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The opening race of the 2026 Formula 1 season nearly turned into a major accident before the field had even reached the first corner. After a dramatic near miss at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, Franco Colapinto warned that the sport may need NASCAR-style spotters to help drivers avoid crashes during race starts. Colapinto, […]
Giovanni Ruggiero’s victory in Friday’s Henry Ford Health 200 was impressive, but Michigan International Speedway offered a reminder that ARCA’s biggest story in 2026 extends far beyond one driver. The race may have ended with Ruggiero celebrating his third victory in four starts, yet the finishing order told a broader story about the next generation […]
Garrett Mitchell, known to most of his fans as Cleetus McFarland, has found that reality bites harder than any dream he once sold himself. After stepping into stock car racing with runs in the ARCA Menards Series and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series since last year, with guidance from the late Greg Biffle, McFarland had […]
NASCAR heads to Talladega this weekend for the second superspeedway stop on the schedule. Last year, Zane Smith, then driving for Front Row Motorsports, secured his first Busch Light Pole Award, while Austin Cindric turned a late pit call into gold, edging Ryan Preece in a photo finish to claim the Jack Link’s 500. But […]
Lately, the gap between car speed and pit road output has been quite evident in Ryan Blaney’s case. Blaney has been the lone Penske driver running at the front on a week-to-week basis, but his pit crew has been off the pace. From loose wheels to slow stops, the group has ranked near the bottom […]
In the first race held after the passing of Kyle Busch on Thursday, which his family attributed to complications from severe pneumonia that progressed into sepsis, Ross Chastain bagged the win in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The win is Chastain’s fourth victory in the O’Reilly Series, and his […]
Superspeedway racing, in NASCAR, was always about the fine line between spectacle and survival, but recently concluded Jack Link’s 500 tipped heavily toward the bitter end of the spectrum. In a race that started off fairly clean, it took just one moment in Stage 2 for everything to go to shambles. What followed was the […]
On the latest episode of his Actions Detrimental podcast, Denny Hamlin suggested NASCAR may have shot itself in the foot with the scheduling of the Bristol race, pointing to a clash with The Masters as a factor that could have eaten into the audience at Bristol Motor Speedway. Hamlin argued that a switch to a […]
It will be a full-circle moment for NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series young gun William Sawalich as he returns to Talladega Superspeedway this weekend. A year removed from a frightening crash that left him hospitalised, the young Joe Gibbs Racing driver is back at one of NASCAR’s most unpredictable venues with a different mindset and, […]
When Shane van Gisbergen arrived in NASCAR for the Chicago Street Race under the banner of the Trackhouse Racing project known as Project 91, he turned heads across the garage by winning on debut. While much of the field spent the day wrestling with rain, sliding tires, missed corners, and bent sheet metal, SVG sliced […]
For a driver who grew up wrestling high-powered touring cars around unforgiving street circuits across the ocean in Down Under, Shane van Gisbergen was never going to fall in love with something sterile. So when the three-time Supercars champion recently opened up about what separates a “driver’s car” from what he bluntly calls an “engineer’s […]
Cleetus McFarland was not cleared by NASCAR to race at Talladega in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, but if his latest ARCA run at the superspeedway is anything to go by, he may have made his case on the track. McFarland set out to win at Talladega in honor of his late friend and NASCAR […]