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NASCAR President Steve Phelps on scheduling with four broadcast partners in 2025. He did confirm that the Daytona 500 will remain the first race of the regular season for the foreseeable future. View the full article

FOX Sports CEO Eric Shanks speaks on the new NASCAR media rights deal, which will include existing media partners FOX Sports and NBC Sports and add Amazon and Warner Brothers Discovery to those airing Cup telecasts. View the full article

The new deal will see FOX Sports telecast the first 14 events of the Cup Series season, including the Daytona 500. View the full article

Motorsport.com first reported on Tuesday night the division of races among the new deal’s broadcast partners, which include Fox Sports, Amazon, TNT/Max and NBC.Sports Business Journal reports the seven-year deal is worth approximately $1.1 billion total a year – about a 40 percent increase over NASCAR’s current package.Under the new deal, Fox will get 14 Cup races annually in the first half ...Keep readingView the full article

Veteran driver David Ragan will drive the car, hoping to make his first NASCAR Cup Series start since the 2022 season, where he ran all four superspeedway races with Rick Ware Racing. He will not be locked into the 500 as the No. 60 Ford is an open entry. BuildSubmarines.com will serve as the primary sponsor on the car.The 37-year-old has 476 Cup Series starts with two wins – both at ...Keep readingView the full article

With the stated goal to "strengthen the organization’s operations," RCR has promoted Andy Petree to executive vice president.A veteran of the industry, Petree most recently led RCR as the vice president of competition. He was also instrumental in overseeing the development of the Next Gen Chevrolet, which RCR has won with on seven occasions since its introduction in 2022.Additionally, Justin ...Keep readingView the full article

According to multiple sources with knowledge of the deal, beginning with the 2025 Cup Series season, FOX Sports will broadcast the first 14 races of the season.Current partner NBC will broadcast the final 14 races of the season. The middle ten races of the season will be split between TNT and a streaming partner that is expected to be Amazon.Terms of the deal including length and amount were ...Keep readingView the full article

The crown jewel race officially kicks off the NASCAR Cup Series season with 200 laps around the high-banked, high-speed 2.5-mile superspeedway.The sellout includes all grandstand seating and camping, with limited Fanzone and hospitality packages still available. This is the earliest a sellout has been announced for 'The Great American Race' in the modern era of the sport, and the ninth ...Keep readingView the full article

Trackhouse Racing co-owner Justin Marks first announced the organization’s Project 91 program in May 2022, a plan to expand its international reach by fielding the part-time No. 91 Chevrolet entry in the Cup Series for international racing drivers.The first participant was 2007 Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen, who drove in Cup races at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International in 2022 and at ...Keep readingView the full article

Byron, who led the Cup Series in wins this season (six) and made his first appearance in the Championship 4, is among the 53 entries so far for next weekend’s prestigious Super Late Model event.The 300-lap 56th annual Snowball Derby is scheduled for Dec. 1-3 at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Fla., a half-mile paved oval track.Byron, who drives the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports ...Keep readingView the full article

Toyota unveiled a newly designed Camry XSE car that will make its debut in the 2024 NASCAR Cup season. The Camry XSE Next Gen follows the Toyota Camry TRD Next Gen, which produced 18 victories and 25 poles during the last two seasons of competition.Earlier this month, Ford Performance unveiled a new-version Mustang for competition in the Cup beginning next season based on the Mustang ‘Dark ...Keep readingView the full article

Toyota unveiled a newly designed Camry XSE race car that will make its debut in the 2024 NASCAR Cup season. The Camry XSE Next Gen follows the Toyota Camry TRD Next Gen, which produced 18 victories and 25 poles during the last two seasons of competition.Earlier this month, Ford Performance unveiled a new-version Mustang for competition in the Cup Series beginning next season based on the Mustang ...Keep readingView the full article

Ahead of the official NASCAR Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Bob Pockrass hands out his hardware for the 2023 Cup Series season. View the full article

Veteran NASCAR team owner Childress, 78, flew to Adelaide “to watch him win the championship” as part of his squad’s alliance with Kostecki's Erebus team in Australia.“Hopefully we can race him two or three [times] on the road courses,” Childress told Fox Sports of his hopes to increase Kostecki’s NASCAR experience. “But I want to run him on an oval, he’s raced on them earlier in ...Keep readingView the full article

Looking at the possible reasons why, the car itself has to be part of it. The addition of several more road courses, the NASCAR Garage 56 entry at Le Mans, as well as innovative programs such as Project91 and others like it have all helped to lure several international racing stars into the world of stock car racing.2023 saw many drivers well-known in motorsports but completely new to NASCAR make ...Keep readingView the full article

The drivers were evaluated and selected after participating in a combine held in Concord, N.C. and Florence, S.C.The Drive for Diversity program was created in 2004 to develop and train top drivers from diverse backgrounds and experiences, both on and off the track.Rev Racing, which operates the program, brings together championship caliber executives, competition staff and equipment in a unique ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR’s Canadian series has been known most recently as the Pinty’s Series but will be rebranded beginning next season as the NASCAR Canada Series along with presenting sponsors Evirum and Pinty’s.As presenting partners, Pinty’s – which has served as the series’ entitlement partner since 2016 – and Evirum will each invest across the industry, including teams, tracks and fan ...Keep readingView the full article

Bob Pockrass has the latest on where Noah Gragson and several other drivers could be headed for the 2024 NASCAR season. View the full article

Glenn McGee and Anthony McIntosh became the 2023 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Champions in the World Finals held this morning in Vallelunga, while Shota Abkhazava took home the Lamborghini Cup Class title. In Race 2 AM-LC there wasn’t much in the way of excitement until the second half, when a series of contacts and incidents shuffled up the classification, changing the outcome of the race and ...Keep readingView the full article

Remembering legendary broadcaster and NASCAR Hall of Famer Ken Squier. View the full article