NASCAR at Michigan 2025: Odds, TV/radio times and more info
BROOKLYN, MICH. — NASCAR heads to Michigan International Speedway for an early-June stop with the Cup Series and Craftsman Truck Series.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is returning to the two-mile, D-shaped oval for the first time since 2020. Meanwhile, the NASCAR Cup Series is headed there for the 108th race in series history, dating back to the first race in 1969. Cale Yarborough won the very first race, held June 15, 1969.
This is the first time NASCAR has raced at Michigan in June since 2019 – the last year the track had two race weekends.
NASCAR Cup Series’ Firekeepers Casino 400
- Sunday, June 8
- 2 p.m. (All times Eastern)
- Practice and qualifying: Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
- 2 p.m. (All times Eastern)
- 200 laps
- Stages end on laps 45, 120, 200
- Prime Video, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
- Last year’s winner: Tyler Reddick
Coming into this weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series is on a streak of two consecutive races at Michigan International Speedway with 26 or more lead changes. This hasn’t happened since 1981 when the August race had 65 lead changes after the June race had 47.
Both the 2023 race and the 2024 race featured 26 lead changes each. The last time a Michigan Cup race had 26 or more lead changes before 2023 was August 2012.
The NextGen car has made the racing even more fierce at Michigan in recent years, upping the parity among winners.
The first three races with the car have seen three different winners – Reddick, Chris Buescher (2023) and Kevin Harvick (2022) – compared to three different winners in the last six Gen 6 races.
Odds coming soon.
NASCAR Cup Series at Michigan 2025 Odds
- Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson +550
- Ryan Blaney, William Byron +700
- Tyler Reddick +800
- Christopher Bell +1000
- Chase Elliott, Joey Logano +1600
- Carson Hocevar +1800
- Ross Chastain, Chase Briscoe +2000
- Kyle Busch, Josh Berry, Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace +2200
- Chris Buescher +2500
- Alex Bowman +3500
- Ty Gibbs +4000
- Ryan Preece, Erik Jones, Austin Cindric +6000
- Daniel Suarez +10000
- Michael McDowell, Zane Smith +12500
- AJ Allmendinger +14000
- Noah Gragson +15000
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr., John Hunter Nemechek +17500
- Austin Dillon +20000
- Shane van Gisbergen +25000
- Todd Gilliland +35000
- Justin Haley +40000
- Cole Custer +50000
- Riley Herbst +75000
- Ty Dillon +100000
- Cody Ware +250000
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series’ DQS Solutions & Staffing 250
- Saturday, June 7
- 12 p.m. (All times Eastern)
- 125 laps
- Stages end on laps 30, 60, 125
- FOX, NASCAR Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
- Last winner: Zane Smith (2020)
The return of NASCAR Trucks at Michigan International Speedway has been highly-anticipated for five years since the track didn’t return to the schedule for 2021. Because it’s been so long, the trucks will get a 50-minute practice Friday at 1 p.m. ET before they qualify Saturday morning at 8 a.m. ET.
When the trucks last raced at Michigan, in 2020, current NASCAR Cup Series driver Zane Smith made a last-lap pass on Christian Eckes to take home the win.
In the last six Truck races at Michigan, five of them featured 15 or more lead changes. In fact, three of the last five Truck races at Michigan featured a last-lap pass. With 25 more laps, it’s anticipated this year’s race will go well beyond 15 lead changes.
These current full-time drivers have experience at Michigan:
- Ben Rhodes
- Two top-10 finishes in five starts
- Chandler Smith
- Crash DNF (38th) in 2020 after leading four laps and winning the pole
- Daniel Hemric
- Finished seventh in 2015, third in 2016
- Grant Enfinger
- Four top-10s in five starts
- Matt Crafton
- Three top-5 finishes and nine top-10s in 19 starts
- Best finish: Second (2014)
- Best start: Pole (2011, ’15, ’17)
- Three top-5 finishes and nine top-10s in 19 starts
- Spencer Boyd
- Finished 22nd in 2019, 27th in 2020
- Stewart Friesen
- Two top-10s in four starts
- Tanner Gray
- Finished third in 2020
- Ty Majeski
- Finished 15th in 2020
- Tyler Ankrum
- One top-5 finish in two starts
- Fourth in 2020
- One top-5 finish in two starts
Odds for the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Michigan are coming soon.
ARCA Menards Series’ Henry Ford Health 200
- Friday at 5 p.m. (All times Eastern)
- FS2
- 100 laps
- Practice and qualifying: Friday at 2 p.m.
- Last year’s winner: Connor Zilisch
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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