Final weekend TV Ratings
The on-site crowd at Toronto was decent this year IndyCar on NBCSN was up 13.8%. Sounds like a lot, right? Not really. The rating (0.33) was still so low a … Read More
Category: Stock Car Racing
NASCAR switching to 18-inch wheels
NASCAR Goodyear Tires After decades of using 15-inch diameter tires, NASCAR and Goodyear definitely will increase tire size diameter – probably to 18-inches – beginning in 2021 when the new … Read More
ISC Announces Merger Agreement With NASCAR Holdings, Inc. (2nd Update)
ISC facilities. Once deal closes the France Family, should they choose, can sell it all to Liberty UPDATE Wells Fargo has dropped International Speedway (ISCA -0.7%) to an Underperform rating … Read More
NASCAR Kentucky TV Rating
NBCSN earned a 1.2 overnight for Saturday night's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway, down 7.7% from a 1.3 for last year's race. FS1 earned … Read More
Kurt Busch Edges Brother Kyle To Win At Kentucky
Kurt Busch Wins at Kentucky Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images Denied victory at Daytona by an inopportune pit call last Sunday, Kurt Busch drove like lightning in a two-lap overtime dash to … Read More
Suarez leads Stewart-Haas 1-2 in Qualifying
Daniel Suarez Daniel Suarez saved the best for last in Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying Friday at Kentucky Speedway. The 27-year-old driver from Monterrey, Mexico, was the last to … Read More
Cole Custer wins Kentucky Xfinity race
Cole Custer Christopher Bell was dominant in the daytime, but when the sun set Friday over Kentucky Speedway, Cole Custer turned out the lights on his NASCAR Xfinity Series competition. … Read More
Award from Trump humbles Penske
President Trump and Roger Penske “What an honor it was to get a call from the President," Roger Penske said on Wednesday, while celebrating along with Indy 500 winner Simon … Read More
NASCAR suspends crew member for assaulting woman
Joshua P. Long NASCAR has indefinitely suspended Joshua P. Long after he was arrested overnight by the Salisbury (North Carolina) Police department for allegedly assaulting a female. Long, who served … Read More
Truck Series Rookie Tyler Ankrum Nabs First Victory
Tyler Ankrum celebrates his first-career Truck Series victory Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images In a week that started with Justin Haley's remarkable upset win at Daytona on Sunday, 18-year-old Tyler Ankrum added … Read More
Kyle Busch wins ESPN ESPY award, Dixon a finalist
Kyle Busch voted best driver NASCAR's Kyle Busch was honored Wednesday as the Best Driver during ESPN's sports award show in Los Angeles. Busch also won the ESPY in 2016. … Read More
NASCAR Daytona TV Rating (Update)
Coke Zero Sugar 400 UPDATE The final rating for the rain postponed Coke Zero Sugar 400 on NBC was a 2.12 on Sunday afternoon, down 22.0% from a 2.72 in … Read More
Pocono Raceway To Apply Traction Compound For NASCAR. Will it hurt IndyCar?
How much will the traction compound help or hurt the IndyCar race 3 weeks later Pocono Raceway announced today they will add traction compound in all three corners of ‘The … Read More
Daytona penalty report
The Spire Motorsports #77 won last weekend Following the race weekend at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR has issued an indefinite suspension of a crew member for violating its substance abuse … Read More
Video: NASCAR and INDYCAR Drivers Build Home
Santino Ferrucci NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chase Briscoe and NTT IndyCar Series rookie sensation Santino Ferrucci joined Iowa Speedway staff and the Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity for a … Read More
NBC Sports, NASCAR Launching “Grassroots Racing Tour”
NBC Sports and NASCAR have launched a new campaign titled the "Grassroots Racing Tour." The season-long effort will consist of "messaging, stories, social videos, in-person appearances from NASCAR drivers & … Read More
Video: Aric Almirola, NASCAR’s Hardest Working Driver
Aric Almirola and wife Janice Aric Almirola is in his second year with Stewart-Haas Racing and races the #10 Ford Mustang in the NASCAR Cup Series. The Floridian spends as … Read More
NASCAR almost did not buy ISC and expects change in TV revenue in 2025 (Update)
From AR1.com's perspective, with TV ratings plummeting yearly, the new NASCAR TV deal is likely to see a huge drop in revenue. UPDATE A reader writes, Dear AR1.com, Adam Stern … Read More
Petty- Andretti Motorsports coming to NASCAR with Honda, Hyundai too (3rd Update)
Hyundai's Genesis UPDATE Hyundai builds about half of the cars it sells in the U.S. in Alabama, and now it’s thinking about taking its Southern cred up another notch. According … Read More
Video: O’Donnell discusses decision to call Daytona race
Steve O'Donnell Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR’s chief racing development officer, said that series officials hoped to run the final 33 laps of Sunday’s Cup race at Daytona International Speedway “but every … Read More
Only 30,000 in attendance For Coke Zero At Daytona
Only an estimated 30,000 were on hand at a track that seats over 100,000 Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Justin Haley yesterday won the weather-shortened Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Coke … Read More
Daytona Coke Zero Sugar 400 post-race Q&A
Haley celebrates with his team A driver never forgets his first big win, and today 20 year-old Justin Haley became the latest first-time winner with a lifetime of stories to … Read More
Haley wins weather-shortened Coke Zero Sugar 400
20-year old Justin Haley, driver of the #77 Fraternal Order of Eagles Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane Sean Gardner/Getty Images As if restrictor-plate races weren't enough of a wildcard event … Read More