The legendary North Wilkesboro Speedway will once again have racing in the form of the Racetrack Revival event. Grassroots races will take place in August and October, the latter of which will be on dirt ahead of a repave in 2023.
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has partnered with JC Raceteknik to field four FC1-X entries in the 2022/23 Nitro Rallycross Group E Championship.
World Rally Championship team M-Sport plans to run the Dakar Rally. The team has allied with fellow Ford outfit Neil Woolridge Motorsport to develop the Ford Ranger T1+.
Norm Benning will enter the NASCAR Truck Series’ Bristol Dirt Race on Saturday with Circle B Diecast support.
NASCAR Truck Series regular Chandler Smith will race in the Xfinity Series for the first time as he signs a three-race contract with Sam Hunt Racing at Talladega, Dover, and Homestead.
With Jenson Button joining Nitro Rallycross for 2022/23, it continues the former F1 racer’s transition to off-road that has included stops in Baja and Extreme E.
Dirt late model racer Mike Marlar, who finished fourth in his maiden NASCAR Truck Series start at Eldora 2019 for Reaume Brothers Racing, will rejoin the team for Saturday’s Bristol Dirt event.
Spire Motorsports is now three-of-four in having Hendrick Motorsports drivers in the #7 Chevrolet Silverado as Chase Elliott has been appointed as its pilot for the NASCAR Truck Series’ Bristol Dirt Race.
McLaren’s Extreme E team has formed a multi-year agreement with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). The firm already appears on the team’s car, which starred at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
Hoping to light a fire in the #48 car, Big Machine Racing Team has replaced full-time driver Jade Buford with Kaz Grala for the NASCAR Xfinity races at Talladega and Dover.
Josh Williams, Xfinity driver for B.J. McLeod Motorsports, will race in the Cup Series for the first time at Bristol Dirt for McLeod’s Cup team Live Fast Motorsports.
An Earnhardt in the #3 car? It’s happening again.
Jeffrey Earnhardt will drive Richard Childress Racing’s #3 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Talladega.
NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Justin Allgaier will make his NASCAR dirt début in the Cup race at Bristol, driving the #77 for Spire Motorsports.
Rookie Cleetus McFarland only needed to drive straight for a few more meters to win the Stadium Super Trucks’ Race #2 at Long Beach, but an awkward landing led to him spinning into the wall. Robby Gordon got by him to join his son Max as the weekend’s two SST winners.
An average finish of 3.0 in the PepperJack Kennels Twins was enough for Bubba Pollard to earn a seat for the Superstar Racing Experience’s race at Five Flags Speedway on 18 June.
The legendary short course off-road facility Crandon International Raceway has been bought out by its president Cliff Flannery. Crandon Off-Road Entertainment LCC and Crandon Motorsports LLC have been created to oversee and promote races.
Only five lead changes, none for on-track racing, occurred during Saturday’s NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville as William Byron became 2022’s first repeat race winner.
