Today, we’re going to look at something a little different in regards to NASCAR on TV.
We’re only a couple of weeks into the season, but my colleagues and I here at Frontstretch noticed some gripes from fans on social media. To this point, the actual coverage itself for the NASCAR Cup Series really hasn’t changed much from 2024. Those changes will ramp up this weekend with Cup practice and qualifying being on Amazon Prime Video.
However, the new deal also brought the end of NASCAR Drive, a setup over the past couple of years where fans could go to nascar.com and see in-car cameras for every driver in the field. The service was free and pretty cool, to be honest.
These cameras are still available for every Cup race, in 2025 but they’re on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned Max streaming service. Yes, NASCAR does advertise the fact that they’re there, but it seems to mostly be through the random TV schedule cards that are showing up on telecasts this year and on social media, like below.
The biggest stars on the biggest stage.
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) February 16, 2025
Welcome to #DAYTONA500 Sunday. pic.twitter.com/YOV1gT7NeO
The downside of this move is the fact that it is no longer free. To access the in-car cameras, you’ll have to have a subscription to Max.
The in-car cameras, under the branding of NASCAR Driver Cam, can be found in the B/R Sports portion of the app. The link is at the top of your screen. I’ve circled it in blue since the typeface is rather small.
Once in there, scroll down the page to the ‘Live & Upcoming Sports’ section. Only so many of the in-car cameras will show up on the main page. For the rest of them, you’ll have to click on the full schedule on the left side of the page.
There are four featured drivers each week. For Atlanta, they are Brad Keselowski, Chase Briscoe, Joey Logano and Tyler Reddick. There’s also a fan-voted additional multi-view channel. Voting for that will be done on the X and Instagram accounts of Bleacher Report (also known as B/R Sports).
In addition to the live in-car cameras during races, you also have on-demand ability to replay the cameras. To find them, scroll down the page and you’ll eventually come to the NASCAR Driver Cam portion of the site. You’ll have every driver in the race to choose from. At the time I went in there, it had the on-demand drivers from the Daytona 500 in numerical order.
Most of the drivers will have the dash cameras that you would likely be used to from the NASCAR Drive setup. You’ll also have radio communications as well. Certain drivers will be featured and have their in-car cameras fully produced. Your screen will look like this
Before you ask, yes, this is exactly what you think it is. This was just a couple of seconds before Ryan Preece got launched.
Now, we get to the cost. The B/R Sports part of Max’s service is officially considered to be an add-on to the Max streaming service with a value of $9.99 per month on top of the regular cost. The cost of the plans can be seen below. There are also a couple of bundles with Disney+ and Hulu available.
If you have cable or a cell phone, it is possible to subscribe through them. Personally, I get my subscription through Spectrum.
As you can see, the Max website indicates that the B/R Sports add-on is “on us for a limited time.” The original plan was to launch it at the beginning of last year, then start charging the $9.99 per month in time for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament since there would likely be substantial demand for the service, especially the early rounds where you have four games at once.
However, they ran into issues that prevented them from charging in time for the tournament. As of this writing, they aren’t charging the add-on fee to anyone for it yet and it’s unclear when or if that’s actually going to happen.
When NASCAR returns to TNT for its five-race schedule starting with the Quaker State 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on June 28, Max will also be where you will be able to stream the race broadcast itself. You’ll be able to pick the race out of the Live & Upcoming Sports section near the top of the page.
NASCAR is also not the only form of racing available on the B/R Sports portion of the app. When MotorTrend+ closed 11 months ago, it became the official streaming home of the FIA World Endurance Championship. It’s also one of the streaming options in the United States for motoGP.
I used the B/R Sports portion of the site to watch the WEC for most of last season. The WEC’s current TV deal specifies that three hours of coverage of each race (excluding Le Mans) will air live on Motor Trend. That is typically pre-race, the first hour of the race, the last hour and post-race. The rest of the race will be exclusive to Max. I personally find it to be better than the TV version of Peacock that I use for a lot of IMSA coverage. Your opinions will vary.
We hope this helps you out in regards to NASCAR’s new in-car camera streaming setup for 2025.
Screenshots are courtesy of our own Phil Allaway.
Phil Allaway has three primary roles at Frontstretch. He's the manager of the site's FREE e-mail newsletter that publishes Monday-Friday and occasionally on weekends. He keeps TV broadcasters honest with weekly editions of Couch Potato Tuesday and serves as the site's Sports Car racing editor.
Outside of Frontstretch, Phil is the press officer for Lebanon Valley Speedway in West Lebanon, N.Y. He covers all the action on the high-banked dirt track from regular DIRTcar Modified racing to occasional visits from touring series such as the Super DIRTcar Series.