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Motorsport.com first reported on Aug. 19 that Almirola had decided to put off retirement from the NASCAR Cup Series and that he and Smithfield would return to SHR for the 2023 season. Read Also: Aric Almirola puts NASCAR retirement on hold, will return for 2023 In addition, SHR announced on Friday at Daytona International Speedway that both driver and sponsor would return with ...Keep readingView the full article

Craftsman, the original title sponsor of the NASCAR Truck Series, will return in 2023. Stanley Black & Decker, the world's largest tool company, has agreed to a title sponsorship deal with the third tier of NASCAR's three national divisions. It will be branded as the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, which was the original name of the division from its inception in 1995 through ...Keep readingView the full article

The starting lineup will be set by the rule book. That puts Hendrick Motorsports teammates Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott on the front row, just one week after their run-in while battling for the win at Watkins Glen International. Joey Logano, Daniel Suarez, Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick, Chris Buescher, Michael McDowell, Alex Bowman will round out the top-ten. Daytona ...Keep readingView the full article

Suarez, 30, joined the team in its infancy at the beginning of the 2021 season. This contract extension is an important milestone for the former NASCAR Xfinity Series champion, who finally finds a bit of stability in his Cup career. Before this news, he had never spent more than two seasons with the same Cup team. After initially stepping up to Cup in 2017 with Joe Gibbs Racing, he joined ...Keep readingView the full article

Ives, who turns 43 in September, has been a NASCAR Cup Series crew chief since 2015. Between his time atop the pit box for Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, and Alex Bowman, he has lead his team to 10 Cup wins. Prior to that, he won the 2014 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship with Chase Elliott. Bowman is locked into the 2022 playoffs, courtesy of his victory at Las Vegas in March. Much of ...Keep readingView the full article

Earlier this month, Petty GMS Racing announced it had signed Gragson to a multi-year deal to drive is No. 42 Chevrolet in the Cup Series beginning next season. Petty GMS officials said one of the benefits of adding Gragson – aside from his obvious talent on the track – was the fact he will join them with experience in the Next Gen car. Read Also: Noah Gragson to step up to NASCAR ...Keep readingView the full article

The 20-year-old is set to sit out next month’s Acropolis Rally in Greece in favour of Dani Sordo as part of the team’s split driver roster for its third I20 N entry. However, the South Korean marque has today confirmed that Solberg will return to the wheel of the i20 N for the following gravel event in New Zealand (29 September - 2 October). New Zealand is set to return to the WRC this ...Keep readingView the full article

One race remains, and the playoff picture is changing before the green flag even flies at Daytona. Kurt Busch has withdrawn his playoff waiver, and will not be part of the playoffs. The No. 45 remains locked in on the owner side, but Busch, who is still recovering from a July concussion, is now out. Ty Gibbs will continue to fill-in for Busch in the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota. This news ...Keep readingView the full article

Smith, who clinched the 2022 regular season title in the Truck Series, will return to another fulltime season in the No. 38 Ford next year, the organization announced on Thursday. In addition, Smith, 23, will make his Daytona 500 debut with FRM as part of a plan that will include other Cup Series starts for the organization in 2023 as well as possible Xfinity Series races with another ...Keep readingView the full article

Busch and 23XI Racing announced on Thursday that Busch will not be able to return to the #45 Toyota in time for the start of the playoffs next weekend at Darlington and had therefore withdrawn his medical waiver to participate. While Busch will no longer be eligible for the driver’s championship, the #45 team will continue to compete for the owner’s championship. Busch’s withdraw means ...Keep readingView the full article

Busch and 23XI Racing announced on Thursday that Busch will not be able to return to the No. 45 Toyota in time for the start of the playoffs next weekend at Darlington, S.C., and had therefore withdrawn his medical waiver to participate. While Busch will no longer be eligible for the driver’s championship, the No. 45 team will continue to compete for the owner’s championship. Busch’s ...Keep readingView the full article

The Japanese marque has invested heavily in hydrogen power as an alternative fuel for motorsport, having recently entered a hydrogen- powered GR Corolla into the Fuji 24 Hours in June, which was driven by Toyota CEO and president Akio Toyoda and Toyota’s WRC boss Jari-Matti Latvala. Last weekend Toyota used the hydrogen powertrain it has developed in an upgraded GR Yaris, which took on a ...Keep readingView the full article

