The NASCAR Cup Series season begins on track with practice and heat races on Saturday ahead of the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium. Practice times will set the heat race lineups, and the four 25-lap heat races will help set the 23-car field for the non-points paying Cook Out Clash on Sunday.

NASCAR returns to its roots Sunday with the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, which last played host to a Cup Series event more than 50 years ago. After three years on a temporary short track at the Los Angeles Coliseum, NASCAR has moved The Clash to the 0.25-mile track in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known as “The Madhouse.”