Sign up for our NewslettersPatchy showers may arrive early Friday near the Blue Ridge Parkway, but most of the rainfall totals will develop late afternoon. We may have a few rumbles of thunder Friday too.

Fox Sports will air an all-new documentary on Monday called " The Madhouse ," which details the history of stock-car racing at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The documentary signals the beginning of "Race Week" in the Carolinas for NASCAR's first event of the 2025 season at its longest-running weekly series track.

This weekend marks a historic return to Bowman Gray Stadium with the season-opening NASCAR Cup Series exhibition race on Sunday at 8 p.m., NASCAR’s first return to the historic Bowman Gray Stadium since 1971.

NASCAR's 2025 Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium is quickly approaching. This year's event is scheduled for Sunday, February 2, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, and will be broadcast live on FOX. For radio listeners, MRN, the Motor Racing Network, will cover the action, and satellite radio subscribers can tune in via SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

As the Cookout Clash revs up for the weekend at Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem State University students prepare to embark on a golden opportunity - a partnership with NASCAR. “I’ve never seen anything like that before,