A four-win season topped off a very successful 2021 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series campaign for Loris Hezemans, who secured his second championship and gives his career a big boost ahead of débuting in the Cup Series in 2022.
Dean Thompson, set for his NASCAR Truck début on Friday at Phoenix, will run the full season in 2022 for Niece Motorsports.
The Road to Indy’s Chris Griffis Memorial Open Test featured not one, but two drivers testing Indy Lights cars who have raced in Stadium Super Trucks: Matt Brabham and Jacob Abel.
Alex Bowman spun Denny Hamlin late in the NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville en route to his fourth win of the year. Although Hamlin still qualified for the Championship Round, he was less than pleased about who he dubbed “a hack.”
The 2022 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series will run twelve championship rounds on six tracks, a new All-Star Race in Italy, and a special season-ending exhibition race on ice at a to-be-announced location.
Noah Gragson held off Austin Cindric to win the NASCAR Xfinity race at Martinsville by just .064 seconds, locking him into the Championship Round.
A wreck involving the leaders on the final lap enabled Zane Smith to take the top spot as the caution came out, securing him his first win of the year and just in time to reach the final round of the Truck Series playoffs.
A month after Ford and Toyota revealed their new bodies for the 2022 NASCAR Truck Series, Chevrolet has done the same as they unveiled the Silverado RST.
Austin Hill will graduate to the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2022 with Richard Childress Racing, who expands to a two-car operation. Hill will partner with Truck rival and fellow 2022 NXS rookie Sheldon Creed.
RSS Racing, who began racing with Ford power in 2021, will add a partnership with Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity season. The team will also field multiple cars.
NASCAR’s Kyle Busch will dabble in Nitro Rallycross for the first time when he runs the Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park weekend on 13/14 November. He will race in the Supercar class against those like Travis Pastrana, Steve Arpin, and Scott Speed who also have NASCAR experience.
Loose lugs have resulted in Christopher Bell’s crew chief Adam Stevens being suspended for the next Cup race. In Xfinity, Our Motorsports’ Kenneth Roettger, Robert Anderson and Drew Beason are all suspended 4 races due to a loose ballast.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. will make his annual one-off in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2022 when he runs Martinsville on 8 April. He won the 2014 Cup fall race there, but has never contested Xfinity at the short track.
In a test to prepare the Next Gen car’s capabilities in stadium short track racing at the LA Coliseum next year, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Tony Stewart drove the car at Bowman Gray Stadium on Tuesday.
On the 17th anniversary of the Hendrick Motorsports plane crash, Hendrick driver Kyle Larson, driving a car resembling the #17 truck of the late Ricky Hendrick, won for the ninth time in 2021.
Ty Gibbs, shortly before clinching the ARCA Menards Series championship, won his fourth career NASCAR Xfinity race in just his seventeenth start when he led the final ten laps at Kansas.
USAC has been named the new sanctioning body for Andersen Promotions’ Indy Pro 2000 Championship, USF2000 National Championship, and the new USF Juniors.
