Sunday’s Daytona 500 drops the green flag on the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season (well, not exactly, but we’ll get to that). Here is what to know before the race, which will be televised on Fox beginning at 1:30 p.m. Green flag is slated for 2 p.m.

Who's in the drivers' seats, who's calling the shots for the Cup Series contenders going into the Daytona 500.

23XI Racing, Trackhouse Racing, RFK Racing and Front Row Motorsports have each expanded and added a full-time Cup Series team. Haas Factory Team, representing the lone remaining charter from now-defunct Stewart-Haas Racing, is set to make its debut in stock car racing’s highest circuit.