Elliott Sadler and the No. 11 OneMain Financial team head to Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, where the majority of the NASCAR community calls home. In 14 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts at Charlotte, Sadler won the pole award once, recorded four top-five and five top-10 finishes with 16 laps led. Sadler has also made 25 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Charlotte with one pole award, one top-five and three top-ten finishes.
A United States Congresswoman, the North Carolina Senate Leader and a military hero will lead race fans in the commencement of the nation’s largest Memorial Day Weekend celebration as they serve as race officials for the 2014 Coca-Cola 600. Master Sergeant Cedric King will be the Grand Marshal, United States Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito will be the Honorary Starter and North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger will serve as the Honorary Race Director for the 55th running of NASCAR’s only 600-mile race at the famed Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 25.
Richard Childress Racing at Charlotte ... In 137 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing teams have earned seven points-paying victories (four wins with Dale Earnhardt, one with Jeff Burton and two with Kevin Harvick) and four All-Star race victories (three with Earnhardt and one with Harvick), giving RCR 11 total Sprint Cup Series checkered flags at the Concord, N.C. track. RCR boasts 21 top-five and 44 top-10 finishes at the 1.5-mile track. Childress, a former driver on NASCAR's senior circuit, contributed two of those top-10 finishes from 1978 to 1979. The Welcome, N.C. organization has led a combined 1,141 laps at the Charlotte facility.
Roush Fenway Racing’s (RFR) Ryan Reed unveiled today a new patriotic design for the No. 16 American Diabetes Association Drive to Stop DiabetesSM presented by Lilly Diabetes Ford Mustang. This design will run in five of the six NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) races during NASCAR’s ‘An American Salute’ program.
DID YOU KNOW? … When Brad Keselowski won October’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway it marked the first non-Roush Fenway Racing win for Ford at the track since 1997 when Dale Jarrett won the same event with Robert Yates Racing.
This Week's Shore Lodge Chevrolet at Charlotte Motor Speedway ... Brian Scott will wheel chassis No. 460 in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This Chevrolet SS was raced in March at Auto Club Speedway where Scott qualified 37th and finished 35th after an early-race accident.
"We learned during All-Star weekend that the track at Charlotte Motor Speedway has changed. It seems a lot rougher than it has in the past. It's actually not just bumps but ripples in the track. And they're on both ends of the track, right in the groove along the bottom. We watched everybody kind of struggle with it last week.
“The 600 is a long race for man and machine for sure. The technology has come so far from what it used to be -- I notice that a lot more people finish it. I think it certainly tests your physical ability, but also your mental ability just to stay focused and to not only be physically capable of running the full race, but to mentally stay with it too. It’s a long race.”
After time trialing 4th quickest in a talent-laden 28 car field, Jason Hathaway appeared to have a car capable of contending for victory at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park's Pinty's presents the Clarington 200.
Greg Van Alst Motorsports ramped up its offseason efforts in preparation for the start of the 2026 season at Daytona (Fla.). International Speedway on February 13, 2026.
Oscar Mayer today announced the second annual Wienie 500 will return to the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday, May 22 leading up to the 110th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge.
Four of the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs entered for the Rolex 24 At Daytona completed the opening round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship as the Corvette Racing program kicked off its third season of competition.
