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Podium Celebration – Speedway Digest

Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson is among the most versatile – and well-travelled – competitors in the NASCAR garage. And he had nothing but compliments for the organizers of the Mexico City race, noting it was kind of “fun” staying at the same hotel and sharing bus rides to the circuit with his competitors. One […]

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Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson is among the most versatile – and well-travelled – competitors in the NASCAR garage. And he had nothing but compliments for the organizers of the Mexico City race, noting it was kind of “fun” staying at the same hotel and sharing bus rides to the circuit with his competitors.

One of the unique features of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez course is that the top-three drivers in the race will stand on a podium to receive trophies – similar to the traditional Formula One victory celebration.

Larson likes the idea and thinks maybe it’s something the sport would consider elsewhere as well.

“Maybe just your crown jewels events would be a good start, but I’m not sure,’’ Larson said, adding,  “Although it stinks sometimes when you’re frustrated and you’ve got to force a smile, I think the fans appreciate seeing the top three drivers on the frontstretch, the photos and whatnot.

“You look at other forms of motorsports, and the post-race podium celebration — like I look at Formula 1, you kind of celebrate the country that you’re from, too, playing the national anthem. But I just think that’s a nice added touch. So, yeah, I think there’s ways to look at it and make it kind of feel like our own.”



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Looking to Sell Your Dealership? Why Systems Outweigh Inventory

Published: Jul 10, 2025 If a powersports dealer cares about it, MPN covers it. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking your dealership’s inventory is everything. But, when looking to sell your dealership, potential buyers will find far more value in what systems you have in place over the inventory on hand. In […]

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It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking your dealership’s inventory is everything. But, when looking to sell your dealership, potential buyers will find far more value in what systems you have in place over the inventory on hand.

In this episode of Beyond the Showroom, Maggie Stevens of Powersports Playbook and MPN’s Greg Jones discuss exactly what we mean by systems and where you can make a big impact in your dealership right now, and for when you’re ready to sell.





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How to watch, TV schedule, predictions – NBC New York

NASCAR is headed to Wine Country. The relentless Cup Series schedule is on a North American tour, with recent stops in Mexico City, the Pocono Mountains and Downtown Chicago. Next up is a visit to the road course of Sonoma Raceway in the Bay Area. The 12-turn track has been a mainstay on the schedule […]

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NASCAR is headed to Wine Country.

The relentless Cup Series schedule is on a North American tour, with recent stops in Mexico City, the Pocono Mountains and Downtown Chicago. Next up is a visit to the road course of Sonoma Raceway in the Bay Area.

The 12-turn track has been a mainstay on the schedule since 1989, with several tricky sections making life difficult for the world’s best stock car drivers.

So, what’s in store for Sonoma this year? What’s the TV schedule for the weekend? And who could contend for the win on Sunday? Here’s everything you need to know for Toyota/Save Mart 350:

When is the NASCAR race in Sonoma?

The Toyota/Save Mart 350 is set for Sunday, July 13, at 3:50 p.m. ET.

Before the race, there will be practice and qualifying on Saturday. The 37 drivers will be split into two groups, with each group getting 25 minutes of free practice. For qualifying, each group will get 20 minutes to set their fastest lap, with the starting order set based on single-lap speed for the two groups combined.

NASCAR TV schedule this weekend for Sonoma

Adam Alexander (play-by-play), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (analyst) and Steve Letarte (analyst) will be on the call for TNT, with Shannon Spake, Parker Kligerman and Jamie McMurray providing pre- and post-race coverage.

Here’s the full schedule for Sonoma:

Saturday, July 12 (truTV and HBO Max)

  • Practice: 1:30 p.m. ET, truTV and HBO Max
  • Qualifying: 2:40 p.m. ET, truTV and HBO Max

Sunday, July 13 (TNT and HBO Max)

  • NASCAR Nation: 3 p.m. ET, TNT and HBO Max
  • Toyota/Save Mart 350: 3:30 p.m. ET, TNT and HBO Max

Who is racing in Sonoma? Here’s the entry list

Thirty-seven drivers will race in Sonoma — the 36 full-timers, plus one “open” entry.

Katherine Legge is the outlier, as the 44-year-old English driver makes her fourth start of the 2025 season for Live Fast Motorsports. Last week at the Chicago Street Race, Legge scored a career-best finish of 19th.

Here’s the full entry list for Sonoma:

Car number Driver Team Sponsor
1 Ross Chastain Trackhouse Racing Kubota Tractors
2 Austin Cindric Team Penske America’s Tire
3 Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing Bass Pro Shops
4 Noah Gragson Front Row Motorsports Long John Silver’s
5 Kyle Larson Hendrick Motorsports HendrickCars.com
6 Brad Keselowski RFK Racing Castrol
7 Justin Haley Spire Motorsports NationsGuard
8 Kyle Busch Richard Childress Racing Zone
9 Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports NAPA Auto Parts
10 Ty Dillon Kaulig Racing Sea Best
11 Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing ampm
12 Ryan Blaney Team Penske Menards/Delta
16 AJ Allmendinger Kaulig Racing Big Sipz
17 Chris Buescher RFK Racing BuildSubmarines.com
19 Chase Briscoe Joe Gibbs Racing Bass Pro Shops
20 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing Rheem
21 Josh Berry Wood Brothers Racing Eero
22 Joey Logano Team Penske Autotrader
23 Bubba Wallace 23XI Racing Xfinity Mobile
24 William Byron Hendrick Motorsports Valvoline
34 Todd Gilliland Front Row Motorsports Love’s Travel Stops
35 Riley Herbst 23XI Racing Monster Energy
38 Zane Smith Front Row Motorsports Michael Roberts Construction
41 Cole Custer Haas Factory Team Autodesk/Haas
42 John Hunter Nemechek Legacy Motor Club Mobil 1
43 Erik Jones Legacy Motor Club Dollar Tree
45 Tyler Reddick 23XI Racing Chumba Casino
47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. JTG Daugherty Racing Real American Beer
48 Alex Bowman Hendrick Motorsports Ally
51 Cody Ware Rick Ware Racing Mighty Fire Breaker
54 Ty Gibbs Joe Gibbs Racing Saia
60 Ryan Preece RFK Racing Body Guard
71 Michael McDowell Spire Motorsports Project Zin/Gainbridge
77 Carson Hocevar Spire Motorsports Delaware Life
78 Katherine Legge Live Fast Motorsports e.l.f. Cosmetics
88 Shane van Gisbergen Trackhouse Racing Red Bull
99 Daniel Suárez Trackhouse Racing Freeway Insurance
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NASCAR picks, predictions, favorites for Sonoma

