Ford Performance and Roush Yates Engines won their eighth straight NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway with Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick in the FireKeepers Casino 400. This was Harvick’s 59th career NASCAR Cup Series victory and his series-leading sixth at Michigan. Ford retained the Michigan Heritage Trophy, presented...
National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) officials have announced the addition of an A/Fuel engine program for the Top Alcohol Funny Car class beginning in the 2023 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. With the addition of the A/Fuel (injected nitromethane) engine program into the class, NHRA aims to increase participation...
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has revealed the date for the 101st Running of the Race to the Clouds. On Sunday, June 25, 2023, drivers and fans will converge on Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain as the racing world focuses on following the action up the 12.42-mile course, through 156 turns...
The 2022 Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly (ESPY) Awards presented by Capital One recently celebrated athletes, teams, and moments in the world of sports. Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson received the honor of “Best Driver,” beating out Max Verstappen (Formula One), Steve Torrence (NHRA), and Alex Palou (IndyCar)....
NHRA officials have announced the dates for the first four races for the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series schedule, as the upcoming season will open March 9-12 with the 54th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. Fans can also look forward to all four professional...
Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet have announced the creation of a new dirt series for sprint cars in 2023. The High Limit Sprint Car Series will include 12 races, with all scheduled for midweek so as not to compete with other series. Events will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and...
NASCAR has announced the NASCAR Cup Series will race on the streets of downtown Chicago on July 1–2, 2023. The first-ever NASCAR Chicago Street Race will take place July 2, and be preceded by an IMSA-sanctioned race, which will run July 1. The specific IMSA series will be announced at...
The 1000 Miglia, that traverses Italy each year, has been hailed as “the most beautiful auto race in the world.” The event now holds a United States edition, the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA, in and around Middleburg, Virginia. It returns this year from October 19-22. The event is reserved...
Scott “Woody” Woodruff has been named the new Branding and Motorsports Director at Elite Motorsports, LLC. In his new role, Woodruff will work closely with the organization’s various brands, including Elite Motorsports, Elite Performance, Elite HP, Patterson-Elite, and Elite Cultivation. Woodruff was most recently the Director of Media and Motorsports...
Macon, Illinois-based Track Enterprises has reached an agreement to acquire the regional ARCA Midwest Tour Super Late Model series at the end of the 2022 season, as announced by Track Enterprises President Bob Sargent and ARCA’s Gregg McKarns. “As the asphalt Super Late Model landscape continues to change, we look...
The National Muscle Car Association (NMCA) has announced the Watson Racing Cobra Jet Showdown will return to NMCA’s All-American Nationals Presented by Sick the Magazine at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio on August 25–28. Cobra Jet owners can participate in the on-track Showdown, which mixes the various generations...
VP Racing Fuels announced today a new entitlement sponsorship with IMSA, the International Motor Sports Association. A new, multiple-class, sprint-race series will make its debut in 2023 as the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge. The series will feature currently homologated Le Mans Prototype (LMP3) and Grand Touring 4 (GT4) race...
First staged in 1916, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is the second oldest race in America. The invitation-only event, often referred to as The Race to the Clouds is held annually on the last Sunday of June on Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain, near Colorado Springs, CO. On Sunday,...
Drivers in the 100th Running of the iconic Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, brought to you by Gran Turismo, took to the mountain for day two of early morning practice sessions and ran on all three sections of the course with the Unlimited and Exhibition divisions taking their qualifying runs...
Richmond Raceway, a 0.75-mile, D-shaped asphalt race track in Richmond, Virginia, has announced Lori Collier Waran as its new track president. She will assume her new role on July 11. Waran is a longtime Virginia media executive and serves as the fourth track president and the first female president in...
