(KZAT) - NASCAR Champions will be crowned this weekend at Phoenix Raceway, with the Craftsman Truck Series Championship race starting things Friday at 8 p.m. ET.
Saturday is the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race at 7 p.m. ET, and you can watch it live on CW stations, the exclusive broadcast partner of the series. Xfinity races will resume on the CW in 2025.
On Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race starts at 3 p.m. ET and can be seen on NBC. In all, more than 150,000 are expected to take in the action in person this weekend.
The final weekend comes amid a swirl of off-track controversies related to officiating and an anti-trust allegation from NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.
The four drivers who are competing in Sunday's winner-take-all finale have tuned out the distractions, starting with Tyler Reddick, who made the final four for the first time in his career and is trying to give Jordan his first championship since the Bulls legend became a team owner in 2021.
“No, for me, and for our group, it is championship weekend and everything else is not in our focus,” Reddick said Thursday.
Ryan Blaney, the reigning NASCAR champion who is seeking to become the first driver to go back-to-back since Jimmie Johnson won five Cup titles in a row from 2006 through 2010, said the off-track issues have nothing at all to do with him or Team Penske. Blaney and teammate Joey Logano give Ford and Roger Penske a 50% chance to win a third consecutive Cup title.
“For me it feels normal because I am not a part of any of it,” Blaney said. “I am part of what I am doing, the championship, so it's nice to not be a part of any of the things going on outside sheer competition. For me, it's a great week, championship week and we've got a chance to do it. To me, it's normal.”
NBC Sports does not think the off-track drama will spill into coverage of the three national series races at Phoenix.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.