After months of waiting for the dawn of a new season, the NASCAR Cup Series will fire up its engines for Sunday‘s Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (8 p.m. ET, FOX,

NASCAR's 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium is quickly approaching. This year's event is scheduled for Sunday, February 2, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, and will be broadcast live on FOX. For radio listeners, MRN, the Motor Racing Network, will cover the action, and satellite radio subscribers can tune in via SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

When is The Cookout Clash? Here's what to know about the 2025 NASCAR exhibition race in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Before specialty exhibition races became a constant on the NASCAR calendar, the original Busch Clash at Daytona laid the foundation.

The Clash heads to another quarter-mile but on a new coast this weekend, making its debut at Bowman Gray Stadium Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after a three-year run at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

The Clash was once about getting a coveted coat. That might seem hard to conceive now for an event that has crisscrossed the country twice in the past three years while mushrooming into a preseason extravaganza,

An aerial view of Bowman Gray racetrack ahead of the NASCAR Cup Series race known as the Cook Out Clash. An aerial view of Bowman Gray racetrack ahead of the NASCAR Cup Series race known as the Cook Out Clash.