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Time of India
04-08-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Where to Watch NASCAR This Week (Aug 4–10): Full 2025 TV Schedule
Image via Instagram/Nascar Start your engines — the NASCAR 2025 season is blazing through August, and this week's TV and streaming schedule is packed with high-speed thrills you won't want to miss. Whether you're a longtime fan of the Cup Series, keeping up with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, or diving into ARCA and grassroots racing, this guide has your week mapped out. From early-morning replays to primetime drama, the full NASCAR experience is just a click (or remote) away. Running from August 4 through August 10, 2025, this complete, up-to-date TV listings guide tells you how to watch NASCAR this week, with all broadcast times in Eastern Time. You'll find detailed programming across FS1, FS2, USA Network, The CW, FloRacing, and more. It's your one-stop pit stop for every qualifying session, practice run, and race-day showdown. Whether you're tuning in live, recording for later, or streaming on the go, this weekly NASCAR TV schedule keeps you in the loop — no guesswork, no missed laps. Let's dive into the full lineup and see what's burning rubber this week. Full Schedule: August 4–10, 2025 (all times Eastern) Extended Highlights | 2025 NASCAR Cup Series from Iowa Monday, August 4 6 a.m., Dirt II: A Season With High Limit: Ante Up (re‑air), FS2 7 a.m., Dirt II: A Season With High Limit: Double Down (re‑air), FS2 8 a.m., Dirt II: A Season With High Limit: Royal Flush (re‑air), FS2 9 a.m., Dirt II: A Season With High Limit: Deuces Wild (re‑air), FS2 10 a.m., Dirt II: A Season With High Limit: All In (re‑air), FS2 8 p.m., ARCA Menards Series: Atlas 150 at Iowa Speedway (re‑air), FS2 Tuesday, August 5 6 a.m., ARCA Menards Series: Atlas 150 at Iowa Speedway (re‑air), FS1 Midnight, Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour: Iowa Recap, FS1 1 a.m., Dirt II: Royal Flush (re‑air), FS 2 a.m., Dirt II: Deuces Wild (re‑air), FS1 3 a.m., Dirt II: All In (re‑air), FS1 4 a.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour: Iowa Recap (re‑air), FS2 5 a.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour: Mark Martin Interview (re‑air), FS2 5:30 a.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour: Mike Skinner Interview (re‑air), FS2 7 p.m., ARCA Menards Series: Atlas 150 at Iowa Speedway (re‑air), FS2 7:45 p.m., NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour at Thompson Speedway, FloRacing 9 p.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour: Iowa Recap (re‑air), FS2 Thursday, August 7 7 p.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour (re‑air), FS1 10:30 p.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour (re‑air), FS2 11 p.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour: Mark Martin Interview (re‑air), FS2 Friday, August 8 2 a.m., Dirt II: Royal Flush (re‑air), FS1 3 a.m., Dirt II: Deuces Wild (re‑air), FS1 4 a.m., Dirt II: All In (re‑air), FS1 5 a.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour (re‑air), FS1 5:30 a.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour (re‑air), FS2 10:30 a.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour (re‑air), FS2 11 a.m., Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour: Mark Martin Interview (re‑air), FS2 11:30 a.m., NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Practice and Qualifying at Watkins Glen International, FS2 2 p.m., ARCA Menards Series: General Tire 100 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International, FS2 5 p.m., NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Truck Series race at Watkins Glen International, FS1 Saturday, August 9 1 a.m., NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Truck Series race at Watkins Glen International (re‑air), FS1 9:30 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Practice and Qualifying at Watkins Glen International, The CW App Noon, NASCAR Cup Series: Practice and Qualifying at Watkins Glen International, truTV 2:30 p.m., NASCAR Countdown Live, The CW 3 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series: Mission 200 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International, The CW 6 p.m., NASCAR Weekly Racing at Berlin Raceway, FloRacing 6:20 p.m., NASCAR Weekly Racing at Jennerstown Speedway, FloRacing 6:30 p.m., NASCAR Weekly Racing at South Boston Speedway, FloRacing 7 p.m., NASCAR Weekly Racing at Hickory Motor Speedway, FloRacing TBD, ARCA Menards Series West: NAPA Auto Care 150 at Tri‑City Raceway, FloRacing Sunday, August 10 6 a.m., ARCA Menards Series: General Tire 100 at The Glen (re‑air), FS2 8 a.m., NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Truck Series race at Watkins Glen International (re‑air), FS2 1 p.m., NASCAR Modifieds at Riverhead Raceway, FloRacing 1:30 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Countdown to Green, USA Network 2 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen, USA Network 4:30 p.m., NASCAR Cup Series: Post Race, USA Network TBD, NASCAR Youth Series at Hagerstown, FloRacing Whether you're a Cup series devotee or follow the grassroots and support series, this week's NASCAR programming offers something for every kind of fan — all on FS2, USA Network, or FloRacing, depending on your interest. From rerun replays to full live action, and youth racing showcases, this weekly guide helps you navigate the full breadth of NASCAR coverage in 2025. Bookmark it — it updates weekly so you'll always know what's on and when. For real-time updates, scores, and highlights, follow our live coverage of the India vs England Test match here. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
