Martin Truex Jr., who won Martinsville last week, will lead the NASCAR Cup field to green at Richmond. Ben Rhodes will do the same for the Trucks.
Longtime Truck Series veteran Jennifer Jo Cobb has joined Rick Ware Racing for her NASCAR Cup Series début at Talladega.
Austin Cindric will run his third NASCAR Cup race of the season on Sunday at Richmond.
After the NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville was moved from Saturday to Sunday due to rain, Martin Truex Jr. beat team-mate Denny Hamlin for his third career win at the short track.
Like Friday’s NASCAR Xfinity race, Saturday’s Cup race only ran for a few laps (about 40) before rain pushed the remainder to Sunday.
Matt DiBenedetto loses crew chief Greg Erwin to COVID-19 for Martinsville, Jonathan Hassler takes over
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Greg Erwin, crew chief for Matt DiBenedetto’s #21, will sit out the NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville due to COVID-19. Engineer Jonathan Hassler will take his place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
