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On November 24th of last year, it was announced that Sigma Performance Services (SPS Racing) was set to acquire AM Racing's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series program for the 2026 season. The team already has an ARCA Menard's Series operation and some late model cars. However, it was revealed on Friday this deal for a NOAPS team is no longer happening. "In November of 2025, an acquisition of ...Keep readingView the full article

It’s becoming clear through four days of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust trial that the now defunct SRX series will play a role in determining in the outcome of the case in the eyes of the jury. In questioning NASCAR executives (president) Steve O’Donnell and (EVP-strategy) Scott Prime over the past two days, 23XI and FRM attorney Jeffrey Kessler has started to ...Keep readingView the full article

27-year-old Stefan Parsons has secured a ride for the 2025 NASCAR Truck Series finale at Phoenix Raceway, piloting the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. Transportation Charter Services will back the effort. He's already worked with Spire in the role of spotter, but never as a driver. Parsons comes from a rich racing family as the son of former Cup Series race winner Phil and the nephew of ...Keep readingView the full article

The promotions of Steve O'Donnell and Ben Kennedy are not an extension of the status quo, but instead, aim to be the start of something new for the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. O’Donnell has taken over as Chief Executive Officer from Jim France, the youngest son of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. Kennedy, the great-grandson of the elder France, is now serving as Chief ...Keep readingView the full article

In text messages produced through fact discovery as part of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit, the commissioner of the league made clear how little professional respect he appears to have for veteran team owner Richard Childress. During a meeting with team owners in 2023, Phelps was receiving text updates from league Chief Media & Revenue Officer Brian Herbst ...Keep readingView the full article

Steve Phelps became NASCAR's first Commissioner in March of 2025 after previously working as the president of NASCAR since 2018. However, he will leave that position at the end of January, and NASCAR does not plan to replace the role of Commissioner for the time being. Instead, his duties will be shared by other existing executives. As for why there won't be someone else appointed to the role ...Keep readingView the full article

For the first time in 2026, a Hendrick Motorsports car went to Victory Lane. Chase Elliott earned the team's 31st win at Martinsville Speedway, taking the lead from Ross Chastain on the final restart. He then held off a charging Denny Hamlin, who had dominated most of the race and swept the stages, collecting his 22nd career win. Behind Elliott and Hamlin, Joey Logano finished third, Ty ...Keep readingView the full article

Following in the footsteps of fellow Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen, who won on his NASCAR debut in the Chicago street race earlier this month, Kostecki will join the NASCAR field on the Indianapolis road course on 13 August. The 25-year-old will link up with RCR team-mates Austin Dillon and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch as part of an alliance of sorts between Kostecki's ...Keep readingView the full article

The lone practice session for the NASCAR Cup Series title-decider at Phoenix Raceway began with a flurry of tire issues. It didn't take long for the drama to unfold. As Hamlin pulled out of line and slowed to avoid all the traffic, trouble found his title rival and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe. The No. 19 slowed down the backstretch with a cut left-rear tire, dragging the ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR drivers are naturally some of the best drifters in motorsport, so jaw-dropping moments tend to stand out even more when they happen. Early on in the NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas, Shane van Gisbergen did just that, holding an epic drift and somehow avoiding a crash after making contact with two other cars. Pushing up the track, SVG made light contact with Erik Jones, sending him into a ...Keep readingView the full article

The tenth round of the 2026 NASCAR Cup season takes place at Talladega Superspeedway -- the biggest oval on the NASCAR schedule. In this guide, you can find all the information you need to be ready for 500 miles of racing at the iconic Alabama track. The History and Track Dimensions for Talladega Superspeedway Talladega Superspeedway Billboard Photo by: Logan Riely / Getty ...Keep readingView the full article

It was an overtime finish at Martinsville, with Sammy Smith chasing Taylor Gray just as he did in this race earlier in the year. However, this time, Smith did not wreck Gray for the win. He settled for second, and Gray earned his first NASCAR Xfinity Series win in his 45th career start. "About damn time," exclaimed Gray. "Give me a clock, baby. I can’t thank everyone on this 54 team enough ...Keep readingView the full article

Taylor Gray is now a two-time race winner in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. Driving the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, he held off a charging Sheldon Creed in the No. 00 Haas Factory Team Chevrolet as Kansas Speedway. "First of all, thank you to everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing," said Gray in Victory Lane. "How about  (crew chief) Jason Ratcliffe? That pit call was awesome. I knew we had ...Keep readingView the full article

