May 14, 2020 ESPN News Services CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It will be a summer in the South for NASCAR, as the stock car series announced Thursday it will stick to Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Florida and Alabama for June races — all of them without fans. NASCAR has now set plans for 20 races — including
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3:35 PM ET Ryan Newman doesn’t remember his Feb. 17 crash at the finish of the Daytona 500, but he greatly appreciates the outpouring of support that continues to come from those who will never be able to forget the images of the frightening accident. “I feel like a complete walking miracle,” he said Thursday.
9:14 PM ET It was a month ago when Kerry Tharp’s phone rang. The area code was a familiar one: 386, Daytona Beach, Florida. The man known throughout the racing world as “The Commander” is in his fifth year as president of Darlington Raceway, NASCAR’s old-school equivalent to Fenway Park or Lambeau Field and a
5:02 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Denny Hamlin closed NASCAR’s iRacing Series with a victory at a simulation of throwback North Wilkesboro Speedway. The Daytona 500 winner was instrumental in organizing his fellow Cup drivers for the invitational series that started after the series was suspended. Hamlin, who races barefoot on a top-of-the-line
10:47 PM ET Associated Press Kyle Larson has returned to racing for the first time since he was fired by Chip Ganassi Racing for using a racial slur in an iRacing event last month. Larson was one of 48 drivers attempting to make the main event Friday night in the World of Outlaws race at
2:52 PM ET Jimmie Johnson has been hunkered down during the coronavirus pandemic, logging virtual practice laps for what should be an unpredictable first race back for NASCAR, and reflecting on what could have been and what might still be for what is supposed to be his final full-time season behind the wheel. “It’s going
12:54 PM ET ESPN News Services With NASCAR set to resume racing with four Cup Series events later this month, officials announced Friday three races at other tracks that were being replaced in the 2020 schedule. Races at Chicagoland Speedway and Sonoma Raceway and Richmond Raceway’s spring event are off the calendar for 2020. “Due
8:31 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer Angela Ruch was just getting the hang of the life of a full-time driver on the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. In two races this year, she finished in 28th and 24th. The driver of the No. 00 Reaume Brothers Racing Chevrolet, she felt was poised for
5:08 PM ET Associated Press Kyle Larson plans to race again Friday night in a World of Outlaws event at Knoxville Raceway. The dirt track in Iowa will not have spectators at the event because of the coronavirus pandemic. Larson was fired three weeks ago by Chip Ganassi Racing for using s racial slur while
3:34 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — William Byron showed he’s the sharpest gamer in NASCAR’s iRacing Series with his third victory in four events. Byron passed Timmy Hill with seven laps remaining at virtual Dover International Speedway, where NASCAR was scheduled to actually race Sunday, to win yet again on the iRacing platform.