Dec. 3 — The 500 Sprint Car Tour, founded by Anderson Speedway in 2022, plans a nine-race schedule again in 2024.The key event will be the 77th running of the Little 500 in May, which does not count toward the series championship.The Little 500 delivered a memorable event last year with Caleb Armstrong passing Dakota Armstrong on the final lap to take his first victory in the May classic.The series in 2024 will make its first appearance at Winchester Speedway and Owosso Speedway in Michigan.The addition of Winchester Speedway is a plus for the series after last year’s successful race…
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Elton Sawyer: NASCAR ‘all ears’ on possible ideas to change playoff format Sports Illustrated
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR opened the season with nearly leaching in the first two races of the year, it could have set the tone for a miserable 2024 campaign.Instead, the biggest motorsports series in the United States showed it can be flexible, moving up its preseason race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum by a full day to set the stage for a year unpredictable.There have been 18 different winners, including Austin Dillon, who was disqualified from entering the playoffs for the aggressive driving that secured his victory. Joey Logano was the controversial Cup Series champion and sparked discussion…
Challenges are the subject of the sixth and final episode of “Box Box Box”, Pirelli’s vodcast dedicated to the world of Formula 1. Speedway Digest – Home of NASCAR News
Veteran announcers Adam Alexander and Steve Letarte will join Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the stand for NASCAR Cup Series races on Amazon Prime Video and TNT, the two companies announced Monday.The addition of Earnhardt to both networks’ coverage was announced earlier this year, and now the announcing booth is planned for both series of five races each on both networks next summer.Alexander is a familiar voice to NASCAR fans. He spent 19 years at FOX Sports, most recently working as the lead commentator for NASCAR NASCAR races were broadcast on the network.Letarte has been on NBC’s NASCAR coverage since the…
Trevor Catalano had moderate expectations for the 2024 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season.At just 17 years old, he was entering his first full season in NASCAR’s oldest division, joined by his older brothers Tommy and Tyler as the Catalano Motorsports team took on the challenge of fielding three full-time entries.“To be honest with you, I thought about waiting a year and not doing the tour this year just so we could kind of get back into the groove of running more than one car,” Trevor said Catalan. “We’ve been working on the science of running one car and being more…
The return of the NASCAR Cup Series to the race track will take place in exactly two months, when the season-opening Clash exhibition marks the unofficial kickoff of the 2025 campaign. For Brad Keselowski, co-owner of the he RFK Racing team, this interim period will not go unnoticed, not in what he describes as a “very busy offseason”.The dawn of the new season will mark the next phase of Keselowski’s vision for the Jack Roush-founded organization, which will expand from two Cup Series teams to three with the addition of driver Ryan Preece and a family of sponsors with Kroger.…
Tyler Allen will serve as crew chief of the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing team with driver Ty Gibbs in the NASCAR Cup Series beginning in 2025, JGR announced Monday.Allen advances to the Cup Series after a successful rookie campaign in the NASCAR °19.A native of Bellevue, Washington, Allen replaces Chris Gayle in the pit for Ty Gibbs. Gayle had been working with Gibbs since 2021 since Xfinity competition, but Gayle will join the No. 11 team with driver Denny Hamlin for the 2025 campaign.MORE: Gabehart becomes JGR competition director | Hamlin ‘shocked’ Gabehart won’t returnAlthough he has yet to…
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (December 2, 2024) — NASCAR announced Monday that Craig Stimmel has been hired to lead all sales efforts for the sanctioning body as senior vice president and chief commercial officer. In this role, Stimmel will oversee all aspects of NASCAR sales, including primary and official partner categories, racing rights, track partnerships and media sales across owned channels such as Motor Racing Network (MRN) and NASCAR Digital Media. He will also work closely with NASCAR’s media partners, teams and non-NASCAR tracks to cultivate business opportunities across the entire NASCAR ecosystem. Craig Stimmel named senior vice president and chief…
STATESVILLE, N.C. — McAnally-Hilgemann Racing (MHR) announced Wednesday that 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Daniel Hemric will join the organization for the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. The 33-year-old from Kannapolis, North Carolina, will drive the No. 19 NAPA Auto Care Chevrolet Silverado RST in Bill McAnally’s 35th season in partnership with NAPA. The 2025 season will mark Hemric’s third full-time truck campaign as the team celebrates NAPA’s 100th anniversary throughout the year.RELATED: 2025 truck series calendarHemric returns to full-time truck racing for the first time since 2016, when he finished sixth in the championship standings. He just completed…