Bowman Gray Stadium, NASCAR’s longest-running weekly race track, gears up for another great season of asphalt action as it returns to operation on April 19.

NASCAR's longest-running weekly race track is back for another season of exciting racing action in 2025, as Bowman Gray Stadium looks towards opening day on April 19.

Bowman Gray Stadium begins its 76th season of NASCAR racing on Friday and Saturday April 18-19 in Winston-Salem, NC. The track has been racing NASCAR Modifieds since Bill France and Alvin Hawkins promoted it as NASCAR’s first weekly racing track in 1949. The 1110th edition of “Still the Most Exciting of Them All” promises to be an entertaining one, as usual, with the longest and most prestigious race opening up the season for their featured division, the NASCAR Brad’s Golf Cars Modifieds.

The inaugural Madhouse Classic for NASCAR Modifieds was held Saturday afternoon at Bowman Gray Stadium in advance of this year's NASCAR Cook Out Clash. Chris Fleming claimed the victory over a field of 22 Modified drivers in a rough and tumble 125-lap race at The Madhouse.

The inaugural Cook Out Madhouse Classic at Bowman Gray Stadium is expected to be one of the biggest Modified races in the long history of the Stadium. And now, it’s even bigger. All FloRacing subscribers will be able to tune in on Saturday, February 1 to see the stars of the Madhouse race on their biggest stage yet.

The inaugural Madhouse Classic for the NASCAR Modifieds at Bowman Gray Stadium is just days away, and now, thanks to the Winston-Salem Journal, we can finally see who will be wheeling the mighty groundpounders around the historic quarter-mile bullring on Saturday afternoon.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Ever since he was a fresh-out-of-high-school 19-year-old just beginning his racing career, Tim Brown had an eye on competing in the NASCAR Cup Series. Nearly 35 years later, Brown will finally get the opportunity to race in NASCAR’s premier division.

NASCAR released the tentative weekend schedule and format for the 2025 Clash exhibition race at Bowman Gray Stadium on Thursday afternoon. The weekend schedule gave teams and fans the first look at how the entire weekend will play out at the historic facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

WINSTON SALEM, N.C. – NASCAR announced today that The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium on Sunday, Feb. 2 is sold out as fans eagerly anticipate the return of the NASCAR Cup Series to this historic venue for the first time since 1971.

Today, NASCAR announced The Clash will come to historic Bowman Gray Stadium for the first-time as the opening exhibition event for the 2025 season on Feb. 2. The announcement was made by Ben Kennedy as part of pre-race for tonight’s NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series event at the racetrack. This will mark the first NASCAR Cup Series event at the racetrack in 54 years. The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium will be broadcast live on FOX.

Twelve-time Bowman Gray Stadium NASCAR Modified Champion Tim Brown suffered a broken hand in a crash during the first of two Ortega Twin 50’s on Saturday night.

The one and only Bowman Gray Stadium returns to action this Saturday night with the annual Hayes Jewelers 200. We say it every year, but this place isn’t called “The Madhouse” for no reason. You already know why it’s earned that nickname, but let’s make sure you’re up to date with "Everything You Need To Know" before NASCAR’s longest running weekly track kicks off another action-packed season.

Today, NASCAR announced that it has acquired Winston-Salem Speedway, Inc., the lessee of the historic Bowman Gray Stadium. NASCAR will manage racing operations under the lease with the City of Winston-Salem that runs through Dec. 2050.

It’s never not a wild night at Bowman Gray Stadium, but Saturday’s season finale was exceptionally crazy all evening long at the place affectionately known as “The Madhouse.” All four divisions had tight championship battles that came right down to the final laps, and of course there was the typical drama that makes the Madhouse rock.

For the second season in a row, the championship battle in the headlining Modified division is going to come down to the final night of the season at Bowman Gray Stadium. And just like last year, it’s coming down to Tim Brown making more history, or Brandon Ward scoring his first Bowman Gray title.