In celebration of NASCAR’s throwback weekend at Darlington, various teams will race with special liveries honouring the past.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeb! Burton is now a NASCAR Xfinity Series winner, leading at Talladega when the race was called after 90 of 113 laps due to rain.
With the NASCAR Xfinity race at Talladega 2 days away, Brett Moffitt has switched from Truck to Xfinity points. Joey Gase, a part-time Cup driver, flips from Cup to Xfinity so that he can run Saturday’s race.
Denny Hamlin and Austin Cindric, both well familiar with starting on the front row in 2021, will do the same for this weekend’s NASCAR Cup and Xfinity races at Talladega.
Jason White, who ran the Xfinity opener at Daytona in his first NASCAR race since 2014, has joined MBM Motorsports for Talladega later this month. It will be his first race there in 8 years
Colin Garrett, who ran five races for Sam Hunt Racing last year and was the team’s first-ever driver when they débuted in 2019, will return to the #26 car for Talladega.
As Josh Berry celebrated his first Xfinity win, Colby Howard and Gray Gaulding probably want to “berry” Kyle Weatherman and Joe Graf Jr. and vice versa after on-track incidents.
Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity race was delayed after 91 laps due to rain. After efforts to wait out the weather failed, NASCAR moved the rest of the event to Sunday at noon.
Joey Logano and Harrison Burton will lead the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series fields to green at Martinsville, respectively. Logano won the last Cup race two weeks ago, while Burton is the most recent Martinsville winner last fall.
Rick Ware Racing will renumber Joey Gase’s NASCAR Cup and Xfinity cars to #28 for May’s Talladega race weekend and will sport a special livery to honour NASCAR Hall of Famer and organ donor Davey Allison.
NASCAR veteran Mike Wallace and owner/driver Josh Reaume, who received indefinite suspensions in 2020 for insensitive social media posts, have been reinstated after completing the mandatory terms for return.
After Noah Gragson backed into Daniel Hemric’s car during an active pit road in Saturday’s Xfinity race, resulting in a post-race fight, NASCAR has elected to not issue penalties following review.
As Justin Allgaier celebrated his first Xfinity win of the year after capitalising on Martin Truex Jr.’s penalty, his team-mate Noah Gragson was trading blows with Truex’s team-mate Daniel Hemric.
