Last September, Trackhouse Racing announced it had signed Smith, 24, to a multi-year contract to compete in the Cup series beginning in the 2024 season.However, with Trackhouse currently holding only two charters in the series – which guarantee teams a spot in each race – Trackhouse is fielding Smith inContinue Reading
Almirola, 39, decided to retire as a full-time Cup Series driver at the end of the 2023 season, having spent the past six years with Stewart-Haas Racing.It wasn’t long after he came to his decision that he was approached by Joe Gibbs Racing owner Joe Gibbs about returning to theContinue Reading
Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 champion, will join LMC as a driver optimization leader for the 2024 Cup Series season working under LMC’s new competition advisor, Matt Kenseth.In the new role, Bayne will focus primarily on the race preparation of LMC Cup drivers John Hunter Nemechek, Erik Jones and teamContinue Reading
NASCAR: Full Speed is stock car racing’s answer to Formula 1’s Drive to Survive, which will debut its sixth season on Netflix next month.Despite the meteoritic rise in F1’s popularity stateside, NASCAR remains the most-watched form of racing in the USA. The five-part series will have 45-minute episodes, featuring the following CupContinue Reading
NASCAR: Full Speed is stock car racing’s answer to Formula 1’s Drive to Survive, which will debut its sixth season on Netflix next month. Despite the meteoritic rise in F1’s popularity stateside, NASCAR remains the most-watched form of auto racing in the United States of America.The five-part series will have 45-minute episodes,Continue Reading
Both Toyota Racing Development and Ford Performance are debuting new iterations of their respective Camry and Mustang race cars in the Cup series in 2024 but so far, each car has had only one limited on-track test.With most on-track testing curtailed in NASCAR since 2015, development of new car modelsContinue Reading
During a competition briefing on Tuesday at its R&D Center in Concord, N.C., NASCAR unveiled some tweaks to its qualifying procedures for Cup Series races.The change will affect all races except those on superspeedways since group qualifying isn’t used at those tracks.At all others, all entries will still be splitContinue Reading
Karam, 28, has 25 total starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.After making his debut in 2021 where he ran four races, he increased his schedule to nine in 2022, and then 12 in 2023. Those starts have come with five different teams, but his best effort came with Same HuntContinue Reading
The No. 36 Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang is the fifth open entry announced for the 500 so far, bringing the total number of entries to 41. With only 40 cars allowed in the field, at least one will be going home after the Duel races.Grala has just seven startsContinue Reading
The 30-year-old native of Frisange, Luxembourg, will drive the No. 68 Ford for Kimmel Racing after testing with the team earlier this month at the track. Following the test, he was cleared to compete on all series tracks.Linster returned to Luxembourg following the test and worked to secure sponsorship toContinue Reading