Yahoo
29-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Larry McReynolds vs. Mark Martin? Nah, but let's talk NASCAR playoffs anyway
If Matt Kenseth killed the old championship system, did Joey Logano kill the current method? Are both true? Is neither true? Or is the answer somewhere between those two extremes? Answers: Doubtful. Probably not. Yeah, sounds about right. Such things are being hashed out publicly this week, and among those weighing in is one of the very best NASCAR racers who just so happened to never win a championship: Hall of Famer Mark Martin, who, by the way, was seemingly and inadvertently dragged into this argument by America's Crew Chief. We'll explain, but first, some history. Mild Matty K in 2003: One win, one championship The 'old way' of crowning a champion ended after Matt Kenseth won the 2003 championship. Mild Matt was a picture of consistency that year, but he wasn't consistently at the front of the field. In fact, he won just one race. Didn't matter, because the championship was determined by season-long points gathering, with the only bonuses being a one-time five-pointer for leading a lap, and another five if you led the most laps in the race — 10 extra points available in each race, where the winner received 175, which was actually 180 because by winning he obviously led at least one lap. Each race runner-up back then got 170 points, and if you're looking for you're looking for a big glitch in the old system, it's this: Take those 170 points, add five for leading a lap and five more leading the most laps, and yep, the second-place driver would earn just as many points as the winner. You could win the Daytona 500 and go to Week 2 without the points lead. Weird but true. Still with us? That long-ago formula was how Dale Earnhardt won seven championships. It's how Richard Petty won seven before that, though the method of collecting season-long points changed midway through King Richard's reign. NASCAR first went playoff racin' in 2004 NASCAR had been tinkering with ideas for a postseason when presented with the perfect time to strike: Right after Matt Kenseth's one-win 2003 championship season (that one victory came at Vegas, by the way). Kurt Busch was the first champ crowned after a postseason, which began as a 10-race mini-season, where the playoff driver who gathered the most points during that span was considered the champ. In the years following, the playoffs were tweaked, tweaked and tweaked again, and eventually they landed on the system in place for the past 11 years — 16 drivers whittled to 12 after three playoff races, to eight after three more, to a final four after three more, with the 10th and final playoff race being a winner-take-all among those four. Generally speaking, the eventual champ had put together a good all-around season, followed by a steady-to-great playoffs. Then came Joey Logano in 2024. Joey Logano's lucky (and timely) 2024 championship run Logano was 15th in points after the regular season, but was in no danger of missing the 16-driver playoffs because he'd earned automatic entry with a Week 19 win at Nashville. Though a two-time champ, he slid into the playoffs without much fanfare, but then he won the first playoff race, at Atlanta, to secure a Round of 12 berth. Logano barely missed transferring from the Round of 12 to the Round of 8, however … … He advanced from ninth place to the Round of 8 when Alex Bowman's car was DQ'd following post-race inspections at Charlotte. Joey not only survived, but wouldn't you know it, he opened the Round of 8 with a win at Las Vegas, and after finishes of 28th and 10th the next two weeks, he clutched up and won the final at Phoenix for championship number three. He got hot at the right time, lucky at the right time, then hot again at the right time. It doesn't often work out in that fashion, but it can, and some aren't crazy about it, which leads us to Mark Martin. Larry Mac vs. Mark Martin? Not really Martin keeps pretty active on social media, and he's not shy about preaching the virtues of the old season-long championship battle, even though the Cup title was often clinched prior to the final weekend. Hell, sometimes two weeks prior. Like Phil Mickelson at the U.S. Open, Martin famously finished second in the Cup standings five times. He raced for championships under the old system and under the original playoff method, but never under today's system. Martin joined the current discussion because some fans thought he was being called out — unfavorably, they felt — by longtime crew chief-turned-broadcaster Larry McReynolds, who co-hosts a NASCAR show on SiriusXM satellite radio. Danielle Trotta, his co-host, suggested a racer on the current playoff subcommittee (they're examining potential ways to tweak the modern system) badly wants to go back to the pre-2004 ways. 