throughout the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, including a layered audio mix of scanner team radios and ambient car noise, all synced up with a 1080p Driver Cam feed (on supported devices). 

Fans will be able to choose between the up to 40 individual Driver Cams or the two pre-set Multiview stream options featuring four drivers each. Each individual driver stream features integrated live stats— stage, lap number, position and race status — along with telemetry data including speed, RPM, gear, and more. Users can pause, rewind and fast forward as well, and a replay of each individual driver stream will be available following each race.

The NASCAR Driver Cams and Multiviews are available to stream within Sports on Max. Users can find all NASCAR Driver Cam on Max live content on the upcoming schedule at https://play.max.com/live-sports-schedule.

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Just ahead of Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, H. Moser & Cie. has dropped two new watches that take design cues from Alpine Motorsports.

The watchmaker just added a new dynamic duo to the Streamliner family: a skeletonized mechanical chronograph called the Streamliner Alpine Drivers Edition and the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Edition. The latter is the more surprising of the pair, given that it’s a smart watch. Both watches are being sold together as a set for a cool $70,000, with 200 pieces available, Hodinkee reported.

The 42.3 mm Streamliner Alpine Drivers Edition offers up a new skeletonized dial that shows off the AgenGraphe-based HMC 700 movement and the self-winding rotor, which is usually masked from view under the dial. Here, you get some of the same details you’d see on other Streamliner chronographs with the same movement: centralized minutes and seconds hands, for one. But, as you’d expect, there are plenty of nods to Alpine. The bridges are shaped like a “V” similar to triangulated suspensions; the dial, meanwhile, is home to a design meant to mimic the rim of the team’s A110 wheel. Flip the watch over, and you can get a closer look at that movement, which is designed to evoke images of a driver’s helmet. A blue PVD-coated stainless-steel case and a rubber strap round out the piece.

As for the Streamliner Alpine Mechanics Edition, it’s a first for the brand. The watch certainly has the tools for the fast-paced F1 environment it’s made for: a GMT function with a country selector, a split-seconds chronograph, a perpetual calendar, and a designated F1 mode that offers up countdown capabilities and can give you live team alerts. The timepiece does have a more traditional side, too, with a steel Streamliner case, a blue rubber strap, and a Funky Blue fumé dial. To bring the timepiece to life, Moser tapped Sequent to create the new model’s hybrid analogue-digital caliber, according to Hodinkee. As a result, you’re getting a 12-month “power reserve” in time-only mode or what the brand is called “six Grand Prix weekends” in connected mode.

And it sounds like we can expect more from H. Moser and Alpine Motorsports. The watchmaker said this just the first project to emerge from their partnership.

Moser, of course, has dropped other sports-related watches before. At last year’s Miami Grand Prix, the watchmaker debuted the Cylindrical Tourbillon Skeleton, completed with a pink strap. And sports stars themselves have chosen to rock timepieces from the brand as of late. The Philadelphia Eagles’ running back Saquon Barkley donned an Endeavour Tourbillon Concept Vantablack at the Met Gala this year. Perhaps we’ll see some equally stylish athletes rocking the new Streamliners at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend.

Another NASCAR driver was featured on a recent show; this time, it was Natalie Decker Lemke. 

Decker recently gave birth to a son in February 2025 with her husband Derek Lemke and took time away from the sport  to start a family. She first announced her pregnancy in August 2024 on social media, and since then, has admitted her mental state is not where she would like it to be. 

Still, the NASCAR star was able to make fans laugh by way of her cameo on the Netflix adult comedy show ‘Big Mouth.’ In season eight, episode eight of the show, Decker has a handful of lines as she helps one of the main characters understand how life could be simplified without the use of external stimuli.

During her brief cameo, Decker also was spotted driving her Xfinity Bikini Zone Chevrolet while also a cartoonish version of herself was seen standing outside her car on the cover of ‘Car and Driver.’ On her website, Decker released a statement on her appearance in ‘Big Mouth.’

In particular, the star explained how being in the cartoon was something she could tick off her to-do list. “I’ve always wanted to be in a cartoon,” her statement read. “Never in a million years did I think it would happen – and definitely not in ‘Big Mouth’s’ final season!”

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“I feel so guilty even saying this, but I’m so over being pregnant,” she said. “All my symptoms from my first trimester have come back. The nauseousness, the fatigue, the migraines, I could go on and on and on, but the biggest thing I’m struggling with is mentally. Just feeling good about myself and feeling like myself.”

She added: “I do not feel like myself at all, and I do not like looking at myself in the mirror. Don’t like the way I look, and I could talk for days about that. I know with pregnancy, you’re going to get swollen, but I didn’t know how swollen.

“My feet grew so much, I used to be a youth, child size 3, now I barely fit into a woman’s size 6. There is not one part of my body right now that is not swollen. It is so crazy. I did not expect that. I planned to do maternity photos by now… I just have not committed because I don’t like the way I look.”