Phoenix Raceway

• Dogleg
• Flat mile
• Not the 2026 finale

Booth notes

Phoenix is a full mile with a dogleg that turns the backstretch into a passing lane and a wrecking yard. TV still calls it a short track. The car calls it a flat mile. Ryan Blaney won the 2026 Straight Talk Wireless 500 in March. From 2020 through 2025 this desert mile also hosted Championship Weekend — that job moves to Homestead in 2026. The Chase date here is the Freeway Insurance 500 on Oct. 18, mid-Chase, not the title fight. Arizona does not do daylight time; 3 p.m. Eastern is noon in Avondale, 1 p.m. on a Mountain DST clock. Restart the dogleg. That is the whole show.

2020–2025 fall races were Championship Weekend. 2026’s title race is at Homestead; Phoenix’s Chase date is Oct. 18, not the finale.

1. 012026

   Ryan Blaney · #12

   Straight Talk Wireless 500

2. 022025

   Ryan Blaney · #12

   Cup Series Championship Race

3. 032025

   Christopher Bell · #20

   Shriners Children's 500

4. 042024

   Joey Logano · #22

   Cup Series Championship Race

5. 052024

   Christopher Bell · #20

   Shriners Children's 500

6. 062023

   Ross Chastain · #1

   Cup Series Championship Race

7. 072023

   William Byron · #24

   United Rentals Work United 500

8. 082022

   Joey Logano · #22

   Cup Series Championship Race

9. 092022

   Chase Briscoe · #14

   Ruoff Mortgage 500

10. 102021

    Kyle Larson · #5

    Cup Series Championship Race

Fun facts

• The dogleg kinks the backstretch. Passes and wrecks start there more than in the numbered turns.

• This desk files Phoenix as a flat mile / short-track hybrid — 1.0 mile, low banks, physical racing.

• Championship host 2020–2025. In 2026 the finale rotates to Homestead-Miami.

• Lore

  First Cup race: 1988. Alan Kulwicki is the lore name from that November afternoon.

• Christopher Bell swept the 2024 and 2025 spring dates before Blaney took March 2026.