Motorsports
Public Invited To Check Out NASCAR Rigs
(From Garner Trucking) Garner Trucking is thrilled to welcome back the NASCAR haulers for Spire Motorsports on Thursday, June 5th, and we’re inviting the public to join us for this exciting event! Come out to Garner Trucking (9291 County Road 313, Findlay, OH 45840) between 11AM and 1PM to get an up-close look at the […]

(From Garner Trucking)
Garner Trucking is thrilled to welcome back the NASCAR haulers for Spire Motorsports on Thursday, June 5th, and we’re inviting the public to join us for this exciting event!
Come out to Garner Trucking (9291 County Road 313, Findlay, OH 45840) between 11AM and 1PM to get an up-close look at the #7 and #71 Spire Motorsports Haulers before they head to Michigan International Speedway for this weekend’s FireKeepers Casino 400.
This is a great opportunity to meet the hauler drivers, snap some photos, and tour these impressive NASCAR rigs before they hit the road to the track.
As the official Transportation Partner of Spire Motorsports, Garner Trucking is proud to sponsor the #7 Chevrolet driven by Justin Haley, which will feature the Garner Trucking premiere car this weekend.
Tune in to Prime Video on Sunday to catch all the action and cheer on the Garner car as it races around MIS!
Motorsports
Brenda Pressley Begins Her Run in Tony-Winning Best Play Purpose | Broadway Buzz
Brenda Pressley(Photo c/o Polk & Co.) Brenda Pressley begins her Broadway run in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose on July 15. She takes over the role of matriarch Claudine Jasper, replacing the production’s original Tony-nominated Claudine, LaTanya Richardson Jackson. Pressley began her theatrical career in And Still I Rise, written and directed by Maya Angelou, and has performed […]

Brenda Pressley
(Photo c/o Polk & Co.)
Brenda Pressley begins her Broadway run in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose on July 15. She takes over the role of matriarch Claudine Jasper, replacing the production’s original Tony-nominated Claudine, LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
Pressley began her theatrical career in And Still I Rise, written and directed by Maya Angelou, and has performed on Broadway in the original company of Dreamgirls, as well as in The Lyons opposite Linda Lavin, Richard Greenberg’s The American Plan and Cats. Pressley joins the current acclaimed ensemble of Purpose, which includes Jon Michael Hill, Harry Lennix, Glenn Davis, Alana Arenas and Kara Young.
Set in the home of a powerful Black family, Purpose follows the return of the youngest son—and an unexpected guest—that forces the Jaspers to confront faith, identity and the echoes of Black radicalism. The production earned six 2025 Tony Award nominations, with nods for Hill, Lennix, Davis and Jackson, and wins for Best Play and for Young’s featured performance (her second consecutive Tony win).
Directed by Phylicia Rashad, Purpose will run at the Hayes Theater through August 31.
Motorsports
Nascar blasts 23XI and FRM’s ‘unnecessary and inappropriate’ injunction
23XI and FRM have to return charters to Nascar on 16th July Teams claim the sport will sell its charters immediately, putting them in ‘irreparable jeopardy’ Nascar has dismissed the latest attempt from 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports (FRM) to retain their charters as ‘unnecessary and inappropriate’. In June, the US Court of Appeals […]

- 23XI and FRM have to return charters to Nascar on 16th July
- Teams claim the sport will sell its charters immediately, putting them in ‘irreparable jeopardy’
Nascar has dismissed the latest attempt from 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports (FRM) to retain their charters as ‘unnecessary and inappropriate’.
In June, the US Court of Appeals overturned the injunction agreed in December 2024 that allowed 23XI and FRM to compete in the Nascar Cup Series and receive the same benefits as other chartered teams while still pursuing their lawsuit against the series.
But 23XI and FRM have now filed a motion for another temporary restraining order and a new preliminary injunction that, if approved, would enable them to retain their charters until the court case finally takes place in December later this year.
Both teams have cited new evidence that Nascar plans to ‘immediately move to sell or issue Plaintiffs’ charters to other entities – putting Plaintiffs in irreparable jeopardy of never getting their charters back and going out of business’. The pair claim to have received a letter from Nascar confirming this intention.
Nascar has dismissed the attempted injunction and wants a response from the courts by 16th July, and has also claimed that 23XI and FRM are refusing to return the money they earned under the 2025 charters thus far.
