AUSTIN, Texas — The fifth edition of the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) season will arrive with a distinctive new look for drivers and fans at Circuit of The Americas (COTA).The EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, the third race of the season scheduled for Sunday, March 2 (3:30 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), will move from the full 3.41-mile, 20-turn COTA course to the complete installation. Equally challenging 2.3-mile, 20-turn national course. The NASCARThe reconfiguration will eliminate about a mile from the back of the traditional permanent road course layout and is…
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Riley Herbst is heading to the NASCAR Cup Series with 23XI Racing. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)23XI Racing is moving forward with plans to expand to three cars in 2025.The team announced that longtime Xfinity Series driver Riley Herbst will join Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace next season. Herbst has three wins in 175 Xfinity Series starts and has raced full-time for Stewart-Haas Racing for the past four seasons.23XI Racing had long been rumored to expand to three cars next season, although it was unclear how its lawsuit against NASCAR would impact those plans. 23XI and Front Row Motorsports have…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With another exciting playoff officially in the books, NASCAR will celebrate its 2024 series champions this week in a new but familiar location.The highly anticipated NASCAR Champion’s Week moves to NASCAR’s home base of Charlotte, North Carolina for the first time, with a week-long celebration capped by the Friday evening NASCAR Awards ceremony at the Charlotte Convention Center’s Grand Ballroom; the televised banquet and festivities Sunday (3 p.m. ET, The CW).RELATED: NASCAR champions with their trophiesThis year’s NASCAR Cup Series champion, Team Penske’s Joey Logano, holds the esteemed honor of being celebrated in three different championship venues…
Choosing the best NASCAR moment of 2024?Naturally, the decision is difficult to make.It is the byproduct of a season that produced the Closest margin of victory in series history and also his Closest three-way battle for a victory.Three of the eight closest finals in Cup history took place this year, marking the finish line as the starting point for any discussion of the best memories of 24.MORE: Closest finishes in Cup Series historyWhen he finished 0.006 seconds ahead of Brad Keselowski in an Oct. 5 victory at Talladega Superspeedway, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. paused before joining his team in jubilation because…
Jeremy Bullins will join RFK Racing as crew chief for Brad Keselowski and the No. 6 team for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, the team announced Thursday.The matchmaking is a reunion for former Team Penske cohorts. Bullins led Keselowski’s No. 2 team during the 2020 and 2021 campaigns, collecting a total of five wins, 23 top fives and 41 top 10s over two seasons. They finished the 2020 season in second place in the championship standings.MORE: 2025 Cup Schedule“I am excited and grateful to have the opportunity to work with BK again, this time in the iconic No. 6…
RFK Racing hired Jeremy Bullins as Brad Keselowski’s crew chief, reuniting the duo.Bullins was Keselowski’s crew chief at Team Penske when Keselowski finished second in Cup points in 2020. They won five Cup races during the 2020-21 seasons. Bullins also served as Keselowski’s crew chief in the Xfinity Series from 2012 to 2014. They won 14 Xfinity races during that time.The move comes after RFK Racing announced this week that it would expand to three cars full-time. Ryan Preece will join the organization and ask Kroger to sponsor his #60 car.AUTO: AUGUST 23 NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400RFK…
Drivers, icons and members of the NASCAR community will come together for the 2024 NASCAR Awards Red Carpet Show, hosted by Jessie Punch and Alex Weaver and broadcast live on NASCAR.com, the NASCAR platform. YouTube channel and NASCAR social networks on Friday, November 22 at 5 p.m. ET.RELATED: Watch the Red Carpet Awards ceremony | Awards 101: Everything you need to knowThe Red Carpet Awards Show will last until 6 p.m. ET at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, kicking off the evening’s festivities.The 2024 NASCAR Awards will mark the first time the ceremonies will be held in…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Denny Hamlin said Friday he was “shocked” by the news that he will have a new crew chief for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.Joe Gibbs Racing announced Friday morning, ahead of the NASCAR Awards banquet, that Chris Gabehart will become the team’s competition director, leaving the helm of the No. 11 team he has led with driver Hamlin since 2019. . Chris Gayle will be crew chief of the No. 11 Toyota. moving forward, moving from the No. 54 JGR program where he previously worked with Ty Gibbs.MORE: 2025 NASCAR Cup Series ScheduleTogether, Gabehart and Hamlin…
Denny Hamlin and crew chief Chris Gabehart speak before the NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race on September 21, 2024, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. (Photo by Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Denny Hamlin will have a new crew chief as he continues his quest for a NASCAR Cup Series title.Joe Gibbs Racing announced Friday that Chris Gabehart will become the team’s competition director and Chris Gayle will become Hamlin’s crew chief.Gabehart had been Hamlin’s crew chief since the start of the 2019 season and the two had formed one of the most successful driver-crew chief…
Former NASCAR Cup Series driver Greg Biffle has been named the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Myers Brothers Award.Biffle, 54, receives this honor after his extraordinary efforts to help mountain communities in Western North Carolina after the devastation of Hurricane Helen took its toll, especially in isolated towns.This recognition, named after two of NASCAR’s earliest competitors, Billy and Bob Myers, is awarded by the National Motorsports Press Association. The Myers Brothers Award recognizes “individuals and/or groups who have made outstanding contributions to the sport of stock car racing.”Named one of NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers of 2023, Biffle has used his…