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Feb 11, 2025, 08:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Williams Formula 1 team announced a long-term title sponsorship with Australian technology company Atlassian on Tuesday to help their fight to rise back up the grid. The former champions, winners of 114 races and nine constructors’ titles but ninth of the 10 teams last year,

Feb 8, 2025, 08:22 PM ET Ed Hinton, an ESPN senior writer who specialized in motorsports before retiring in 2014, died Thursday at Brookwood Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 76. Hinton, who graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in journalism, also wrote for Sports Illustrated during a celebrated 47-year career.

The countdown continues as Clash weekend arrives and Daytona’s NASCAR Speedweek gets closer and closer. With the 2025 Daytona 500 looming on Feb. 16, the Daytona Beach News-Journal is checking off the boxes on the calendar until the 67th running of the Great American Race. Buy our Daytona 500 book Today’s driver and car: Dale Earnhardt

Kelly Crandall Feb 7, 2025, 08:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After winning the Daytona 500 in 2023, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. made it back-to-back seasons with Cup Series wins by claiming victory at Talladega last season. Sean Gardner/Getty Images Ricky Stenhouse Jr. reflects quite a bit on his NASCAR career. Now 37, Stenhouse thinks about his

Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 7, 2024, 07:36 AM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Open Extended Reactions Mike Shanahan, offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers at the time, and wide receiver Ed McCaffrey celebrated their first Lombardi Trophy together in a 49-26 Super Bowl XXIX victory

There have been a lot of driver and team changes in NASCAR’s Cup Series ahead of the 2025 season. Nearly a third of the 36 chartered teams are new in some capacity after the closure of Stewart-Haas Racing and the expansion of teams like 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing. Here’s

NASCAR’s second-tier series will need a new title sponsor in 2026. Xfinity has been the sponsor of the series since 2014, but will vacate that sponsorship at the end of the 2025 season, according to multiple reports. Xfinity had signed a 10-year deal to be the title sponsor beginning in 2015, and NASCAR announced Tuesday

The countdown is on. With the 2025 Daytona 500 looming on Feb. 16, the Daytona Beach News-Journal is checking off the boxes on the calendar until the 67th running of the Great American Race. Today’s driver and car: Bobby Allison and the “Coke Machine” he drove during the early to mid-’70s. Bobby, leader of the famed

Feb 2, 2025, 06:24 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A streamlined Mercedes raced by Formula 1 greats Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 set a record for a grand prix car on Saturday, selling at auction for €51.2 million ($53m). The sleek, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one of only four complete examples in

Kelly Crandall Jan 31, 2025, 10:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions For the first time since 1971, Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will host a NASCAR Cup Series race when the Clash takes place there Sunday. Brian A. Westerholt/NASCAR via Getty Images Tim Brown, 53, is finally getting the opportunity to be a NASCAR

NASCAR returns to its roots Sunday with the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, which last played host to a Cup Series event more than 50 years ago. After three years on a temporary short track at the Los Angeles Coliseum, NASCAR has moved The Clash to the 0.25-mile track in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,

The annual unofficial start to the NASCAR season is here. Sunday’s Clash (8 p.m. ET, Fox) will be held at Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It’s the first time the non-points event has been held at the quarter-mile track after it was held for three years at the temporary quarter-mile track inside the Los

Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton crashed during the second day of Ferrari’s private test at the Circuit de Cataunya on Wednesday, a source has told ESPN. Hamilton is understood to have run off the circuit and into the barriers during the private test in Barcelona, which is taking place in a modified version of the

Field Level Media Jan 27, 2025, 08:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions As NASCAR teams prepare to begin the new season, changes to the Cup Series playoff format could be on the horizon. NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer John Probst said Monday that no changes are coming in 2025, but the

The beginning of the 2025 NASCAR Cup season marks the fourth of the Next Gen era with the Gen 7 car. in the Cup Series. The 2025 season begins with the Feb. 2 exhibition race Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium. The Cup season officially begins with the Feb. 16 Daytona 500. Here is

Chandler Smith will attempt to make the Daytona 500 for the Garage 66 team after NASCAR would not approve Mike Wallace for the ride. The 22-year-old Smith made three Cup starts in 2023 for Kaulig Racing. He failed to make the Daytona 500 for Garage 66, known then as MBM Motorsports, that year. Smith will

Open Extended Reactions The No. 24 RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 set the fastest time of testing before this weekend’s 24 Hours of Daytona. Courtesy of IMSA The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) is having a moment. Buried for decades behind bigger and more-popular racing series, the Florida-based IMSA series is fighting back — and gaining

Laurence EdmondsonJan 22, 2025, 03:14 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton got behind the wheel of a Ferrari for the first time on Wednesday at Fiorano during his first week with the team. Crowds of fans gathered in Maranello at the team’s base