In recent weeks, Ryan Blaney has grown increasingly frustrated with mistakes on pit road and slow stops from the No. 12 Team Penske Ford crew. Crew chief Jonathan Hassler has been fairly open about the problems as well, and the need to improve. Despite winning at Phoenix, he had to overcome multiple issues on pit road during that race, and it was a similar story en route to a runner-up finish ...Keep readingView the full article

An emotional Ryan Preece couldn't stop himself from tearing up and dropping a celebratory F-Bomb as he claimed victory in the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium. The Madhouse lived up to its name, as the race -- which was already postponed several days due to snow -- featured a record 17 cautions, and ended on wet-weather tires after sleet hit the track mid-race at around lap 100. Preece ...Keep readingView the full article

The NASCAR All-Star Race changes formats ... often. The Sanctioning Body are not shy about using the race as an experiment, but this year marks quite a dramatic change. First, the All-Star Race heads to Dover, Delaware for the very first time. The 'Monster Mile' will not host a points-paying race for the first time since 1968, but it will play host to the All-Star Race this weekend. NASCAR also ...Keep readingView the full article

Darlington is no longer being treated as the official 'Throwback Weekend,' but there's still several teams opting to pay tribute to the sport's history by recreating iconic paint schemes. Last December, two-time Southern 500 winner Greg Biffle was killed alongside six others in a tragic plane crash. This weekend, there are several paint schemes honoring the NASCAR legend, in both the Cup and ...Keep readingView the full article

Just how much animus Denny Hamlin has towards NASCAR was once again laid bare on Tuesday morning as he completed his examination and cross examination as part of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit trial. The cross examination was conducted by NASCAR’s antitrust defense lawyer Lawrence Buterman and their back-and-forth was emotionally charged even while ...Keep readingView the full article

Gibbs’s track record in NASCAR national series competition is relatively short, but his success cannot be questioned. A week after experiencing perhaps the lowest point of his racing career so far, he was enjoying his best last Saturday when he won the Xfinity Series season finale race at Phoenix Raceway, and with it the series championship. The victory was his seventh of the season and 11th ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR's championship format has just undergone its latest change, but it's far from the first time the Sanctioning Body has tweaked the way it crowns a champion. At some point, stock car racing was awarding points based on prize money, race lengths, or even laps completed. In the modern age, the Chase or the playoffs have existed in some form since 2004, breaking the season up into parts and ...Keep readingView the full article

Attempting to complete 1,100 miles in a single day of racing is quite the challenge (unless you're an endurance racing driver), but it's even more daunting when you're doing it in two wildly different race cars and at two race tracks that are multiple states and over 500 miles apart. That is what it means when a driver says they are attempting 'The Double.' Their day will begin at Indianapolis ...Keep readingView the full article

Most of you reading this probably know the story of how NASCAR began. From bootleggers on dirt roads to amateur stock car racing organizations with a loose semblance of structure, and then a history-altering  meeting at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach. 36 men were in that fateful 1947 meeting and one of them was Bill France Sr. -- the founding father of the National Association for ...Keep readingView the full article

It's not everyday a 37-year-old Late Model star gets his shot on the national stage in NASCAR, but Lee Pulliam did on Saturday. Making his debut at the secondary level of NASCAR, Pulliam started 12th after qualifying was rained out. He was quiet for the first part of the race, and JR Motorsports team co-owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. was on the No. 9 pit box, coaching him via the radio. The first ...Keep readingView the full article

Recently-retired 2017 Cup champion Martin Truex Jr. will enter the 2025 season-opening Daytona 500 and pursue a piece of NASCAR history. Truex stepped away from his ride in the #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at the end of the 2024, with Chase Briscoe moving over from Stewart-Haas Racing to take his place, but will aim to make his 694th career start in Cup by teaming up with Truck Series ...Keep readingView the full article

Where else are you going to see an early 2000s sitcom star, an extreme sports athlete often compared to Evel Knievel, a NASCAR Hall of Famer who has been away for almost a decade, and a popular YouTuber who hates sleeves battle each other at speeds approaching 200mph? Only this Friday the 13th on FOX Sports 1, when the 2026 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) season officially gets ...Keep readingView the full article