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Earnhardt, who retired from fulltime NASCAR competition following the 2017 season, took part in his first virtual IndyCar Series race on Saturday, finishing third in an event at the virtual Michigan International Speedway, part of the IndyCar iRacing Challenge. Earnhardt has also been participating in the eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series as both NASCAR IndyCar schedules remain on hiatus due to ...Keep reading View the full article

The NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee received an invite this week to take part in Saturday’s virtual race at Michigan International Speedway, part of the IndyCar Challenge. While Earnhardt has little to no experience competing either in real racing or virtual racing in IndyCar, he has made plenty of real-life starts at Michigan, which is not currently on IndyCar’s real schedule. Earnhardt ...Keep reading View the full article

The popularity of virtual motorsports racing on television has come with surprising success stories View the full article

Ex-Formula 1 driver and inaugural Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr is considering a return to NASCAR, having raced in its three lead categories after his F1 career ended View the full article

The 90-lap race included ten drivers who advanced into the title-decider through three short track events earlier this week. The field was led by William Byron, who earned pole position at Martinsville after sweeping both races at Rockingham Monday. He would dominate the early portions of the race with Parker Kligerman solidly in second. Christopher Bell fell back to the rear of the field ...Keep reading View the full article

After his F1 career, Nelson Piquet Jr. found haven in one of the most competitive series in the world, NASCAR. There were three complete seasons, two in the Truck Series and one in the Xfinity Series, in addition to other sporadic races, including one in the Cup Series, in Watkins Glen 2014. Altogether there were three victories in the national divisions, in addition to the expectation of the ...Keep reading View the full article

Jimmie Johnson isn't sure what his future holds now that his farewell season as a full-time NASCAR driver has been stopped because of the coronavirus pandemic View the full article

Last November, Johnson – a seven-time Cup Series champion and winner of 83 career victories – announced the 2020 season would be his last as a fulltime competitor. He never ruled out competing in different racing disciplines in the future, but just not on a regular basis. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to NASCAR competition last month, there have been questions whether ...Keep reading View the full article

With Belle Isle, Detroit Grand Prix double-header canned as of Monday this week, the GP of Indianapolis and Indy 500 being shifted to July and August respectively, the cancellation of the races at Barber, Long Beach and Circuit of the Americas, and St. Petersburg possibly postponed until October, Texas Motor Speedway currently sits as the NTT IndyCar Series new season-opener on June ...Keep reading View the full article

The league, a collaboration among 704 Games, NASCAR and the Race Team Alliance features 14 eNASCAR teams is played on NASCAR Heat 4, the newest iteration of the NASCAR video game franchise. Each team features one Xbox player and one PlayStation4. Each team was required to drop one of its two players from 2019 and three teams – Chip Ganassi Gaming, GoFas Gaming and Gibbs Gaming – elected to ...Keep reading View the full article

The third round of the Short Track Challenge took place at Myrtle Beach Speedway where the final five spots on the grid were decided. In the first 45 lap shootout, Myatt Snider got away with the race lead but had Dale Earnhardt Jr. in hot pursuit. Timmy Hill was able to take the lead halfway through the event, but not for long as Ryan Preece worked his way past him with 16 laps ...Keep reading View the full article

Earnhardt floated the idea days ago, expressing his interest but said he had not yet received an invite. On Wednesday, he tweeted 'invite received,' confirming he would indeed join the field for the IndyCar esports race at the two mile Michigan oval. The series, known as the IndyCar Challenge, has run two events so far at Watkins Glen International and Barber Motorsports Park, won by ...Keep reading View the full article

Tim Clark, senior vice president and chief digital officer for NASCAR, was well aware of skeptical fans and stakeholders when NASCAR began putting resources into the development of virtual racing leagues like the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series and NASCAR Heat Pro League. “No one could predict the future,” Clark told Motorsport.com, “but look what we have now.” Since NASCAR ...Keep reading View the full article

William Byron locked himself into the ten-driver field for the championship race at Martinsville Speedway with a sweep of both races Monday at Rockingham. On Tuesday, six new drivers now got their chance to join him and Kyle Busch in the title-decider. Read Also: Byron sweeps Rockingham round of Short Track Challenge Race 1 Lucas Oil Raceway hosted the second round ...Keep reading View the full article

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Burton and Carl Edwards are among the new nominees for NASCAR’s next Hall of Fame class View the full article

NASCAR also introduced the 'Modern Era' and 'Pioneer Ballots' for the first time. New names on the Modern Era ballot include Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards and Jeff Burton On the Pioneer side are Jake Elder and Banjo Matthews. Modern Era Ballot Neil Bonnett, won 18 times in the NASCAR Cup Series including consecutive Coca-Cola 600 victories Jeff Burton, won 21 times in the NASCAR ...Keep reading View the full article

The Short Track Challenge is a new event featuring duel sprint races with NASCAR Cup Series cars at Rockingham Speedway, Lucas Oil Raceway and Myrtle Beach Speedway. Read Also: Bubba Wallace loses real sponsor from quitting virtual race Byron: "Tough" to sim race with drivers of varied skill sets The winner of each sim race will secure their place in Thursday's ...Keep reading View the full article

The EuroNASCAR Esports Series will kick off on April 21 on iRacing and will include eight events with the last three serving as playoff rounds and awarding double points. And in a first for virtual motorsports competition, the participating series drivers will also score points toward the real 2020 Euro Series team championship. “First of all, this is a challenging time and we encourage ...Keep reading View the full article

After using up his two allowed fast-repair “resets” in the first 10 laps of Sunday’s eNASCAR race at virtual Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, Wallace got involved in a third incident with driver Clint Bowyer that caused his No. 43 extensive damage. Rather than drive the remainder of the 150-lap event with a damaged vehicle and out of contention for the win, Wallace elected to ...Keep reading View the full article

Sunday’s 150-lap race from virtual Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway was marred by a dozen cautions and several retaliatory on-track incidents, one of which forced the disqualification of drivers Kyle Larson and Daniel Suarez. As they did in a race for drivers from other NASCAR series on Saturday night, race officials ultimately decided to move to single-file restarts to help reduce the number ...Keep reading View the full article