Motor Sports Top Events for 2025 | The first days of winter are not a time when people do a lot of online betting on motor sports – team rosters are in flux, calendars are being announced.
That doesn’t mean that this sport lacks drama this time of year, though. Formula 1 is seeing Lewis Hamilton leaving Mercedes after a storied career to join Red Bull.
Hamilton’s friction with teammate George Russell, combined with performance issues that have kept the Silver Arrows from being competitive for several seasons now, both contributed to the British legend’s move.
Red Bull currently has an open seat next to Max Verstappen, who has dominated F1 during Mercedes’ period of vulnerability.
Sergio Perez was taken off the team after getting just two points in his last five races, and rumors are swirling about his replacement.
Is McLaren, historically a midfield team but now a podium regular, going to stay strong as both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri return?
In NASCAR news, the Cup Series will race in Mexico City for the first time, building on the popularity of the NASCAR Mexico race at the L.A. Coliseum last year.
Looking ahead to 2025, let’s take a look at some of the top events in each of the major motor sports circuits.
Motor Sports Top Events for 2025: NASCAR, Formula 1, MotoGP, IndyCar & Rally
NASCAR
The 2025 Cup Series schedule features 38 races and brings in two historic exhibition tracks in addition to 36 events that deliver points – and the first points-based event in Mexico City in the modern era.
The calendar will start with an exhibition once again – this time on February 2 at the 0.25 mile track at Bowman Gray, which hosted 29 Cup Series races between 1958 and 1971 and saw Richard Petty get his 100th win in the series.
Daytona 500
Starts the regular season two weeks later with the 67th Daytona 500. On June 15, NASCAR will have its Cup Series race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, the first international points-paying event for the Cup Series since the summer of 1958.
NASCAR will also have an in-season tournament for the first time. Seeding will be based on a five-race series that starts Memorial Day weekend with the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway and then continue through Nashville, Michigan, Mexico City and Pocono Raceway, with all five events broadcast on Prime Video.
Then the five-race tournament will start on June 28 in Atlanta and move through the Chicago Street Course, Sonoma, Dover, and Indianapolis, where the Brickyard 400 will wind the tournament up. The postseason begins August 31 at Darlington with the Southern 500 to open the Round of 16.
New Hampshire will host a postseason race for the first time in eight years, and then Talladega Superspeedway will round out the Round of 8, and the chaos that is a part of super speedway racing could bring seismic change to the standings. The Championship 4 will end the season in Phoenix on November 2.
^Formula 1
The regular season begins March 14-16 with the Australian Grand Prix. The Middle Eastern races (Bahrain and Saudi Arabia) are moved to April this year, as Ramadan takes place in March.
August has its usual summer break, with three weekends off between the Hungarian Grand Prix and the Dutch Grand Prix. The series will also see six sprints, in Shanghai, Miami, Spa, Austin, São Paulo, and Qatar. Preseason testing is set for Bahrain from February 26-28, ahead of the 75th season of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship.
^Motor Sports Top Events for 2025 MotoGP
In 2025, MotoGP will see 22 Grands Prix around the world, starting March 2 in Thailand, the second straight year for the series to start in this country. The second race goes around the globe to Argentina on the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit, which is back in MotoGP for the first time in years.
April 27 is the first European race – the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez. Before that, Qatar and the United States will host MotoGP. The European swing will continue through Le Mans, Silverstone – and Brno in the Czech Republic, where the series has not raced since 2021. Hungary will open the Balaton Park circuit, a new track, on August 24. The Valencia circuit in Spain will host the final round on November 16.
^IndyCar
IndyCar has 17 races in 2025, including a quadruple-header. That goes one race beyond the triple-header from 2024, which saw the Indy 500, Detroit and Road America take place back-to-back. This time around, IndyCar will run consecutive events at Mid-Ohio, Iowa Speedway, Toronto, and Laguna Seca.
The Thermal Club race will offer points for the first time as well. The season opens on March 2 at St. Petersburg and winds up on August 31 at Nashville Superspeedway.
^Motor Sports Top Events for 2025 FIA World Rally Championship
The WRC slate for 2025 starts with the Rallye Monte-Carlo in just over a month, starting on January 23, and the series runs 14 races. New stops this year take place in Spain, Paraguay and Saudi Arabia, with Saudi Arabia hosting the finale from November 27-30.
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