NBC’s portion of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Sequence broadcast schedule received underway three weekends in the past with the race at Iowa Speedway, though this 12 months, the 14 races throughout this a part of the calendar are being produced beneath the USA Sports activities branding, somewhat than NBC Sports activities branding.

Versant Media is the mum or dad firm of USA Sports activities, and Versant cut up from Comcast and NBC in late 2025, resulting in the change.

What hasn’t modified, nevertheless, is what channel NASCAR followers can discover the races on. As was the case a 12 months in the past, in the course of the first season after the brand new seven-year, $7.7 billion broadcast rights deal went into impact, the 2026 schedule options 10 races on USA Community and 4 on NBC.

And after USA aired the primary three races because the swap from TNT Sports activities following the Brickyard 400, NBC is ready to air its first race of the 12 months this weekend.

NASCAR Cup race at Daytona not being proven on USA

Saturday night time’s 160-lap Coke Zero Sugar 400 across the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) high-banked Daytona Worldwide Speedway oval is the common season finale, and it is also the ultimate race set to be proven stay on NBC till late October.

USA Community is ready to air the primary seven races of the playoffs from Darlington Raceway, World Extensive Know-how Raceway at Gateway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, and Phoenix Raceway.

NBC is then set to take over for the ultimate three races of the postseason from Talladega Superspeedway, Martinsville Speedway, and Homestead-Miami Speedway to wrap up the 2026 marketing campaign.

No matter whether or not a race is proven on NBC or USA, the published sales space is ready to include the identical trio, with Leigh Diffey as lead announcer for the third 12 months in a row, plus each Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte as analysts for the twelfth straight.