In rolling out the format for next month’s NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway, it was also revealed there are 18 drivers already locked into the event. To be eligible for the event, a driver must have: won a Cup Series race in 2023 or 2024, won a NASCAR All-Star Race and compete full-time, or won a Cup Series championship and compete full-time. Those locked in are: AJ Allmendinger Christopher Bell Ryan Blaney Chris Buescher Kyle Busch William Byron Ross Chastain Chase Elliott Denny Hamlin Brad Keselowski Kyle Larson Joey Logano Michael McDowell Tyler Reddick Ricky Stenhouse Jr ..read more

The NASCAR All-Star Race will again have a simplified race format, but Cup Series teams will have different tire options. Goodyear will bring its wet weather tire should the conditions warrant its use. There will also be the ‘prime tire,’ which is a slick racing tire that was determined from the test done on the newly repaved North Wilkesboro Speedway last month. A third tire will be the ‘option tire,’ which is a racing slick that made with the same softer, faster-wearing compound as the wet weather tire. The three tires will be differentiated by their lettering color. The lettering on the pri ..read more

Erik Jones will not compete in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover Motor Speedway after being diagnosed with a compression fracture in a lower vertebra. Corey Heim, the reserve driver for Legacy Motor Club, will pilot the No. 43 Toyota Camry. It will be Heim’s debut in the Cup Series. There is no timetable for Jones to return to the seat. He will travel with this team to Dover. More NASCAR! How 23XI's latest win was a win for all of NASCARLaJoie's day at Talladega ends with 'pretty wild ride'Jones transported to local hospital after hard hit at Talladega “Erik’s long-term health is our nu ..read more

Michael Jordan stood among the crowd in Tyler Reddick’s pit box cheering, fist-pumping and high-fiving those around him. At one point he took hold of Reddick’s son, Beau, and asked the youngster if he was going to celebrate, and in victory lane, Jordan gave a rare television interview to Fox Sports. Sunday was not the first time Jordan, the co-owner of 23XI Racing, was at a NASCAR race. He has sat atop the pit box many times and has been to more races than many folks realize, but he tries to stay as under the radar as a 6’ 6” legend, recognized the world over, can stay. But there was no hiding ..read more

On April 27, the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, or A2RL, will attempt what has never been done before: put four autonomously driven racecars on track to compete together for the first time. Cue the cries of the robots taking over. Well, maybe not. “The gladiatorial element of humans competing on a field of play is not something we ever intend to replace, and never should be,” says Dr. Thomas McCarthy, Executive Director of Aspire, who have created this $2.25 million Grand Challenge that has brought the best and the brightest in coding, robotics and race engineering together to push the pe ..read more

Theo Pourchaire’s standout debut for the Arrow McLaren team at Long Beach has been rewarded with his second IndyCar race days later at this weekend’s stop at Barber Motorsports Park. The Frenchman’s run from 22nd to 11th on Sunday in the No. 6 Chevy as the latest stand-in for the injured David Malukas made it easy for the team to hold onto the 2023 Formula 2 champion for another outing. Related IndyCar debut thrills Pourchaire: ‘The racing here is incredible’ Speaking with RACER moments after finishing the 85-lap Long Beach race, Pourchaire was all smiles, but also did his best to hi ..read more

With large grids at the first Radical Cup North America event of the season at the Sebring International Raceway, the trend is continuing this coming weekend at Barber Motorsports Park with 37 drivers currently registered and confirmed to race alongside the NTT IndyCar Series. If all of those drivers take the green, it will match the largest contingent of Radical Cup competitors since Road America in June of 2019, providing positive reinforcement for the growing multi-class program. “We love to see stability in the series, but the growth is happening for Radical Cup here in North America,” exp ..read more

During the Chinese Grand Prix, a weekend where teams and drivers got an opportunity to score plenty more points then usual – with an extra eight on offer to the winner of the Sprint and a return for everyone down to eighth place on the Saturday – it emerged that there could be further changes on that front next season. The F1 Commission meets on Thursday by video conference to discuss a number of topics relating to Formula 1 and its future, with different regulations usually among the talking points. This week the subject of point-scoring down to 12th place in a grand prix has been tabled. F1 ..read more

Ahead of the FIA WEC weekend in Imola, reports emerged that a new rule mandating two cars for each Hypercar manufacturer from the 2025 season onwards was under consideration. RACER believes a vote on this is looming, leaving the current and future single-car OEMs in the FIA WEC working hard on solutions should they be required to expand their programs going forward to continue racing in the championship, and crucially the Le Mans 24 Hours. If it is approved by the World Motor Sport Council, it would have an impact on three current Hypercar factories in the WEC: Lamborghini, Isotta Fraschini, a ..read more

Carlos Sainz wants to review the fight with Charles Leclerc at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix after feeling both lost positions focusing on each other. The two Ferrari teammates had a small collision in the Sprint on Saturday, with Leclerc saying he felt Sainz had crossed the line in the way they race each other but expected the issue to be resolved easily with pre-race discussions. However, Turn 1 on the opening lap then saw Leclerc appear to run Sainz wide and both George Russell and Nico Hulkenberg were able to take advantage. More Formula 1! 'better not to race' in Sprints - AlonsoAnd ..read more