News and notes: After a rough weekend in Darlington, Boyd will look to re-gain his momentum at one of the most famous race tracks of all time, Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This will be Boyd's first visit to the Brickyard. The Xfinity Series will run the same aero-package as they ran earlier this season at Pocono and Michigan. “It is a dream come true to race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway,” says Boyd. "Indianapolis is one of the biggest racing stages in the world. Just the history behind the track and to think of all the legends that have raced there is breathtaking. I'm very humbled to be racing there this weekend and hope we can bring home a great finish for everyone."
Country music artist Jimmie Allen, a Delaware native who is now making waves as a rising star in Nashville, will perform a free concert for Monster Mile fans on Sunday, Oct. 7 before the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Dover International Speedway, track officials announced today.
Team Penske announced today that BODYARMOR Sports Drink has agreed to a multi-year extension that extends and expands its partnership with the No. 12 Ford Mustang team and driver Ryan Blaney through the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season and beyond. The 2018 season marked the first-ever race team partnership for BODYARMOR, which has enjoyed a personal relationship with Blaney since 2017.
Chase Briscoe has been going to race tracks ever since he was a little kid, and now he’s taking advantage of being part of the Ford Performance Driver Development program to compete in a variety of different series this season, all to improve his skills as a driver.
Briscoe on Indianapolis Motor Speedway “I am beyond excited to race at Indy, it will be a fun and busy week. Wednesday and Thursday I will run the USAC midget race at the BC39 at the new dirt track in the infield, Friday night I will go run the ARCA car at Indianapolis Raceway Park, and then Saturday run at the Brickyard."
Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) development driver Thad Moffitt will make his Team Chevy racing debut start this Friday night at the short track in Clermont, Indiana, just miles from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Moffitt will compete in the ARCA Racing Series Shore Lunch 200 and is hoping to better his 11th-place finish last year. He's also wanting to collect another Top-10 after finishing 10th at the Toledo Speedway earlier this year in ARCA competition.
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is making its only trip to the 2.5-mile rectangular-oval Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend. Matt DiBenedetto and the No.32 Go Fas Racing Ford will be carrying Anest Iwata's red, white, and blue scheme introduced earlier this year at Chicagoland Speedway. This race, the 26th of the NASCAR season, will mark the final race of the NASCAR regular season.
Bragging Rights and Points… With the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) regular season coming to an end this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), the regular-season champion will be formally announced. Camry driver Kyle Busch heads into Sunday’s race 39 points ahead of the second-place driver. While the regular-season title would be nice, it’s not just for bragging rights as the regular-season champion is awarded 15 playoff points heading into the Round of 16 which is set to open at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on September 16.
Darlington Recap: Denny Hamlin finished 10th in Sunday night’s 500-mile event at Darlington Raceway, overcoming ill-handling conditions and a late-race pit road penalty to notch his 13th top-10 of the 2018 season. Hamlin, the defending race winner, captured his third pole of the 2018 season and led the field to green on Sunday, showing the way for the first 11 circuits around the “Lady in Black” before falling outside the top five.
Voting for the 2018 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) Most Popular Driver Award presented by Hooters officially opens today, Wednesday, Sept. 5th at 12:00 noon ET. Fans can cast a vote for a single driver once per day at www.nascar.com/mostpopulardriver or on the NASCAR Mobile app. Votes shared by fans on Facebook and / or Twitter count double.
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing (MHR) announced today that the organization is welcoming former winner Nick Sanchez to the team’s 2027 NASCAR FedEx Freight Truck Series (NFFTS) lineup.
NASCAR Cup Series driver Austin Cindric won the first Proud to Honor Veterans Day Classic in the No. 2 Air Force Ford Mustang® Dark Horse™ R on Wednesday night at Daytona International Speedway.
A high-performance and patriotic day of on and off-track action and excitement moved the 12th Running of the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Daytona 24 Hour presented by Mission Foods off to a solid start Wednesday at Daytona International (DIS).
