NASCAR Live Race Updates: The Great American Getaway 400 at Pocono

Welcome to the Racing America On SI Live Race Updates page for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series The Great American Getaway 400 at Pocono Raceway.

Be sure to refresh this post throughout Sunday's event as the Live Race Updates story will be updated regularly with the biggest moments from the 400-mile race around the 2.5-mile triangular track, including lead changes, crash replays, the winner of the race, finishing results, and more.

Pre-Race Updates

The Great American Getaway 400 Pre-Race Info

The Great American Getaway 400 will be televised on Prime Video, the final NASCAR Cup Series race to be covered by the streaming service this season. The Prime Video pre-race show will begin at 1:00 PM ET, and the official race broadcast will kick off on Prime Video at 2:00 PM ET.

The Motor Racing Network (MRN) and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will provide the radio broadcast of Sunday's race. For subscribers of the Max streaming service, NASCAR Driver Cam, which streams live in-car camera footage from every car in the field, will be available for today's race.

The overall race purse, which teams will fight for their portion of in Sunday's race, is a total of $11,055,250.

The race distance is 160 laps around the 2.5-mile triangular oval, which equates to a 400-mile race distance.

The Great American Getaway 400 will be broken up into three Stages. Stage 1 will end at the conclusion of Lap 30. Stage 2 will end at the conclusion of Lap 95. And the race is scheduled to finish at the end of Lap 160, barring an Overtime finish.

The winner of Stages 1 and 2 will be awarded one Playoff Point, and the overall race winner will be awarded five Playoff Points. The Playoff Points will be added to the reseeded point totals if the drivers make it into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, and will be carried through each round of the Playoffs.

Ryan Blaney is the defending winner of this event, and Denny Hamlin is the all-time winningest driver in Pocono Raceway history as he has seven career victories at the Tricky Triangle.

William Byron Will Not Go to Backup Car After Qualifying Crash

The race weekend at Pocono Raceway got off to a fast start for William Byron, who led the way in NASCAR Cup Series practice in his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. However, things spiraled out of control, literally and figuratively, in qualifying.

As he was making his timed lap around the 2.5-mile triangle, Byron lost control of his car off of the tunnel turn. Byron's car would scrape the outside wall with the right side, which briefly helped him stabilize his car, but he could not keep it wrangled, and would spin to the inside of the track.

Byron's incident would conclude with a hard shot into the inside wall with the front end of his No. 24 Chevrolet.