Gordon, 51, is a four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion with 93 race wins (third on the all-time wins list). Gordon's Hall of Fame career, spanning from 1992 to 2016, included three Daytona 500 victories, and just two years where he finished lower than 10th in the standings. Gordon's 'retirement' has been a busy one, including an overall victory in the 2017 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona ...Keep readingView the full article

The team’s crew chief Billy Plourde, car chief Jamie Edwards and team engineer Steven Gray have all been suspended for the next four races, through and including the Sept. 17 race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. The team was penalized according to Section 14.11.2.1.A&B; 10.5.2.6.E: Safety Penalty (Ballast) Note: Loss or separation of added ballast from the vehicle. During ...Keep readingView the full article

Earlier this season, team owner Roger Penske had said he was expecting to sign the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series champion to a long-term extension and the deal was finally announced on Wednesday. “Over the last 10 years Joey has become such an important part of Team Penske and we know he will continue to be a leader and a winner with the #22 Ford team well into the future,” said Penske. “Joey ...Keep readingView the full article

Earlier this season, team owner Roger Penske had said he was expecting to sign Logano, the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series champion, to a long-term extension and the deal was finally announced on Wednesday. “Over the last 10 years Joey has become such an important part of Team Penske and we know he will continue to be a leader and a winner with the No. 22 Ford team well into the future,” said ...Keep readingView the full article

The team had planned to field a record six Rally1 cars for the Greek gravel event from 8-11 September, with the entry headlined by nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb, who will make his fourth appearance of the season. Full-time driver Fourmaux and co-driver Alexandre Coria were listed among its six entries, but the duo’s heavy crash during the penultimate stage of last weekend’s Ypres ...Keep readingView the full article

Norris has carved a out a successful single-seater racing career that has seen him climb through the UK national ranks before landing a seat at McLaren in 2019, and is currently seventh in the championship standings ahead of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. While his career has been centred around circuit racing, Norris declared an interest in rallying in an Motorsport.com interview last ...Keep readingView the full article

Will Kimi Raikkonen's appetite have been sufficiently whetted by his first taste of the NASCAR Cup Series to come back for more? That's the million dollar question. Over the years, this writer has covered ex-Formula 1 stars Mika Hakkinen, Jean Alesi, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard in the DTM and the likes of Nigel Mansell, Gianni Morbidelli, Derek Warwick and Johnny Herbert in the ...Keep readingView the full article

Top Performer - Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja For the second consecutive rally, Hyundai's Ott Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja deserve the Top Performer Award after coming through a particularly challenging Ypres Rally Belgium to claim their third victory of 2022. Ypres' tricky narrow tarmac roads can catch out the best of drivers, as championship leader Kalle Rovanpera and 2021 winner ...Keep readingView the full article

McDowell showed he had a fast car all weekend, - he qualified third, led 14 laps and utilized a two-pit stop strategy that kept him in the hunt the entire race. But with 15 different winners this season and mired in 24th in the series standings, only a win is going to put McDowell in the 16-driver NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. McDowell, a solid road racer himself, found himself battling ...Keep readingView the full article

The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen turned heads on his WRC debut, running as high as 25th overall and leading the Masters Cup class at the wheel of a DG Sport Competition-prepared Citroen C3 Rally2 car. Verstappen and co-driver Harm van Koppen eventually finished the rally 60th after running off the road during Stage 13, but the Dutchman did finish ahead of WRC championship ...Keep readingView the full article

The NASCAR Cup Series had a record number of countries represented in a single race this past weekend at Watkins Glen, with seven nationalities involved, including former F1 drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Daniil Kvyat. This number could have been higher, both in the number of 'foreigners' and former F1 drivers, with the presence of Marques. Originally, the ex-Minardi racer was to start eight Cup ...Keep readingView the full article

His #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 was driven for the first time at Watkins Glen over the weekend by 2007 Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who ran in the top 10 before crashing out in the final stage. Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”. Trackhouse already fields two full-time Cup cars with drivers ...Keep readingView the full article