How to watch Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup: Full schedule, times, channels, live streams for Race of Champions

How to watch Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup: Full schedule, times, channels, live streams for Race of Champions originally appeared on The Sporting News

The 71st running of the Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup Race of Champions returns to Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California this weekend. Race fans have been gearing up for this event for months, so be sure to prep your watch parties now.

The event pits some of the best sprint car drivers in the world against each other. The Gold Cup Race of Champions is a three-day shootout for $100,000.

With 68 entries in this year's Race of Champions, the traditional split-field format and 360 bonus will continue as usual with half the field racing Thursday, the other half racing Friday, and everyone coming together to chase the Gold Cup on Saturday.

This format allows for more feature starters, a unique watch experience for fans and a night of rest and recovery for teams. It should be an intense championship battle between Kasey Kahne Racing, Clauson-Marshall Racing, Ridge & Sons Racing, Rico Abreu Racing and Murray-Marks Motorsports.

Interested in tuning in for the 71st running of the Race of Champions? Here's all the details on the Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup, including how to watch each leg of the action and a full schedule of events.

How to watch Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup 2025

• TV channel: N/A
• Live stream:FloRacing

The Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup will not air on national TV. It will, however, be available to stream on FloRacing, which provides subscribers with access to live streams, event replays and FloSports Originals.

When is the Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup?

• Preliminary Nights: Thursday and Friday
• Gold Cup Finale: Saturday

The prelim races will follow a split-field format, broken up into 34 racers on Thursday and 34 racers on Friday. The Gold Cup Finale will be held Saturday with the $100,000 on the line.

Kubota High Limit Racing Gold Cup schedule

Prelim Nights — Thursday, Aug. 21 and Friday, Aug. 22

• All cars qualify in one group. (1 car at a time, 2 laps each)
• Qualifying points awarded: 100 for QuickTime down by 1. 2nd-99, 3rd-98, etc.
• 4 Heat Races lined up with an invert of 6 cars (24 total from Qualifying)
• Top 5 in each Heat transfer to A-Main
• Points for Heat Races start at 100, down by 2. 2nd-98, 3rd-96, etc.
• B-Main lined up by accumulative qualifying and heat points.
• The 2 fastest cars that didn’t transfer line up on the front row of B-Main
• Top 4 transfer from B-Main to the A-Main and tag the tail
• A-Main lineup has fastest 8 cars that transfer from Heat Races line up inverted by Qualifying times
• Balance of A-Main lined up by accumulative qualifying and heat points total from top 5 finishers in heats minus fastest 8
• A-Main finish points add to total for Saturday lineups
• A-Main points: 1st is 200, down by 3
• B-Main points start at 128 for 5th and go down by 3. 6th-125, 7th-122, etc.

Gold Cup Finale — Saturday, Aug. 23

• Top 8 in overall points from lock-in for Saturday’s A-Main
• The rest of the field line up 4 Heat Races straight up by points
• Top 3 finishers in Heat Races to A-Main
• D-Main is lined up by heat finishing positions 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th from Heats
• Top 2 transfer from D and tag tail of C-Main
• C-main is lined up by finishing positions 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th from Heats
• Top 4 transfer from C and tag tail of B-Main
• B-Main is lined up by heat finishing positions 4th, 5th, 6th from Heats
• 2 highest points totals that don’t transfer start on the front row of the B-Main
• Top 4 transfer from B and tag tail of A-Main
• Gold Cup A-Main is 40 laps, paying $100,071-to-win

*Preliminary night ties will be broken by Qualifying times. Any ties heading into Saturday’s finale will be broken by preliminary A-Main finish first, then Qualifying position, then pill draw if needed.