ARCA driver Taylor Gray was involved in a single-car accident on Wednesday night and taken to hospital. Whether he can make his NASCAR Truck début at Richmond in two weeks has yet to be determined.
As Tyler Reddick tested the NASCAR Cup Series’ 2022-bound Next Gen car at Darlington, NASCAR announced the three manufacturers (Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota) will reveal their brand-specific cars on 5 May.
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.
Brad Gross, who competes in SCCA, will run his first career NASCAR race in the Truck Series at Circuit of the Americas. He will drive the #49 for CMI Motorsports.
For May’s Coca-Cola 600, Rick Ware Racing’s four cars will be adorned with special liveries honouring the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
As he works through his 26-race schedule in the NASCAR Cup Series, James Davison will not be able to run the Indianapolis 500 in May.
ARCA driver Howie DiSavino III has joined Jordan Anderson Racing for his NASCAR Truck Series début at Richmond in
Carl Edwards, who retired from NASCAR after 2016, commented on NASCAR Race Hub that he would be interested in returning for a road course race or if NASCAR replaces its current aero package with a high-hp, no-downforce setup.
Cameron Lawrence, the winningest driver in Trans-Am Series TA2 history and 2015 Rolex 24 class winner, will make his NASCAR début in May’s Truck race at Circuit of the Americas.
Three-time NASCAR Whelen Euro Series runner-up Frédéric Gabillon, who skipped the 2020 season due to COVID-19, will return in 2021 for what could be his last year of racing.
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.
NASCAR intends to try rain tyres on an oval when Kyle Larson and Chris Buescher run a test at Martinsville on Thursday. A similar test was last done with Terry Labonte in 1995.
After being unable to qualify for her NASCAR Truck début at Bristol due to rain, Jessica Friesen will try again at Knoxville in July.
During the inaugural NASCAR Cup race on Bristol Motor Speedway’s dirt layout, the speedway announced the configuration will return for 2022.
In the NASCAR Cup Series’ first dirt race since 1970, Joey Logano held off Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Denny Hamlin in overtime to win.
In his first NASCAR Truck race in 15 years, Cup champion Martin Truex Jr. led 105 of 150 laps to win the inaugural Bristol dirt Truck race. He is the 36th driver to win in all 3 NASCAR national series.
