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Riley Herbst is heading to the NASCAR Cup Series with 23XI Racing. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) 23XI Racing is moving forward with its plans to expand to three cars in 2025. The team announced that longtime Xfinity Series driver Riley Herbst would join Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace next season. Herbst has three wins

Knoxville had its chance to meet “The King” on Tuesday. Seven-time NASCAR champion Richard Petty made more than a pit stop at Food City as a spokesperson for the Paralyzed Veterans of America. The Food City on Middlebrook Pike raised more than $10,500 for the PVA, which helps ensure veterans with disabilities receive the specialized

Open Extended Reactions Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix will move into May from 2026 onwards, coupling it with Miami’s race and helping the championship consolidate the European leg into one singular period. In recent years Montreal’s race has been an anomaly, often falling between European events which make up the middle of an F1 season.

ESPN News Services Nov 16, 2024, 09:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The two teams suing NASCAR over an antitrust complaint said Saturday that they will compete in 2025 as “open teams” after the sanctioning body removed anticompetitive release claims that will allow them to race while the legal process continues. 23XI Racing, the team

Two years after the ASA STARS National Tour almost raced at Slinger Speedway, the super late model series will try again in 2025. The popular quarter-mile north of Milwaukee will replace the Milwaukee Mile on the schedule on Father’s Day, but keep a Wisconsin weekend on the schedule with Slinger following a Friday night race

Associated Press Nov 14, 2024, 10:25 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Roger Penske on Thursday added the most prestigious street race in North America to his portfolio with the purchase of the Grand Prix of Long Beach. He bought the race from Gerald Forsythe, who owned half the event with the late Kevin Kalkhoven. Forsythe

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 11, 2024, 02:21 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions Joey Logano took home his third NASCAR Cup Series championship on Sunday in Phoenix. Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Legitimacy (li-jit-uh-muh-see) noun. The state

Bobby Allison, whose life in NASCAR included both grand triumphs and unspeakable heartbreak, died Saturday, NASCAR announced. He was 86. Through NASCAR, Allison became a champion driver and a Hall of Famer. But the sport also robbed him of his two sons, who died in tragic accidents less than one year apart. He was a

Joey Logano won his third NASCAR Cup Series title on Sunday at Phoenix. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images) Joey Logano is a three-time Cup Series champion. Logano took the lead from William Byron shortly after the NASCAR Cup Series championship race’s final restart on lap 260 and led the rest of the way at Phoenix

Yes, that’s the pace car crashed into the barrels at the entrance to pit road during Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series championship race. NASCAR’s Cup Series championship race at Phoenix was red-flagged on lap 69 because of a not-so-nice incident involving the pace car. As the pace car led the field to green for a restart

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 8, 2024, 11:15 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions One of Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick and William Byron will be crowned 2024 NASCAR Cup Series champion on Sunday in

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — NASCAR heads into its championship weekend locked into a federal antitrust lawsuit with NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan. Its officiating has been under months-long scrutiny, and this week it issued a wave of hefty fines for alleged race manipulation in the final playoff qualifier. And Truck Series championship contender Ty

Nov 7, 2024, 07:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sauber Motorsport chairman and Audi chief executive Gernot Dollner has said the team’s signing of 20-year-old driver Gabriel Bortoleto is a sign of a “generational shift” in Formula 1. The addition of Bortoleto to the grid means at least a fifth of the 20 F1 drivers

Nov 6, 2024, 03:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sauber have confirmed Brazil’s Gabriel Bortoleto will drive in 2025 alongside Nico Hulkenberg as the team prepares to transition to Audi for 2026. The team announced on Wednesday Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu will leave at the end of the season. Sao Paulo’s Bortoleto joins from

Associated Press Nov 3, 2024, 07:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Ryan Blaney celebrated his victory at Martinsville Speedway, a win that launched NASCAR’s defending champion into the title-deciding season finale. Meanwhile, Christopher Bell and William Byron waited awkwardly alongside their parked cars for a ruling from NASCAR on who would be

It’s time for NASCAR to embrace a radical idea and drastically overhaul its points system. The vulnerabilities of the current playoff system were on full display once again on Sunday at Martinsville, as Chevrolet drivers refused to pass William Byron in the final laps and Christopher Bell bounced off the wall multiple times as he

Ryan Blaney won at Martinsville to make the title race again. Last year Blaney won at the half-mile short track a week before winning the first Cup Series title of his career. Blaney won again at Martinsville on Sunday to clinch a spot in the Championship 4. Blaney passed Chase Elliott with 15 laps to

ESPN News Services Nov 2, 2024, 07:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Aric Almirola‘s victory Saturday at Martinsville Speedway helped nab Cole Custer a shot at the Xfinity Series championship after a heated race that may have earned the defending champion enemies in next week’s finale. Almirola is running a part-time schedule for Joe Gibbs