‘It is unfortunate that instead of respecting the clear rulings of the Fourth Circuit, 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are now burdening the District Court with a third motion for another unnecessary and inappropriate preliminary injunction,’ Nascar said in a statement.
‘As both the Fourth Circuit and the District Court suggested, Nascar has made multiple requests to 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports to present a proposal to resolve this litigation. We have yet to receive a proposal from 23XI or Front Row, as they have instead preferred to continue their damaging and distracting lawsuit.
‘We will defend Nascar’s integrity from this baseless lawsuit forced upon the sport that threatens to divide the stakeholders committed to serving race fans everywhere. We remain focused on collaborating with the 13 race teams that signed the 2025 charter agreements and share our mutual goal of delivering the best racing in the world each week, including this weekend in Dover.’
23XI and FRM have three charters each which are worth tens of millions of dollars. With only 36 charters across the Cup Series, six charters becoming available at once would result in intense external interest and, with that, the likely demise of both 23XI and FRM.
If the teams were to continue as open entries for the rest of the season, they would earn less than a third of what a chartered team makes for competing in a race. FRM team owner Bob Jenkins claimed in the original injunction that the payout from the purse would be so low as an open entry that it would not cover the costs of going to the racetrack.
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Much to Nascar’s chagrin, this saga continues to rumble in the background of the current Cup Series season.
23XI and FRM are showing no signs of backing down, issuing a statement highlighting the ‘irreparable harm’ that would be done if the charters were sold by Nascar, while asserting that the new information ‘overwhelmingly supports our position that a preliminary injunction is legally warranted and necessary’.
This latest development could spell trouble for Nascar. Their apparent intention to sell the teams’ charters immediately could serve as evidence of the anti-competitive behaviour alleged by 23XI and FRM in the original lawsuit.
Indeed, Nascar risks losing basketball icon Michael Jordan, who co-owns 23XI and is a considerable marketing asset for the series. With overall TV viewership already in decline, can Nascar afford to lose such an iconic American figure? Only time will tell.
Motorsports
N.J.’s historic Raceway Park: Will iconic drag racing venue become affordable housing?
One of New Jersey’s oldest motorsports raceways could be redeveloped to make way for hundreds of affordable housing units. Old Bridge Raceway Park, a nationally known motorsports complex in Middlesex County, is one of three sites township officials have identified to help meet its court-mandated affordable housing obligations. The 534-acre property, located in the Englishtown […]
One of New Jersey’s oldest motorsports raceways could be redeveloped to make way for hundreds of affordable housing units.
Old Bridge Raceway Park, a nationally known motorsports complex in Middlesex County, is one of three sites township officials have identified to help meet its court-mandated affordable housing obligations.
The 534-acre property, located in the Englishtown section of the township, opened in 1965 and has long been used for racing and entertainment.
According to township documents, 29 parcels in the southeastern portion of the site are now being considered for a 600-unit affordable housing development.
Alongside housing, the plan also calls for a mix of retail and commercial uses, while preserving parts of the airpark and existing motorsports facilities.
Raceway Park, founded by the Napp family, once featured two dragstrips, multiple motocross tracks, a road course, go-kart racing and more. It became nationally known as a longtime host of the NHRA Summernationals, an annual drag racing competition.
It was also known around New Jersey for its iconic “Raceway Park!” television and radio commercials that featured fast cars and loud music.
The Napp family announced the end of drag racing at the park in 2018, citing rising costs that had become unaffordable for its mostly amateur racing crowd. The drag strip was later converted into an outdoor concert venue, while the rest of the property remains in use for motocross, go-karts, flea markets and other events.
In May 2023, the Old Bridge Township Council approved an ordinance to rezone a portion of the raceway for single-family homes, according to officials. The Napp family, which owns the site, sued the township, arguing the zoning change would strip them of their ability to use the land.
As part of ongoing settlement talks, both sides agreed to explore redevelopment options. In response, the planning board passed a resolution at its June 26 meeting to begin the process of determining whether the raceway qualifies as an “area in need of redevelopment.”
The Napp family and their attorney could not be immediately reached for comment.
The push to redevelop Raceway Park comes as Old Bridge, like other towns across New Jersey, faces mounting pressure to meet state-mandated affordable housing requirements. Under a controversial directive, municipalities across the state must add or rehabilitate more than 146,000 affordable housing units by 2035. Old Bridge is expected to contribute 673 units over the next decade.
