NASCAR Saturday schedule at Phoenix Raceway

The XFinity and Cup series is on track at Phoenix Raceway on Saturday, as the 1-Mile Oval opens its first annual Renna Week with Nascar’s top two national series.

Xfinity Cars will start practicing at 11:30 ET, followed by qualifying for a 200-round race at 12:35 p.m., which starts at 5pm ET. Chandler Smith is the defensive winner of the race, but is not incurred in Saturday’s race.

Cup cars have an exercise of 45 minutes at 2pm ET before qualifying for Sunday’s race at 3:05 pm.

Phoenix also plays host to the NASCAR Championship weekend, which takes place on October 31. 2, 2025.

Phoenix Raceway schedule

(All times east)

Saturday 8 March

Garage open

• 10:00 – 22:30 – XFINITY SERIES
• Afternoon – 16:30 – Cup Series

Trace activity

• 11:30 – 12:25 PM – XFINITY PRACTICE (CW App Streaming)
• 12:35 pm – 13:30 – XFINITY QUALIFICATION (CW -PAPROOM)
• 14:00 – 14:45 – Cup Practice (Prime, MRN)
• 15:05 – 16:00 – Qualifying (Prime, MRN)
• 17:00 – XFinity Race (200 rounds, stage 1 on cloth 45, phase 2 on cloth 90, 200 miles; cw, mrn, siriusxm nascar radio)

Again

Saturday: Sunny with a highlight of 68 degrees. It is expected to be 65 degrees and no chance of rain for the start of the Xfinity race.