NASCAR Friday schedule 2025: Here’s what today’s schedule at Circuit of the Americas looks like

The 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series teams are scheduled to be on the 2.356-mile-long road course on Friday, February 28, as the racing action of the season’s third weekend kicks off at Circuit of the Americas.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers will take part in the practice and qualifying to set the starting grid before Saturday's (March 1) main event in Austin, Texas. The NASCAR Xfinity Series practice is set to begin at 5 pm ET and will be followed by Xfinity’s qualifying race at 6 pm ET.

The NASCAR Cup Series teams will return to the track on Saturday for practice and qualifying.

The weather forecast on Friday at Circuit of the Americas predicted a partly cloudy, high temperature of 77 degrees with a two percent chance of rain at Xfinity qualifying.

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Complete NASCAR’s Friday schedule at Circuit of the Americas

Here’s the complete schedule for Friday’s on-track action across the NASCAR second-tier series races at Circuit of the Americas:

Friday, Feb. 28, 2024

Garage open

12 pm ET – 7:30 pm ET: Xfinity Series

1 pm ET – 6 pm ET: Cup Series

Track activity

5 pm ET – 5:50 pm ET: Xfinity Series practice

6:05 pm ET – 7 pm ET: Xfinity Series qualifying

The Xfinity Series race practice and qualifying session will be available on the CW app.

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Focused Health 250 at Circuit of the Americas: Entry List

Here’s the entry list for the Focused Health 250 at COTA:

1. #00 - Sheldon Creed
2. #07 - Alex Labbe
3. #1 - Carson Kvapil
4. #2 - Jesse Love
5. #4 - Parker Retzlaff
6. #5 - Kris Wright
7. #7 - Justin Allgaier
8. #8 - Sammy Smith
9. #9 - Ross Chastain
10. #10 - Daniel Dye
11. #11 - Josh Williams
12. #14 - Carson Hocevar
13. #16 - Christian Eckes
14. #17 - William Byron
15. #18 - William Sawalich
16. #19 - Riley Herbst
17. #20 - Brandon Jones
18. #21 - Austin Hill
19. #24 - Corey Heim
20. #25 - Harrison Burton
21. #26 - Dean Thompson
22. #27 - Jeb Burton
23. #28 - Kyle Sieg
24. #31 - Blaine Perkins
25. #32 - Austin Green
26. #35 - Baltazar Leguizamon
27. #39 - Ryan Sieg
28. #41 - Sam Mayer
29. #42 - Anthony Alfredo
30. #44 - Brennan Poole
31. #45 - Brad Perez
32. #48 - Nick Sanchez
33. #50 - Preston Pardus
34. #51 - Jeremy Clements
35. #53 - TBA
36. #54 - Taylor Gray
37. #70 - Thomas Annunziata
38. #71 - Ryan Ellis
39. #88 - Connor Zilisch
40. #91 - Josh Bilicki
41. #99 - Matt DiBenedetto