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Welcome to the 2023 NASCAR season. The Cup Series season officially begins on Sunday with the Daytona 500 (2:30 p.m. ET, Fox). Thirty-six more race weekends over 37 weeks will follow the 500 as the season concludes with the winner-take-all championship race at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 5. Here’s what you need to know ahead

9:43 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Tony Kanaan, the 2013 Indianapolis 500 champ, said Wednesday he will compete in IndyCar’s biggest race this May before retiring again. The 48-year-old from Brazil made the announcement on Twitter. 🇧🇷Tem sido uma jornada maravilhosa, mas ainda não acabou. Espero vcs para a última em Maio.•🇺🇸 Let’s do

2:50 PM ET Dale Earnhardt, top, and Dale Jarrett contested one of NASCAR’s all-time-great Daytona 500s in 1993. Bill Frakes /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images The 1993 Daytona 500, run 30 years ago today, is first and foremost a love story. Yes, it was the Dale and Dale Show. Yes, it was the victory that sparked

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Veteran Ron Silk endured the entire 2022 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season without visiting Victory Lane. It took Silk just one race in 2023 to end his dry spell, as he held off Justin Bonsignore in an enthralling late-race battle to claim the New Smyrna Beach Area Visitors Bureau 200

8:34 AM ET Marc Marquez is arguably MotoGP’s greatest of all time, but has spent more than two years recovering from a career-threatening arm injury. Gold & Goose / Red Bull Content Pool “I had a dream career until 2020,” Marc Marquez told ESPN, recalling his decorated time in MotoGP, the two-wheeled equivalent of Formula One.

Feb 7, 2023 Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Kyle Busch was detained at a Mexican airport late last month when a handgun and ammunition were discovered in his luggage, the NASCAR star acknowledged this week, apologizing for the incident and calling it “a mistake.” Busch was sentenced this month to 3½ years in prison and

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch was arrested and detained in Mexico in January after a handgun was found in his bag as he and his wife Samantha boarded a private jet to leave the country after a vacation. According to the Mexico Prosecutor General’s office, a man originally from Nevada identified as “Kyle

11:23 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Martin Truex Jr. won NASCAR’s return to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for its season-opening exhibition race — a sloppy Sunday night extravaganza in which the Wiz Khalifa halftime show might have been the most entertaining part of the event. Truex took the lead with 25 laps

Martin Truex Jr. won NASCAR’s exhibition Clash on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Martin Truex Jr. won a mess of a Busch Light Clash exhibition race on Sunday night. The short track race at the Los Angeles Coliseum featured 15 cautions for spins or crashes and fittingly had a crash on the final lap

A new NASCAR Cup Series season is nearly upon us as its annual preseason exhibition returns to Southern California this weekend. The Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum will be run for the second straight year on the temporary quarter-mile track laid down over the pitch at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Originally contested as

A new NASCAR Cup Series season is nearly upon us as its annual preseason exhibition returns to Southern California this weekend. The Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum will be run for the second straight year on the temporary quarter-mile track laid down over the pitch at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Originally contested as

Feb 3, 2023 NEW YORK — Five years ago, all of this seemed impossible. Formula One broadcasts were just returning to ESPN airwaves, Netflix’s “Drive to Survive” series was still a year away from premiering, and the sport’s popularity in the U.S. showed few signs of emerging from a decades-long slumber. There was a four-year

6:09 PM ET Associated Press IndyCar driver Conor Daly would accept a last-minute Daytona 500 ride if offered the chance to enter “The Great American Race.” Helio Castroneves last week ruled out trying to make NASCAR’s season-opening race because the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner did not believe there was enough time to prepare for the

NASCAR drivers won’t be allowed to mimic Ross Chastain’s move in 2023. Ross Chastain’s Martinsville move is now against the rules. NASCAR announced Tuesday that the wall-riding maneuver Chastain successfully pulled off to qualify for the championship race would not be allowed going forward. Chastain kept his foot on the gas and drove against the

3:41 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Acura dominated the debut of hybrid engines in North American sports car racing with a 1-2 finish Sunday at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, where Helio Castroneves and the automaker won the prestigious endurance race for a third consecutive year. Castroneves won the Rolex in 2021

12:22 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson, Mike Rockenfeller and Jenson Button will drive the special Garage 56 car that will race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Johnson, a seven-time NASCAR champion, has lobbied hard for a spot in the three-driver lineup for his former team. He’d

Jan 26, 2023 Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Bryan Herta wants to enter Robert Wickens in the Indianapolis 500 as early as 2024 — a year later than preferred as work continues on the hand controls needed for the paralyzed driver. Wickens suffered a spinal cord injury in a crash at Pocono Raceway in

Trackhouse Racing, RFK Racing and Front Row Motorsports announced sponsorship deals Thursday morning. Trackhouse said WWEX, a Dallas-based global logistics group, will increase its sponsorship presence with the team this year, serving as the primary sponsor in 21 races for drivers Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez. WWEX will appear on Chastain’s Chevrolets in 19 races