The township council filed a court appeal against the state last month challenging that number, according to local officials.
Old Bridge Township Council President Mary Sohor declined to comment on the township’s affordable housing plans Friday due to the pending lawsuit.
However, at the meeting in which the Raceway Park resolution was passed, planning board members said the affordable housing requirements are pushing the township toward overdevelopment. They called the state’s obligations unfair.
“If it were up to me, I’d put up a ‘closed for building’ sign in this town,” board member Erik DePalma said. “It’s disgusting. If we don’t comply, we get sued. So in the end, we really don’t have a choice.”
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Motorsports
NASCAR teams 23XI and Front Row seek urgent court order to retain charters
The two race teams suing NASCAR over antitrust allegations filed for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction Monday to be recognized as chartered organizations for the remainder of 2025. 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are locked in a lengthy legal battle over the charter system, which is the equivalent of the franchise model […]

The two race teams suing NASCAR over antitrust allegations filed for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction Monday to be recognized as chartered organizations for the remainder of 2025.
23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are locked in a lengthy legal battle over the charter system, which is the equivalent of the franchise model in other sports. 23XI, owned by retired NBA great Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin, and Front Row, owned by entrepreneur Bob Jenkins, last September rejected NASCAR’s final proposal on extensions and instead filed an antitrust suit.
The case is winding its way through the court system but now with urgency: the teams were set to lose their charters Wednesday and in the latest filing, they allege NASCAR has indicated it will immediately begin the process of selling the six tags that guarantee entry into every race as well as monetary rewards and other benefits.
After the filing NASCAR was ordered to respond by 5 p.m. Wednesday — which means there would be no ruling on if the charters will be revoked likely until Thursday, at the earliest.
“Today we filed a motion in the district court for a renewed preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to protect the teams’ ability to race chartered for the remainder of the 2025 Cup Series season and prevent irreparable business harm to 23XI and Front Row Motorsports until we can present our case at trial in December,” said Jeffery Kessler, attorney for the teams.
“New information surfaced through the discovery process that overwhelmingly supports our position that a preliminary injunction is legally warranted and necessary. The teams’ love of stock car racing and belief in a better future for the sport for all parties – teams, drivers, employees, sponsors, and fans – continues to motivate their efforts to pursue this antitrust case.”
There were large portions of the filing redacted because the arguments are based on information learned through discovery, making it confidential, for now. But, the urgency is likely tied to NASCAR indicating it plans to immediately begin selling the charters if they are revoked.
Should the teams have their six combined charters revoked, the drivers would have to qualify on speed to make each week’s race and would receive a smaller percentage of the purse. They may also have to refund money paid out through the first 20 races of the year.
NASCAR accused 23XI and Front Row of filing “a third motion for another unnecessary and inappropriate preliminary injunction” and noted it has made multiple requests to the teams “to present a proposal to resolve this litigation.”
“We have yet to receive a proposal from 23XI or Front Row, as they have instead preferred to continue their damaging and distracting lawsuit,” NASCAR said in a statement. “We will defend NASCAR’s integrity from this baseless lawsuit forced upon the sport that threatens to divide the stakeholders committed to serving race fans everywhere.
“We remain focused on collaborating with the 13 race teams that signed the 2025 charter agreements and share our mutual goal of delivering the best racing in the world each week, including this weekend in Dover.”
Also on Monday, Rick Ware Racing and Legacy Motor Club had a short virtual hearing in a North Carolina court over their fight for a charter.
Legacy, owned by seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, contends it had an agreement with RWR to lease one of its two charters in 2026. RWR contends the agreement was for 2027 and it already has a contract with RFK Racing to lease that team a charter next season.
Legacy on Monday asked for and was granted the right to depose RWR over the recent revelation that T.J. Puchyr, one of the founders of Spire Motorsports, plans to purchase the race team. Legacy contends if Ware is selling the team, then one of the charters should be transferred to its organization.
Legacy also argued that Ware did not disclose he was entering into a sales agreement with a third party — Puchyr, who is now a consultant and brokered the initial lease deal between RWR and Legacy — in an April hearing. The judge in that case warned that RWR could be in contempt of court if it misrepresented its intentions in the first hearing.
