NASCAR will add a Cup Series race in Mexico City in 2025, an event that will mark the sport’s first points race outside of the United States in 67 years, NASCAR officials announced Tuesday. “This is going to be certainly a monumental event for us, the first time we’re going south of the border,” said…… MORE
NASCAR upheld the decision to strip Austin Dillon of his playoff eligibility after hearing Dillon’s appeal. NASCAR announced its final ruling Monday, citing final appeals officer Bill Mullis’ explanation that according to their evidence from SMT and IDAS systems, a violation of Rule 12.3.2.1.B “more likely than not” occurred at the end of the Aug.…… MORE
NASCAR is finalizing a deal that would add a Cup Series race in Mexico City in 2025, an event that would mark the sport’s first points race outside of the United States in 67 years, The Athletic reported Monday. The deal is expected to be announced Tuesday in Mexico City, per the report. The race…… MORE
Twenty-five races and tens of thousands of miles have all led back to NASCAR’s first superspeedway. NASCAR’s oldest crown jewel race, the Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C., is set to be the backdrop for the Cup Series regular-season finale on Sunday. The 1.33-mile, egg-shaped oval has long been the setting for some of NASCAR’s greatest…… MORE
Harrison Burton passed Kyle Busch in overtime during a wild Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway, earning his first career victory in the NASCAR Cup Series’ Coke Zero Sugar 400 in Daytona Beach, Fla. After side-by-side leaders Austin Cindric and Josh Berry wrecked with two laps to go — with Berry’s No. 4 Ford going…… MORE
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.– Former Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell captured the pole position for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) — his fourth career pole, but first at the sport’s iconic track. It will be an all Front Row Motorsports front row…… MORE
A few races get circled on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule when it comes out. The season-opening Daytona 500, Charlotte’s 600-miler, Indianapolis’ Brickyard 400 and Darlington’s Southern 500 make the list because of their history. Throw in the championship race at Phoenix for obvious reasons, too. While we are at it, add another — a…… MORE
It would have been difficult for most to envision just two years ago that Tyler Reddick and 23XI Racing would be atop the standings in late August and among the favorites to win the 2024 Cup Series Championship. Before July of 2022, Reddick was still winless in the Cup Series in his third full-time season.…… MORE
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A dramatic race at Michigan International Speedway over the weekend has meant that for the second consecutive week, the NASCAR Cup Series playoff outlook has undergone a major change — both atop the standings and on the all-important cutoff line as the series heads to Daytona International Speedway for Saturday night’s…… MORE
Tyler Reddick roared away from William Byron in the second overtime and broke Ford’s stranglehold on Michigan International Raceway, winning the NASCAR Cup Series’ postponed FireKeepers Casino 400 on Monday in Brooklyn, Mich. After Martin Truex Jr. brought out the sixth caution with six laps left, leader Reddick and the rest of the top 10…… MORE
