For NASCAR’s Throwback Weekend at Darlington, Brad Keselowski, A.J. Allmendinger, John Hunter Nemechek will start on the poles. Ironically, Allmendinger is the only pole-sitter who will have a throwback livery.
Jordan Anderson, Bayley Currey, Kaz Grala, Timmy Hill, B.J. McLeod have changed their NASCAR points declarations to the Truck Series. All but Grala were previously earning Xfinity points, with the exception doing so at the Cup level.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. will continue his annual return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series by running the Richmond race on 11 September, sporting a tribute for the 20-year anniversary of 9/11.
Stefan Wilson will make his third career Indianapolis 500 start as he returns to Andretti Autosport. It will be his first race since 2018.
To celebrate NASCAR’s throwback weekend at Darlington, Niece Motorsports has added a throwback driver: Erik Darnell will run his first NASCAR race since 2012 in the #45. His last Truck start was in 2008.
Raphaël Lessard has lost his NASCAR Truck ride at GMS Racing due to funding problems brought on by COVID-19.
Tanner Berryhill will return to NASCAR for the first time in three years when he runs the Darlington and two Texas Xfinity races in Our Motorsports’ #23 car.
Bobby Unser, a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Pikes Peak International Hill Climb legend, and beloved commentator, has passed away at the age of 87.
In a race that descended from no cautions in the first two stages to multiple in the final laps to set up overtime, Kyle Busch fittingly won the Buschy McBusch Race 400 on his 36th birthday.
Eric McClure, who has 288 starts in the NASCAR Xfinity Series from 2003 to 2016 and 3 Cup races, has passed away at the age of 42. A cause of death was not announced.
Kyle Busch has won in the NASCAR Truck Series yet again, but the final restart in overtime made for some intrigue as he worked his way around Ross Chastain and Austin Hill on the penultimate lap.
NASCAR Xfinity team Kaulig Racing, which is currently running a part-time Cup slate, plans to upgrade to a full Cup season in 2022.
June’s NASCAR All-Star Race at Texas will be divided into 6 rounds, the starting lineup for each being determined by either a field inversion or finish in the previous rounds.
Brad Keselowski and John Hunter Nemechek will start this weekend’s NASCAR Cup and Truck races at Kansas from first.
Red Fifty-Five standing by. Matt Mills will drive the #55 for B.J. McLeod Motorsports in his NASCAR Cup Series début at Kansas on Sunday.
NASCAR Cup rookie Chase Briscoe will run his first Truck race that isn’t on dirt for the first time since his lone full-time season in 2017 when he enters Saturday’s Kansas event for Roper Racing.
With PK Carsport, with whom he won the 2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, opting to withdraw from the 2021 season, Alon Day has returned to CAAL Racing as he seeks his fourth championship.
