NASCAR competition officials confirmed Monday that driver Mike Wallace was not approved for his previously announced attempt to qualify for this year’s Daytona 500.MBM Motorsports announced it on January 2 that Wallace, 65, would drive the team’s No. 66 Ford in its bid for the “Great American Race” (Feb. 16, 2:30 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).RELATED: Daytona 500 weekend scheduleFor each driver approval request, NASCAR considers recent racing activity and performance as the primary factors to consider.Wallace’s most recent NASCAR Cup Series start came in the 2015 Daytona 500, when he drove a car owned by Jay…
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Ross Chastain and Shane van Gisbergen will each drive select NASCAR Xfinity races in the No. 9 JR Motorsports car this season, Trackhouse Racing announced Thursday.Chastain will compete in five Xfinity races. He will compete at the Circuit of the Americas (March 1), Darlington (April 5), Nashville (May 31), Dover (July 19) and Iowa (August 2).Van Gisbergen will race in Mexico City (June 14), Chicago Street Race (July 5), Sonoma (July 12) and Watkins Glen (August 9).CoreyDayphoto.jpeg19-year-old Corey Day signs multi-year deal with Hendrick MotorsportsHendrick Motorsports will support Corey Day’s efforts in the NASCAR Xfinity, Trucks, ARCA and Trans Am…
Joey Logano won the 2024 Cup Series Championship. His third overall.Kyle Larson didn’t even go to the season finale in Phoenix with a chance to win his second.But Larson seems to suggest he’s just as happy to have directed The great NASCAR series in victories – six, while no one else has won more than four. Current playoff format rewards success all seasonbut as the shadows of the playoffs lengthen, it also punishes any mistake, even the slightest, and Larson slipped when he finished 11th and 13th in the first two races of the round of 16 last fall.March 3,…
Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell and Kyle Busch are among the NASCAR drivers scheduled to compete in the Chili Bowl Nationals this week.There are more than 350 registrations for the Chili Bowl Nationals, which takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is one of the premier midget car events of the year.NASCAR Cup Series ChampionshipNASCAR makes rule changes ahead of 2025 seasonThe changes include playoff waivers, manufacturer penalties and damaged vehicle policy.The field is divided into five separate days (Monday to Friday). The event concludes with Saturday night’s Chili Bowl Nationals coverage. All races broadcast on FloRacing.Drivers are looking to qualify for…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has denied NASCAR’s motions to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed against the stock car series.U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell of the Western District of North Carolina also denied NASCAR’s request that two teams — 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports — be ordered to post bond to cover costs they would not be required to pay. legally owed if they lost the case.23XI Racing, a team co-owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, which is owned by entrepreneur Bob Jenkins, are pursuing NASCAR to compete for charter recognition…
Friday news dumps are where organizations go to release information they hope to bury on the discreet radar.This is the timing used by NASCAR last week to make significant changes in the way it does things – you know, the rule book.If anyone in the big GlassCar building on Speedway Boulevard was considered controversial, let’s assume this is the amendment that could easily be called “The Kyle Larson Rule.”Let’s start there and go over these rule changes, and finally finish with the latest update on the most recent update on updated courtroom cases. Waiting for a call, of course.A WHITE…
While the schedule for his 14-year-old son has already been announced, Johnny Jumpthe 2016 NASCAR Truck Champion from DeForest, admits his racing plans for 2025 are up in the air.He is ride a car for Penn, who turns 15 next week, and Penn to Participate in About a Dozen Very Late Model Special Events with the support of ThorSport, the team for which Johnny raced in the truck series for over 10 years.He will also build one for himself.“What that means, I don’t know,” Sauter said Friday night. “But you can’t run if you don’t have equipment available. So I…
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Helio Castroneves is locked in the Daytona 500 NASCAR Cup Series domain via the new interim open exemption rule, the sanctioning body confirmed on Friday.Castroneves will be in the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet for the Feb. 16 race in what is an open entry. But NASCAR’s new OEP rule helps guarantee a starting spot for “world-class drivers” in NASCAR Cup Series races. Castroneves, as a multiple-time Indianapolis 500 champion and winner of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, certainly applies himself as a world-class driver.If Castroneves must use the provisional, the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet will be the…
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