Martin Truex Jr. will pause his retirement and attempt to qualify for next month’s Daytona 500 with Tricon Garage, the team announced Thursday. Truex, 44, retired from full-time racing after the 2024 season. The 2017 Cup Series champion collected 34 wins and 291 top-10 finishes across 21 years on NASCAR’s top circuit. Tricon Garage confirmed…… MORE
Reigning Xfinity Series champion Justin Allgaier will head up JR Motorsports’ attempt to make its NASCAR Cup Series debut in February, the group announced Wednesday. Allgaier, 38, has 25 wins and 282 top-10 finishes in his Xfinity career. “It’s been really special,” Allgaier told NASCAR.com. “To be at an organization like this and to be…… MORE
Cody Ware will race full-time during the 2025 Cup Series season, driving his family’s No. 51 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, Rick Ware Racing announced Wednesday. Ware, 29, ran in nine Cup races for his father’s Rick Ware Racing in 2024, recording his career-best finish with a fourth-place result at Daytona International Speedway in the Coke…… MORE
NASCAR did not approve veteran driver Mike Wallace, who hasn’t competed in a Cup Series race since 2015, to get behind the wheel for MBM Motorsports at the 2025 Daytona 500. The motorsports team announced earlier this month that Wallace, 65, would join them in an attempt to qualify for the season-opening Crown Jewel Feb.…… MORE
The Daytona 500, set for Feb. 16, has sold out, the World Center of Racing announced Monday. It will mark the 67th edition of the race, with the 68th already scheduled for Feb. 15, 2026. William Byron won last year’s Daytona 500. “The Daytona 500 continues to be a spectacle of elite racing and entertainment,…… MORE
Amazon Prime has signed a deal to sponsor Chase Elliott’s car for three races annually from 2025-27. The agreement with the Hendrick Motorsports is in an effort to raise awareness of Prime Video’s Cup Series rights deal that begins this season. Financial terms were not disclosed. The paint scheme for Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet will…… MORE
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves is set to make his NASCAR debut as he attempts to qualify for the Feb. 15 Daytona 500 for Trackhouse Racing, The Athletic reported. A longtime open-wheel competitor, the 49-year-old Castroneves won the Indy 500 in 2001, 2002, 2009 and 2021. He has familiarity with the Daytona International Speedway,…… MORE
In hindsight, June 30, 2024, may go down as the most important day of Zane Smith’s NASCAR career. In one of the wildest races in the modern era of NASCAR, Joey Logano navigated five overtime restarts at Nashville and somehow had enough fuel to cross the finish line first and earn a win that eventually…… MORE
Zane Smith will drive the No. 38 Ford as Front Row Motorsports’ third NASCAR Cup Series entry in 2025. The team announced a multiyear agreement with the former Truck Series champion on Thursday. Front Row Motorsports purchased the charter for a third vehicle from now-defunct Stewart-Haas Racing. Smith, 25, joined FRM in 2022 and captured…… MORE
Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing, along with Front Row Motorsports, filed a brief requesting to deny NASCAR’s stay for a preliminary injunction that would block the groups from participating as charter teams in 2025, Sportico reported. Last week, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell granted a request from 23XI and Front Row to be able to race…… MORE
