Iowa Speedway Makes History with first ever NASCAR Race
DES MOINES - For the first time ever NASCAR is bringing a Cup Series Race to the Iowa Speedway this weekend. There are races all weekend long starting Friday night with the ARCA Menards Race. Saturday...
View ArticleAround the Track: Previewing the Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol
NEWTON, IA. (CHARLOTTE SPORTS LIVE) -- NASCAR is back to short-track racing at Iowa Speedway. It is now the 176th different Cup Series track to be used in a points-paying race since 1949. One lap is...
View ArticleBlaney takes checkered flag at inaugural Iowa NASCAR cup race
NEWTON, Iowa -- It’s what NASCAR fans have been waiting for all week in Iowa. History was made Sunday in Newton as the Iowa Speedway hosted its first-ever Cup race series in front of a sold-out crowd....
View ArticleNASCAR returns to New England, offering traditional giant lobster as prize
LOUDON, NH (WWLP) - The NASCAR Cup Series will return to New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend. New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) is also known as the Magic Mile. As we get ready for the next...
View ArticlePreview of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series in New Hampshire on Sunday
LOUDON, N.H. (WWLP) - It's race weekend in New Hampshire, and drivers are getting ready for NASCAR's only race in New England. It's an exciting day on Sunday in Loudon. The NASCAR Cup season reaches...
View ArticleChristopher Bell wins on rain tires at NASCAR Cup race in New Hampshire
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Christopher Bell mastered the NASCAR Cup Series’ first race ever that ended with cars running on rain tires and pulled away after a 2 hour, 15-minute weather delay to beat darkness...
View ArticleLuke Combs takes the wheel at Ally 400 NASCAR race in Nashville
LEBANON, Tenn. (NEXSTAR) — Country music superstar Luke Combs will swap his guitar for driving gloves as the honorary pace car driver at the Ally 400 NASCAR Cup Series event on Sunday. Combs, a...
View ArticleAround the Track: Previewing the Ally 400 in Nashville
NASHVILLE, TN. (CHARLOTTE SPORTS LIVE) -- The challenge of racing on a concrete track awaits the drivers at Nashville Superspeedway. Cars are going to be jumping over a lot of rubber, bumps and...
View ArticleJoe Gibbs driver Christopher Bell emerges as a NASCAR championship contender
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Joe Gibbs has fielded Cup cars for Denny Hamlin since 2005, got a decade out of Tony Stewart and is about to replace Martin Truex Jr., who has driven for the team for the last six...
View ArticleLogano wins at Nashville for 1st NASCAR Cup Series victory of the year
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Joey Logano won the rain-delayed race at Nashville Superspeedway in a NASCAR Cup Series-record fifth overtime Sunday night, stretching his fuel enough to hold off a group of...
View ArticleJosef Newgarden Dreams of Racing The Double: Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Back-to-back Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden has a driving dream he still harbors, even knowing that challenges with schedules and sponsors make it likely impossible to...
View ArticleNASCAR Chicago Street Race - What to expect
Chicago (NEXSTAR) — This weekend experience the heart-pounding action of the Chicago Street Race! NASCAR is back in the city for the Fourth of July weekend. The event kicks off soon with a lineup of...
View Article2024 NASCAR Chicago Street Race: A look at the field
CHICAGO — This weekend's Chicago Street Race is the third of five road courses on NASCAR's 2024 Cup Series and Xfinity Series schedules. Complete NASCAR Chicago Street Race coverage NASCAR made...
View Article4 things to know about this weekend's NASCAR Chicago race
CHICAGO — For the second time NASCAR is coming to the Second City. The NASCAR Chicago Street Race will take place in downtown Chicago July 6 and 7. Start your engines with these four things you need...
View ArticleFinal preps underway for NASCAR weekend in Chicago
CHICAGO — NASCAR fans, start your engines. Chicago is in its final lap of planning for this weekend’s NASCAR Chicago Street race. Major road closures are now in place in downtown Chicago. On Saturday...
View ArticleKyle Larson wins the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series street race in downtown...
CHICAGO (AP) — Kyle Larson has won the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series street race in downtown Chicago, beating Ty Gibbs by one-hundredth of a second. Larson posted a fast lap of 87.836 seconds in the...
View ArticleBowman wins on a rainy Chicago NASCAR street course
CHICAGO (AP) — At long last, Alex Bowman got a win. And a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. So yeah, he was ready to party. “We’re going to drink so much damn bourbon tonight, it’s going to be a...
View ArticleIs NASCAR getting ready for EVs—or hybrids?
(Green Car Reports) - NASCAR surprised attendees at its Chicago Street Race on Saturday with the debut of a fully electric SUV prototype. It’s so surprising, perhaps, because the race series hasn’t...
View ArticleNASCAR fines Wallace $50K for post-race hit on Bowman
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR fined Bubba Wallace $50,000 on Wednesday for retaliatory contact against race winner Alex Bowman on the cooldown lap of the Chicago Street Race. Wallace door-slammed...
View ArticleNoah Gragson joins Front Row Motorsports for 2025 NASCAR season
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Noah Gragson became the third of four Stewart-Haas Racing drivers to secure a seat for 2025 when Front Row Motorsports said Wednesday it had signed him to a multi-year deal. SHR...
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