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Thompson, a 21-year-old native of Anaheim, Calif., will compete fulltime in 2023 driving Tricon’s No. 5 Toyota beginning with the Feb. 17 series opener at Daytona in February. “I am thrilled to start the next chapter of my career with TRICON Garage and Toyota Racing Development,” said Thompson. “The team and manufacturer have quickly made a statement in the Truck Series as striving to ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch and Tyler Reddick, the two NASCAR Cup playoff drivers to switch teams for 2023, are busy prepping for next season. View the full article

Kyle Busch hopes to go to a tire test at COTA next month to work with his RCR team. That won’t help as far as getting time with new spotter Derek Kneeland, but Kneeland did some of Busch’s truck races this year. Busch on the transition: View the full article

The accolade, launched in 2021 and first won by Jean Todt, recognises an individual who has given a lifetime of service to the sport and who leaves a lasting legacy for future generations. As well as his success across Formula 1, the Indianapolis 500, Trans-Am, Can-Am and sportscar racing, Penske also became the first team owner to run both the IndyCar and NASCAR Cup drivers’ champions in the ...Keep readingView the full article

For the fifth year in a row, Chase Elliott has been selected the Most Popular Driver of the NASCAR Cup Series. View the full article

For the fifth consecutive season, Elliott was named the winner Thursday night of the 2022 National Motorsports Press Association’s Most Popular Driver Award. This is the 32nd consecutive year a member of the Earnhardt or Elliott family has won the award, including Chase’s father, Hall of Famer Bill Elliott, who won the award each season from 1984 to 2002. Darrell Waltrip (1990) was ...Keep readingView the full article

Zane Smith, the 2022 NASCAR Truck Series champion, is expected to run a handful of races in the Cup Series for Front Row Motorsports next season. View the full article

The team, co-owned by Matt Tifft, B.J. McLeod and Joe Falk, will shift from Ford to Chevrolet next season and field the No. 78 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. They will also receive engine support from ECR Engines. “Our team is excited to make this transition to Chevrolet,” said McLeod, co-owner and driver at Live Fast Motorsports. “Chevrolet Camaros have proven great success on the track and ...Keep readingView the full article

The Akron, Ohio-based manufacturer has been involved in the sport since 1954. For the last 25 years, Goodyear has been the exclusive tire supplier for NASCAR’s top three series – Cup, Xfinity and Trucks. That relationship will continue in another multi-year contract extension announced Thursday morning in Nashville, Tenn. Goodyear remains the longest-running continuous partner in NASCAR ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch - Joe Gibbs Racing to Richard Childress Racing Background: A star driver at JGR since 2008, collecting 56 of his 60 Cup wins there and winning two Cup titles (2015, 2019). New deal could not be struck after departure of long-time sponsor M&Ms (Mars Inc.). Will be replaced by Ty Gibbs, newly crowned NASCAR Xfinity champion. Kyle Busch, Joe Gibbs Racing, M&M's Toyota ...Keep readingView the full article

Jordan Anderson opens up about last month's NASCAR Truck Series crash at Talladega that resulted in him suffering second-degree burns. View the full article

Veteran lead race engineer Travis Peterson, who spent the past five seasons working with drivers Chris Buescher, Ryan Newman and Matt Kenseth at Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing, has been named as the new crew chief of McDowell’s No. 34 Ford, effective immediately. Prior to his time at RFK, Peterson served as a race engineer at Hendrick Motorsports for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and JR ...Keep readingView the full article

Keselowski, a former Cup Series champion and current driver and part owner of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, announced Tuesday he would make his first appearance in the prestigious Super Late Model event. The 55th annual Snowball Derby is scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 4 at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Fla. “The Snowball Derby is essentially an all-star race as it attracts some of the ...Keep readingView the full article

Although the Next Gen car tightened the competition at the front of the Cup field, producing a record-tying 19 different winners, only four Cup races (all superspeedways) ended up on this list. Some finishes were excluded, as the race ended under caution. Read Also: The ten closest finishes from the 2021 NASCAR season 10. Stewart Friesen vs. Christian Eckes - Texas Trucks - ...Keep readingView the full article

Few figures in global motorsport have made as much of an impact as Penske, 85, who receives the award that was created to recognise the handful of very special individuals who have not only contributed a massive amount to the sport during a long career, but who will also leave a lasting legacy. For some people, Penske's accomplishments in motorsport are evident in the statistics. Team Penske ...Keep readingView the full article

After a stint in the Xfinity Series, AJ Allmendinger is back full time in the NASCAR Cup Series with a new outlook. View the full article

A new driver will be behind the wheel of the No. 41 car in the NASCAR Cup Series, with Ryan Preece replacing Cole Custer. View the full article

Returning veterans Jason Burdett and Taylor Moyer will assume crew chief duties with the organization’s Nos. 9 (driver Brandon Jones) and 8 (driver Josh Berry) teams, respectively. Jim Pohlman will become the new crew chief on the No. 7 with driver Justin Allgaier and Mardy Lindley will join the No. 1 team with driver Sam Mayer. “As successful as 2022 was for JR Motorsports, we’re ...Keep readingView the full article

Brazil will have its very own NASCAR-sanctioned series. On Wednesday, the union between the biggest category of American motorsport and the GT Sprint Race - one of the most important series in Brazil - was officially announced, thus creating the NASCAR Brazil Sprint Race. Brazil will become the sanctioning body’s fourth international division and first in South America, joining Canada, Mexico ...Keep readingView the full article

Ryan Preece said he turned down some potential rides in Xfinity and trucks, hoping he would land the SHR 41 Cup car. Why he did and why he thinks he can win at SHR. View the full article