In a stunning development, Richard Petty Motorsports has sold off its two charters and a majority interest to new NASCAR Cup team GMS Racing. The legendary #43 car will likely still remain as RPM instead of rebranding to GMS.
Front Row Motorsports’ NASCAR Truck driver Todd Gilliland will move up to the team’s Cup programme in 2022, driving the #38 as a team-mate to Michael McDowell. Zane Smith takes over the team’s truck.
2020 NASCAR Cup champion Chase Elliott will make his Nitro Rallycross début at the FIRM on 4/5 December. He follows 2015 champ Kyle Busch in being the newest NASCAR/rallycross crossover.
Jimmie Johnson joins 2022 Race of Champions grid
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NASCAR great-turned-IndyCar regular Jimmie Johnson will compete in the Race of Champions for the first time since 2007 for Team USA alongside Travis Pastrana.
After failing to qualify for the 2021 Daytona 500, Noah Gragson will get another shot in the 2022 race with Beard Motorsports.
With Brad Keselowski joining the ownership group, Roush Fenway Racing has rebranded to RFK Racing (Roush-Fenway-Keselowski) beginning with the 2022 NASCAR Cup season.
NASCAR star Kyle Busch, racing in rallycross for the first time ever, placed fourth in the Nitro Rallycross event at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park.
Anthony Alfredo will not return to Front Row Motorsports for the 2022 NASCAR Cup season. He finished thirtieth in points in his lone season with the team.
The NASCAR Cup Series’ 2022 Busch Light Clash at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will feature a full field of 40 cars who will fight for 22 of 23 spots in the final via heat races.
After a dominant ten-win season, Kyle Larson is your 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion. It is his first career Cup title.
StarCom Racing has sold its charter for the 2022 NASCAR Cup season, signalling an end to the team after five years.
Alex Bowman spun Denny Hamlin late in the NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville en route to his fourth win of the year. Although Hamlin still qualified for the Championship Round, he was less than pleased about who he dubbed “a hack.”
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.
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.
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.