'I bet it's a driver that's not won a championship,' Larry Mac said to Trotta. Uh-oh. Chances are, he was speaking of Denny Hamlin, but some knee-jerk reactors thought he was taking a shot at Mark Martin, which would've been an extremely weird thing to do in this case, but knee-jerk reactions, by definition, don't come with a lot of thought. So the knee-jerkers did what they often do, they went on X to rat out Larry Mac — and rat him out directly to Mark Martin, who didn't really take the bait but did reiterate his love of the old ways. What does the 2023 NASCAR champ have to say about all this? Next up: Ryan Blaney, the 2023 champ who seems to fall somewhere in the middle of this argument. Also speaking on SiriusXM this week, Blaney said he favors the original playoff format, back when just 10 drivers made the postseason and, once there, reset the standings and raced for points over the entire 10-race playoff. That's back when it was called the 'Chase for the Championship' by most but officially known as the Chase for the Nextel Cup. 'Do I have my ideal championship format? Yeah,' Blaney said. 'I was a huge fan of the initial Chase. Last 10 weeks of the year, you kind of have somewhat of a reset in points and then you go 10 races and whoever had the best 10 races was going to win the championship.' Solid idea, but two problems. First, don't bet on NASCAR shrinking the playoff field from 16, and certainly not all the way back to 10. More playoff cars, more playoff exposure for the sponsors who largely fund horsepower. And they won't likely return to a 10-race points chase that could see the leader go into the final weekend needing nothing more, say, than a 25th-place finish to clinch the Cup. Right now, it's all theory, but when the smoke clears, here's a certainty: Whether things stay the same, return to yesteryear or fall somewhere in between, some people won't like it. — Email Ken Willis at This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR feud? Larry Mac vs. Mark Martin vs. Matt Kenseth vs. Joey Logano
CNBC
15-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Wizz Air exits Abu Dhabi
"The Middle East isn't an easy market to fly into," Mark Martin, CEO of Martin Consulting tells CNBC's Dan Murphy after low-cost Hungarian carrier Wizz Air announced it would exit Abu Dhabi.
Hans India
12-07-2025
- General
- Hans India
No pilot is stupid to play around with switches during takeoff: Aviation expert Mark Martin on AAIB report
No pilot is stupid, or inept, to want to play around with switches in the middle section of cockpit when all attention is focused on forward flight cockpit instruments located in front of the pilots, during takeoff and landing, top aviation expert Mark Martin told IANS on Saturday. Reacting to the preliminary findings by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the fatal crash of Air India flight AI 171 — a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that went down shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12, Martin, who is CEO of Martin Consulting, an aviation safety firm in Asia, said that for a pilot, two most critical phases of flight are the take off and landing. 'During this, all attention is on flight instruments and hand flying the aircraft to about (usually) 2000 feet then engaging the autopilot. Attention is on continuing flight and flight controls, never on the throttle quadrant, since thrust is set to MAX TAKE OFF THRUST,' he told IANS. According to the AAIB preliminary report, both fuel control switches supplying fuel to the engines of Air India flight 171 were turned off in quick succession, shutting down both the engines. One of the pilots can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder, asking the other why he cut off the fuel, to which the other pilot responded by saying that 'he did not', the report mentioned. Martin said that the report 'will have a global ramification on all 787 operators'. 'It is highly unlikely that any pilot, especially during takeoff would want to meddle or fiddle around with switches behind the thrust levels. At best, you would focus on raising the landing gear which is located in the front panel of the cockpit, or raise the flaps,' the expert explained, adding that it is imperative that we wait for the entire, comprehensive investigation report. to come out. The report said that both pilots had an adequate rest period before the flight. According to the 15-page report, the flight lasted around 30 seconds between lift-off and crash. The report noted that at this stage, there are no recommended actions to operators of Boeing 787-8 aircraft and GE GEnx-1B engines. The air crash killed 260 people — 241 of the 242 people on board the ill-fated aircraft and 19 on the ground.
