With Ryan Blaney’s victory last week at Nashville, Team Penske became the first team to land all drivers – including their partner team Wood Brothers Racing – into the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. But it’s Hendrick Motorsports that remains atop the championship standings heading into Sunday’s Firekeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway (2 […]
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Rajah Caruth Holds Off Corey Heim In Dramatic Truck Series Win At Nashville
May 31, 2025 by
LEBANON, Tenn.—In the closing laps of Friday night’s Rackley Roofing 200 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway, Rajah Caruth had a question for himself. “How bad do you want it?” Caruth thought silently, as four-time winner Corey Heim and Layne Riggs pursued him relentlessly over the final circuits. Caruth answered his own question […]
NASCAR Weekend Preview: Cup Series Hits Halfway Point At Nashville Superspeedway
May 29, 2025 by
With only four previous NASCAR Cup Series races at the 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway, Sunday night’s primetime Cracker Barrel 400 (7 p.m. ET on Amazon Prime, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) presents a lot of unknowns and a lot of opportunity. Last year’s Nashville race featured the most overtime finishes in series history – an extra 31 […]
Corey Heim Runs Away With Craftsman Truck Series Win At Charlotte
May 24, 2025 by
CONCORD, N.C.—This time, Corey Heim didn’t just slam the door on his NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series competition—he nailed it shut. Heim’s three previous 2025 wins notwithstanding, the driver of the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota has had difficulty closing out races with a dominant truck this season. That was emphatically not the case on Friday […]
NASCAR Weekend Preview: Kyle Larson Indy 500/Coca-Cola 600 Double Leads Charlotte Storylines
May 23, 2025 by
On a tripleheader NASCAR weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the big news is clearly “The Double.” For the second straight year, Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson will attempt to run both the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. If the day goes according to plan, Larson will complete 500 miles in the 109th running […]
Drivers Praise NASCAR Return To Rockingham, Hoping It Stays On The Schedule
April 21, 2025 by
The NASCAR Cup Series’ season-opening Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium left race fans clamoring for more. Last weekend’s NASCAR Xfinity and CRAFTSMAN Truck Series doubleheader at Rockingham Speedway had the same effect. The enthusiastic turnout engendered hopes that perhaps the Cup Series might someday join its national series brethren at the rejuvenated “Rock.” After winning […]
Norwalk Native Randy LaJoie Joins Ballot For NASCAR Hall Of Fame Voting
April 21, 2025 by
Busch and LaJoie join ballot for the first time; Wheeler up for Landmark nod NASCAR today announced the 15 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 and the five nominees for the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR. Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Cup Series champion, joins the Modern Era ballot […]
Tyler Ankrum Snaps Long Winless Streak With Craftsman Truck Series Victory At Rockingham
April 19, 2025 by
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. — It had been so long since Tyler Ankrum won his first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race that the driver of the No. 18 McAnally-Hilgemann Chevrolet couldn’t find Victory Lane after winning Friday’s Black’s Tire 200 at Rockingham Speedway. After a prodigious effort at saving fuel, Ankrum coasted across the finish line 6.657 […]
NASCAR Team Owner, Former IndyCar Driver Shigeaki Hattori Killed In Car Accident
April 7, 2025 by
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship winning team owner Shigeaki Hattori was killed in a car accident Saturday in Huntersville, N.C. Hattori was 61 years old. Hattori, a native of Okayama, Japan, was one of eight Japanese-born drivers to compete in the Indianapolis 500. Hattori raced in the Indianapolis 500 twice, finishing 20th in 2002 and […]
Luke Baldwin Set For Triple Duty Weekend At Martinsville, Thompson
March 26, 2025 by Leave a Comment
A busy three-race weekend for rising driver Luke Baldwin will bring him over 700 miles across the East Coast – nevermind over 400 laps on the track. Baldwin will compete in three different events at two different tracks – Martinsville Speedway and Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park – in both a Truck and a Modified. Baldwin […]
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