When is The Cookout Clash? Here's what to know about the 2025 NASCAR exhibition race in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Salem’s Bowman Gray Stadium for the first time since 1971 this weekend when the historic facility hosts The Clash season kickoff exhibition race, but the track won’t be entirely historic. NASCAR took over the operation side of the facility last year and has made a few modern upgrades.

NASCAR's 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium is quickly approaching. This year's event is scheduled for Sunday, February 2, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, and will be broadcast live on FOX. For radio listeners, MRN, the Motor Racing Network, will cover the action, and satellite radio subscribers can tune in via SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.