During the final lap of last weekend’s NASCAR Cook Out 400 at Richmond, Richard Childress Racing driver (and grandson of Childress) Austin Dillon unceremoniously dumped race leader Joey Logano, and hooked Denny Hamlin into the wall. All of this bash-em-up was done in an effort to come to the checkered flag first, which Dillon did. … Read more
America’s two most beloved competitive passions are about to collide, baseball and stock car racing. Don’t worry, NASCAR isn’t running a race in the middle of a Los Angeles Dodgers game. Major League Baseball announced on Friday that Bristol Motor Speedway will host the MLB Speedway Classic, a regular-season game between the Atlanta Braves and … Read more
Image: IMSA There isn’t much that IMSA isn’t doing right at the moment. On Thursday the sanctioning body announced that it would be bringing its entry-level racing series, Mazda MX-5 Cup, to a NASCAR oval for the first time. Yes, MX-5 Cup has run at Daytona in the past, but only on the road course. … Read more
Racing, writ large, has a problem: It sucks and is boring. Grassroots track days, time attack, even Formula 1 — no matter how many races I watch, they never end up grabbing me the way I want. Only Formula Drift ever seems to keep my attention, and it’s not because of all the tire smoke. … Read more
Photo: James Gilbert (Getty Images) The negotiations between NASCAR and its Cup Series teams to renew their charter agreement is nearing a stalemate. The Associated Press broke down the current state of proceedings on Monday. From making charters permanent to allowing private equity firms to buy charters and NASCAR to own teams, there are divisive … Read more
I have fully maintained that the NASCAR Cup Series is, right now, one of the few motorsport series doing everything well. The races are competitive, the Next-Gen cars are well-designed pieces of machinery, and the series is looking to grow its horizons and audiences. There’s just one part that seems to stump people when I … Read more
The Greatest Cheats in Racing History Another icon of the stock car cheating game is ol’ Smokey Yunick. He was one of those people who had a massively creative brain, one that could look at a NASCAR rulebook, find all of the loopholes and then design a car around it. This car, a 1967 Chevrolet … Read more
Imagine a racing series that pitted your favorite retired drivers against one another on a tiny circuit behind the wheel of expensive, identically-prepared $1.3 million Jaguar XJ220 supercars. Imagine that you could tune in for a few weeks in the summer to watch those icons of sport beat, bang and destroy millions of dollars in … Read more
Screenshot: NASCAR/ YouTube Documentaries about the illustrious world of automobile racing are not a new concept, but never have we gotten such unprecedented access to the life of a NASCAR driver on the scale of Netflix’s new series. “NASCAR: Full Speed” will be releasing at the end of this month on the streaming service, and … Read more
Back in the good ol’ days, tobacco companies were some of the biggest sponsors of NASCAR, with iconic liveries from Skoal to Camel to Winston, and the legendary Winston Cup Series ran from 1971 to 2003. The Winston Cup meant far more than just tobacco sales over its 32-year history, even inspiring the Disney movie … Read more
