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Among the many changes to the Cup schedule for 2021 are the addition of several more road course events, along with the first dirt track race in more than 50 years as the Bristol Motor Speedway is converted into a dirt course. The NASCAR Cup field last raced on dirt in the 1970 North Carolina State Fairgrounds circuit, and was won by Richard Petty, but since then only the third-tier Truck ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series schedule offers plenty of new challenges – ones Joey Logano says will test the adaptability of series drivers. Among the many changes to the Cup schedule are the addition of several more road course events, the first dirt track race in more than 50 years and new venues like Nashville Superspeedway. Logano, 30, is among several series drivers using the downtime ...Keep reading View the full article

2018 NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano is looking forward to the series' first dirt race since 1970 at Bristol, but is trying to keep his season preparation balanced View the full article

Set to make its Cup Series debut at next month's Daytona 500 with 2016 Xfinity series champion Daniel Suarez at the wheel, Trackhouse will run the #99 Chevrolet Camaro machine, having secured a technical partnership with the established Richard Childress Racing outfit. Marks, a former NASCAR and sportscar driver himself, will be co-owner of the team, alongside Grammy award-winning rapper ...Keep reading View the full article

Former NASCAR driver now team co-owner Justin Marks believes delaying NASCAR's next-generation Cup car until 2022 is a "blessing in disguise" for his new Trackhouse Racing squad View the full article

JGR announced Wednesday that Dillon will drive the team’s No. 54 Toyota in several Xfinity Series races this season, beginning with the Feb. 13 season-opener at Daytona International Speedway. At this time he is also scheduled to run the Feb. 27 race at Homestead, Fla., March 6 at Las Vegas and April 24 at Talladega. Dillon will be one of at least five drivers who will compete for the team ...Keep reading View the full article

Gibbs, the 18-year-old grandson of NASCAR Hall of Fame owner Joe Gibbs, won a series-high six races in the ARCA Menards Series running a partial schedule. Joe Gibbs Racing announced Tuesday that Ty will run the full ARCA schedule in 2021 and contend for the series title. Ty Gibbs will also make his debut in the Xfinity Series on Feb. 20 on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course ...Keep reading View the full article

The eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series made its debut last March while the sport was shut down for nearly 2½ months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, NASCAR announced the return of a new-look Pro Invitational in 2021 in which Cup Series drivers will compete virtually in a 10-race schedule that will complement the real racing schedule. Fox Sports, which broadcast the inaugural ...Keep reading View the full article

It’s not the first time the owners of the half-mile, highly-banked concrete oval have covered their track in dirt, but it will likely be the most anticipated. In the 2000 and 2001 seasons, Bristol used 14,000 truckloads of dirt to cover its concrete surface to host World of Outlaws races. The undertaking this time is even more unusual as NASCAR typically does not race on dirt. The most ...Keep reading View the full article

It's not the first time the owners of the half-mile, highly-banked concrete oval have covered their track in dirt, but it will likely be the most anticipated. In the 2000 and 2001 seasons, Bristol used 14,000 truckloads of dirt to cover its concrete surface to host World of Outlaws races. However, the undertaking this time is even more unusual as NASCAR typically does not race on ...Keep reading View the full article

Bristol Motor Speedway is well on its way to bringing dirt track racing back to NASCAR's Cup Series for the first time in more than 50 years View the full article

Wallace, 27, was one of four quarterly winners of the award and named the overall winner for his advocacy in helping to make NASCAR a more diverse and inclusive sport. The only African-American driver in NASCAR’s Cup Series was an outspoken proponent of the banning of the Confederate flag from NASCAR events, a stance the sanctioning body adopted as an official policy in June of last ...Keep reading View the full article

The 20-year-old will drive the No. 6 Chevrolet Camaro full-time in 2021. He ran a part-time schedule in 2020 with the team, scoring a career-best finish of eighth at Texas Motor Speedway. The NASCAR Drive for Diversity member has just 12 NXS starts to his credit, making his series debut in 2019. “Having the opportunity race the No. 6 Chevy for JD Motorsports full-time in the NASCAR ...Keep reading View the full article

Take a look at the stage lengths for the 2021 NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series seasons. The Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway will again have an extra stage due to the length of the race. NASCAR Cup Series Track Stage 1 Stage 2 Final Stage Daytona International Speedway 65 130 200 Daytona International Speedway Road ...Keep reading View the full article

The 40-year-old will pilot the No. 25 Rackley Roofing Chevrolet Silverado in his return to fulltime competition this year. Rackley W.A.R is co-owned by Willie Allen and Curtis Sutton and will make their debut in February's season-opener at Daytona International Speedway. “It has always been a dream to be a NASCAR owner,” Allen said in a release from the team. “We are excited ...Keep reading View the full article

Parent company NBC Universal confirmed to staff in a memo on Friday afternoon that much of its programming will be migrated to sister channel USA Network. NBC holds the U.S. broadcast rights to half of the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series events, which it shares with Fox, as well as fulltime coverage of the NTT IndyCar Series, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCars, NHRA and Moto America. It also broadcasts ...Keep reading View the full article

On Friday, JD Motorsports announced Cassill, 31, would return to the organization to once again compete in a full Xfinity Series schedule, this time driving the No. 4 Chevrolet. Cassill has driven for the organization multiple times in the past, including the 2014 season when he finished 12th in the series standings. Last year, Cassill ran only four NASCAR races, all in the Xfinity Series for ...Keep reading View the full article

Elliott is joining Action Express Racing’s fulltimers Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani, and endurance driver Mike Conway, in the Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R for his Rolex 24 Hours, but has yet to try the car itself around Daytona International Speedway’s 3.56-mile road course. Instead, he’s been working hard on the simulator to prepare, and he admits “I think I got very fortunate with ...Keep reading View the full article

Allmendinger, who will compete fulltime in the Xfinity Series this season with Kaulig Racing, will also drive the No. 16 Chevrolet in the Feb. 21 Cup Series race on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course. It will mark Allmendinger’s first Cup start since the season-finale of the 2018 season. “I am really looking forward to racing in the Cup Series once again, but more ...Keep reading View the full article

The 39-year-old, who has been without a Cup ride since his five-year spell with JTG Daugherty Racing concluded at the end of the 2018 season, has scored three wins with Kaulig in the second tier of the NASCAR pyramid in the past two years and is contesting the full Xfinity season with the team in 2021. The Matt Kaulig-owned squad, which was founded ahead of the 2016 season, made its Cup Series ...Keep reading View the full article