Auto Club Speedway is offering a special two-day ticket package for the upcoming Auto Club 400 Weekend at Auto Club Speedway that includes tickets for the NNS 300 race on Saturday, March 22 and the Auto Club 400 on Sunday, March 23 and a scheduled question and answer session with NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, driver of the No. 24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet.
Daytona 500 Recap: The 2014 Daytona 500 provided lots of drama for fans that were brave enough to weather the 10 hours it took to complete the “Great American Race”, including a more than six-hour rain delay. Jamie McMurray piloted the McDonald’s Chevy to a 14th place finish after being involved in a last-lap crash less than one-half mile from the finish line.
Friday marks the introduction of a radical new qualifying format in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series that’s sure to garner headlines throughout the week and peak fan and television viewer interest.
Brad Keselowski, the 2012 Cup Champion, started his 2014 campaign by posting some impressive numbers in the season-opening Daytona 500. His average running position in last Sunday’s race was third, he enters Phoenix with the second-highest driver rating (117.1) and he led all drivers in green flag speed and quality passes at Daytona.
"Phoenix is an awesome racetrack. I've won there in other divisions and really enjoy going out west and seeing friends and family. We'd struggled there in past years, but last year we ran really well there in both races. So that gives us confidence going back.
"I'm really excited to get into the Cup car. I'm looking at this as a great opportunity and an audition, too, to go to Phoenix and, first off, make the race and then, second, finish the best we can and learn as much as we can.
"The Phoenix weekend is kind of your first test. What's the new rules package going to bring? What's the new qualifying format going to bring? Phoenix has the ingredients to be wild for qualifying because it's a fairly new racetrack and sometimes cycles on your tires do make you go faster.
“I am looking forward to a fresh start in Phoenix and am ready to get the season started. The only work that I have done in Phoenix was holding a pit sign for Ryan Reed, so there will be a big learning curve here. We should have plenty of time on the track to learn about it and get going.”
If it seems that Martin Truex Jr. has continually been in the media spotlight since the beginning of year, it’s because the Furniture Row Racing driver has indeed run the gamut of intriguing news -- from positive to amusing to not so amusing.
Marcos Ambrose will carry the colors of Mac Tools on the No. 9 Ford for the one and only time this weekend at the one-mile Phoenix International Speedway just outside the city of Phoenix. Ambrose will be making his 12th Sprint Cup start at the track.
The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season kicks off with the Clash at Bowman Gray this Sunday, February 1 at the narrow quarter-mile oval inside the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium.
Josh Berry and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Mustang Dark Horse are set to compete this weekend in the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., a venue deeply rooted in the history of Wood Brothers Racing.
An executive order signed today by President Donald J. Trump directed the White House Task Force on Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday to designate a race route through Washington, D.C. and the National Mall for the purposes of conducting an NTT INDYCAR SERIES race on August 21-23, 2026.
This weekend’s Cook Out Clash will combine NASCAR with the legacy of grassroots racing. LEGACY MOTOR CLUB drivers John Hunter Nemechek and Erik Jones both came up through the grassroots.
Paper-based friction plates do not just transmit torque; they function as a vital part of the hydraulic control system. Their microscopic structure directly dictates the vehicle’s drive quality.
