Jimmie Johnson to run COTA, Coca-Cola 600
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Jimmie Johnson’s part-time 2023 NASCAR Cup schedule will include an even more star-studded Circuit of the Americas race and the Coca-Cola 600.
Bayley Currey will once again race for Niece Motorsports in the NASCAR Truck Series at Atlanta. He has driven sporadically for the team since 2019.
With Kris Meeke unavailable due to a skiing accident, Timo Scheider will race in the Nitro Rallycross finale at Glen Helen in his place at XITE Energy Racing.
Alpha Prime Racing co-owner Caesar Bacarella will race for MBM Motorsports at Atlanta.
Chad Chastain, younger brother of Ross, will compete in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for the first time when he joins DGM Racing at Atlanta.
TreasuryONE Motorsport and Red-Lined Motorsport both introduced their T1+ trucks to the racing world at the South African Stella 300, where they finished 1–2 with Hennie de Klerk and Chris Visser.
With Nasser Al-Attiyah’s Toyota GR DKR Hilux T1+ too damaged after his Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge wreck, Benediktas Vanagas will provide his Hilux for the Qatar International Baja.
After running a southwest loop in 2022, the 2023 Rallye du Maroc will head eastward from Agair to Merzouga.
In line with the FIM Baja World Cup doing the same, the final races of the FIA’s World and Middle East Cups for Cross-Country Bajas have received new dates. The latter’s Baja Kuwait is now TBA.
As her twin Aliyyah Koloc continues in the World and South Africa Rally-Raid Championships, Yasmeen Koloc will run some Middle East Cross-Country Bajas races as both prepare for the 2024 Dakar Rally.
For the second week in a row, William Byron took advantage of a late caution that set up overtime to win at Phoenix.
Multiple frontrunners were knocked out of the Mint 400 Unlimited race, quite literally from the start in some cases, but Eric Hardin pressed on to win for the first time.
A day after Veloce Racing became the 6th different Extreme E team to win a final, Mattias Ekström and Laia Sanz made it 7 for ACCIONA | Sainz in the second Desert X Prix.
18-year-old Sammy Smith kept team-mate Ryan Truex at bay in the Arizona desert for his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series win.
IndyCar and WEC veteran Ed Jones will race in NASCAR for the first time when he enters the Truck Series race at Circuit of the Americas for Young’s Motorsports.
Continuing a trend that ruined their 2022 Extreme E championship defence, Rosberg X Racing won the Desert X Prix but got a 136-second speeding penalty that promoted Veloce to the win.
Justin Lofton was the fastest in Mint 400 qualifying for the second year in a row. The same day, Joe Terrana won the Limited race for UTVs and other classes.
