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Spire Motorsports made it official on Saturday morning with a confirmation that it has indeed hired former Joe Gibbs Racing competition director Chris Gabehart to serve as Chief Motorsports Officer, a role that will oversee multiple disciplines. The hire, in part, has served as the basis for a lawsuit by JGR against Gabehart, whom the team alleges accessed proprietary information while ...Keep readingView the full article

Colin Braun is coming back to NASCAR to drive the No. 25 'free agent' Ram 1500 for Kaulig Racing at St. Petersburg. Tony Stewart piloted the truck in Daytona, while Ty Dillon is behind the wheel this weekend at Atlanta. Braun is one the most experienced drivers in IMSA today. The 37-year-old has over 150 starts, three championships (2014, 2015, 2022), and over 20 victories as a driver in the ...Keep readingView the full article

Brad Keselowski continues to recover from a broken right femur, suffered while slipping on ice during a family skiing trip in December, but his first real test was positive as he crashed out of the Daytona 500 without aggravating the injury. Overall, last weekend did not provide any addition discomfort beyond getting in and out of the car, and he expects tomorrow at Atlanta Motor Speedway to go ...Keep readingView the full article

The house fired that claimed the life of Dennis Hamlin, the father of NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin, has been ruled accidental with the precise cause of the December 28 incident remaining unknown. This is according to a final report in the aftermath of an investigation by the Gaston County Fire Services. The fire started in a bedroom but the report also stated that the heat source, type ...Keep readingView the full article

Unfortunately, rain showers and lightning prevented NASCAR from holding Cup Series qualifying on Saturday morning. Instead, the metric will set the starting lineup. The system was slightly altered for 2026, so not it's just an average of the car's place in the owner standings (30%), and the car's finish in the most recent race (70%).  As a result, championship leader and Daytona 500 winner ...Keep readingView the full article

Following NASCAR Cup Series inspection at EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta), NASCAR has revealed that two Chevrolet teams failed pre-qualifying inspection twice. The first was Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. Car chief Ryan Chism has been ejected and can take no further part in the race weekend from the track, and the team will lose pit stall selection. Dillon's car ...Keep readingView the full article

One day after being sued by Joe Gibbs Racing over an alleged 'brazen scheme' to steal data from the organization while negotiating his employment separation and a job opportunity with Spire Motorsports, Chris Gaebhart responded with a statement that suggests he intends to challenge his longtime employer in court. “Yesterday afternoon, Joe Gibbs Racing filed a lawsuit claiming - falsely - that ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick leads the championship standings after winning the 68th running of the Daytona 500 for 23XI Racing, avoiding two last-lap crashes and surging from third to first in the final seconds of the race. NASCAR now heads to EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta) for a triple-header weekend. Christopher Bell is the defending winner of this event, while Chase Elliott is the most recent winner at ...Keep readingView the full article

Until November 10, 2025, Defendant served as one of JGR’s most senior leaders with respect to all competitive aspects of the business. After his demands for additional authority were rebuffed by JGR’s owner, Defendant immediately embarked on a brazen scheme to steal JGR’s most sensitive information and use it for the benefit of a direct competitor in NASCAR—Spire Motorsports. In this ...Keep readingView the full article

At the beginning of December, it was reported that Chris Gabehart had left Joe Gibbs Racing in a surprising exit. He worked at JGR for 13 years, and won 22 Cup races as a crew chief for Denny Hamlin between 2019 and 2024. Most recently, he worked as the Director of Competition for the elite organization.  Since his departure, there has been no word regarding why Gabehart left, or where he ...Keep readingView the full article

The 68th Daytona 500 received 7.489 million viewers airing on FOX on Sunday afternoon according to data from the Nielsen Panel + Big Data, which has been used since September to measure ratings. A reminder about Big Panel + Data: Before September, Nielsen used ‘people meters’ in household panels. The new model combines that with data from cable boxes and smart TVs approximately representing ...Keep readingView the full article

In the immediate aftermath of Justin Allgaier blocking Denny Hamlin from the lead and triggering 'The Big One' in the 68th Daytona 500, the JR Motorsports driver took ‘100 percent’ of the blame but the Joe Gibbs Racing contender conceded his share a day later. The crash took place approaching the end of the second stage and collected 20 cars on Lap 124. Allgaier left about enough space for ...Keep readingView the full article

Zane Smith came up just short of winning the Daytona 500 but a sixth-place finish combined with a victory in the first stage leaves his No. 38 Front Row Motorsports team fourth in the early championship standings. This is more an important result than at any point of the past decade because a good points day very much has value under the restored Chase for the Championship coming up in ...Keep readingView the full article

