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Williams' first start will come in the L.A. Clash this weekend, driving the No. 16 Chevrolet Camaro with sponsorship from Alloy Employer Services.The pre-season exhibition race serves as the unofficial kick-off to the NASCAR season, and was won last year by Martin Truex Jr.It was already revealed that Williams will be running the full NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule with Kaulig, but with Monday's ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR now has regular competing series in Canada, Europe, Mexico and most recently added one in Brazil. It has seen a growing number of international drivers compete in its American-based national series, both as regular competitors and part-time ventures.Never before in the modern era of NASCAR has it held a points-paying race of the premier Cup series outside the continental United States, but ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR now has regular competing series in Canada, Europe, Mexico and most recently added one in Brazil and has seen a growing number of international drivers compete in its American-based national series, both as regular competitors and part-time ventures.Never before in the modern era of the sport has NASCAR held a points-paying race of its premier Cup series outside the continental United ...Keep readingView the full article

During the NFC Championship game between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers, the FOX Sports broadcast team announced a bit of NASCAR news regarding the grand marshal for stock car racing's season-opening event.FOX, which will also air the 66th running of the Daytona 500 on 18 February, announced that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will give the command to start engines for the field of 40 ...Keep readingView the full article

Haley, 24, has had an up-and-down NASCAR career but has enjoyed his share of success as well. He earned his lone Cup victory in 2019, winning a rain-shortened race at Daytona with Spire Motorsports.From 2019 to 2021, he competed with Kaulig Racing in the Xfinity Series, during which he earned four wins. In 2022, he moved up to the Cup Series with Kaulig, but found it a difficult transition.His ...Keep readingView the full article

Armando Christian Pérez, more commonly known as Pitbull, will entertain the sold-out crowd at Daytona International Speedway before the green flag flies for NASCAR's crown jewel event. He has earned 46 awards during his illustrious career as a singer, songwriter, and record producer. The race is scheduled to take place on 18 February with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. hoping to defend his 2023 victory ...Keep readingView the full article

Button qualified eighth for the inaugural event on the downtown streets of Chicago, one of three races he contested in a Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang. He was classified 21st in the race after being pushed into a spin in mixed weather conditions.Button returns to full-time competition in sportscar racing in 2024, making his debut in the Daytona 24 Hours with Acura this weekend before embarking on ...Keep readingView the full article

The Mexico-based NASCAR series made its U.S. debut in March 2013 at Phoenix Raceway but has not been back since.When NASCAR announced that the Clash would return to the LA Memorial Coliseum and its ¼-mile made-from-scratch asphalt oval this season, it decided to add an invitational, non-points Mexico series race as well.For NASCAR’s continuously expanding international efforts as well as its ...Keep readingView the full article

Last September, Trackhouse Racing announced it had signed Smith, 24, to a multi-year contract to compete in the Cup series beginning in the 2024 season.However, with Trackhouse currently holding only two charters in the series – which guarantee teams a spot in each race – Trackhouse is fielding Smith in a team this year whose charter was purchased by Spire Motorsports.On Friday, Trackhouse and ...Keep readingView the full article

Almirola, 39, decided to retire as a full-time Cup Series driver at the end of the 2023 season, having spent the past six years with Stewart-Haas Racing.It wasn’t long after he came to his decision that he was approached by Joe Gibbs Racing owner Joe Gibbs about returning to the organization where his NASCAR career began nearly 20 years ago.Gibbs thought Almirola would be an excellent role model ...Keep readingView the full article

Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 champion, will join LMC as a driver optimization leader for the 2024 Cup Series season working under LMC’s new competition advisor, Matt Kenseth.In the new role, Bayne will focus primarily on the race preparation of LMC Cup drivers John Hunter Nemechek, Erik Jones and team co-owner Jimmie Johnson.“I’m super humbled that Jimmie, Joey (Cohen), Matt and our drivers ...Keep readingView the full article

Former Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. discussed defending his Clash title, his goals for 2024 and the never-ending retirement questions. View the full article

"It's January" – Martin Truex Jr. told Bob Pockrass after asking about potentially retiring at the end of this season. View the full article

Martin Truex Jr. discussed looking forward to defending his Clash victory from 2023 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and why he likes this year’s format a little better. View the full article

Get ready for the NASCAR season by checking out some of the coolest paint schemes hitting the track in 2024, including Ross Chastain, Chase Elliott and Joey Logano. View the full article

NASCAR: Full Speed is stock car racing's answer to Formula 1's Drive to Survive, which will debut its sixth season on Netflix next month.Despite the meteoritic rise in F1's popularity stateside, NASCAR remains the most-watched form of racing in the USA. The five-part series will have 45-minute episodes, featuring the following Cup drivers: Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR: Full Speed is stock car racing's answer to Formula 1's Drive to Survive, which will debut its sixth season on Netflix next month. Despite the meteoritic rise in F1's popularity stateside, NASCAR remains the most-watched form of auto racing in the United States of America.The five-part series will have 45-minute episodes, featuring the following Cup drivers: Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin ...Keep readingView the full article

Both Toyota Racing Development and Ford Performance are debuting new iterations of their respective Camry and Mustang race cars in the Cup series in 2024 but so far, each car has had only one limited on-track test.With most on-track testing curtailed in NASCAR since 2015, development of new car models or updates has moved almost exclusively in-house – or more-so – on screen.“We all use the ...Keep readingView the full article

During a competition briefing on Tuesday at its R&D Center in Concord, N.C., NASCAR unveiled some tweaks to its qualifying procedures for Cup Series races.The change will affect all races except those on superspeedways since group qualifying isn’t used at those tracks.At all others, all entries will still be split into two groups for qualifying, with the fastest five drivers from each group ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR will tweak how it sets its Cup Series starting lineup after drivers complained their group designation heavily impacted their spot on the starting grid. View the full article