Corey Heim, in his fifth career NASCAR Truck Series start, passed Kyle Busch Motorsports team-mate Chandler Smith on the final lap with help from KBM driver John Hunter Nemechek to win at Atlanta.
Rain forced NASCAR’s Cup, Xfinity, and Truck Series to cancel practice on Friday and qualifying. As a result, Chase Briscoe (Cup), Noah Gragson (Xfinity), and Chandler Smith (Truck) will start on the poles for their respective races.
Rally Kazakhstan, which was to be the third round of the World Rally-Raid Championship, has been called off. Kazakhstan is an ally of Russia, who has been subject to significant sanctions and penalties in response to its invasion of Ukraine.
Like in 1976, NASCAR will be represented at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023. Hendrick Motorsports will field a Cup Series Chevrolet Camaro in the legendary endurance race as part of Garage 56.
The Prodrive Hunter is modelled after the Bahrain Raid Xtreme car that Sébastien Loeb drove in January’s Dakar Rally, except it is faster, more powerful, and street legal.
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing will expand to three trucks for five races starting at Martinsville in April. The third truck, the #35, will be piloted by 17-year-old late model racer and NASCAR Truck Series newcomer Jake Garcia.
Kyle Busch will race on a road course in the NASCAR Truck Series for the first time at Circuit of the Americas. He won the inaugural Xfinity race there in 2021.
John Hunter Nemechek will return to Joe Gibbs Racing for three NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Richmond, Dover, and Texas. He won at Texas in 2021 with the team, also on a three-race schedule.
Niece Motorsports will open a fifth truck for Saturday’s NASCAR Truck Series race at Atlanta, the #41 which Ross Chastain will drive. Chastain has been involved with the team since 2018.
Extreme E points leader Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky and team-mate/Dakar veteran Annie Seel are among the thirty-four teams in the inaugural Rally Jameel. The event is the first all-women’s rally raid in Saudi Arabia.
In a battle of drivers seeking their first NASCAR Cup Series win, Chase Briscoe held off Tyler Reddick and Ross Chastain to be that guy in Phoenix.
In an Unlimited race that saw the lead change hands due to vehicle problems multiple times, Kyle Jergensen seized the opportunity to win his first overall Mint 400 alongside Shawn Shanks.
Noah Gragson led thrice as many laps as the next most driver in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race in Phoenix to claim his first win of the year.
Justin Lofton, seeking to become the first driver to win four Mint 400s, is off to a good start as he won the pole. Meanwhile, Dustin Jones won the Limited race for the second straight year.
MBM Motorsports confirmed Friday J.J. Yeley in the #66 Xfinity car full-time (with some Cup starts), while the #13 will be shared by Chad Finchum, Timmy Hill, Stan Mullis, and possibly John Jackson/Carl Long.
Hailie Deegan, a NASCAR Truck Series sophomore and a former short course off-road racer, makes her return to non-pavement this weekend in the Mint 400.
After last doing so in 2019, IMSA driver Patrick Gallagher will race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Circuit of the Americas for RSS Racing.
