Deb Williams

5 days ago | autoweek.com | Deb Williams

There’s only one word to describe Ryan Blaney’s first victory this season in Nashville Superspeedway’s Cracker Barrel 400. Finally! The first half of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season has been one of Blaney’s most frustrating. The Team Penske driver failed to finish five of the first 13 races this season, and at one point had a three-race stretch where he endured two blown engines and a wreck.

6 days ago | autoweek.com | Deb Williams

In February, Trackhouse team owner Justin Marks’ PROJECT91 team fielded a Daytona 500 entry for four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves. Marks says now that team resources that might in the past have gone to a PROJECT91 entry are going to stay focused on developing future star Conor Zilisch for the rest of the season. The biggest success story for PROJECT91 was the victory for Shane Van Gisbergen at Chicago in 2023.

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Deb Williams

Slightly more than a month after Rockingham Speedway sold out for two days of NASCAR and ARCA racing the 1.017-mile track has gone on the market. Dan Lovenheim, who acquired the 250-acre property in August 2018 and played a role in its resurrection, confirmed to The Charlotte Observer that the property was for sale. It is listed by CBRE Group, a commercial real estate services and investment firm.

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Deb Williams

To race in both the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 on the same day takes skill, timing, a little luck with the weather. Thanks in part to rain delays and tight schedule, Kyle Larson has come up short in his two years of trying to complete the 1,100 miles of racing on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. Maybe moving one of the races to Monday or simply adjusting the start times would make the double more doable—but at what cost to the fans?

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Deb Williams

Kyle Larson failed again this year to complete the 1,100-mile Indianapolis 500/Coca-Cola 600 double, but it wasn’t the weather this year that foiled his plans. This time accidents sidelined him. In the Indianapolis 500, he completed 91 of the 200 laps (227.5 of 500 miles) before crashing out of the Memorial Day classic. That left him 27th in the 33-car field. Larson immediately headed to Concord, North Carolina, for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.