NASCAR is not yet ready to divulge details of its new championship format, mostly because they haven’t made the final decisions on it yet.
What is all but confirmed is that the 2025 season was ultimately the last to use the version of a playoff that culminates with a ‘final four’ chasing the championship in a one-race best finisher take all season finale.
NASCAR is unlikely to revert back to a season long championship without a playoff, but it isn’t completely off the table either, but is instead looking at a return to the 10-race Chase for the Championship used from 2004 to 2013 or an elimination format that culminates with an eight-driver four-race points chase.
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An update to the process was shared by NASCAR’s managing director of racing communications Mike Forde on his Hauler Talk podcast on Tuesday.
“Where it stands right now… I don’t think the playoff committee is going to meet again. I think we have gotten all the feedback that we needed from them. Awesome job, by the way, from the playoff committee. … Now, it’s in NASCAR’s hands,” Forde said. “They’re going to take all the feedback they got from every walk of life and every thought on the spectrum from no playoffs whatsoever to keeping it how it is and really beating that all up. They’re announcements to come. Honestly, I don’t know where it is. It could be in two weeks, it could be in two months.
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