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JR Motorsports on Tuesday announced the 37-year-old native of Brazil would compete in three Xfinity Series road course races this season, driving the organization’s No. 8 Chevrolet with sponsorship from Brandt. Paludo’s first race will be the Feb. 20 event on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course, followed by the May 22 race at Circuit of the Americas and June 5 at the Mid-Ohio ...Keep reading View the full article

Kohler Generators, a leader in home backup generators which operates under the umbrella of Kohler Co., will make its debut as a primary sponsor on Newman’s No. 6 in the Feb. 14 Daytona 500. Kohler Generators will also serve as Newman’s primary partner for races at Atlanta in March, Darlington and Charlotte in May, Road America in July, Bristol in September and Talladega and Martinsville in ...Keep reading View the full article

Prior to the start of the 2021 season, NASCAR will require Deegan to take sensitivity training. Deegan, the 19-year-old daughter of Motocross and X Games star Brian Deegan, was streaming an esports racing event on her Twitch account on Sunday when she was hit by another driver when the race was under caution. Deegan immediately exclaimed: “Hey, who’s the (slur) behind me? Don’t do ...Keep reading View the full article

Elliott will be sharing Action Express Racing’s #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R with three of the best IMSA Prototype drivers – Felipe Nasr, Pipo Derani and Mike Conway – and the 2020 NASCAR champ is keeping his own ambitions modest. He told IMSA.com: “I think as you step into a situation like that, the biggest thing is just to not mess it up for them. That’s my mindset. I ...Keep reading View the full article

The 2019 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year proved enormously adept at oval racing in his two IndyCar seasons at Dale Coyne Racing scoring fourth places at Texas, Pocono and Gateway in 2019, and at the Indy 500 in 2020, in the DCR with Vasser Sullivan car. Indeed, the Gateway ’19 race Ferrucci would likely have won until a caution flag ruined his strategy. However, the 22-year-old from Woodbury, CT ...Keep reading View the full article

Lessard, 19, ran the complete Truck Series schedule with Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2020. He won once at Talladega Superspeedway and placed 12th in the championship standings before the two parted ways. It was initially announced that he would move over to GMS Racing for the partial schedule in 2021, but that has since been increased to the entire season. The Quebec, Canada native will ...Keep reading View the full article

The team has aspirations to go full-time at the Cup level in the future and is using 2021 to get some experience in the premier division of NASCAR. Kaulig will add road courses and superspeedway events to their schedule, in addition to the 63rd running of the Daytona 500. “Kaulig Racing is always building toward the future, and I believe this is the next step in that process,” said team ...Keep reading View the full article

Larson is gearing up for his return to the NASCAR Cup Series this year after being sacked by Chip Ganassi Racing and suspended by NASCAR last April for using a racial slur during a virtual racing event run in the COVID-19 enforced pause to the season. The NASCAR Cup race winner missed the remainder of the 2020 season as his sponsors dropped their contracts with him, while veteran Matt Kenseth ...Keep reading View the full article

Kyle Larson has lost his new spotter Chris Monez at Hendrick Motorsports just days after being announced due to controversial social media posts View the full article

FRM announced its NASCAR plans on Wednesday, including the addition of Alfredo, who ran 19 races in the Xfinity Series last season with Richard Childress Racing. Alfredo, 21, replaces John Hunter Nemechek who left the organization to move to Kyle Busch Motorsports. Seth Barbour will serve as his crew chief. “This is really an unbelievable moment,” said Alfredo. “When you start out ...Keep reading View the full article

Monez announced in a post on his Twitter feed on Jan. 1 he would be spotting for Larson and the No. 5 NASCAR Cup Series team in 2021. Following an apparent uproar over some of Monez’s social media posts, a spokesman for Hendrick Motorsports on Tuesday night confirmed to Motorsport.com that Monez is no longer with the team. A new spotter for Larson will be announced at a later ...Keep reading View the full article

The track announced on Monday it will host a limited, reduced number of fans throughout its spring the three-day NASCAR race weekend, March 12-14. The reduced capacity is due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and in accordance with enhanced safety protocols and procedures to provide a safe environment for fans, competitors, employees and industry personnel. The decision by Phoenix means the ...Keep reading View the full article

10. Clint Bowyer’s final season Clint Bowyer, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford Mustang Rush/HAAS CNC Photo by: Matthew T. Thacker / NKP / Motorsport Images Bowyer, 41, waited until late in the year to announce his decision to make the 2020 Cup Series season his final one as a full-time competitor. But he’ll remain in the sport, moving to the Fox Sports broadcast booth beginning with ...Keep reading View the full article

On Thursday, RWR Eurasia announced three of its four drivers which will compete in one of Eurasia’s Ligier JS P217 Gibsons in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season-opener. Joining Dillon will be Salih Yoluc, a Turkish driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GTE-Am class, and Cody Ware, the reigning Asian Le Mans Series champion. Read Also: NASCAR champ ...Keep reading View the full article

Earnhardt, the 31-year-old grandson of the late Dale Earnhardt, will return to JD Motorsports next season and compete fulltime in the Xfinity Series, driving the team’s No. 0 Chevrolet. Earnhardt ran 29 races with the team in 2020, with a best finish of 11th at the Charlotte Roval. His season began with an agreement to run a handful of races but he eventually ran the vast majority of the ...Keep reading View the full article

Bell spent his rookie season with Leavine Family Racing before being promoted to JGR after the team ceased operations. He will be paired with crew chief Adam Stevens, who served atop the pit box for Kyle Busch for the past five years. The duo won the Cup Series championship in both 2015 and 2019, but a change was made after a lackluster 2020 season. “I think if you look at 2020 as a whole ...Keep reading View the full article

Harvick, 45, was named the winner of the award named after former seven-time Cup Series champion Richard Petty following a vote of the National Motorsports Press Association membership. Harvick received 45 percent of the votes cast. Also receiving multiple votes were 2020 Cup champion Chase Elliott, 2020 IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon and Kyle Larson, who won 46 races on dirt this ...Keep reading View the full article

Elliott, who has won five race NASCAR Cup road course races, will be competing in the opening round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the first time. He will find himself in competition with – and teamed with – his former Hendrick Motorsports NASCAR teammate Jimmie Johnson, who will be sharing a second Action Express Racing Cadillac with Simon Pagenaud, Kamui Kobayashi and ...Keep reading View the full article

Only one car - with Ford driver Chris Buescher - took part in the test and spent much of the two days making single-car runs around the 2.5-mile oval. "Daytona was an important test for us, because when we come back here in 2022 we have to make sure we hit the speed targets that we're looking for," said John Probst, NASCAR's senior vice president of racing innovation. "We came here with one ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR has completed a two-day test at Daytona International Speedway with its Next Gen car earlier this week, focusing on hitting speed targets View the full article