The 2025 Fr8 208 was the 2nd stock car race of the

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, and the 17th iteration of the

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. The race was held on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at

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, a permanent asphalt quad-oval shaped intermediate speedway (with superspeedway rules). The race took the scheduled 135 laps to complete.

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, driving for

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, would hold off

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in a close finish, and ultimately put on a dominating performance, winning the second stage and leading a race-high 80 laps to earn his 67th

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win, and his first of the season. To fill out the podium,

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, driving for

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, would finish in 3rd, respectively. This race also saw the debut of a new radio network, the NASCAR Racing Network (NRN), a collaboration between

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(who previously broadcast the entire Truck Series schedule on the radio) and

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, to broadcast the entire Truck Series schedule starting at this race.

Report

Background

is a 1.54-mile race track in

, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of

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. It has annually hosted

stock car races since 2004. The venue was bought by

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in 1990. In 1994, 46

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were built over the northeastern side of the track. In 1997, to standardize the track with Speedway Motorsports' other two intermediate ovals, the entire track was almost completely rebuilt. The frontstretch and backstretch were swapped, and the configuration of the track was changed from oval to quad-oval, with a new official length of where before it was . The project made the track one of the fastest on the

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circuit. In July 2021

announced that the track would be reprofiled for the 2022 season to have 28 degrees of banking and would be narrowed from 55 to 40 feet which the track claims will turn racing at the track similar to restrictor plate superspeedways. Despite the reprofiling being criticized by drivers, construction began in August 2021 and wrapped up in December 2021. The track has

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of 71,000 to 125,000 people depending on the tracks configuration.

Entry list

* (R) denotes rookie driver. * (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Friday, February 21, at 3:05 PM EST. Since

is an intermediate track with superspeedway rules, the qualifying procedure used is a single-car, single-lap system with two rounds. In the first round, drivers have one lap to set a time and determine positions 11-32. The fastest ten drivers from the first round will advance to the second round, and whoever sets the fastest time in Round 2 will win the pole and determine the rest of the starting lineup.

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, driving for

, would win the pole after advancing from the preliminary round and setting the fastest time in Round 2, with a lap of 31.969, and a speed of . No drivers would fail to qualify.

Qualifying results

Race results

Stage 1 ''Laps: 30'' Stage 2 ''Laps: 30'' Stage 3 ''Laps: 75''

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Manufacturers' Championship standings *Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.

References

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