NASCAR stays in the state of North Carolina and heads to Charlotte Motor Speedway, where all three national series and the ARCA Menards Series take on the 1.5-mile-oval this Memorial Day weekend.
Ryan Blaney, driver of the No. 12 Team Penske Ford Mustang Dark Horse, won the Coca-Cola 600 in 2023 and comes into this year’s event with back-to-back third-place finishes in Texas and Kansas.
In 12 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway, Spire Motorsports has logged two top-20 finishes. Corey LaJoie posted a team-best 17th-place result in the 2023 Coca-Cola 600.
Johnson got his first taste of NASCAR Cup Series competition by running three races in 2001 with Hendrick Motorsports in the No. 48 Power of Pride Lowe’s Chevrolet
Niece drivers have made 23 combined starts at the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway. The team has accrued four top-fives and eight top-10 results over the years, including a race win in 2022 with Ross Chastain.
In three NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series starts at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway (CMS), Spire Motorsports has earned one top-10 and two top-15 finishes.
The 2020 Cup Series champion from Dawsonville, Georgia, will make his first Truck start in three years and drive the No. 7 entry for Spire Motorsports at North Wilkesboro Speedway (July 18).
Noah Gragson and the No. 4 team head to the EchoPark Speedway in Hampton, Georgia, hoping to improve from a 27th-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway last week.
For the first time this season, the NASCAR Cup and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series will make a return visit to a venue as the sport’s top-two divisions head back south for a pair of events under the lights at EchoPark Speedway.
Layne Riggs is back in action, this weekend in Lakeville, Connecticut, at Lime Rock Park. Riggs enters the 100-lap event coming off of his last lap win at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego just two weeks ago.
