Flooding in Bristol Motor Speedway’s vicinity has forced the NASCAR Cup and Truck Series races (the latter of which was already moved to Sunday due to rain the previous day) to be pushed to Monday.
A very muddy NASCAR Truck Series heat race lasted just one lap before rain forced all eight Cup and Truck heats to be cancelled and the Truck race to be moved to Sunday. The grids for both will be set by formula.
In the NASCAR Cup Series’ first dirt track action in five decades, Alex Bowman and Ryan Blaney led the way in Friday’s two practice sessions at Bristol. Heat races on Saturday will set the field for Sunday’s points race.
Raphaël Lessard and Ben Rhodes were the fastest drivers in Friday’s NASCAR Truck Series practices on the dirt banking of Bristol. Ahead of Saturday night’s race, four heats will be run to set the grid.
The starting lineups for Saturday’s NASCAR Cup and Truck Series heat races, which in turn will set the grid for that night and Sunday’s features, are finalised after random draw.
For 2021, the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series will allow—but not require—teams to use a sequential gearbox instead of the traditional transmission. The NWES will be the first NASCAR series to use it, though the Cup Series will do the same in 2022.
William Byron, the only NASCAR Cup Series driver with three wins in the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series, increased that number to four after dominating the 2021 opener on Bristol’s dirt layout.
The eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series will race on a brand-new Chicago street circuit developed by iRacing in collaboration with the City of Chicago. Could it be an experiment ahead of a possible street race in real life?
eNASCAR Pro Invitational Bristol grid revealed without reigning champ Timmy Hill, might skip real-life races
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The eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series grid for Wednesday’s Bristol dirt race is out. While it features much of the full-time Cup field, Timmy Hill, the unofficial 2020 PIS champ, was not invited, leaving his real-life season in jeopardy due to sponsorship.
Kyle Larson dominated Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta, but Ryan Blaney chased him down and took the lead with eight laps to go to score his first win of the year.
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.
Kyle Busch led 102 of 130 laps in Saturday’s NASCAR Truck race en route to his 60th career win in the series.
Kris Wright will miss the NASCAR Truck race at Atlanta after a positive COVID-19 test. Josh Berry will fill in for the race in the #02 Young’s Motorsports truck in his first Truck start since 2016.
J.R. Heffner has joined Jordan Anderson Racing for the NASCAR Trucks’ Bristol dirt race. It will be his first NASCAR race since 2018.
Bubba Wallace and Myatt Snider are the latest drivers to throw their names into the NASCAR Truck grid for Bristol on dirt. Wallace will drive for Spencer Davis and Snider for Reaume Brothers.
Matt Jaskol, a former Red Bull Junior Team member who won RB’s first race in North America in 2004, will race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for MBM Motorsports at Martinsville on a 4-race deal.
