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As Motorsport.com earlier reported, NASCAR will race at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City next year. Scheduled for the weekend of June 14-15 in 2025, it will replace the spring Richmond race on the schedule. The track layout will feature 14 turns, but will skip Turns 5 and 6, going right at Turn 4 instead of left. Beyond that change, it will follow the F1 track layout for the Mexican ...Keep readingView the full article

Amind recent driver movement at Trackhouse Racing, mainstays Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez remain focused on on-track performance. View the full article

The World Rally Championship has selected 15 aspiring female drivers that will compete to win a fully funded drive in the Junior WRC next year.The WRC launched its women’s driver development programme in the hope of unearthing new talent and increasing female participation in the discipline.In recent years women have enjoyed success in co-driving with Reeta Hamalainen and Enni Malkonen winning ...Keep readingView the full article

Check out the greatest moments from the LiUNA! 175! View the full article

The 23-year-old son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Burton only led one lap on Saturday night at Daytona, but it was one that mattered most. Burton entered the penultimate round of the regular season 34th -- dead last in the championship standings among full-time drivers."As a person, I’ve just grown a lot in the hardship," he said of the struggles. "That’s where you grow as a person, is when ...Keep readingView the full article

Parker Retzlaff said he wanted to be in position to push Kyle Busch, a Chevy, at the end but didn’t want to give up a row on the restart. He also said that giving Harrison Burton the big push was the best chance for himself to win. He finished seventh. View the full article

Michael McDowell spoke on his car getting airborne as he was challenging for the win late at Daytona. View the full article

Daytona delivered on the drama Saturday night when Harrison Burton surged ahead in the #21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford to out-duel Kyle Busch and win his way into the 2024 playoffs.Parker Retzlaff shoved Burton ahead of Busch on the final, a fellow Chevrolet driver. Burton then blocked aggressively, crossing the finish line and finally becoming a winner in the NASCAR Cup Series after 98 career ...Keep readingView the full article

This time, it was Josh Berry. The driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was leading Saturday's race at Daytona International Speedway when chaos struck at the front of the field. Austin Cindric shot to the right after getting destabilized due to a bad push from behind. He caught the right-rear of Berry's Ford Mustang, sending both drivers spinning down onto the backstretch apron. Despite ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch was in control of the race when the white flag flew at Daytona, but as space grew between him and pusher Christopher Bell, an opportunity arose from the outside lane. In the most unlikely of combinations, Parker Retzlaff, making just his second-ever NASCAR Cup Series start, pushed Burton ahead of the 2x NASCAR Cup Series champion. Burton threw some blocks and kept the car pointed ...Keep readingView the full article

Daytona delivered on the drama Saturday night when Harrison Burton surged ahead in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford to out-duel Kyle Busch and win his way into the 2024 playoffs.Parker Retzlaff shoved Burton ahead of Busch on the final, a fellow Chevrolet driver. Burton then blocked aggressively, crossing the finish line and finally becoming a winner in the NASCAR Cup Series after 98 career ...Keep readingView the full article

He will drive the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro for Trackhouse as they expand to a three-car operation next year. They have already acquired the necessary charter. Stephen Doran, who currently works with Zane Smith, will serve as the crew chief. The team released Smith from his contract in an announcement on Saturday.SVG will race alongside teammates Ross Chastain in the No. 1 and Daniel Suarez in the ...Keep readingView the full article

Following some wind tunnel testing this week, NASCAR's sanctioning body chose to introduce and mandate an air deflector above the right-side window for all Cup cars running this weekend at Daytona. It matches an existing 'shark fin' on the left-side of the car, designed to make the liftoff speed higher. In essence, cars will have to be going faster to reach a point where blow-over crashes become ...Keep readingView the full article

"Obviously, I am disappointed that I've been put in a tough spot," said Smith in a release on Saturday."I am diligently exploring quality driving opportunities and hope to quickly wrap up my plans for next year. Meanwhile, kudos to our No. 71 Cup team. We've turned our year around this summer with six top-20 finishes in the last ten races, which includes a top-10 last weekend and a runner-up ...Keep readingView the full article

Michael McDowell beat teammate Todd Gilliland to pole position with a lap of 49.136s around the 2.5-mile superspeedway. Both drivers are facing a must-win situation and led a legion of Fords at the front of the field, sweeping the first three rows.For McDowell, this is his fourth pole of the season and his third on a drafting track. He had zero poles in the previous 16 years of his Cup career, but ...Keep readingView the full article

Erik Jones needs a win to qualify for this year’s NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. He, along with more than 20 other drivers, has just two weeks to grab four remaining spots. It’s a result of modern NASCAR’s cutthroat championship format, where no driver can win the title before the last lap of the year. Jones sits a distant 27th in points after a growing season with his team, Legacy Motor ...Keep readingView the full article

Heading into Daytona, the points battle around the few remaining spots in the playoffs is incredibly close. Martin Truex Jr. enters the weekend in the safest position, 77 points ahead of the cut-line. His Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs is in an okay spot unless misfortune befalls him at 39 points up. But the battle between Chris Buescher, Ross Chastain and Bubba Wallace is far from over ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlin and the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team have been hit with a pricy penalty after Toyota tore down an engine before it could be inspected by NASCAR following Hamlin's victory at Bristol Motor Speedway way back in March. NASCAR explained the L2-level penalty was issued for failing to meet NASCAR's engine seal requirements with the following statement, noting that Toyota reported the ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR sent a clear message last week to drivers that there are impressive consequences for your actions, especially for Austin Dillon who was stripped of his playoff eligibility after plowing through the cars of Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin to win the Cup race at Richmond. But Dillon and the Richard Childress Racing team immediately moved to appeal the decision where a three-person panel only ...Keep readingView the full article

"I'll relive that restart, what lane to choose overnight, for sure," said William Byron following his runner-up finish at Michigan International Raceway on Monday. "It seems like, always as the leader, you want to take the top. I've gotten beat twice here by the bottom. I had the lead on the bottom barely over him [Reddick], but he had a better car than us. He was a little bit faster."Byron won ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Larson lost out on not only a potential win at Michigan, but his points lead in the championship after a mid-race spin took the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet out of contention. A trio of sudden tire failures forced a caution flag late in the second stage, where a handful of drivers chose to stay out in an effort to grab some stage points. Larson was among the majority who chose to pit ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick hung on to take victory at Michigan International Speedway after a late-race incident set up a sprint to the finish.It was Reddick's second win of the 2024 NASCAR Cup season having won at Talladega, using a push from fellow Toyota driver Ty Gibbs to snatch the lead away from William Byron.Reddick was cruising to victory a few laps before an incident for Martin Truex Jr. turned the ...Keep readingView the full article

It was Reddick's second win of the 2024 NASCAR Cup season, using a push from fellow Toyota driver Ty Gibbs to snatch the lead away from William Byron. He also won earlier this year at Talladega Superspeedway.Reddick was cruising to victory a few laps before the caution, but an incident by Martin Truex Jr. turned the race into a shootout. On the ensuing restart, Alex Bowman hit the backstretch ...Keep readingView the full article

Corey LaJoie was battling with Noah Gragson for position just inside the top-20 when it all went wrong during the final stage of Monday's NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway. He made contact with the left-rear of Gragson's car and spun to the inside apron, where in a shocking and unexpected outcome, the car immediately went airborne in a blowover crash. The car slid upside down ...Keep readingView the full article