Category: NASCAR

NASCAR's current franchising agreement with its teams expires at the end of the season.

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — 23XI Racing, the NASCAR team co-owned by Michael Jordan, said Saturday it skipped a deadline to sign a new charter agreement with the sanctioning body because “it did not have an opportunity to fairly bargain” for a new contract. The two-car team owned by Jordan, active driver Denny Hamlin and Jordan right-hand man Curtis Polk revealed that teams had a Friday night NASCAR-imposed deadline to sign new charter agreements that run from 2025 through 2031.

Michael McDowell stormed to the Busch Light Pole Award at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Saturday’s NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session. The No. 34 Ford set the fast lap with an average speed of 179.261 mph for his fifth pole of 2024, tying Kyle Larson for most this season. RELATED: Starting lineup | At-track photos Ford’s […]

Paul Goldsmith, who was as richly talented when racing stock cars as he was riding motorcycles, has died. He was 98. Goldsmith won the last NASCAR premier-series race held on the Daytona Beach and road course in 1958. He also won the prestigious Daytona 200 motorcycle race in 1953, one of his five American Motorcyclist […]

Cup teams will qualify Saturday. Xfinity teams will qualify and race.

After Tyler Reddick battled a stomach virus throughout the Southern 500 to eke out a 1-point win over Kyle Larson for NASCAR’s regular-season championship, he and the 23XI Racing ownership group went to collect the trophy. Reddick stood next to the trophy, team co-owner Michael Jordan by his side. Co-owners Denny Hamlin and Curtis Polk were on the other side.

Throughout the 2024 NASCAR season, Ken Martin, director of historical content for the sanctioning body, will offer his suggestions on which historical races fans should watch from the NASCAR Classics library in preparation for each upcoming race weekend. Martin has worked exclusively for NASCAR since 2008 but has been involved with the sport since 1982, overseeing various […]

Hear from Bubba Wallace, Christopher Bell and more as they competed during the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

NBC Sports ranks the Cup playoff drivers based on Cinderella status.

Don't miss the debut of NASCAR Inside the Playoffs with guest Kyle Busch, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. ET on TruTV.

Martin Truex Jr. and Cole Pearn won 24 races and a Cup championship from 2015-19.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs beginning this weekend in Sunday‘s Quaker State 400 Available at Walmart at Atlanta Motor Speedway (3 p.m. ET on USA Network, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), the 16 drivers who have qualified to compete for the 2024 championship met with the media Wednesday at the Charlotte […]

Ten of the 16 drivers in the playoff field are searching for their first Cup Series title. Joey Logano is the only playoff driver with multiple titles.

From the triumph of crossing the finish line to the exhilaration of an epic burnout, no one knows what it feels like — and what it takes — to win like Chevrolet and Goodyear. Since 1954, these American icons have gone unmatched on the NASCAR race track; racking up more victories and more championships than […]

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (Sept. 4, 2024) — Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) announced Wednesday that incoming broadcast partner of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, The CW, will partner with drivers Sheldon Creed and Ty Gibbs to promote their upcoming slate of NASCAR Xfinity Series races in 2024. The deal will kick off with a primary scheme on Sheldon […]