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Kyle Busch and wife Samantha have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against Pacific Life Insurance and agent Rodney Smith brough against the latter in November. The two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion filed suit seeking over $8 million over an alleged retirement plan scheme of which the details can be read here. In its court mandated legal response, Pacific Life effectively said the claims ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2026 IndyCar season is about to get underway with the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Alex Palou enters as the defending champion, and the dominant Chip Ganassi Racing driver eyes a fifth crown. There are several faces in new places, including veteran Will Power, who leaves Penske for a new home at Andretti. David Malukas will take Power's place as the driver of the #12, and ...Keep readingView the full article

There is no questioning the unreal levels of talent Shane van Gisbergen possesses on road and street courses. And the NASCAR world has now learned what happens when you take a three-time Supercars champion at the top of his game, and place him in a stock car. SVG won on debut in 2023 at the Chicago Street Course in a feat not seen in over 60 years. After going full-time with Trackhouse in 2025 ...Keep readingView the full article

Chris Gabehart said in a Wednesday legal filing that the lawsuit against him by former employer Joe Gibbs Racing isn’t about protecting trade secrets but instead ‘punishing a former employee for daring to leave.’ And while less seemingly less consequential on the merits of the lawsuit itself, Gabehart also revealed his reasons for leaving Joe Gibbs Racing in the first place by citing a ...Keep readingView the full article

In its first year being held at Dover Motor Speedway, the NASCAR All-Star Race now has a format to be contested under the shadow of Miles the Monster. And this one is going to be a marathon that requires a good bit of arithmetic. First and foremost, there will no longer be an ‘open’ race for drivers not already locked-in to race their way into the decisive segment of the event. With ...Keep readingView the full article

All eyes were on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season-opener at Daytona, and that was partly due to the entry list. An extreme sports athlete joined the grid alongside a famous YouTuber, a child sitcom star, a NASCAR Hall of Famer, and several other interesting names, which made it must-watch TV. Well, the third round of the 2026 NCTS season has similar intrigue, as the Truck Series takes ...Keep readingView the full article

Austin Hill, 31, is a proven winner in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series with nearly 150 starts and 15 wins. He was victorious in the 2026 season-opener at Daytona and nearly went back-to-back at Atlanta before last-lap contact while trying to block Ross Chastain. All of Hill's success in the secondary level of NASCAR has been with RCR. He also 15 Cup starts, finishing as high as ninth at ...Keep readingView the full article

Joe Gibbs Racing has amended its lawsuit against Chris Gabehart and has now extended those claims against Spire Motorsports while also asking the Western District of North Carolina to enforce a restraining order to prevent the pairing from continue working together. Spire Motorsports confirmed over the weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway that it has hired Gabehart, a longtime engineer turned crew ...Keep readingView the full article

The battle over the future of the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway property continued this week with a pair of noteworthy developments from the coalition assembled to preserve motorsports in Downtown Music City. Most notably, a lawsuit was filed by former racer Neil Chaffin challenging an anti-speedway group's efforts to put a de facto motorsports ban on the ballot on November 3. Specifically ...Keep readingView the full article

With no right-front fender, Tyler Reddick won last weekend's NASCAR Cup race in Atlanta, going back-to-back to open the 2026 season. While impressive, it's not unprecedented. NASCAR is a full-contact sport in the end and we've seen plenty of race winning cars take the checkered flag in less-than-ideal shape.  So, let's take a look at some of the most beat up cars to win at the highest level ...Keep readingView the full article

The Chase for the Championship is back and that means having a good points day is back in vogue but also questions about the standings for drivers who are not off to the start they intended. That includes Kyle Larson, who leaves the back-to-back drafting track races 21st in the standings. “And …,” Larson said tersely when told that fact outside the infield care center on Sunday at ...Keep readingView the full article

Let's start off this week's edition of 'Winners and Losers' by just applauding the minds behind the Atlanta reconfiguration. The new version of this historic track has quickly asserted itself as one of the best on the schedule, and consistently puts on the most exciting races. On Sunday, 14 different drivers took a turn out front with a record 57 lead changes. And despite all of the chaos and ...Keep readingView the full article

