NASCAR Cup

Under a newly announced agreement between NASCAR and Sprint Cup Series team owners, fields for races will drop from 43 to 40 cars, with 36 of those starting spots guaranteed to chartered teams.

As you walk toward the turn 1 side of Daytona International Speedway, outside the track, you’ll see a slogan in huge letters on the back side of the new grandstand.

Longtime radio broadcaster Barney Hall, considered by many to be the voice of NASCAR and the Motor Racing Network, passed away Tuesday, according to the MRN website.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series veteran David Ragan will join the BK Racing line-up to pilot the No. 23 Toyota Camry for the 2016 season. Ragan will join teammate Matt DiBenedetto at BK Racing, which will field two full-time Sprint Cup entries this season.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame inducted their seventh class of honorees on Saturday, adding five more iconic racing figures to the already illustrious names already enshrined in NASCAR’s glittering museum in downtown Charlotte, N.C.

The winter weather across the southeast has hit the NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Some label Terry Labonte the NASCAR premier series’ least flamboyant champion. Perhaps it just seemed that way, when measuring Labonte alongside such colorful contemporaries as NASCAR Hall of Famers Dale Earnhardt and Darrell Waltrip.

The 34th annual Charlotte Motor Speedway Media concluded on Thursday, drawing to a close the three-day media event featuring the top teams and drivers in NASCAR as they gear up for the upcoming 2016 season-opener at Daytona just one month away.

Curtis Turner lived life and stock car racing in the same manner – at full throttle. A bootlegger at age nine, the Virginia native was a self-proclaimed millionaire at 20 and made and lost several fortunes while becoming one of the greatest drivers – and most colorful characters – of NASCAR’s pioneer era.

The 34th annual Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour continued on Wednesday with the second of three days of media events and appearances by NASCAR’s top drivers as they prepare for the upcoming 2016 race season.