New York Times
25-06-2025
- Automotive
- New York Times
Ryan Blaney on how he got better, how to fix the racing and more: 12 Questions
Each week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a different race car driver. Up next: Ryan Blaney of Team Penske. This interview has been edited and condensed, but the full version is available on the 12 Questions Podcast. New this week: The podcast is now available as an RSS feed, not just The Athletic app. 1. What was one of the first autographs you got as a kid, and what do you remember about that moment? Mark Martin signed my shirt. I was at driver intros with Dad (driver Dave Blaney) somewhere and I asked Mark to sign my shirt. I loved Mark Martin, and I just thought it was super cool. I was really fortunate to be at driver intros with my dad when I was younger and get to meet all the guys. I had Mark sign it, and that was one of the most sought-after autographs in my book. Advertisement 2. What is the most miserable you've ever been inside of a race car? Phoenix fall race, 2019. We were in the Round of 8, trying to get to Homestead. Essentially had to win. We ran third, but I had the flu and obviously I didn't feel good at all. I was hydrating all day, but then in the car I didn't sweat anything out — so I had to pee really bad. Not only was I sick as a dog, I had to pee really bad. I thought my bladder was going to burst and I felt like crap. Those two things compounded on each other definitely doesn't make for a fun race. 3. Outside of racing, what is your most recent memory of something you got way too competitive about? Golf. Playing with your buddies, got some money on the line. That's really the only thing outside of racing I get really competitive about. Didn't you say before The Masters you went to Augusta and shot like an 80? I think my best score out there was 82. You don't want to get too competitive there. The most competitive is like when you're at your local muni with your buddies and there's $100 on the line. You can't toss your clubs at Augusta. No, you don't want to do that. You won't be invited back. 4. What do people get wrong about you? I do it to myself a little bit, but if I have a little thing on the radio and I get frustrated, people are like, 'Oh, he's losing his mind.' That's not really the case. I have my 10 seconds of frustration, and I just have to let it out. Listen to other guys, man. There are guys way worse than me. And it's not me losing my mind. I just have to get it out, and it's how I move on past things. If I don't get it out, it just bundles up. It's weird, because I'm not like that out of the car. Like at home, I don't ever get to that point. I don't really ever get frustrated with much stuff outside the car. But when I'm competing, people get that wrong. It's not really losing my mind. It's my own way of getting everything out in the open that I need to. I wish people didn't hear it, but everyone does it to their own extent. Advertisement It's your pop-off valve. Yeah, man. The steam is building up, something happens and I just have to let it out. People are like, 'Don't push the (radio) button.' It feels way better when you push the button. You have to let someone else hear it. But I just get it out, and then I'm back to where I need to be. If I don't, I just think about it too much. 5. What kind of Uber passenger are you and how much do you care about your Uber rating? I don't ever cause problems. I'm appreciative for this person picking me up and giving me a ride, because most of the time you Uber, you're under the influence, so you need a ride home and you're thankful to that person for getting me home safe. I always try to be grateful to that person, be polite and respectful. If I'm with buddies and they're raising hell, I'm like, 'Dude, calm down. This person is helping us out.' I have a really good Uber rating. You didn't have to come pick me up. 6. I'm doing a wild-card question for each person. So for awhile you were getting one win a year, one win a year, one win a year. Then you burst out into three a year, three a year. Now on a weekly basis, you're one of the biggest regular threats, no matter where we go. So what do you think was the most important thing for you to unlock the next level of your potential? We really turned the page in '21. I was in this (situation) of just one win a year and only showing signs of being competitive a handful of weeks a year. It was like, 'All right, what do I have to change about myself and how I approach and run these races to be better? I have to take the next step forward.' It was really just talks with myself like, 'Hey, I don't like the way you do this. This needs to be better. You're stuck in your ways and you need to get better at that.' It's a tough thing to do … but it's necessary to do. In the winter of '22, I had to look and be like, 'All right, I need to change this up.' And then we went and won the championship the next year. 7. This is my 16th year of doing these 12 Questions interviews, so I'm going back to an early interview I've done with each person. (In 2014), I asked you: 'If someone let you design a new racetrack with an unlimited budget, what would you build?' You said a road course with crazy banking. Is that still what you'd build? Yeah, I think you could have a road course with a ton of different style corners. Like Turn 4 (in Mexico City), that long right-hander, if you bank the top lane where it's like a progressive banking. Charlotte (Roval) is somewhat that way (with the banking), but it's not like a corner. At Charlotte (on the banking), you're running wide open. It's not part of a technical lifting point, and it's like a sharper corner. That'd be neat (to have one). Advertisement Then you have your Talladega Superspeedway-style long corner to where you're drafting up a little bit. Then you have some tight hairpins and stuff. So I'd stick with that design of the road course with some crazy banking in it and a bunch of different styles. A decade later, I'd say the same thing. 