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Insiders react to unprecedented NASCAR weather luck in 2025 season

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NASCAR has been lucky with the weather this year, and two insiders are very happy with that. On The Teardown podcast, Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic reacted to the weather not having a major impact on the NASCAR races this year.

“NASCAR, once again, is getting lucky with the weather at a rate I’ve never seen,” Gluck said. Gluck then pointed out what NASCAR reporter Seth Eggert shared on X/Twitter earlier this month, which was the last full season where there were zero races postponed to another day or completely rescheduled due to weather across all of NASCAR’s three National Touring Series was 1994.

“We are 34 weeks into this year, no races in any series have been moved to another day,” Gluck stated. There was a chance that Sunday’s race at Talladega could have been postponed since there was an 80 percent chance of rain. And while it did rain on race day, Gluck said it moved out of the area at 10 a.m. local time.

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“We’ve have some delays and everything, but no postponements,” Bianchi added. It looks like the good weather will continue when the drivers compete at Martinsville on Sunday. Daily Downforce mentioned that there’s a zero percent chance of precipitation before and during the race, and that’s big considering it’s the final race before the NASCAR Championship 4 at Phoenix.

While the 2025 season hasn’t had any postponements, there was a weather delay at the start of the year. At the Daytona 500, there were two weather delays that lasted three and a half hours. Officials moved the start time at 2 p.m. ET because of potential rain. As the inclement weather hit the area, the race didn’t resume until close to 6:30 p.m.

This was the sixth time in the last 14 years that the Daytona 500 was delayed due to weather. And with Daytona International Speedway being a Superspeedway, it takes at least two hours to dry. The good thing, though, is NASCAR didn’t have to move the race to Monday, something that has happened at the Daytona 500 last year and in 2020, and in 2012.