A long-standing NASCAR tradition will be upheld, and another continues to bud. The Cup Series will not race on April 5. Why? Because it’s Easter Sunday. Preorder our Dale Earnhardt book here Cup ...

The NASCAR Cup Series is taking its lone off weekend of the 2025 season. There was still plenty of on-track action with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series racing at Rockingham ...

The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season opened up with seven consecutive race weekends, prior to the off weekend for Easter. NASCAR raced on Easter just once from 1971 to 2021, and that only happened in ...

For most of the past 76 years (the history of NASCAR), Easter weekend has been spent away from the track. The weekend's race at Richmond marks the third consecutive year of racing on Easter. The 1989 ...

For the first time in three years, NASCAR will refrain from hosting a race on Easter Sunday, restoring a longstanding tradition that once held firm across generations. The break marks a return to the ...

For more than half a century, Easter Sunday functioned as an automatic off‑week in NASCAR, a built‑in pause during a schedule that stretches 38 race weekends from February to November. The sport ...

The NASCAR Cup Series has a weekend off for the first time this season. On Easter weekend, the Cup Series will utilize one of two off weekend this year. Next week, all three national series will go to ...