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Here are five things to watch for in Sunday's race:First-time winner: There have been three drivers to score their first Xfinity Series win at Iowa including the winners of both of last year’s races. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. earned his first NXS win and first of three straight victories at the track starting in 2011. Last season, William Byron and Ryan Preece both captured their first ... Keep reading View the full article

The upcoming 2020 Ram Heavy Duty was spotted trundling around the other day in a bodystyle we haven't yet seen: a regular cab with an 8-foot bed. View the full article

During his rookie season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Dalton Sargeant has had to get acclimated fast to many tracks he’s never raced on before and that can be a challenging situation. This weekend, Sargeant gets to race on a track he’s very familiar with - Iowa Speedway.Sargeant, who sits ninth in the points standings after eight races, won at Iowa last season in the ARCA ... Keep reading View the full article

The Swiss company VEXATEC tested the worldwide unique agility shirt with high-end data logger at the American Speedfest of the Nascar Whelen Euro Series in Brands Hatch, Great Britain. Gianmarco Ercoli and Simone Laureti from Racers Motorsport wore agility shirts on Friday in the two 30-minute practices.The tests, officially approved and monitored by NASCAR, were successfully ... Keep reading View the full article

The NASCAR Truck and Xfinity Series have a standalone event at Iowa Speedway this weekend. Do you think standalone events hurt or help these two divisions and its drivers?Jim: Standalone events are what used to separate the series regulars from Cup drivers in the Xfinity points standings, especially when the series had an abundance of them. They are good opportunities for Xfinity ... Keep reading View the full article

L.P. Dumoulin ended a 40-race winless streak and after scoring the season-opening win last month at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, he’s ready to start a new streak - a winning streak.The Québec driver from Trois-Rivières will try and score his first back-to-back wins in his career this weekend at Jukasa Motor Speedway in the Rankin Construction 200.Dumoulin already has a win on an ... Keep reading View the full article

Darrell Waltrip talks with Daryl Motte about watching Dale Earnhardt Jr. grow up from a kids into a Cup Series winner. View the full article

Daniel Suárez sits down with 'NASCAR Race Hub' to talk about how his father inspired him to get into racing, and then gets a special surprise. View the full article

The French outfit took its World RX programme in-house for 2018, having previously run in partnership with Kenneth Hansen’s Hansen Motorsport concern.Announcing pre-season that it would introduce developments throughout 2018, Peugeot Sport director Bruno Famin believes the car set to be introduced for the Holjes event in two weeks’ time will be the single biggest upgrade of the ... Keep reading View the full article

The WRC teams met during last week's Alghero-based event and Motorsport.com understands a letter to Todt was talked about, but ultimately dismissed by the group. But there remains significant disquiet about the logistical effort to get to the island and the absence of sufficient reward in terms of promotional value from the rally. Last week's Rally Italy was, once again, poorly supported ... ... Keep reading View the full article

The WRC teams met during last week's Alghero-based event and Motorsport.com understands a letter to Todt was talked about, but ultimately dismissed by the group.But there remains significant disquiet about the logistical effort to get to the island and the absence of sufficient reward in terms of promotional value from the rally.Last week's Rally Italy was, once again, poorly ... Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR has released the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series and the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series schedules.The NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule is nearly identical from this year's schedule with the only slight change are the dates of the races while the newly-named truck series schedule will feature a few changes.Texas Motor Speedway moves its fall truck date to the spring weekend ... Keep reading View the full article

Check out some of the items that Shannon Spake is auctioning off on Ebay to benefit the Ironman Foundation, and hear her tell the incredible story of Mike Ergo, a marine who ran an entire marathon holding the American Flag, and gave it to Linda Kynoch who lost her son, Corporal Josh Kynoch in battle. View the full article

Meeke, who had been hired to lead Citroen's title challenge in its factory WRC return with the C3, was dismissed between the last two rounds in what the team called a safety-related decision following recent large accidents.But Toyota driver Latvala was one of several WRC contenders who spoke out in Meeke's defence."It's a shock," Latvala told Motorsport.com. "This isn't something we ... Keep reading View the full article

We now have three drivers with a total of seven titles. I am more impressed with Dale Earnhardt's seven because he did it with three different crew chiefs. Petty and Johnson did it with one for all seven titles. What do you think? - From SalSal, you can look at it both ways. Of course, the more variables you change on a team, the more difficult it is to maintain that same level of ... Keep reading View the full article

Paul Menard rebounded from an on-track incident earlier in the race to score his best finish of the season at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday.“We had a good car today and all weekend,” said Menard. “We didn’t qualify as good as we would have hoped and went from the back and got put to the back twice. Once I sped and another time we got door slammed.”Seven laps into the ... Keep reading View the full article

Toyota's Ott Tanak had to retire from third place on Rally Italy last week after an incident on what many felt was a badly built jump on the Monte Baranta stage.Tanak's Yaris WRC slammed nose-first into the road, damaging the cooling system.WRC champion Sebastien Ogier led calls for a uniform approach to building jumps on stages."We all agreed as drivers, it's not clever to build ... Keep reading View the full article

All three Joe Gibbs Racing car chiefs have been suspended by NASCAR for the next Cup round at Sonoma as a punishment for Michigan infractions View the full article

The 'NASCAR Race Hub' crew go 'Next Level' to break down the contact between Kyle Busch and Joey Logano at Michigan. View the full article

Darrell Waltrip talks with Daryl Motte about his disputed wins count of 84 with Bobby Allison, and why he feels he a few of his wins taken away. View the full article

Three teams – those of Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Erik Jones – were assessed additional penalties on Tuesday after NASCAR found unapproved splitters on each of their cars in pre-race inspection at Michigan International Speedway.All three of the Joe Gibbs Racing drivers were forced to start Sunday’s race from the rear of the field. In addition, NASCAR on Tuesday fined each crew ... Keep reading View the full article

The guys talk to the competitors and reveal the winner of Diesel Power’s 2018 Diesel Power Challenge, discuss DPF-friendly diesel performance with Clint Cannon from ATS Diesel Performance, and argue about whether or not a Commercial Driver’s License is worth it for the average person. View the full article

That was then, this is now.Bowyer’s first season stepping in for the retiring NASCAR star Tony Stewart didn’t go quite as he planned in 2017 – he failed to win a race or a pole, finished 18th in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series standings and led just 22 laps of competition.But much of SHR was hit-or-miss on performance last season and although frustrated, Bowyer remained ... Keep reading View the full article

Michael Waltrip talks with Daryl Motte about how he would get recognized for his time on 'Dancing with the Stars' more than he would for racing. View the full article

Haley, who competes full-time with GMS Racing in the Camping World Truck Series, will make his Xfinity Series debut this weekend at Iowa Speedway, driving GMS’ No. 23 Chevrolet.The team announced on Monday that Haley, 19, would also compete in the July 6 race at Daytona and the Aug. 4 race at Watkins Glen (N.Y.).“This is an opportunity of a lifetime to be in top notch Xfinity Series ... Keep reading View the full article