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NASCAR is racing at Auto Club Speedway for the first time since 2020 this weekend. The Cup Series is back in Southern California for the second race of the 2022 season and there may be more unknowns ahead of the race in Fontana than there were before the Daytona 500. Teams had plenty of practice

Just under 9 million viewers tuned into Sunday’s Daytona 500 won by Austin Cindric. The first race of the 2022 season drew an average audience of 8.9 million viewers and was down slightly from the average audience of 9.17 million who watched the 2019 Daytona 500. That Daytona 500 two years ago was the last

12:15 PM ET MONTMELO, Spain — The first race of the new F1 season is still over three weeks away, but on-track action officially gets underway on Feb. 23 at the opening pre-season test in Spain. It will be the first chance to see all 10 teams on track together and the first time the

7:00 AM ET NASCAR president Steve Phelps (in suitcoat) presented Kyle Larson with the championship trophy in 2021, a year after he suspended the driver for a racial slur. Chris Graythen/Getty Images DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR President Steve Phelps is sitting in his office overlooking Daytona International Speedway. You can see and hear race cars

9:56 PM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Who in the world is Austin Cindric? As the 2022 Daytona 500 ground its way to the checkered flag, finally ending a 3½-hour enduro race that put a dozen cars behind the wall and saw 25 of the 40 cars in the field caught up in accidents (that’s

Rookie Austin Cindric won the 2022 Daytona 500 in his eighth Cup Series start. Cindric was able to stay ahead of Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney on the race’s green-white-checker two-lap restart to win over Bubba Wallace. Blaney got into the wall as Cindric blocked him before the checkered flag and a crash broke out

8:28 AM ET Lewis Hamilton said he “lost a little bit of faith” in the fair policing of Formula One after missing out on last year’s title in controversial circumstances at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hamilton was beaten to the 2021 title by Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi after race director Michael Masi bent

The 2022 Cup Series season officially begins on Sunday with the Daytona 500. The race was moved back a weekend this year because of NFL’s extra week during the regular season. The 500 starts a stretch of 37 races in 38 weeks for NASCAR’s top level before the final race of the season at Phoenix

7:32 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — While the main conversation at Daytona International Speedway this week has revolved around NASCAR’s new Next Gen race car, and rightfully so, another next generational movement is taking place behind the wheel of that car. With all due respect to the machines the sanctioning body has touted as

10:33 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — As Daytona Speedweeks (OK, it’s actually Speedweek now) have reached full speed leading into Thursday night’s dual 150-mile qualifying races, everyone in the Cup Series garage seems to agree that NASCAR’s newly christened rides, the so-called Next Gen machines, were needed. OK, they agree for the most part.

Betting the Daytona 500 may be a bigger crapshoot than normal this year. Daytona and Talladega typically provide the most parity on the board because of the ability for mid-pack teams to be in contention at the end with some good crash fortune. But with NASCAR’s new car debuting for real in Sunday’s Daytona 500,

The 2022 Daytona 500 is set to begin at 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday and will be televised on Fox. On-track festivities kick off on Tuesday as Cup Series cars practice for the first time. Front-row qualifying for the Daytona 500 is on Wednesday, a day ahead of the Duel qualifying races. The Truck Series

12:15 PM ET Formula One will have three qualifying sprint races in 2022 with points now given out to the top eight rather than just the top three, it was confirmed at Monday’s F1 Commission. The revised weekend format with qualifying on a Friday evening, a sprint race on Saturday and the main race on

NASCAR officials announced Friday that veteran crew chief Eddie Troconis has been reinstated. Troconis was suspended Oct. 6 after the race weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. Friday’s announcement indicated that Troconis is eligible to return to all NASCAR activity. Troconis’ NASCAR membership was suspended after a violation of Section 12.8.1.c in the 2021 NASCAR Rule Book.

10:11 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR’s top drivers have once again unified to form an independent council to gain a collective voice in decisions that affect the sport. The Drivers Advisory Council, announced Friday, is a more organized effort than a previous attempt to unify in 2014. A board of directors has

10:20 AM ET Sebastian Vettel has defended FIA race director Michael Masi and said the Australian deserves to keep his job despite botching the finish of last year’s title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi implemented the rules incorrectly to force a one-lap sprint race in Abu Dhabi, which helped Max Verstappen overtake Lewis Hamilton to

2:21 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jesse Iwuji is a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve who also happens to be juggling a budding NASCAR career. He transitioned between jobs this week when he jetted out of Los Angeles following Navy drills to make it to North Carolina in time to announce his

Sunday’s Busch Light Clash at the Los Angeles Coliseum drew over 4 million viewers. NASCAR moved the season-opening exhibition race from Daytona to a purpose-built quarter-mile track inside of the famed stadium to build excitement for the 2022 season. The move paid off with a significant viewer increase. Nearly 4.3 million people watched Sunday’s race