3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (879+ words) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR's nearly two-year study into an overhaul of its championship-deciding format concluded Monday with the reveal that in 2026 the stock car series will return to a 10-race version closely resembling the first iteration introduced 22 years ago. The system will…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (711+ words) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR commissioner Steve Phelps on Tuesday announced his resignation after more than 20 years with the top racing series in the United States and a nasty federal trial in which inflammatory texts he sent during contentious revenue-sharing negotiations were revealed....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (339+ words) The father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire heavily damaged the North Carolina home where they lived, officials said Monday. Firefighters in Stanley arrived Sunday night at a two-story home…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (703+ words) This is a going-backward-to-go-forward move we haven't seen in major league sports. Herta's bona fides are more than sufficient to go straight to F1, but he's chasing access to the grid, which has been denied due to a shortage of licensing…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1789+ words) Dale Earnhardt won the 1998 Daytona 500 with a little girl's lucky penny glued to his dashboard. Today, the U.S. has stopped producing pennies, but she's here to say they're the "best thing ever." (1:53) ON NOV. 12, the United States Treasury department shut down…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (645+ words) "Yes, before that name was famous, around here it was infamous," Chaney recalled in 2006, sitting in that same office and laughing. "Greg Biffle." He hailed not from the Southeastern bullrings that were NASCAR's incubator. He didn't race in from the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (745+ words) Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family among seven people killed in a plane crash Thursday in Statesville, North Carolina. (1:00) The 55-year-old Biffle, his wife Cristina, daughter Emma, 14, and son Ryder, 5, died in the crash. Others on the plane…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (297+ words) A business jet registered to a company run by retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle crashed Thursday with six people onboard, authorities said. The Iredell County, North Carolina, sheriff confirmed there were fatalities but did not identify who was onboard the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (721+ words) There was a time not that long ago that Jon Wood, president of NASCAR's Wood Brothers Racing, dreaded having to go to the racetrack. "I used to look for any excuse that I could to not have to come Sunday,…...

1+ mon, 23+ hour ago   (691+ words) 23XI co-owner Michael Jordan reacts after their federal antitrust case with NASCAR was settled in court on Thursday. (0:33) Years ago, I was in the garage at Darlington Raceway chatting with David Pearson, Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough. All three are among…...