Here’s what today’s All-Star Race schedule at North Wilkesboro Speedway looks like

The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series and Truck Series teams are scheduled to be on the 0.625-mile short track on Friday, May 16, as the racing action of the season’s second exhibition weekend kicks off at North Wilkesboro Speedway.

The 20 cars are already locked into Sunday’s 250-lap main event, with 18 drivers looking to transfer from the All-Star Open. Only two out of 18 can advance to the main event. The drivers will kick off the weekend with practice, followed by qualifying for Open and All-Star.

The weather forecast for Friday in North Wilkesboro predicts cloudy with a stray shower or thunderstorm possible with a high temperature of 86 degrees and a 30 percent chance of rain at the start of the qualifying and Pit Crew Challenge.

Complete NASCAR’s Friday schedule at North Wilkesboro Speedway

Here’s the complete schedule for Friday’s on-track action of the NASCAR Cup Series and Truck Series race at North Wilkesboro Speedway:

Friday, May 16, 2025

Garage open

10:30 am ET – 8:30 pm ET: Cup Series

11 am ET – 4 pm ET: Truck Series

Track activity

5:05 pm ET – 5:45 pm ET: Cup Series practice

6:05 pm ET – 6:45 pm ET: Cup Series Open qualifying

7 pm ET – 8 pm ET: Cup Series All-Star Race qualifying/Pit Crew Challenge

8:15 pm ET: CARS Tour race (100 laps)

Friday’s NASCAR track action at North Wilkesboro Speedway will be available on FS1, and radio coverage will be available on SiriusXM NASCAR radio.

All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway: Qualifying Order

Here’s the qualifying order for the All-Star Open and Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway:

All-Star Open:

1. No. 66 Chad Finchum
2. No. 15 Cody Ware
3. No. 88 Shane van Gisbergen
4. No. 41 Cole Custer
5. No. 35 Riley Herbst
6. No. 4 Noah Gragson
7. No. 10 Ty Dillon
8. No. 43 Erik Jones
9. No. 7 Justin Haley
10. No. 54 Ty Gibbs
11. No. 16 A.J. Allmendinger
12. No. 34 Todd Gilliland
13. No. 38 Zane Smith
14. No. 71 Michael McDowell
15. No. 77 Carson Hocevar
16. No. 42 John Hunter Nemechek
17. No. 60 Ryan Preece
18. No. 23 Bubba Wallace

All-Star Race:

1. No. 51 Harrison Burton
2. No. 5 Justin Allgaier
3. No. 6 Brad Keselowski
4. No. 99 Daniel Suarez
5. No. 3 Austin Dillon
6. No. 8 Kyle Busch
7. No. 21 Josh Berry
8. No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
9. No. 2 Austin Cindric
10. No. 19 Chase Briscoe
11. No. 17 Chris Buescher
12. No. 1 Ross Chastain
13. No. 22 Joey Logano
14. No. 48 Alex Bowman
15. No. 11 Denny Hamlin
16. No. 45 Tyler Reddick
17. No. 12 Ryan Blaney
18. No. 9 Chase Elliott
19. No. 20 Christopher Bell
20. No. 24 William Byron