NASCAR Saturday schedule 2025: Here’s what today’s schedule at Phoenix Raceway looks like

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series teams are scheduled to be on the one-mile-long track on Saturday (March 8) as the action of the season’s fourth weekend continues at Phoenix Raceway.

The NASCAR Cup Series drivers will participate in a practice and qualifying session scheduled for Saturday at 2 pm ET and 3:05 pm ET, respectively, ahead of the Shriners Children’s 500 main event on Sunday, March 9.

Xfinity Series drivers will also compete in the practice and qualifying session before concluding the day with a 200-mile main event at 5 pm ET.

The weather forecast on Saturday at Phoenix was sunny with a high temperature of 68 degrees and no chance of rain for the start of the Xfinity Series race.

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Complete NASCAR's Saturday schedule at Phoenix Raceway

Here’s the complete schedule for Saturday’s on-track action across NASCAR’s top two-tier series at Phoenix Raceway:

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Garage Open

10 am ET – 10:30 pm ET: Cup Series

12 pm ET – 4:30 pm ET: Xfinity Series

Track activity

11:30 am ET – 12:25 pm ET: Xfinity Series practice

12:35 pm ET – 1:30 pm ET: Xfinity Series qualifying

2 pm ET – 2:45 pm ET: Cup Series practice

3:05 pm ET – 4 pm ET: Cup Series qualifying

5 pm ET: Xfinity Series race (200 laps & 200 miles)

All of Saturday’s NASCAR Cup action will be streamed on Prime, while the Xfinity race can be watched on CW.

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Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway: Qualifying order

Here’s the qualifying order for the 2025 Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway:

Group A:

1. #78 - Katherine Legge
2. #54 - Ty Gibbs
3. #99 - Daniel Suarez
4. #51 - Cody Ware
5. #3 - Austin Dillon
6. #60 - Ryan Preece
7. #38 - Zane Smith
8. #16 - A.J. Allmendinger
9. #21 - Josh Berry
10. #5 - Kyle Larson
11. #10 - Ty Dillon
12. #41 - Cole Custer
13. #43 - Erik Jones
14. #19 - Chase Briscoe
15. #2 - Austin Cindric
16. #22 - Joey Logano
17. #11 - Denny Hamlin
18. #42 - John Hunter Nemechek
19. #6 - Brad Keselowski

Group B:

1. #35 - Riley Herbst
2. #7 - Justin Haley
3. #23 - Bubba Wallace
4. #47 - Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
5. #1 - Ross Chastain
6. #12 - Ryan Blaney
7. #4 - Noah Gragson
8. #77 - Carson Hocevar
9. #34 - Todd Gilliland
10. #71 - Michael McDowell
11. #88 - Shane van Gisbergen
12. #17 - Chris Buescher
13. #48 - Alex Bowman
14. #8 - Kyle Busch
15. #9 - Chase Elliott
16. #45 - Tyler Reddick
17. #20 - Christopher Bell