National Football League TV ratings continue to set what the networks state as records on Sundays, three weeks into the 2025 season, and NASCAR continued a corresponding swoon.The Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday drew an average of 1.29 million viewers for a 0.70 share onContinue Reading
This past summer has been a sort of personal revelation for Rodney Childers.When the veteran crew chief parted ways with Spire Motorsports and driver Justin Haley after just nine races in April, Childers felt like getting back to the Cup Series and winning races and contending for the championship wasContinue Reading
Rodney Childers will be back atop the pit box in 2026, working as a crew chief for JR Motorsports and the No. 1 Chevrolet.Childers brings with him the experience of over 600 Cup races, including 40 race wins and the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series championship with Kevin Harvick. He joined SpireContinue Reading
In the ongoing situation between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs, it appears that neither side is backing down.Hamlin spoke candidly on his podcast, ‘Actions Detrimental,’ again asking the team to get involved and get a handle the rising tensions. But where this becomes complicated is theContinue Reading
Corey Lajoie says he is starting to consider what life after active competition in NASCAR looks like for him.The comments were made on Tuesday in the latest episode of the Stacking Pennies podcast he co-hosts with pit crew veteran Ryan Flores.Lajoie, the son of two-time Busch Series champion Randy, hasContinue Reading
In as many other words, Denny Hamlin agrees with Joe Gibbs Racing competition director Chris Gabehart that Team Penske appears ‘untouchable’ for the Cup Series championship after Sunday’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The rules package used at the one-mile track in Loudon is identical to the one used atContinue Reading
For the first time since a debilitating crash in a Big Block Dirt Modified at Autodrome Drummond in July, Stewart Friesen returned to a NASCAR Truck Series race on Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.Friesen has been sidelined for the past two months with a shattered pelvis, a fractured rightContinue Reading
Following a one-week deferral, two Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 over-the-wall crew members will begin serving their two-week suspensions for having a wheel become dislodged during the race and on the track at Bristol Motor Speedway.As per NASCAR regulations, when a wheel comes off on the track, the driver mustContinue Reading
Trackhouse Racing Team have announced Randall Burnett as the new crew chief for rising star Connor Zilisch, who will move up to Cup as a full-time driver in 2026.Burnett will leave behind Richard Childress Racing, where he currently works as a crew chief for Kyle Busch and the No. 8Continue Reading
The general message from Denny Hamlin on his Actions Detrimental podcast about the incident with Ty Gibbs on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway was not much different than what he conveyed immediately afterwards.In bullet point form, his takeaways haven’t changed 12 hours later. Gibbs was racing Hamlin and ChristopherContinue Reading