It appeared over the weekend that NASCAR implemented a new policy that made an extra effort to not reasonably throw a caution on the final lap of a superspeedway race. It appeared that way because NASCAR evenly applied that stance in both the Truck and Cup race across two different race directors. But also, throughout the weekend, solo car spins without any additional contact that unevenly drew ...Keep readingView the full article

Today marks 25 years since we lost Dale Earnhardt. Heading into the 2026 Daytona 500, Motorsport.com already put together a special feature in remembrance of that day and his impact on the sport, but today, we want to do something different. In this simple story, we're going to focus on seven of Dale's most impressive and memorable NASCAR Cup Series wins, in honor of the seven-time ...Keep readingView the full article

Chase Briscoe ‘dipped my toes the bald community’ last month but it was a hoax, online fake news and AI rubbish. With all the attention and focus on the new look three-time Cup Series champion Joey Logano has received since taking a trimmer and razor to his dome, Briscoe decided to respond to his well-documented follicle situation by shaving his own head. However, it wasn’t real, and ...Keep readingView the full article

There have been 206 different winners in the history of NASCAR's top division, dating back to 1949. Richard Petty holds the record for most wins in Cup Series history at 200, while Kyle Busch leads active drivers at 63. The 206th different driver joined this list early in 2025 when Josh Berry drove the Wood Brothers to Victory Lane at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which means that the last five ...Keep readingView the full article

Nick Payne was resolute in advance of the Daytona 500. The fourth-year spotter of the 23XI Racing No. 45 team needed to do some soul searching too. It’s been well-documented that Tyler Reddick and Billy Scott did some reflecting over the winter to better understand what produced a winless season one year after a three-win final four appearance. Payne wanted them to know he was working too ...Keep readingView the full article

The entry lists have been released for the upcoming triple-header at EchoPark Speedway in Atlanta, Georgia.  The Cup race will feature 38 entries with the open teams of BJ McLeod (#78 Live Fast) and JJ Yeley (#44 NY Racing Team) joining the 36 chartered entries. Casey Mears and the No. 66 team originally planned to compete, but after damage suffered in Daytona Speedweek, they have ...Keep readingView the full article

In 68 editions of the Daytona 500, NASCAR has seen plenty of surprise or unexpected winners. However, it wasn't until 2017 that the victor in stock car racing's crown jewel event only led the final lap of the 200-lap battle. While it did not happen once between 1959 and 2016, the phenomenon has now occurred four times in the last decade. It showcases just how unpredictable modern superspeedway ...Keep readingView the full article

Jusan Hamilton was an executive at NASCAR for several years, and worked as the sport's managing director for competition operations since 2022. He first started working for the Sanctioning Body as an intern in 2012, returning in 2016. Over the years, the upstate New York native and graduate of Ithaca College oversaw NASCAR's Drive for Diversity program, pit crew development, the pro iRacing ...Keep readingView the full article

Adam Andretti, 46, will pilot the No. 5 TRICON Garage Toyota Tundra TRD Pro in five NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races this year, beginning with this weekend's race at Atlanta. He will also compete at road/street course events in St. Pete, Watkins Glen, and San Diego. Nick Leitz drive the No. 5 in the 2026 season-opener at Daytona. In case you're wondering about his place within the famous ...Keep readingView the full article

The 68th running of the Daytona 500 is now history, with Tyler Reddick and 23XI Racing its anointed champions. 25 of the 41 starters took a turn out front, there was a 20-car pileup, the race somehow finished under green, and the rain held off! Before Reddick claimed the checkered flag drivers, like Carson Hocevar, Zane Smith, Erik Jones, Chase Elliott, Ricky Stenhouse Jr, and several others ...Keep readingView the full article

It's far too early to start making championship predictions, but every point matters in this return to a more traditional NASCAR championship format. One year ago, we would have been saying 'Welcome to the Playoffs Tyler Reddick' because due to win and you're in, the greater points picture wouldn't have mattered that much. But it matters now! One race down, 25 to go before the Chase returns for ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick has romanticized so much about this moment over the past two decades because it was so unfathomable. He won the Daytona 500. But even after crossing the finish line, Reddick did not allow himself to feel literally anything. There was no immediate joy. No exuberance. He wasn’t even on the microphone’s button celebrating with his team. “I didn't know if I'd won the race ...Keep readingView the full article