Racing Insights: The ‘Great American Race’ is always worth the wait

And we\\\"re back. Finally, haulers are unloading, garages are open and excitement is building for Sunday\\\"s 2025 Daytona 500 (2:30 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN Radio, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio). After an off-season filled with bonanza movement across the Cup garage, this year‘s talent pool set for the traditional 500 miler -- and the next nine […]

NASCAR and Anheuser-Busch extend storied partnership

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — One of the most recognizable and storied partnerships in all of sports has been refreshed for the start of the 2025 NASCAR season. NASCAR and Anheuser-Busch today announced a multiyear agreement that ensures Busch Light will continue as a Premier Partner of the NASCAR Cup Series, designation as the “Official Beer Sponsor […]

NASCAR files appeal against 23XI and Front Row just 1 hour before Daytona 500 qualifying begins

NASCAR filed a 68-page appeal Wednesday night — roughly one hour before the start of Daytona 500 qualifying — arguing a federal judge erred in recognizing 23XI Motorsports and Front Row Motorsports as chartered teams for 2025 as the two organizations sue over antitrust claims. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell of the Western District of North Carolina in December issued a preliminary injunction that allowed 23XI and Front Row to receive the same rewards as a chartered team while the lawsuit wades through the court system. 23XI Racing is co-owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin, while Front Row Motorsports is owned by entrepreneur Bob Jenkins.

NASCAR’s lone Black Cup driver Bubba Wallace ‘couldn’t care less’ if Trump attends Daytona 500

Bubba Wallace said he “couldn't care less” if Donald Trump attends the Daytona 500 on Sunday, nearly five years after the president accused the NASCAR Cup Series’ only Black full-time driver of perpetrating “ a hoax ” when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall. Trump suggested in July 2020 that Wallace should apologize after the sport rallied around him following the discovery of the noose in his assigned stall at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. NASCAR and the FBI have referred exclusively to the rope — which was used to pull the garage door closed — as a noose.