Bubba Wallace returned to NASCAR competition Saturday and said last week’s one-race suspension was difficult, but he recognizes that the penalty was warranted. Going forward, though, Wallace wants NASCAR to be consistent in officiating. Wallace was suspended one week under NASCAR’s behavioral policy for intentionally wrecking Kyle Larson, walking on a live track and then…
NASCAR Set for Homestead, While Wallace Watches From Afar
HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Bubba Wallace is missing Sunday’s NASCAR race, and that’s evidently not his only sanction after losing his cool in Las Vegas last weekend. Denny Hamlin—who, along with Michael Jordan, co-owns the 23XI racing team that Wallace drives for—said Saturday that the team has dealt with matters in a way that goes “above and beyond”…
NASCAR Suspends Bubba Wallace 1 Race for Las Vegas Crash
Bubba Wallace received a one race suspension from NASCAR after an investigation determined he deliberately spun reigning Cup champion Kyle Larson at Las Vegas in a “dangerous act” of retaliation before confronting him afterward. Wallace had a shoving match with Larson after Sunday’s incident at Las Vegas and also pushed away a NASCAR official. The…
NASCAR Holds 2nd Driver Safety Meeting, Vows More
LAS VEGAS—NASCAR held a second consecutive meeting with its Cup drivers to discuss their safety concerns with the new Next Gen car and promised to continue the sessions for the remaining month of the season. Saturday’s meeting at Las Vegas Motor Speedway lasted 75 minutes, the same length as the contentious session at Charlotte Motor…
Concussed NASCAR Champion Kurt Busch to Step Away From Sport
LAS VEGAS—NASCAR champion Kurt Busch will miss the rest of this season with a concussion and will not compete full-time in 2023. The 44-year-old made his announcement Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his home track and where he launched his career on the bullring as a child. He choked up when he said doctors…
NASCAR Promises Drivers Safety Changes on New Car for 2023
CONCORD, N.C.—NASCAR says it had a productive test of its new car and promised drivers that solutions to some of their safety concerns should be implemented by next season. NASCAR’s top leadership held a 75-minute meeting ahead of Saturday’s practice at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It said it expects a new rear clip, rear bumper structure…
NASCAR Returning to North Wilkesboro With 2023 All-Star Race
RALEIGH, N.C.—NASCAR is returning to one of its original venues that it left more than a quarter-century ago—North Wilkesboro Speedway. Gov. Roy Cooper and North Carolina native Dale Earnhardt Jr. joined the stock car body and the track’s owner on Thursday to announce that the track will host the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race next…
NASCAR Drivers Feeling the Hits More in Next Gen Car
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The jolts are more jarring, the impacts feel harder and the pain hangs on longer for NASCAR drivers in the first season of the Next Gen car. Stories of sore backs, headaches and damaged ribs that don’t heal as quickly as they did in the past are more common heading into the opener of…
Ty Gibbs Wins at Michigan for 9th Career Xfinity Win
Taking control of the race in the final stage, Ty Gibbs sped to his NASCAR Xfinity Series-best fifth victory of the season in Saturday’s New Holland 250 at Michigan International Speedway. The tenor of the race changed markedly near the end of the second stage when pole winner Noah Gragson opted to stay on the…
Cup Series Welcomes Russian Driver’s Return to Racing
INDIANAPOLIS—Daniil Kvyat spent nearly two years waiting anxiously to race again. After being relegated to reserve driver for last year’s Formula One season, he watched helplessly as his team withdrew from the world endurance series in March when the governing body imposed sanctions against Russians because of their country’s invasion of Ukraine. On Sunday, the…
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