8. Other than one of your teammates, name a driver who you would be one of the first people to congratulate them in victory lane if they won a race. I always go to victory lane if I'm still in the race for when Bubba (Wallace) or Chase (Elliott) wins. I always try to go there. And it's vice versa for them, which is always neat. We've always just done that with each other. But then if you go get your first Cup win, that's kind of cool. I'll go up there and congratulate you. Like when (Daniel) Suárez got his first one at Sonoma, I walked down there and congratulated him. And there's been a few like Ricky (Stenhouse) when he won the (Daytona) 500, you go congratulate those guys. 9. How much do you use AI technology, whether for your job or your daily life? Man, not a lot. I think I've used ChatGPT twice. I actually asked it a question last week. I had a question on this home thing. I said, 'Hey, Chat, my wife and I just bought this house.' I (had) a question about cleaning service or inspection. … And it was super nice. It was like, 'Hi Ryan, congratulations on your new home! Here is what is typically done.' … You've got to be friendly to it. You don't want it to come bite you in 10 years. If you're kind of a jerk to Chat, if you're a jerk to AI, you've got to keep them on your side when they take over everything. 10. What is a time in your life that was really challenging, but you feel proud of the way that you responded to it? The most recent one was the '24 championship race. We ran second. Really close. Bummer. You're bummed out. But Joey (Logano, his teammate) and the (No.) 22 (team) won it, Roger (Penske) won another championship. I'm not tooting my own horn, but those are easy ones to brush off and be like, 'Damn it. That sucks.' And it does stink. But in the post-race stuff, I was pretty good and congratulated all those guys — which I was happy for them and Roger. If we're gonna lose to anybody, it's your teammates. 11. What needs to happen in NASCAR to take this sport to the next level of popularity? We're starting it (in Mexico City). I've always been a big advocate of international to some extent, whether it's north, south, head east — that's a big thing. Advertisement But it's hard, man. How do you draw people in? That's a job I don't want to have: How do you draw people to your sport, no matter what it is? Just showing a good product is important. And explaining the product — racing is hard to explain to a lot of people who didn't do it growing up, because you can't go to a park and drive a race car, unlike basketball or football or baseball. There's not a lot of traveling rec leagues. So it's a really hard position to explain the technical side and how these cars are not what you buy off a lot and you're just driving them around in circles. There's so much behind the scenes and backstory. So how do you explain that? We've been doing a good job of doing that with Netflix to an extent, and showing drivers' personalities more. Amazon has been doing a good job of showing more ins and outs of it. So continuing to show more in-depth about it is really important, along with going into places that you haven't been before. 12. Each week, I ask a driver to give me a question for the next person. The last one was with Christopher Bell. He says: 'What are your thoughts on the current rules package — aero and horsepower, all three track types — and what should we go to if you want something different. Oh God! (Laughs.) What are my thoughts? Obviously, I wish it was a little bit better. You're always going to want something better. Obviously, the horsepower thing is a no-brainer. I wish we got back up in there. But the Xfinity (Series) cars have less horsepower than we have, and I wish we could (do what they do) — and we could do this with the old car. I wish you could get people loose on the left rear again. Kind of drive the car in front of you where if you're close, you can get on the left rear quarterpanel and get them loose, get them off the bottom and go on. … Getting loose underneath somebody right now, the inside guy actually has the advantage because he just uses that guy up on the top and the top guy gets tight. End of story. That's why you see a ton of dive bombs; people use them up because the inside guy doesn't really get loose anymore. It affects the outside guy more. The next interview I'm doing is with your buddy, Chase Elliott. Do you have a question I can ask Chase? When are you ever going to get better at golf, and what is it going to take for you to get to a point where you can compete with me? How many hours do you have to put in to get to my level? (Top photo of Ryan Blaney celebrating his win in the Nashville Cup Series race in early June: Sean Gardner / Getty Images)
