Motorsports Industry News

July 21, 2025

Denny Hamlin holds off Chase Briscoe in double overtime for Dover victory

Denny Hamlin prevailed in Sunday’s Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway – a race that featured a 56-minute red flag for rain, late-race strategy decisions, and involved a pair of overtime restarts before the trophy was ultimately settled between a pair of Joe Gibbs Racing teammates…

NASCAR updates race eligibility rules

NASCAR issued a rule book bulletin on Monday morning that allows them to limit the entries for a NASCAR Cup Series race to 40 teams…

Rex White, NASCAR Hall of Famer, passes away at 95

Rex White, who became just the seventh driver to capture NASCAR’s premier series championship in 1960, has died. During a nine-year career competing at NASCAR’s highest level, White won 28 times in 233 starts. He had 110 top-five and 163 top-10 finishes when he retired from competition. He also won 36 pole positions…

Court sets new date for hearing over 23XI, Front Row charter status

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports will be heard in court on August 28 over the new preliminary injunction they are seeking to race as charter teams in the NASCAR Cup Series…

Jim Campbell Appointed GM Vice-President For Performance And Motorsports

GM has appointed Jim Campbell as its new Vice President of Performance and Motorsports Commercial Operations. In addition to overseeing GM’s commercial operations for its motorsports programs, Campbell is tasked with elevating the reputations of the Cadillac and General Motors brands by leveraging the new Cadillac Formula 1 team

Our Motorsports team to shut down NASCAR Xfinity operation mid-season

Our Motorsports has been operating in the NASCAR Xfinity Series since 2020, running nearly 300 races with nine top fives, 41 top tens, and a pole position at Portland in 2022. They never won, but they placed as high as second at Daytona in 2021…

NASCAR’s new San Diego race set for Coronado base

NASCAR “will race on the Coronado Naval Base” in San Diego in the summer of 2026, according to concepts of the event plan to be announced this week. Wednesday is “expected to be the day it’ll be officially announced to the public.” The event “will fit into the schedule in a space vacated by Chicago,” which confirmed last week it will not return to the 2026 schedule after three years of running a street course near Grant Park. NASCAR has not run a points-paying race in Southern California since 2023 in Fontana…

Speedway Children’s Charities and Charlotte-area Nonprofits Join Forces for Catwalk for Causes

Continuing Charlotte’s most spectacular night of fashion, fun and fundraising, Catwalk for Causes will take place on Tuesday evening, Sept. 16, at the new Ten Tenths Motor Club at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The legacy event started by the late Sherry Pollex and Martin Truex Jr. Foundation in 2009 will be produced by Speedway Children’s Charities (SCC) in partnership with Greg Olsen’s HEARTest Yard, the Kyle & Samantha Busch Bundle of Joy Fund, and the Kyle Larson Foundation…

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