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
The ceremony began by honoring Janet Guthrie with the Landmark Award for outstanding contributions to NASCAR. Guthrie was the first woman to ever compete in a NASCAR superspeedway race, finishing 15th in the 1976 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. She went on to become the first woman to qualify for theContinue Reading
A new five-part documentary series looking behind the scenes of the 2023 NASCAR season is coming to Netflix. The streaming platform has announced the release of NASCAR: Full Speed following the increasing success of its Formula 1 documentary series Drive to Survive.The series follows the action of the NASCAR CupContinue Reading
Cook Racing Technologies (CRT) announced on Thursday it had signed the 36-year-old grandson of racing legend Mario Andretti to compete in multiple ARCA Menards and NASCAR Truck series races throughout the 2024 season.Andretti will compete in 14 ARCA races in CRT’s No. 17 Chevrolet, beginning with the Feb. 17 seasonContinue Reading
Grala, who ran full-time in the Xfinity Series last year with Sam Hunt Racing, will drive RWR’s No. 15 Ford this season as a teammate to Justin Haley, who will drive the No. 51.The 25-year-old Boston native has made seven previous Cup starts, with a pair of top-10 finishes. HeContinue Reading
Dye, 20, competed full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series last year. He scored one top-ten and ended the season 18th in the championship standings.He’s also the 2022 ARCA Menards Series championship runner-up, and has one career ARCA victory (Berlin 2021).In 2023, he made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut, running twoContinue Reading
Trackhouse Racing announced an extension of their partnership with Quaker State on Tuesday, which includes multiple races as the primary sponsor on Suarez’s No. 99 Chevrolet and an associate sponsor on Ross Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet.The motor oil brand will also back Suarez’s efforts at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum as heContinue Reading