Prior to officially unveiling the Chase for the Championship format in January, NASCAR and Racing Insights conducted over 25,000 simulations to predict how the format could potentially play out.The findings:Overall, drivers won the championship 85 percent of time when seeded inside the top six and 69 percent of the time from the top three. There is a pathway to the championship all the way ...Keep reading
Matt DiBenedetto will be back behind the wheel of a NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series car, driving the No. 42 Young's Motorsports Chevrolet Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 3. Magnesium Performance Wheels will sponsor the effort.Catchfence.com's Chris Knight broke the story, with DiBenedetto expressing excitement and gratitude over the opportunity.DiBenedetto is a highly experienced ...Keep reading
All 16 NASCAR Cup drivers who qualified for the Chase took part in Media Day on Wednesday, and several fielded questions about the long-awaited Days of Thunder sequel that is coming to theaters in June of 2028. Tom Cruise will again star as fictional NASCAR driver Cole Trickle, with Anne Hathaway co-starring as a team owner/engineer.Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been in contact with the minds ...Keep reading
Of the 16 drivers who comprise the newest iteration of the Chase for the Championship, only two of them have competed in the version that predated The Playoffs from 2004-to-2013.Denny HamlinJoey LoganoOn one hand, this gives them both a baseline understanding of how to navigate the next 10 weeks but there are also enough wrinkles that both of them are still curious about what this is going ...Keep reading
John Hunter Nemechek, 29, will not return to Legacy Motor Club for the 2027 NASCAR Cup Series season.Nemechek first. joined the team at the start of the 2024 season, recording points finishes of 34th and 25th. He currently sits 27th in the 2026 championship standings, trailing teammate Erik Jones in 21st by 80 points after Daytona."Legacy Motor Club has made the decision to part ways with ...Keep reading
The 'win and you're in' may be gone, but the importance of winning remains critical in the battle to become a NASCAR Cup Series champion. Ryan Preece showed just how valuable a win can be last than a week ago at Daytona International Speedway.And while there is one point between each position on track, that abruptly jumps to 20 points between the runner-up spot and the race winner. That means ...Keep reading
While 23XI Racing has been very fast all year, it's been a season of 'what ifs' for Bubba Wallace and the No. 23 Toyota.The organization has seven victories (a record for 23XI) this year with five from Tyler Reddick and two from Corey Heim. In contrast, Wallace -- who was the only 23XI driver to visit Victory Lane during the 2025 season, is still winless in 2026.Wallace was as high as ...Keep reading
Ryan Blaney is the No. 2 seed in the Chase for the Championship and will start the final 10 races 25 points behind regular season champion Denny Hamlin.Austin Cindric is the No. 15 seed and is 95 points back.For Team Penske, the decision to swap their respective pit crews boiled down to simple mathematics, and everyone with both programs are largely understanding of that decision. Team ...Keep reading
Reigning F1 world champion Lando Norris has launched his own race team and young driver programme that will compete across Europe's single-seater ladder from 2027.McLaren driver Norris joined forces with British karting team Fusion Motorsport to establish LN4 Fusion, which will compete in Formula 3 and 4 next year. The team has acquired selected assets of AIX Racing and also intends to enter ...Keep reading
Lucas Oil has been a sponsor in NASCAR for a long time, but the last time they reached Victory Lane in the Cup Series was February 26, 2023. Making just his second start after joining Richard Childress Racing, Kyle Busch won the final race ever held at Fontana, driving the blue No. 8 Lucas Oil Chevrolet.Busch also drove the blue Lucas Oil car in his final Cup race at Dover Motor Speedway as ...Keep reading
A year after the Final Four format denied him that elusive NASCAR Cup Series championship, Denny Hamlin enters the first year of the second iteration of the Chase for the Championship as the favorite.He is two months away from his 46th birthday and 14 months away from his intended retirement. Next year is not a guarantee and this very well could be his last chance to win the missing ...Keep reading
The Chandler Smith and Carson Brown tandem in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series at Richard Childress Racing was three years in the making.Danny Lawrence, who oversees division operations for RCR, says the recruitment of Brown has been something he and Chief Operating Officer Mike Dillon have contemplated for quite a long time.“This is going to surprise you,” Lawrence told Motorsport.com ...Keep reading
The Formula 1 stewards once again found themselves under the spotlight at the Dutch Grand Prix after handing drive-through penalties to Franco Colapinto and Arvid Lindblad.Both drivers were penalised for overtaking another competitor under yellow flags in the aftermath of Max Verstappen’s heavy crash on the opening lap of the Zandvoort race.The Alpine and Racing Bulls drivers both ...Keep reading
Are cars being deliberately parked in the DTM on Saturdays? At the Nurburgring, six cars were already out of the Saturday race after eight laps - even though GT3 cars are not exactly regarded as unreliable. In total, only twelve of the 21 cars reached the finish, which is a new negative record. On Sunday, 16 cars finished.The reason is clear: at the Nurburgring, each driver has only three sets ...Keep reading
