NASCAR is turning its season-ending awards night into a single, combined celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 10, when the 2026 NASCAR Awards ceremony begins at 6 p.m. ET in Miami. For the first time, the Cup Series, O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and Craftsman Truck Series will be honored together under one roof.
The move puts the sport’s three newest champions on the same stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, where Kyle Larson, Justin Allgaier and Kaden Honeycutt will take center stage. Larson arrives as a three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion after securing his latest title at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday, while Allgaier sealed the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series championship on Saturday and Honeycutt won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series title Friday night.
That timing is what makes the night matter now. Fans are coming off championship weekend, and the awards show arrives two days after the Cup Series championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, giving NASCAR one clean closing note for the 2026 season. It also shifts the ceremony to Miami after last year’s celebration in Scottsdale, Arizona, tying the sport’s title run directly to the city where the final weekend played out.
The combined format is the sharpest change. NASCAR is presenting the evening as a shared salute to all three national series, but the decision also folds separate championship moments into one event for the first time, turning what had been a series-by-series honor into a single stage. The result is simpler for the sport’s audience and more concentrated for its champions, even as it changes the feel of a ceremony that has usually stretched across different lanes of competition.
Fans will not need a cable television subscription to watch it. The 2026 NASCAR Awards ceremony will stream live and free on The NASCAR Channel, a free, ad-supported streaming service. For Larson, Allgaier and Honeycutt, the night marks the final public stop of a season that ended with titles in hand and now finishes with all three championships recognized together in Miami.
