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Lionel Racing has revealed the ten best-selling diecasts from the 2025 NASCAR season, counting them down throughout the day on Thursday. In 2024, Dale Earnhardt Jr. reminded everyone just how popular he is when his Budweiser-backed Late Model car beat all other diecasts from the year. In 2023, Kevin Harvick's return to the No. 29 for the All-Star Race with a recreation of his 2001 scheme on ...Keep readingView the full article

19-year-old Luke Baldwin is a back-to-back SMART Modified Tour champion and the youngest two-time champion in series history. He has deep roots in the racing world through his father and grandfather, and is a promising young racer himself. “Martinsville has always meant a lot to my family, so to have my own opportunity at the track is definitely special,” said Baldwin. “It’s a place ...Keep readingView the full article

This weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, Frankie Muniz will carry a very special sponsor on his No. 33 Team Reaume truck. 'Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair' is premiering on the same day as the race, and Muniz's breakout role came in the original series 26 years ago. Over two decades later, the Malcolm in the Middle revival brings these iconic characters from the original series ...Keep readingView the full article

Mark Martin is rooting for Denny Hamlin right now because he knows how hard it is to defy the odds and overcome Father Time when he starts working against a high level athlete. The 2017 Hall of Fame inductee says he was first drawn to Hamlin because he’s started to see something of a baby face turn from a driver that was long established as something of a heel, and he lived that when he ...Keep readingView the full article

For Denny Hamlin, winning another pole on Saturday at Martinsville Speedway, is just another sign that he still as it. It, of course, is the much-discussed pure speed that often fades away in the mid-40s but the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 driver now has two poles in addition to a win while sitting fourth in the championship standings. “Really, with age, the hardest part is actually still ...Keep readingView the full article

23XI Racing now has seven wins at the Cup level, but it will be hard to top this. The team, co-owned by NBA legend Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 Denny Hamlin, was founded in 2021. Last year, the team secured its first crown jewel when Bubba Wallace was victorious in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A few months later, Tyler Reddick has won the sport's biggest race ...Keep readingView the full article

Over the past few months, Michael Jordan and 23XI Racing have taken NASCAR leadership to trial, secured a settlement that changed the way the pay structure for race teams (through the Charter system), and that's before we even get to what's been happening on the track. Tyler Reddick has won four of the first races races of the 2026 season for the team co-owned by Jordan and Denny Hamlin, and ...Keep readingView the full article

Michael Jordan took the stand on Friday afternoon in the Western District of North Carolina to close out the first week of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit trial to much fanfare. Jordan, who co-owns 23XI Racing with Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin and longtime business associate Curtis Polk, are suing NASCAR and CEO Jim France and the 15-month process reached ...Keep readingView the full article

On one hand, Michael McDowell didn’t win a race this season, in his first season with Spire Motorsports so that was a mission unaccomplished but there is also a privilege in that pressure that motivates him. For example, at 40-years-old, some in NASCAR would start pondering what comes after driving and that is especially true for a devout family man that has a wife and five children at ...Keep readingView the full article

Lee Pulliam was making his NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts debut on Saturday, driving the No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet. He was very impressive, leading some laps and restarting second inside 20 laps to go. However, he proceeded to miss a shift from the outside of the front row, triggering a massive chain-reaction crash on the frontstretch. His teammate Carson Kvapil ran directly into the back of ...Keep readingView the full article

“Honestly, a bit surprised.” Ryan Preece was very measured on Saturday morning when discussing the penalty levied against him this week by NASCAR for the incident involving him and Ty Gibbs last Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway. Gibbs crashed on Lap 101 and NASCAR deduced intent based on radio communication that indicated Preece could retaliate in some form for a previous incident ...Keep readingView the full article

It seems very likely that Sam Mayer’s season will have ended a week early due to his retaliatory intentional crash of Jeb Burton after the checkered flag on Saturday following the Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway.   NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer addressed the incident during a Tuesday morning appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “We’ll meet ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR now has regular competing series in Canada, Europe, Mexico and most recently added one in Brazil. It has seen a growing number of international drivers compete in its American-based national series, both as regular competitors and part-time ventures. Never before in the modern era of NASCAR has it held a points-paying race of the premier Cup series outside the continental United States ...Keep readingView the full article

During Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Watkins Glen International, two late-race leaders were penalized for going early and mashing the gas before reaching the restart zone. The first was Ross Chastain, who led 19 laps before penalized with just ten laps to go. Two restarts later with five laps to go, it was Gio Ruggiero, who was even closer to the line and was getting pushed ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR has adjusted the length of the three stages for the Cup Series race at Talladega on April 26. The first stage will end on Lap 98, the second stage on Lap 143 and the scheduled conclusion on Lap 188. In comparison, last year saw the stages end on Lap 60 and 120. In other words, NASCAR has structured the race where fuel will not be necessary in the middle of the final two stages, to ...Keep readingView the full article

With less than a week to go until the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust trial begins, the Sanctioning Body motioned the court to have 23XI exclude two if its three owners from the room while others are on the stand. This is under the ‘Federal Rules of Evidence; 615,’ which states that ‘at a party’s request, the court must order witnesses excluded from the ...Keep readingView the full article

Saturday morning at Texas Motor Speedway featured a regularly scheduled competition meeting between NASCAR and Cup Series drivers and much of the proceedings focused on superspeedways. The Sanctioning Body wanted drivers to know that they are aware that work still needs to be done to improve the racing product after the Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega last weekend.   This is welcomed news to ...Keep readingView the full article

Both the second-tier Xfinity and Cup Series raced on the 2.2-mile, 12-turn course created through Grant Park in downtown Chicago, but the biggest hurdle faced by NASCAR ended up being battles with the weather. NASCAR newcomer Shane van Gisbergen took a dramatic victory in his Cup debut in Sunday’s race. The participation of the three-time Supercars champion came as part of Trackhouse ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Larson is ready to go back to Daytona for the Rolex 24 Hours.  The two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion has three starts in IMSA’s season-opening crown jewel event, but none since 2016. He took overall victory with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2015, co-driving with Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, and Jamie McMurray.  On a recently-released episode of Dinner with Racers, a podcast co-hosted by ...Keep readingView the full article

Historic snowfall in North Carolina has forced NASCAR to postpone its pre-season exhibition race yet again. Originally, the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium was supposed to take place over Saturday and Sunday. With a bomb cyclone dropping several inches of snow all across the state, NASCAR went from making The Clash a one-day event on Sunday to pushing it all to Monday. And while the storm ...Keep readingView the full article

In hindsight, the Cookout Clash could have been run on Tuesday but when the decision was made on Sunday to run the preseason exhibition on Wednesday, there were so many variables for numerous decision-makers to sort through. It’s objectively true that the snowstorm that passed through North Carolina was one of the five most impactful in the history of the state. In Winston-Salem, where the ...Keep readingView the full article

Several documents, depositions, and internal conversations have been made public as a result of the ongoing antitrust lawsuit between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports, and NASCAR. Along with the full 2025 Charter Agreement, other information offers a behind the scenes look at some 'what if' scenarios over the years, including a proposal for a very different TV package than the one we have ...Keep readingView the full article

In qualifying at Saturday, the No. 12 Team Penske Ford of Ryan Blaney secured pole position at Bristol Motor Speedway. With a fast lap of 15.101s, he earned his 13th career pole and second at Bristol. "Just kind of got free on Lap 1, and then it was like all right, gather yourself up in (Turns) 3 and 4 and try and get a second lap," said Blaney. "Luckily, the rear tires came in better the ...Keep readingView the full article

In a race that battled to find a rhythm in part due to battles with the weather, Hamlin took control in the second half after he grabbed the lead from his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team-mate Ty Gibbs with 141 of 500 laps remaining. As the race remained caution-free the rest of the way, Hamlin was not seriously challenged and cruised to a 2.437-second win over Kyle Larson, who had started dead ...Keep readingView the full article

Three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen (Trackhouse Racing) had posted the fastest average speed as all 10 cars took to the track in the last minute of Saturday’s final round of qualifying. NASCAR debutant van Gisbergen actually improved on his speed, but so did the Toyotas of Reddick and his 23XI co-owner Hamlin. The three-time Daytona 500 winner's wicked fast lap of ...Keep readingView the full article