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NASCAR In-Season Tournament updated bracket: Round of 4 locked in after Sonoma
The NASCAR In-Season Tournament bracket has been updated following an exhilarating weekend at Sonoma Raceway in California. Sparks flew at the end of the Toyota/Save Mart 350, as Ty Dillon bumped Alex Bowman out of the way on the final lap to advance to the Round of 4. Now, he’ll be matched up against John […]

The NASCAR In-Season Tournament bracket has been updated following an exhilarating weekend at Sonoma Raceway in California. Sparks flew at the end of the Toyota/Save Mart 350, as Ty Dillon bumped Alex Bowman out of the way on the final lap to advance to the Round of 4.
Now, he’ll be matched up against John Hunter Nemechek. On the other side of the bracket, Tyler Reddick will face Ty Gibbs in what should be a doozy of a showdown. Dover International Speedway will be the cathedral for the Round of 4.
Dillon has been the star of the In-Season Tournament, the very last seed making a miraculous run to the Round of 4. His victory over Bowman didn’t come without controversy, as the duo shared words on pit road following the last-lap incident. Dillon’s team in Kaulig Racing shared a video of the conversation, with Dillon and Bowman sharing an awkward handshake at the end.
Prior to moving past Bowman, the No. 32 seed in Dillon defeated No. 1-seed Denny Hamlin and No. 17-seed Brad Keselowski. Bowman previously the No. 8 seed. Winning the tournament and a cool million would be a huge boost for Dillon, who has yet to win a race in his Cup Series career.
In the process, the run Dillon has been on is getting a lot of attention. Along with defeating the top drivers in NASCAR, the 33-year-old has trolled Hamlin and Keselowski after winning. This led to NASCAR legend and FOX Sports analyst Kevin Harvick calling Dillon out for his actions.
“The bracket, there’s a little bit of luck involved in, no matter what racetracks we go to, but starting at Atlanta just turned it all upside down,” Harvick said on Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour. “I mean, Ty Dillon is still in it.”
Harvick also shared his reaction to Dillon trolling Keselowski: “I just don’t know how you talk that much trash when you run that bad, though,” he stated. “I would just be more humble about it. I mean, if you were up there running first or second, third, fifth, something, and you’re knocking people out of the bracket, but you’re knocking the guys out that are crashing. Let’s not be cocky about it.”
All told, Dillon has earned one top-10 finish, which was eighth place at Atlanta. Maybe Harvick has a point. The Welcome, North Carolina native returned to full-time Cup Series racing this year after being part-time in 2024. In 249 Cup Series races, Dillon has finished in the top 10 seven times.
The rest of the competitors in the NASCAR In-Season Tournament Round of 4 are a little more polished. Tyler Reddick has to be the favorite at this point among the four. He’s the reigning regular season champion in the sport, and while he hasn’t found that same level of success in 2025, he’s still a major threat to win each weekend.
Time will tell who gets the better of one another in Dover, and which drivers advance to the finale. After a trip to Delaware, it’ll all come to a head in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We’ll see if it’s Ty Dillon, John Hunter Nemechek, Tyler Reddick or Ty Gibbs standing tall at the end of it all.
— On3’s Brian Jones contributed to this article.
Motorsports
Connor Zilisch slows the SVG roll for one race at Sonoma
Don’t worry fellas, help is on the way. This plunder from Down Under might have run its (road) course after three straight poles and three straight wins. And to think, they’ll have to send a kid to do a man’s job. That’s right, the only guy in recent memory to beat Shane van Gisbergen on […]

Don’t worry fellas, help is on the way.
This plunder from Down Under might have run its (road) course after three straight poles and three straight wins.
And to think, they’ll have to send a kid to do a man’s job.
That’s right, the only guy in recent memory to beat Shane van Gisbergen on a road course is a teenager named Connor Zilisch, one of a few Next Big Things in NASCAR these days.
Fresh-faced Connor Z, just 18, won a slugfest with SVG at Sonoma this past Saturday to win the Xfinity Series race. Go find yourself a replay of the final few laps and tell me that doesn’t take you back to some epic battles among yesterday’s heroes.
Or better yet, watch it here.
Like SVG, Connor Z learned to race on road courses. Unlike SVG, he’s been a quick study on ovals. Along with three road-course wins in the Xfinity Series, he also won last month at Pocono, and four of his five ARCA wins last year were on ovals. He’s also fourth in Xfinity points.
