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.
Carson Ware, who was scheduled to run Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity race at Kansas for SS-Green Light/Rick Ware Racing, has been suspended and replaced by Garrett Smithley after being arrested for assault and property damage.
Parker Kligerman, who last raced in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2019, will return to the series on Sunday at Kansas. He will once again drive for Gaunt Brothers Racing.
ARCA driver Nick Sanchez will begin racing part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2022 with B.J. McLeod Motorsports. The Cuban joins Rajah Carruth as Drive for Diversity members going Xfinity racing next year.
ARCA West driver Dean Thompson has signed with Niece Motorsports to run the ARCA Menards Series and NASCAR Truck Series season finales at Kansas and Phoenix, respectively. The latter will be his first Truck start.
Kyle Larson dominated the NASCAR Cup Series’ Round of 8 opener at Texas, leading 257 of 334 laps en route to his eighth win of the year. He also locks a spot into the Championship Round.
John Hunter Nemechek became the first NASCAR Truck Series full-timer to win an Xfinity race since 2014 when he threw a wrench into the Xfinity playoffs by winning at Texas.
Despite speculation of potentially moving up, NASCAR Truck Series regular season champion John Hunter Nemechek will remain with Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2022.
Bill McAnally’s NASCAR teams, known as Bill McAnally Racing in the ARCA Menards Series and McAnally-Hilgemann Racing in the NASCAR Trucks, will switch from Toyota to Chevrolet in 2022. GMS Racing will be a technical ally.
The second/final day of the NASCAR Cup Next Gen test at the Charlotte Roval saw the shared Denny Hamlin/Martin Truex Jr. car set the best time (after missing a chicane), while Jacques Villeneuve had a wild save in his first time in a Cup car in years.
21 drivers from 17 teams kicked off the NASCAR Cup Series’ two-day Next Gen car test at the Charlotte Roval on Monday.
