Garrett Smithley will drive the #15 for Rick Ware Racing in the West Coast rounds at Auto Club Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and Phoenix Raceway.
NASCAR Cup rookie Austin Cindric, on the 85th birthday of boss Roger Penske, is already a winner just one race into his ROTY campaign as he held off Ryan Blaney and Bubba Wallace to win the Daytona 500.
An overly strong landing during Sunday’s Extreme E Crazy Race has resulted in Kevin Hansen cracking a T8 vertebra and bruising his lung, necessitating a hospital stay.
Chase Elliott’s contract with Hendrick Motorsports will now run through the end of the 2027 NASCAR Cup Series season.
In Austin Hill’s first start as a NASCAR Xfinity Series full-time driver, he already won. However, the win is overshadowed by a massive crash that sent Myatt Snider into the catchfence, though he was able to walk away with an apparent sore leg.
After placing second in the first round of Desert X Prix qualifying, Team X44 dominated the heat race to give it momentum entering Sunday’s races.
A bombshell tweet from his father Mario Andretti revealed Michael Andretti, head of Andretti Autosport, intends to enter Formula One in 2024 under the Andretti Global name.
After breaking her foot in a wild crash during Round 1 of qualifying, Christine GZ has been released from hospital but will be replaced by Hedda Hosås for the rest of the Desert X Prix weekend.
Defending champion Rosberg X Racing was the fastest in Round 1 single-car qualifying for the Desert X Prix. The session was marred by a massive flip involving Veloce’s Christine GZ that resulted in an ankle injury.
In his first race for Front Row Motorsports, Zane Smith led coming to the white flag before a wreck resulted in overtime, then another wreck on overtime’s white flag clinched him the Daytona win.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Great American Shortcourse has moved its 2022 season opener from Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park on 19/20 March to the SBC Fairgrounds on 9/10 April.
Extreme E intends to launch a hydrogen counterpart, Extreme H, in 2024.
RFK Racing, set for its first Daytona 500 under the new identity, won both Duel qualifying races on Thursday with Brad Keselowski and Chris Buescher. Kaz Grala and Greg Biffle clinched their spots in the 500 with their Duel runs.
A positive COVID-19 test means Tamara Molinaro will replace Klara Anderson as Oliver Bennett’s team-mate at XITE Energy Racing for the Desert X Prix. Molinaro is one of Extreme E’s reserve Championship Drivers.
Extreme E has tasked Romain Dumas and Hedda Hosås as guest Championship Drivers for the Desert X Prix, where they will support the grid of regulars alongside Timo Scheider and Tamara Molinaro and fill in for anyone in the race if necessary.
For the 2022 Extreme E season, heats will determine qualifying rather than single-car runs, with cumulative points earned from the two heats setting the grid for Sunday’s racing, while the points payout has been tweaked.
The 2022 Desert X Prix, held in Neom rather than Al-‘Ula like in 2021, will be held on a track with a very nice 6.9 km in length.