Formula 1 hosts round 13 of its 2026 campaign this weekend with the Italian Grand Prix, and there are plenty of talking points heading into Monza.It is the place where championship leader and home hero Kimi Antonelli must overcome a grid penalty due to an engine change on his Mercedes, so how will this affect his title run-in?The 19-year-old leads the standings by 59 points over team-mate ...Keep reading
Denny Hamlin finished Saturday's race at Daytona in 11th, but Hamlin isn't certain he agrees with the result.While race results are usually pretty simple to decipher — whoever crosses the line first wins, next gets second, and so on — the Coke Zero Sugar 400 on Saturday ended on a caution flag that came out during the final lap. When that happens, results are determined by the running ...Keep reading
Entering the NASCAR Cup Series Chase for the Championship, who has the most momentum, and who is stumbling into the postseason?We're going to break it all down, and when we're done, we aren't going to tell you the rankings for every driver -- you get to decide. Click here to vote on post-Daytona driver ratings where the rankings are based solely on votes by the readers. It's all free, just ...Keep reading
Mercedes was permitted one upgrade token under Formula 1’s Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities scheme, but has confirmed that Kimi Antonelli won’t race with an updated power unit at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.One of the biggest talking points heading into the Monza round is Antonelli’s grid drop, which comes as he exceeds his power unit allowance for the 2026 ...Keep reading
Sebring International Raceway is kicking off celebrations for the 75th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring by unveiling the “Class of 75,” a list recognizing the 75 greatest drivers in the history of the iconic endurance race ahead of its March 20 running.Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 15, fifteen drivers will be announced on the second Tuesday of each month through January. Following the initial ...Keep reading
On his Dirty Mo Media podcast, Dale Earnhardt Jr. addressed the exciting news that Days of Thunder was returning for a sequel, and Tom Cruise is set to star alongside Anne Hathaway in the 2028 NASCAR film.Speaking on the Dale Jr. Download, the two-time Daytona 500 winner and NASCAR Hall of Famer said that he has been in contact with 'the guy who's developing the story,' which is likely ...Keep reading
Isack Hadjar will sit out this weekend's Italian GP at Monza as he recovers from a wrist injury he sustained during Formula 1's summer break. As a result, Liam Lawson will once again replace him at Red Bull and Yuki Tsunoda slots back into the Racing Bulls car.Hadjar sustained a wrist fracture during a boxing session during the summer break, forcing him to watch the Dutch Grand Prix in ...Keep reading
Ferrari will introduce its second upgrade to its Formula 1 power unit at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, permitted under the Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities system.This year, F1 introduced the ADUO system, which grants manufacturers extra opportunities to improve their engines should they be lagging behind on performance, with results taken every quarter of a ...Keep reading
MotoGP has announced the dates for the 2027 pre-season tests, as the championship gears up for the switch to new technical regulations.As has been the case in recent years, MotoGP will host three official tests through January and February, with Sepang and Buriram again chosen as the host venues.However, despite sweeping changes planned to engine, chassis and electronics, as well as the ...Keep reading
The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, A2RL, is entering its third year. Two seasons of testing and racing in both virtual and real worlds have seen huge leaps in autonomous race tech, and it’s time to see how circuits outside of the Middle East will adapt to autonomous racing. Now familiar with Yas Marina, the five A2RL Pro Teams, the best of the autonomous best, will face a new challenge at ...Keep reading
On 2 September 2001, Michael Schumacher surpassed Alain Prost’s record of 51 Formula 1 victories, winning the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.Prost had been the record holder since 1987, when he matched Jackie Stewart’s tally of 27, and went on to clinch nearly as many wins from then on, until his 1993 retirement.The 1993 season, coincidentally, marked Schumacher’s continued ...Keep reading
Jacky Ickx says Genesis is satisfied with the progress it has made in the nascent stages of its World Endurance Championship Hypercar programme, as it works towards its goal of winning the Le Mans 24 Hours.Hyundai’s luxury car brand entered the top class of the WEC this year, entering a pair of GMR-001 LMDh prototypes developed in conjunction with Oreca. It was a major challenge for ...Keep reading
Argentina's government is clamouring for a Formula 1 race, but any talk of a return to Buenos Aires is premature at best.Argentinian president Javier Milei vowed he was going to push to bring F1 back to the country after a nearly 30-year hiatus, surfing on the popularity of Alpine driver Franco Colapinto.Argentina last hosted F1 in 1998 at the Autodromo Oscar y Juan Galvez, which is being ...Keep reading
Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola believes his team can “learn a lot” from Marc Marquez, praising the Ducati rider’s "intelligence and ability” in recent races.Marquez claimed his fourth victory in six grands prix at Aragon last weekend to move up to second place in the championship, splitting the Aprilias of Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi.While the reigning world champion has ...Keep reading
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