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NASCAR: Xfinity to finish sponsorship of second-tier sequence after 2025 season

Xfinity has been the title sponsor of NASCAR’s No. 2 series since 2015. (Photo by Marc Sanchez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) NASCAR’s second-tier series will need a new title sponsor in 2026. Xfinity has been the sponsor of the series since 2014, but will vacate that sponsorship at the end of the 2025 season, according

NASCAR: Xfinity to finish sponsorship of second-tier sequence after 2025 season

Nick Bromberg

LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 26: A general view of the Xfinity logo during the Alsco 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoff race on Sept. 26, 2020, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by Marc Sanchez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Xfinity has been the title sponsor of NASCAR’s No. 2 sequence since 2015. (Picture by Marc Sanchez/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)

NASCAR’s second-tier sequence will want a brand new title sponsor in 2026.

Xfinity has been the sponsor of the sequence since 2014, however will vacate that sponsorship on the finish of the 2025 season, in response to a number of stories. Xfinity had signed a 10-year deal to be the title sponsor starting in 2015, and NASCAR introduced Tuesday that Xfinity had signed a one-year extension for the 2025 season.

The Comcast model is staying in NASCAR as a premier sponsor of the top-tier Cup Sequence. NASCAR has not had a title sponsor for the Cup Sequence since Monster Vitality left after the 2019 season. Over the previous 5 seasons, NASCAR has had a number of top-level sponsors for the Cup Sequence; its three are at the moment Busch, Coca-Cola and Xfinity.

The Xfinity Sequence was spun off into the Grand Nationwide Sequence from NASCAR’s longtime sportsman division in 1984. Busch was the sponsor for the sequence via 2007, and Nationwide Insurance coverage took over because the title sponsor via 2014.

Xfinity’s departure because the title sponsor comes because the Xfinity Sequence has its personal TV deal beginning in 2025. Xfinity Sequence broadcasts had been break up amongst Fox and NBC together with the Cup Sequence schedule however are actually all going to be on the CW in 2025 and past. The CW obtained the rights to the sequence because it expands its sports activities portfolio with ACC and Pac-12 sporting occasions.

NASCAR additionally introduced on Tuesday that Xfinity would sponsor a quickest lap program throughout the Cup Sequence, Xfinity Sequence and Truck Sequence. The motive force with the quickest lap in a given race will get an additional level in a transfer much like what F1 employs. An F1 driver was in a position to a bonus level for the quickest lap if he completed within the high 10 however the rule was abolished on the finish of the 2024 season.

There have been no such ending place circumstances laid out in NASCAR’s announcement. If there are not any qualifiers for the quickest lap award, NASCAR could be setting itself up for further race manipulation — particularly within the playoffs — if a driver a number of laps down pits for recent tires and the quickest lap to disclaim a rival from getting the purpose.

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The penultimate race of the 2024 Cup Sequence season was plagued with race manipulation within the waning laps as Chevrolet drivers shaped a barricade of types to make sure that fellow Chevy driver William Byron would have the chance to race for the Cup Sequence title the next week whereas Toyota’s Bubba Wallace slowed with what he mentioned was a flat tire as Christopher Bell obtained previous him.

Bell bounced off the wall on the ultimate lap in a transfer that NASCAR deemed unlawful to permit Byron to advance to the ultimate 4.

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