NASCAR Announces Return of Practice, Qualifying in 2022
Practice and qualifying will return to NASCAR’s national series in 2022, NASCAR announced Nov. 19. Though the formats of each session will vary by track … Continue Reading
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Joey Gase Starting Xfinity Team for 2022
Joey Gase plans to run his own NASCAR Xfinity Series team for 2022, he announced Nov. 18. The new team, Joey Gase Racing, will field … Continue Reading
Noah Gragson Attempting Daytona 500 With Beard Motorsports
Noah Gragson will attempt to make the Daytona 500 with Beard Motorsports for the second year in a row, the team announced Nov. 16. Gragson … Continue Reading
Harrison Burton Gains Brian Wilson as Crew Chief for Rookie Cup Season
Brian Wilson will call the shots atop Harrison Burton‘s pit box in his rookie season in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2022, Wood Brothers Racing … Continue Reading
Todd Gilliland Paces Final Truck Practice of 2021
Practice returned to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule for its season finale at Phoenix Raceway, and Todd Gilliland led the field Nov. 5. … Continue Reading
NASCAR 101: Who Didn’t Return to NASCAR in 2021?
A smaller crop of drivers who raced on the national NASCAR stage in 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, equals an altogether more diminutive … Continue Reading
Fire on Fridays: Driver Improvements in 2021 You Might Have Missed
Year-over-year improvement is not a given in any sport, NASCAR included. It’s expected out of some, granted, especially drivers entering their sophomore season or someone … Continue Reading
Austin Hill Moving to Xfinity With RCR in 2022
Austin Hill will move to the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Richard Childress Racing in 2022, RCR announced Oct. 29. Hill will run full time alongside … Continue Reading
Fire on Fridays: Are We Watching the Last (Cup) Races of Ryan Newman?
Plenty of Silly Season dominoes remain to fall before the 2022 NASCAR season begins, and perhaps the most high profile of those is the status … Continue Reading
Fire on Fridays: Michael Annett? Not Half Bad
The conversation around pay drivers in NASCAR has not gone away in recent years. In fact, it’s probably gotten louder. And it’s mostly negative when … Continue Reading