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When NASCAR restarted its season in May after a nearly two-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many teams went about designating a “relief driver” in case one of their regular drivers ended up contracting the disease or was placed under a precautionary quarantine. Allgaier, who drives fulltime in the Xfinity Series for JR Motorsports, had agreed to the role with HMS and on Friday ...Keep reading View the full article

Briscoe lost the lead late in Saturday’s Pennzoil 150 only to come back and went three-wide with then-leader A.J. Allmendinger and Austin Cindric with two laps remaining and emerged the leader. Briscoe then quickly began to pull away as the battle for position heated up behind him and he held off Justin Haley to win the inaugural NASCAR Xfinity Series race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR’s extravagant weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been rocked by its first driver testing positive for the coronavirus View the full article

IndyCar donates $1 million to establish diversity program View the full article

Johnson tested positive for the novel coronavirus Friday afternoon which will force him to miss Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, ending a streak of 663 consecutive starts since becoming a full-time Cup Series driver in 2002. Early Friday morning, Johnson’s wife, Chandra, had received a positive test result after developing allergy-like symptoms while on a trip to ...Keep reading View the full article

The 25-year-old driver from Mitchell, Ind., is fresh off his Xfinity Series-leading fourth victory of the 2020 season and would love to add to his total with his first NASCAR victory at the iconic track. For the first time, as part of a unique NASCAR-IndyCar Series doubleheader weekend due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Xfinity Series will compete Saturday on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course ...Keep reading View the full article

In a statement, Hendrick Motorsports announced Johnson, 44, had tested positive on Friday afternoon. Johnson has not experienced any symptoms but was tested upon learning his wife, Chandra, has tested positive after experiencing allergy-like symptoms. In Johnson’s absence, Xfinity Series driver Justin Allgaier will drive the No. 48 Chevrolet in place of Johnson in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 ...Keep reading View the full article

Seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson has become the first NASCAR driver to confirm he has tested positive for COVID-19 View the full article

Cindric ended up fastest in Friday’s final Xfinity Series practice with an average lap speed of 97.850 on the IMS road course, which also was the fastest lap of the day. A.J. Allmendinger was fastest (97.392 mph) in Friday’s first 50-minute session on the 2.439-mile 14-turn course. Cindric, who drives for Team Penske and has three NASCAR national series wins on road courses ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus View the full article

Jimmie Johnson will test an Indy car on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway over the next week View the full article

Allmendinger, who has four NASCAR road course wins to his credit (three in Xfinity and one in Cup), paced the first practice session with an average lap speed of 97.392 mph. He was the only drive to eclipse the 97 mph on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn course, which is also used by the IndyCar Series. Austin Cindric ended up second (96.803 mph) and series points leader Chase Briscoe was third ...Keep reading View the full article

Johnson, who has competed in a Chevrolet in NASCAR his entire Cup career, originally had a test scheduled in April in an Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet at Barber Motorsports Park, but that was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hendrick Motorsport driver is competing in what will be his final full-time season of NASCAR racing but has remained steadfast he is not done racing and has ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR and IndyCar have come together for an unprecedented weekend of racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway View the full article

The race moves from Charlotte Motor Speedway to Bristol for the first time July 15 in a Wednesday night primetime event. This week, NASCAR announced the race format, which features a 'choose cone' rule. Drivers will be able to choose which lane they want to be in for each restart at a designated area on the track following pit stops. Normally, drivers would try to position themselves in a ...Keep reading View the full article

To add to that, NBC will kick off its NASCAR coverage this weekend with the first combination IndyCar Series/NASCAR race weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. While IndyCar has occasionally shared a weekend at a track with a lower tier NASCAR series such as Trucks or ARCA, it has never run the same venue the same weekend with NASCAR’s Cup Series. This weekend will feature IndyCar and ...Keep reading View the full article

While NASCAR Trucks and ARCA racing have shared the bill with IndyCar on some tracks in recent years, the compression of the NTT IndyCar Series schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions provided IndyCar and IMS owner Roger Penske with a rare chance to strike a deal with NASCAR to share a venue with the Monster Energy Cup Series. Consequently, on July the Fourth weekend, IndyCar and ...Keep reading View the full article

Dr. Rose Mattioli, co-founder of Pocono Raceway and matriarch of the Mattioli family that still owns and operates the track, died on Monday at the age of 92 View the full article

Dr. Rose and her late husband Dr. Joseph ‘Doc’ Mattioli co-founded Pocono in 1968, which remains a family-owned-and-operated business. Dr. Rose and Doc worked side-by-side and, through their tireless passion and commitment, became one of the most admired and loved families in motorsports. Dr. Rose’s death came one day after Pocono completed the first doubleheader weekend in the NASCAR Cup ...Keep reading View the full article

Chris Gabehart began working with Hamlin at the start of the 2019 season and they immediately found success winning the season-opening Daytona 500. Hamlin ended up with one of the most successful seasons of his career, piling up six wins, career-bests in top-fives (19) and top-10s (24) and advancing to the final four to contend for the series championship. Hamlin and the No. 11 Joe Gibbs ...Keep reading View the full article