2025 Bass Pro Shops Night Race


The 2025 Bass Pro Shops Night Race was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on September 13, 2025, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee on the speedway. It was the 29th race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, the third race of the playoffs, and the final race in the Round of 16.
Christopher Bell won the race. Brad Keselowski finished 2nd, and Zane Smith finished 3rd. Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano rounded out the top five, and Corey Heim, Carson Hocevar, Alex Bowman, Chase Briscoe, and Ty Gibbs rounded out the top ten.
Following the race, Alex Bowman, Austin Dillon, Shane van Gisbergen, and Josh Berry were all eliminated from the playoffs.

Report

Background

The Bristol Motor Speedway, formerly known as Bristol International Raceway and Bristol Raceway, is a NASCAR short track venue located in Bristol, Tennessee. Constructed in 1960, it held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. Despite its short length, Bristol is among the most popular tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of its distinct features, which include extraordinarily steep banking, an all concrete surface, two pit roads, and stadium-like seating. It has also been named one of the loudest NASCAR tracks.
Besides holding racing events, the track has hosted the Battle at Bristol, a college football game between the Tennessee Volunteers and Virginia Tech Hokies on September 10, 2016 and the MLB Speedway Classic, an MLB baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds from August 2-3, 2025.

Entry list

' denotes rookie driver.
  • ' denotes playoff driver. denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice

Both Justin Haley & Ryan Blaney were the fastest in the practice session with a time of 15.307 seconds and a speed of.

Qualifying

A. J. Allmendinger scored the pole for the race with a time of 15.117 and a speed of.

Race

Race results

Stage results

Stage One
Laps: 125
Stage Two
Laps: 125

Final Stage results

Stage Three
Laps: 250

Race statistics

  • Lead changes: 36 among 14 different drivers
  • Cautions/Laps: 14 for 137 laps
  • Red flags: 0
  • Time of race: 3 hours, 48 minutes and 10 seconds
  • Average speed:

Media

Television

USA covered the race on the television side. Leigh Diffey, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth. Trevor Bayne, Dave Burns, Kim Coon, and Marty Snider handled the pit road duties from pit lane.

Radio

PRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Brad Gillie and Mark Garrow called the race from the booth when the field races down the frontstretch. Rob Albright called the race when the field races down the backstretch. Andrew Kurland, Brett McMillan, Doug Turnbull and Wendy Venturini handled the duties on pit lane.

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings
;Manufacturers' Championship standings
PosManufacturerPoints
1Chevrolet1,056
2Toyota1,040
3Ford967

  • Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.