This weekend in Winston-Salem -- a little ways off from the tobacco farms and not far from the greater Charlotte area -- the Carolina winter will heat up and the earth will roar back to life with the beginning of a new year for NASCAR with its annual preseason exhibition race,

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.

When NASCAR announced that it would hold the Clash on Feb. 2 at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, there were many comments about what the weather conditions could be like for the event. As the Clash nears, the forecast is taking shape for the exhibition event (check back daily for updates).