At just 13 years old, Keelan Harvick will now follow the highly successful Toyota pipeline as one of the manufacturer's development drivers. “I’m really grateful to have this kind of opportunity with Toyota Racing Development,” said Harvick. “To have their support and be able to represent ExxonMobil, it doesn’t get much better. I’m still getting experience, but it’s going to be a ...Keep readingView the full article

19-year-old NASCAR Cup driver Connor Zilisch said he could always tell that Kimi Antonelli would get into Formula 1 after karting together. The two grew up karting together when the American driver would spend his summers in Europe to gain experience other forms of racing. During an appearance on the Gypsy Tales podcast, the Trackhouse Racing driver explained that Antonelli was "one of the best ...Keep readingView the full article

On one hand, it was the full Carson Hocevar experience at Atlanta, where he was going to take any gap that presented itself but he also acknowledged after the race that he likely has some apologies to make too. It was an adventure out there: His race began with a flat tire running inside the top-five and lost a lap on pit road. He started racing the leaders to stay just one lap down but had ...Keep readingView the full article

After winning the first two races of the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, Tyler Reddick has an impressive 40-point lead in the championship standings. 23XI Racing teammate Bubba Wallace sits second after back-to-back top tens to open the year, with Chase Elliott third. 2026 NASCAR Cup points after Atlanta I (Race 2 of 36) Pos. Driver Points 1 Tyler ...Keep readingView the full article

Through two races, the NASCAR Cup Series is 23XI Racing’s world and everyone else is just living in it. Tyler Reddick has won back-to-back races to open season and leads the championship standings over his teammate, Bubba Wallace. NASCAR has made headlines all month now with team co-owner Michael Jordan celebrating on pit road following a year that challenged 23XI on the track and in the ...Keep readingView the full article

Shane van Gisbergen had an eventful race at EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta) on Sunday. The site of his best oval showing in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series (third) is now the site of his best oval finish in Cup, finishing an impressive sixth. SVG did that despite two mid-race trips through the infield grass on the way to improving on his previous best oval finish of tenth at Kansas last ...Keep readingView the full article

Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta featured a record number of lead changes with over a dozen different drivers taking a turn out front. For the first time since 2009, a driver opened the season with back-to-back wins as Tyler Reddick surged ahead in double overtime to win the race. It was an improbable comeback after being collected in a mid-race wreck and losing his right-front ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick had no right-front fender after a mid-race frontstretch wreck, but that didn't stop him from capturing the checkered flag in a chaotic finish at EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta).  It was Reddick's 23XI Racing teammate Bubba Wallace who had the lead on the final restart, and Reddick was the pusher. Carson Hocevar lined up on the outside with Ross Chastain directly behind him. The ...Keep readingView the full article

Everyone liked that Sam Mayer destroyed a Haas Factory Team race car because he was so otherwise excited to congratulate Sheldon Creed on his first career NASCAR O’Reilly Series victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway. After pulling up alongside Creed to give him a playful door slam, Mayer peeled down onto the infield grass as a shortcut to pit road. However, the ground was so saturated from ...Keep readingView the full article

Corey Day has now finished fourth twice in his NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts career, but his journey there on Saturday was a messy one. It started with, Ryan Sieg, who was hoping to carry momentum over from a solid season-opener where he finished third at Daytona. However, his day came to an abrupt end after just five laps into the Atlanta NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts (NOAPS) race. Day tried to ...Keep readingView the full article

Sam Mayer started Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race from pole position, but fell back after a flat tire forced him onto pit road. He rallied back to finish seventh with a fairly clean car, but it didn't stay that way. Mayer's Haas teammate Sheldon Creed was victorious for the very first time in his 138th career start, and so he decided to go and congratulate him.  After ...Keep readingView the full article

Creed was 0-137 in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series with an astonishing 15 runner-up finishes going into Saturday’s night race. But on the final lap, a win was thrown into his lap as Ross Chastain and Austin Hill collided in the battle for the win. Hill took the lead from Chastain coming to the white flag, but Chastain was in a perfect position to get a similar run down the ...Keep readingView the full article

Nine of Kyle Busch’s record 68 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series wins have come at EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta), including the last three with Spire. Today, he bested Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ben Rhodes, and Stewart Friesen in a thrilling battle for the win, and captured the checkered flag after a helpful push from teammate Carson Hocevar. "Finally, I win one that he's here," said Busch of his son ...Keep readingView the full article