Per a May 29 random draw to set the starting lineup for the Food City Presents the Supermarket Heroes 500 (May 31), Brad Keselowski will start from the pole at Bristol Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Cup Series on Sunday. Keselowski, the 2020 Coca-Cola 600 winner, will lead a quartet of Fords to the green …
For the first time since 2006, David Ragan will compete in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. Ragan will pilot the No. 17 Ford F-150 in the Vet Tix/Camping World 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway for DGR-Crosley, a team co-owned by his former teammate, David Gilliland. Ragan, who retired from full-time NASCAR Cup …
For the first time since February, the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series will be hitting the track for the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 (May 26). Due to the temporary increase of the field size, 40 trucks will take the green flag at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A further seven trucks who entered have been turned …
Thirty-seven entrants will take the green flag for Monday’s (May 25) Alsco 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Since NASCAR temporarily raised the field cap to 40, all drivers entered will make the race, barring any entry list changes. Garrett Smithley returns to the NASCAR Xfinity Series after running full time on the circuit in previous …
NASCAR’s longest race will have a full field. Forty drivers are entered for Sunday’s (May 24) Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. All teams entered will make the race, barring any entry list changes. For the third race in a row, JJ Yeley will drive a different entry. Yeley, who drove for Rick Ware Racing …
The fifth round of NASCAR Heat Pro League was a fusion of trucks, twists and turns as the series took the eNASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series pickups to the virtual Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (May 21). Mid-Ohio also marked the first race after the points reset for the second segment in the championship …
IMSA will return to racing in July. After postponing several events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IMSA has released its revised schedule in a May 15 announcement, beginning with a contest at Daytona International Speedway July 3-4. The IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship will return to action during the Fourth of July race weekend, while …
NASCAR Xfinity Series rookie Colby Howard will have new sponsorship colors on his No. 15 Chevrolet next week. Howard, who competes part time for JD Motorsports with Gary Keller, will carry new support from SANY and Ironpeddlers in an undetermined number of events this season once the series resumes from its COVID-19 hiatus, the team …
NASCAR is back. The official entry list for the Darlington 400 scheduled for May 17 has been released. The Darlington Raceway contest marks the first event in the NASCAR Cup Series since the race at Pheonix Raceway nearly two months ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 40 drivers are entered, which means all will qualify, …
After a year-long hiatus, Tommy Baldwin Racing is set to return to the NASCAR Cup Series at Darlington Raceway on May 17. TBR will field its No. 7 Chevrolet for Josh Bilicki, the team announced today, May 11. The occasion will mark Bilicki’s first NCS start in 2020, despite several starts in the NASCAR Xfinity …
Three tracks originally on the NASCAR Cup Series calendar will lose races in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Per a May 8 announcement, Chicagoland Speedway, Sonoma Raceway and Richmond Raceway will all lose race weekends in 2020 to accommodate NASCAR’s reconstruction of its race calendar for 2020 in response to its hiatus. Chicagoland and Sonoma …
After a lengthy investigation following a horrific last-lap crash in the 2020 Daytona 500 (Feb. 17) involving driver Ryan Newman, NASCAR has decided to make several safety enhancements and competition changes, per a May 1 announcement. Newman suffered a brain bruise after being spun out of the last turn on the final lap of the …
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