The NASCAR Xfinity Series, which will be rebranded as the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series in 2026, will have Hendrick Motorsports on the grid every weekend.The No. 17 Hendrick Chevrolet will compete for the championship with Corey Day, an acolyte of Kyle Larson, behind the wheel. The 19-year-old ran elevenContinue Reading
Rick Hendrick and Roger Penske, just two days after they were motioned for deposition over the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit have motioned back to limit the scope of such conversations.“Movants find themselves, quickly and without much warning, in the unenviable position of being forcedContinue Reading
Trackhouse Racing put together a video announcing the car number for each its of 2026 Cup Series drivers. The team is putting aside its original number, the No. 99, which Daniel Suarez drove for five seasons before parting ways with the organization at the end of this year.Unsurprisingly, Ross Chastain willContinue Reading
In the aftermath of a Charlotte federal judge ruling in favor of 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports on the market definition for the lawsuit against NASCAR, plus the dismissal of counterclaims the week before, the two teams have dropped the Section 1 Sherman Antitrust Act portion and will insteadContinue Reading
NASCAR Xfinity runner-up Connor Zilisch will drive an LMDh prototype for the first time in the IMSA-sanctioned test at Daytona.The 19-year-old will share the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R with Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti at the Daytona International Speedway on 14-16 November.The American, who has alreadyContinue Reading
Rick Hendrick and Roger Penske have been ordered by the Western District of North Carolina to provide deposition interviews with lawyers representing 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports in advance of the antitrust lawsuit trial brought by the teams against NASCAR set to begin on December 1.A deposition is aContinue Reading
Overall, year-to-year, the NASCAR Cup Series experienced a 14 percent drop in television ratings for the 2025 season.To wrap up this season, the Cup Series championship race at Phoenix Raceway drew 2.77 million viewers on NBC, down from the 2.9 million it drew last year. Last year, overall, the NASCARContinue Reading
Chase Briscoe could choose to believe that making the Cup Series final four in his first season with Joe Gibbs Racing was akin to playing with house money but he left Phoenix Raceway on Sunday far more disappointed than he imagined.“I mean, it was definitely a good first year, right,”Continue Reading
On the weekend of June 19-21, NASCAR’s three national divisions will compete at a brand new course at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego — the first-ever NASCAR event to be run on an active military base.That historic event will include an entry by seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion andContinue Reading
By the end of Tuesday night, Connor Zilisch and Jesse Love were performing a duet of ‘Sweet Caroline’ at the NASCAR Awards afterparty but there was a little awkwardness to get past following the events of Saturday’s Xfinity Series championship race. Zilisch was the most dominant driver of the season, deliveringContinue Reading