The last stage of Friday’s NASCAR Truck race at Darlington was plagued by numerous wrecks. A strong overtime restart by Sheldon Creed enabled him to become the first non-Toyota winner in 2021.
In celebration of NASCAR’s throwback weekend at Darlington, various teams will race with special liveries honouring the past.
The Superstar Racing Experience has revealed its race/championship points system for the inaugural season, which includes time-based heats, awarding points for heat finishes, and inverted fields.
In what was technically the first-ever rae for the NASCAR Cup Series’ Next Gen cars, Erik Jones beat Timmy Hill to win the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series race at Darlington.
The Netherlands-based Studio 397, developer of rFactor 2, has been acquired by Motorsport Games. rFactor’s physics engine will be utilised in the new NASCAR franchise.
NASCAR has officially revealed the seventh-generation Cup Series cars, officially branded Next Gen, with the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, Ford Mustang, and Toyota TRD Camry.
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.
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.
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.