SVG, at 36 with a long Aussie Supercars career behind him, has many more years of road-racin’ on the odometer, and perhaps that’s making it harder for him to get the knack of ovals. The proof is in the points: Despite three wins, he’s down there in 26th in the current point standings.
And frankly, his road-course winning streak might be in danger. Trackhouse Racing, SVG’s employer, also has Zilisch under contract and will presumably put him in the No. 99 seat next year, replacing Daniel Suarez. Looking ahead to that, Trackhouse is entering Zilisch in a few Cup races this year.
Yep, one of them is Watkins Glen, the next scheduled road course, in four weeks.
Coming soon to a right-hand turn near you: SVG versus Connor Z. Can’t wait.
First Gear: SVG snagging plenty of roadside playoff points
You know the drill for the next three weeks: Go fast and turn left. So far, that’s not Shane van Gisbergen’s strength. Not even close.
But let’s say it again: He has a chance to stick around the playoffs when they start at the end of August, even though nine of the 10 races are on ovals or something resembling ovals.
His three dominant weeks over the past month have resulted in 17 playoff bonus points. Just two drivers have more — Kyle Larson with 23 and Denny Hamlin with 19. That could help him tremendously in navigating the three ovals in the Round of 16.
After that, the Round of 12 includes the Charlotte Roval and the Round of 8 includes the ultimate wildcard, Talladega.
In the midst of this recent run of road-course races, SVG has shown modest improvement on the ovals — very modest, yes, but improvement. Assuming that trajectory continues, he just might have some playoff staying power.
And speaking of which, let’s catch up with a guy who’s possibly becoming another Next Big Thing right before our eyes.
Second Gear: Time to pay attention to The Other Chase
GIve it up for Chase Briscoe, who finished second at Sonoma and made SVG work like hell to keep him there on those late-race restarts.
He’s never been competitive on road courses, and that’s particularly true at Sonoma. Until Sunday.
“This is by far my worst racetrack. Kind of surprised myself, truthfully,” he said after the runner-up finish.
Briscoe has been good on Saturdays and has steadily improved on Sundays during his first year with Joe Gibbs Racing. He clinched a playoff spot with the win at Pocono last month, and is now eighth in points. Only three drivers have more top-fives than the seven he’s posted.
He turned a lot of heads five years ago when he won nine Xfinity races, but he faded into the background at the Cup level as his former team, Stewart Haas, lost its footing.
But now he’s definitely looking like a keeper.
Third Gear: Bowman Gray stays, Chicago looks like a ‘maybe’
On the scheduling front, we’ve been dealt a non-surprise and a mild possibility of a surprise since last week.
First, the predictable. NASCAR is taking the preseason Clash back to Bowman Gray Stadium next year. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it this past February, and not just because their man Chase Elliott won, though that never hurts.
It’s one of those rare “new venue” moves that was met with universal enthusiasm. Probably because this new venue is actually one of the oldest, though mostly familiar to folks targeted by those reverse-mortgage commercials. Nostalgia rules, and Bowman Gray definitely brings nostalgia.
The mild surprise is the word out of Chicago, where we all assume NASCAR’s three-year run has come and gone. NASCAR has a few months to decide on formally asking the city to pick up a two-year option, and though everyone assumes NASCAR is looking at other big-city options, Chicago might not be off the table.
But only if NASCAR moves the race off the Fourth of July weekend — a weekend that doesn’t need help drawing crowds to Chicago.
If NASCAR decides to send the request for two more years, Shane van Gisbergen will gladly serve as courier.
Fourth Gear: In-Season Challenge not producing any Duke-Kentucky vibes
How’s that bracket challenge working out?
Yikes. We knew this could happen, but still …
We’re down to a final four (not to be confused with the officially licensed Final Four), and next week at Dover we get Ty Dillon versus John Hunter Nemechek and Ty Gibbs versus Tyler Reddick. Gone after Sonoma are Alex Bowman, Erik Jones, Zane Smith and Ryan Preece.
Nope, not exactly a Murderer’s Row of heavyweights but not exactly shocking given how easy it is for the heavyweights to miss a gear in any given race.
After this coming weekend at Dover, it’ll be whittled down to two battling at Indy in a race within the race, with a million bucks dangling with the checkers for whomever wins an intramural battle that might be back there in mid-pack.
Given how Indianapolis can produce a thinned-out snoozer, at least there will be a wee bit of drama.
— Email Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
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