NASCAR Trucks owner/driver Dawson Cram will race in the Xfinity Series for the first time at Loudon on Saturday for Mike Harmon Racing.
To little surprise, Hendrick Motorsports has signed Kyle Larson to a contract extension through the 2023 NASCAR Cup season.
With Michael Annett out due to a stress fracture in his right femur, Josh Berry will once again be a NASCAR substitute driver as he takes over Annett’s car at New Hampshire.
Kurt Busch and younger brother Kyle battled throughout Sunday’s Cup race at Atlanta, and the elder sibling won out in the track’s final race on the current configuration.
After team-mate Daniel Hemric’s hopes of finally winning his first NASCAR Xfinity race were dashed, Kyle Busch likely wrapped up his Xfinity career with his 102nd series victory. He won all five of his Xfinity starts in 2021.
Michael Annett suffers leg injury, missing Xfinity Atlanta day after skipping Knoxville Trucks
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Michael Annett will not run Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity race at Atlanta due to a leg injury, and Austin Dillon was a last-minute replacement. Annett had also missed Friday’s Truck event at Knoxville.
It took four overtimes and came with 14 cautions, but Austin Hill is the inaugural winner of the NASCAR Truck Series dirt race at Knoxville Raceway.
As Rick Ware Racing expands the NASCAR programme into Canada’s Pinty’s Series, 2019 champion Andrew Ranger will take part. He will also run the upcoming Xfinity race at Loudon, his first in the series since 2013.
Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Chase Elliott will race against his dad Bill in the SRX finale at Nashville next Saturday, while this weekend’s Slinger race will feature Slinger Nationals winner Luke Fenhaus.
Taylor Gray, who broke his vertebra, leg, and foot in a car accident in April, will return to racing with ARCA at Elko this Saturday before making his NASCAR Truck début at Watkins Glen in August.
Atlanta Motor Speedway will be reprofiled for 2022, such as increasing the banking in the turns from 24 to 28 degrees and narrowing the track width.
Brett Moffitt, who last raced in the NASCAR Trucks in April before switching to Xfinity points, will return to the series for Knoxville in a second truck for AM Racing.
NASCAR Xfinity driver Michael Annett will return to the Truck Series for the first time since Eldora in 2014 when he drives for Young’s Motorsports at another dirt track in Knoxville this Friday.
Chase Elliott once again proves himself as one of the greatest road course drivers in NASCAR as he became the first Cup winner at Road America since 1956.
Ernie Francis Jr. battled with Scott Speed throughout the Camping World SRX Series event at Lucas Oil Raceway, and he held off Bobby Labonte in a two-lap dash to win his first race of the year.
Kyle Busch is 4/4 in 2021 NASCAR Xfinity competition after winning at Road America in his first ever start at the Wisconsin road course.
In the NASCAR Cup Series’ first on-track activity at Road America since 1956, brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch ran 1–2 in practice, though the latter will go to a backup after crashing.
