2024 NASCAR Cup Series Racing on Sling TV: Midseason Update

As the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series rounds the bend and shifts to NBC and USA Network, here's an update and how to watch with Sling.

19 down, 17 to go! We’re just over the halfway point of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season, but only have seven races to go until the Round of 16 of the NASCAR playoffs start. Silly Season has fully revved up (is it ever not, these days?) and there’s lots to recap about what’s happened so far, and lots more still to look forward to in the race for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship. First up, here's all the info you need to watch NASCAR racing with Sling TV.

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Now that the schedule has shifted to NBC and USA Network, big races include the Chicago Street Race, the second Daytona race in August, and the entire 10-race Playoffs beginning in September, including the Championship Race on November 10.

To watch NASCAR races during NBC’s portion of the season, you’ll need to subscribe to Sling Blue or Orange & Blue to receive USA and live in one of the following markets to watch NBC: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Hartford, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C. If you don’t live in an NBC market, you can watch select NBC programming with a subscription to Peacock.

To watch the entire 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season with Sling TV, you'll need to subscribe to Sling Blue or Orange & Blue and live in one of the following markets: Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, Oakland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, and Washington, D.C.

2024 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule - NBC/ USA Races

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We’ve seen 11 different race winners through 19 contests, with William Byron, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, and Christopher Bell tied for the win lead with 3 each. 7 other drivers are tied at 1 win apiece; with 2-time Cup Champion Joey Logano picking up his first win of the season, and locking up his spot in the playoffs with a gutsy win at the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway which featured an incredible 31 extra laps through 5 overtime cautions. Logano was running exceptionally low on fuel, and each overtime caution caused at least a few cars to pit to ensure they had enough fuel to finish. But Logano and crew chief Paul Wolfe believed in the ability of their Roush Yates engine to only sip as much fuel as was necessary. Logano’s Mustang eventually ran out of fuel during his celebratory post-race burnout.

Elsewhere in the standings, as noted in the season preview Denny Hamlin’s most certainly nearing the end of his career and wants to fill the biggest gaping hole in his trophy cabinet - the Championship. Currently in third, Hamlin is only 43 points out of first place - held by Kyle Larson, and only 23 points out of second, a spot held by NASCAR’s reigning most popular driver Chase Elliott.

As the teams enter the dog days of summer, all attention turns to the race for the Chase, as the drivers only have 7 races left to make sure they’re locked into the playoffs. Martin Truex Jr, currently in 5th place in the points standings, recently announced that he’ll be retiring from full-time competition in NASCAR at the end of the season, and he currently finds himself inside the cut line for playoff qualification. A win locks you into the chase - can Truex find a win to secure his spot, will he make it without a win, or will the well-liked Joe Gibbs Racing driver be left out in the cold? Also looking for a spot in the playoffs is series vet Kyle Busch who finds himself 104 points out of the Chase. These two popular, experienced drivers - along with many more - will be fighting hard for every point and a spot in the Chase, looking for one more Championship before their careers come to an end - some sooner than others.

Even though there are only 7 races left in the regular season, and 17 left in total - there are some highly popular tracks known for great racing still to come on the schedule.

First we turn our attention to the Chicago street race on Sunday July 7th - where 3400lb, 750hp stock cars roar through the streets of downtown Chicago. Last year series rookie Shane Gisbergen (a three-time champion in the Australian Supercars series) took home the victory in his very first race - the first Cup series driver to win in their debut since Indy car driver Johnny Rutherford did so in 1963. Can the Kiwi, affectionately known as SVG, repeat? Will Truex - with 5 career road course victories, secure his spot in the playoffs? Will cagey veteran Kyle Busch take the top spot?

On Sunday July 24th the NASCAR Cup Series returns to the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Brickyard 400 - their first time running 400 miles on the 2.5 mile oval instead of the 14 turn combined road course that uses an infield road course and a portion of the oval to make up the lap. It’s certain to be a must-see event with 43 cars trying for their chance to kiss the bricks on the low banks of the most famous race track in North America.

We’ll get two races under the lights in heat of August, with Richmond Raceway hosting its 400-miler at 6pm eastern on Sunday August 11th; the day night transition will help create a changing track that prioritizes a teams’ ability to adjust the car on the fly and should create some excellent racing. Then on Saturday August 24th the series will head to Daytona International Speedway for what is sure to be a spark-filled event that could have massive implications for both positioning within the Chase, and even the ability to qualify for the Chase. Daytona, and superspeedways like it, are notorious for their pack racing which sees significant numbers of cars racing in side-by-side packs at nearly 200mph.

The final race before the playoffs begin will again be under the lights as the Cup series visits Darlington, South Carolina on Sunday Sept 1 during Labor Day weekend. Tempers will flare on and off the track known as the ‘Lady in Black’ as all the dust settles and we know who’s in the playoffs, and who’s out once the Southern 500 concludes. Also known as ‘The Track Too Tough to Tame’ by many NASCAR fans and drivers, Darlington is famous for its asymmetrical egg shape, that has a different radius and banking for each end of the speedway. It produces exciting racing, lots of passes, and lots of opportunity for drivers to earn their Darlington Stripe - sports of missing paint on the car body left after routine brushes with the wall.

The playoffs begin with the round of 16 on Sunday, September 8th at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the series will visit a diverse cross section of tracks in the first round, with the fast Atlanta intermediate track, a stop off in upstate New York wine country for a run around the Watkins Glen road course, and then finishing at the high-banked Bristol oval. There’s a little something for everyone, testing teams’ abilities to adapt to every track type and stay up front, fighting to stave off elimination.

The series will conclude on Sunday November 10th at Phoenix Raceway as the final four drivers put it all on the line to come home with a Championship. Will Denny Hamlin win the biggest trophy he’s yet to earn? Will a newcomer like William Byron or Ross Chastain make the leap to NASCAR champion? Will we see a repeat win from the likes of Kyle Larson, Joey Logano, or Ryan Blaney? There’s a reason they run the races - you never know who goes home with a trophy, and who just plain goes home. You’ll have to tune in on Sling all season long and find out!

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