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Nemechek will race the whole 2023 Xfinity schedule under JGR

John Hunter Nemechek Xfinity Series Joe Gibbs Racing

John Hunter Nemechek is switching to Joe Gibbs Racing’s Xfinity Series full-time following an accomplished two-year career with Kyle Busch Motorsports in NASCAR Trucks. Nemechek will race JGR’s No. 20 Toyota exclusively in the Xfinity Series in 2023, according to a statement released by JGR on Thursday. The crew of Nemechek will be led by Ben […]

Sam Hunt Racing develops their Xfinity operation for 2023

Sam Hunt Racing Xfinity

Sam Hunt Racing, which is supported by Toyota, will run two full-time cars in 2023. The No. 26 Toyota will be driven exclusively by Kaz Grala, while several racers will take turns in the No. 24 car. With slots for 20 of 33 races, Connor Mosack will compete in the majority of the races in […]

RCR introduced Kyle Busch’s new No. 8 Chevrolet

RCR Kyle Busch new No. 8 Chevrolet

The No. 8 Chevrolet of Richard Childress Racing was introduced, and it will be driven by experienced racer Kyle Busch starting in the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season. The two-time Cup Series winner’s Chevrolets will have the new designed No. 8 that RCR revealed in 2023. With cooperation from team owner Richard Childress and RCR, […]

William Sawalich becomes a development racer for JGR and Toyota

William Sawalich JGR Toyota

William Sawalich, a rising star in the Late Model, recently reached a multi-year contract with Joe Gibbs Racing to become the newest Toyota development racer. In 2023, Sawalich, 16, will race the JGR No. 18 Toyota in the ARCA Menards Series. Phoenix Raceway will host his debut race on March 10. The Eden Prairie, Minnesota native […]

Another first is added to Roger Penske’s impressive racing career

Roger Penske

There aren’t many things Roger Penske hasn’t achieved in his illustrious racing career, but Joey Logano let him add another one on Sunday. Logano won the NASCAR Cup Series championship for the second time while driving for Penske with his victory at Phoenix Raceway in the final season. Despite the fact that Team Penske had […]

Challenge to the title Joey Logano wins the Phoenix pole in an all-Penske front row

Joey Logano Phoenix 2022

Joey Logano has given himself the greatest opportunity to win his second NASCAR Cup Series championship. Logano, who was the final racer to undertake a test session in the final round of qualifying on Saturday at Phoenix Raceway, set an average track speed of 134.389 mph to beat his fellow Penske teammate Ryan Blaney (134.373 […]

Ty Gibbs wins the NASCAR Xfinity championship in a dramatic Phoenix final

Ty Gibbs NASCAR Xfinity Phoenix

Ty Gibbs experienced his best, earning the 2022 Xfinity Series championship, one week after possibly his worst event as a NASCAR racer. Although Gibbs led the most laps, the closing 25 laps of the race saw him engaged in a frantic three-wide duel with fellow title challengers Noah Gragson and Justin Allgaier. With 20 of […]

Kyle Larson, the defending champion, is disqualified from the Cup playoffs

Kyle Larson Cup playoffs

Kyle Larson’s unusually early elimination from the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs was shocking even though he was unable to repeat his outstanding 2021 championship season this year. The year before, Larson had a record-setting season in his debut year as a Hendrick Motorsports driver, winning a series-high 10 races and earning his first series […]

Round of 8 playoff grid set of the NASCAR Cup Series

Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval

Four more racers, notably reigning Cup champion Kyle Larson, were ousted from the playoffs in a tumultuous cut-off race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval. By winning the race, Christopher Bell escaped elimination, and Chase Briscoe just barely defeated Larson to advance to the following round. The updated point rankings are shown below. Daniel Suarez […]

Briscoe’s “wild day” helps him remain in the playoffs

Briscoe Charlotte Roval 2022

For Chase Briscoe, Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway may have had one of the season’s longest closing laps. A seemingly peaceful road course race descended into trouble as two late cautions completely altered Chase Briscoe’s chances of making the playoffs. Briscoe wasn’t in contention for victory as the race entered […]