The Clash will run at Bowman Gray Stadium in 2025, NASCAR announced Aug. 17.
It’ll be the first time since 1971 that the NASCAR Cup Series will run at Bowman Gray, albeit for an exhibition race.
For the last three years, the Clash was held at a quarter-mile oval inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Now, it’ll run at another 1/4-mile track in North Carolina.
Bowman Gray held 29 Cup events from 1958 through 1971, with Bobby Allison winning the last event there.
From 2011 to 2015, the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East (now the ARCA Menards Series East) competed there, with Corey LaJoie and Ben Rhodes among the drivers that earned wins.
Denny Hamlin won the 2024 Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum.
The Clash at Bowman Gray is scheduled to open the 2025 Cup Series season on Feb. 2, 2025.
Joy joined Frontstretch in 2019 as a NASCAR DraftKings writer, expanding to news and iRacing coverage in 2020. She's currently an assistant editor and involved with photos, social media and news editing. A California native, Joy was raised watching motorsports and started watching NASCAR extensively in 2001. She earned her B.A. degree in Liberal Studies at California State University Bakersfield in 2010.