NASCAR RETURNS to The MADHOUSE! ! The 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium! NASCAR fans, IT’S GO TIME! After a long off-season, the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series kicks off with an absolute barnburner at the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium – aka "The Madhouse!

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Bumping, beating and banging were the headliners Saturday night, along with Chase Elliott, in the return of the NASCAR Cup Series to Bowman Gray Stadium for the first time since 1971. Elliott won the first of four heat races on the quarter-mile track and will start Sunday night’s Cook Out Clash from the pole.

Ryan Blaney was a little kid the first time he raced at Bowman Gray Stadium and remembers it being the coolest thing he’d ever done in motorsports.