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The Trackhouse Racing driver, who has won two Cup Series races this year at the Circuit of the Americas and Talladega, began the Gateway race with an uneventful run to fifth in Stage 1. But shortly after action resumed following the break between stages, Chastain ran deep into Turn 1 and punted Denny Hamlin into the wall, resulting in a lengthy pit delay for the Joe Gibbs Racing ...Keep readingView the full article

Busch had taken control of the race, but a late caution from a wreck involving Kevin Harvick sent Sunday’s race into a two-lap overtime and allowed Logano a chance to attack the Joe Gibbs Toyota driver. The 2018 Cup champion lined up alongside Busch on the restart and got a big push from Penske Ford team-mate Ryan Blaney which allowed him to quickly move into the lead. Busch then used a ...Keep readingView the full article

As Kimi Raikkonen walked out of the paddock on Sunday night in Abu Dhabi, it was very clear that he was done with Formula 1. On Friday, Raikkonen had sat down with Autosport for what was meant to be a quick interview. It overran by around 10 minutes, to the surprise of his Alfa Romeo PRs, as he got a lot of frustration about F1 off his chest. He called out “fake things” in the series and ...Keep readingView the full article

Raikkonen will join up with Trackhouse Racing for the road course race at Watkins Glen on 21 August, driving a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 alongside team-mates Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain. It will mark Raikkonen’s first outing in a motorsport event since he called time on his 20-year F1 career last December with his final appearance for Alfa Romeo at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. PLUS: Why ...Keep readingView the full article

The Trackhouse team run by Justin Marks and co-owned by rapper Pitbull already fields two Cup Series entries for Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez, but plans to enter its #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at least once during the remainder of this Cup season. It intends to expand the programme in the future. “Project 91’s mission is to activate the intersection point of NASCAR racing and global ...Keep readingView the full article

Under the programme, dubbed ‘Project 91,’ Trackhouse Racing will enter the #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at least once during the remainder of this Cup season with plans to expand it in the future. The first international driver to participate in the programme will be announced with the next few days. Previous international drivers in the recent past who have raced in the NASCAR Cup Series ...Keep readingView the full article

Initially, Blaney took the chequered flag ahead of Denny Hamlin but a caution was displayed on the final lap for Ricky Stenhouse Jr who crashed into the backstretch wall. Under normal NASCAR rules Blaney would have been declared the winner, but under the special rules for Sunday night’s All-Star event, the winner had to take the victory under a green flag. That sent the final 50-lap ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR announced in March that it plans to take its new Next Gen stock car, which debuted in the Cup Series this season, to the Le Mans 24 Hours as a Garage 56 entry in 2023. Garage 56 is the entry that the Automobile Club de l'Ouest sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and beyond” of innovative machinery. The car entered in the race will be a modified Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 ...Keep readingView the full article

Heading into the second two-lap overtime, Gibbs lined up fourth on the restart behind leader Ryan Sieg in the outside lane with Austin Hill and Riley Herbst lined up together on the bottom lane. Gibbs pushed Sieg out front of the field, then A.J. Allmendinger gave Gibbs a shove from behind that allowed him to dive to the inside of Sieg entering Turn 1 on the final lap and cleared for the ...Keep readingView the full article

There were ten different leaders and 11 lead changes. The Stage 1 win went to Josh Berry while AJ Allmendinger won Stage 2. The race was slowed by ten cautions, one red flag and ended with two overtime restarts. Ty Gibbs got around Ryan Sieg on the final lap to win for the second time this season and the sixth time in his NXS ...Keep readingView the full article

The 'Big One' strikes in Atlanta as Noah Gragson, Trevor Bayne, and Josh Berry are collected. View the full article

As the race drew to a close, Chandler Smith was leading the way with Kyle Busch Motorsports teammate Corey Heim behind him and fellow teammate John Hunter Nemechek third in line but two laps down. On the last of 135 laps, Heim dove to the inside of Smith and with the help of a shove from Nemechek, he cleared for the lead and held off Ben Rhodes for his first career Truck Series ...Keep readingView the full article

The pack-style racing made for an ever-present battle for the race lead and not a moment to rest during the Truck Series race. Ten different drivers took a turn out front with 18 lead changes throughout the event. Although John-Hunter Nemechek and Stewart Friesen took the stage wins, neither with visit Victory Lane. The battle came down to Kyle Busch Motorsports teammates Corey Heim ...Keep readingView the full article

Saturday’s 50-minute session was the only time all 37 cars will get time on the repaved and reconfigured 1.54-mile track prior to Sunday’s race. In the offseason, the banking was increased from 24 to 28 degrees – higher than any other intermediate track on the NASCAR schedule. The track width was also decreased from 55 feet to 40 feet in the corners. The frontstretch is now 52 feet wide ...Keep readingView the full article

Pack racing and drafting the was norm during the session, which impressively had no incidents. The cars were very close together in massive packs that featured both two and three-wide racing. The 'new' Atlanta is a shadow of its former self, drawing more similarities to Daytona and Talladega than any 1.5-mile track. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. led the way at 186.616mph. Joey Logano ran the most laps ...Keep readingView the full article

All three NASCAR national series – Trucks, Xfinity and Cup – are running this weekend at Atlanta and all three had their scheduled practices on Friday canceled by bad weather. Because of the speedway’s recent repave and reconfiguration, NASCAR has decided it is more important for the series to have practice than qualifying. Therefore, each series will now get a 50-minute practice ...Keep readingView the full article

How to watch NASCAR at Atlanta Motor Speedway All three national divisions of NASCAR head to Georgia for the first race weekend on the newly reconfigured Atlanta Motor Speedway in what is sure to be a show. Chase Briscoe became the 200th different winner in NASCAR Cup Series history with his Phoenix triumph over Ross Chastain and Tyler Reddick. Will we see our third different first-time winner ...Keep readingView the full article

Race organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has confirmed that acceptance of the entry from Hendrick Motorsports for the grid slot – reserved for what it describes as an “innovative car” – is dependent on the Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 running an energy-recovery system. That would give NASCAR the chance to test the hybrid technology on its Next Gen machine in competition ahead of its ...Keep readingView the full article

Race organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has confirmed that acceptance of the entry from Hendrick Motorsports for the grid slot – reserved for what it describes as an “innovative car” – is dependent on the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 running an energy-recovery system. That would give NASCAR the chance to test the hybrid technology on its Next Gen machine in competition ahead of its ...Keep readingView the full article

The project was revealed in a joint announcement between NASCAR and Hendrick Motorsports at the Sebring 12 Hours on Thursday afternoon. They plan to take a modified Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 to the famed French sportscar classic as an homage to NASCAR founder Bill France Sr taking stock cars to the race almost half a century ago. Further details, including technical elements of the car ...Keep readingView the full article