The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series runs February through November with 38 points races and two off weekends. The schedule adds a new street course in San Diego and restores Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet to the lineup. The All-Star race moves to Dover while North Wilkesboro becomes a points-paying Cup race. The season opens with the Clash at Bowman-Gray Stadium on Feb. 1 and the Daytona 500 on Feb. 15. Watkins Glen shifts to Mother's Day weekend, New Hampshire becomes the regular-season penultimate race, and the season finale returns to Homestead-Miami on Nov. 8.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR in 2026 will race on a new street course in San Diego, return Chicagoland Speedway to the schedule, move the All-Star race to Dover, Delaware, and end its 38-race season back at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The schedule released Wednesday includes two off weekends on a calendar that stretches from February to November. It begins with the exhibition Clash on Feb. 1 at Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem for the second consecutive year, with the season-opening Daytona 500 to follow on Feb. 15.
Chicagoland is reopening after a six-year hiatus and a switch back to the track located in suburban Joliet after three seasons on a temporary street circuit in downtown Chicago. The San Diego event will be held on a military base in Coronado. To add Chicagoland and San Diego, NASCAR dropped the Chicago street race and will not return to Mexico City, where it held the first international Cup Series points race since the 1950s.
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