Shane van Gisbergen is going for three straight — and he’ll be tough to beat in Sonoma.

The Trackhouse Racing star has won the last two road course races in Mexico City and Chicago. Van Gisbergen, 36, has dominated at this track type during his first full-time season since coming over from New Zealand. While he’s never started a Cup Series race at Sonoma, he did win the second-tier Xfinity Series event last June.

If you’re looking for a more experienced racer at this track, there are four drivers to keep an eye on: Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Chris Buescher and Michael McDowell.

The Hendrick Motorsports teammates are two of the series’ best road racer. Larson, a Northern California native from Elk Grove, has two wins at his home track with five first-place starts. Elliott is still winless at the track, but he has seven straight top-10 starts and four straight top-10 finishes (with three top-fives).

McDowell and Buescher are also winless in Sonoma, but they’ve both been knocking on the door in recent years. The Spire Motorsports driver (McDowell) won Stage 1 in Chicago last week before a mechanical failure. He was second in Sonoma last year and has three straight top-10s. Buescher, meanwhile, has finished second, fourth and third in the last three years, leading 32 laps last June.

The winning pick for Sonoma is McDowell, who will be eager to avenge his disappointment last week when he looked capable of challenging van Gisbergen.

NASCAR past winners, race history for Sonoma

Just three of the 37 drivers in the field are past winners in Sonoma.

Larson (2021, 2024) and Busch (2008, 2015) have two wins apiece, while Suárez was victorious in 2022. All of the other winners in the past 15 years have retired or moved to part-time racing, including Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch and Clint Bowyer.

NASCAR pit stops are a sport themselves with how much planning goes into a perfect pit stop. Here’s what you need to know about what happens during a pit stop.



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Zane Smith picks up sponsorship from Michael Roberts Construction at Sonoma

Michael Roberts Construction, Inc. (MRC) will partner with Zane Smith and the No. 38 team for the 110-lap event. MRC is one of Northern California’s preeminent commercial contractors with expertise in private and public general construction projects from new, ground up buildings to commercial building tenant improvements and renovating existing facilities in all building categories. […]

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Michael Roberts Construction, Inc. (MRC) will partner with Zane Smith and the No. 38 team for the 110-lap event. MRC is one of Northern California’s preeminent commercial contractors with expertise in private and public general construction projects from new, ground up buildings to commercial building tenant improvements and renovating existing facilities in all building categories. For more information, visit https://mrcbuilt.com/.

The No. 38 MRC Ford Mustang Dark Horse hood will feature a “Honoring our Great Fathers” design that pays tribute to the racing dads of driver Zane Smith and MRC president and founder Mike Avila, who considers Zane to be like a second son to him. Avila is a world and national champion boat racer. Mike’s father, Richard Avila, was also a national champion boat racer who was instrumental in guiding Mike’s boat racing career. In a similar vein, Zane’s father, Mike Smith, a long-time and successful race truck builder in off-road racing, has been very instrumental in guiding Zane’s auto racing career. The special MRC hood design includes a collage of images of their fathers over the years.

“I’m excited to represent MRC this weekend,” said Smith. “Mike Avila has been one of my longest and most loyal supporters. He’s been with me through nearly every stop in my career, including when we won the Truck Series championship in 2022. Together, Mike and I wanted to honor both of our fathers for the love and support they provided each of us as we built our own racing careers.”



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Fabrizio Giugiaro’s Peralta S to make US debut at Monterey Motorsports Festival 2025

Thursday 10th July 2025 Words: Nathan Chadwick | Photography: GFG Style The Peralta S – the Fabrizio Giugiaro-designed one-off supercar created for collector Carlos Peralta – will be making its US debut at the Monterey Motorsports Festival on Saturday August 16, 2025. Inspired by Giorgetto Giugiaro’s 1972 Maserati Boomerang concept car, the Peralta S uses […]

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Words: Nathan Chadwick | Photography: GFG Style

The Peralta S – the Fabrizio Giugiaro-designed one-off supercar created for collector Carlos Peralta – will be making its US debut at the Monterey Motorsports Festival on Saturday August 16, 2025.

Inspired by Giorgetto Giugiaro’s 1972 Maserati Boomerang concept car, the Peralta S uses the current MC20’s carbon-monocoque underpinnings, which means it is powered by a 621bhp twin-turbocharged V6. Produced by GFG Style, the company set up by Fabrizio and Giorgetto in 2015, the body is made from hand-formed, mirror-polished aluminium that covers the length of the car. Only the sills, rear diffuser and front spoiler are made from carbonfibre.

A front-hinged canopy extends upwards to reveal the interior of the Peralta S. It also eschews traditional windows – instead, they open gullwing-style each side. The wheels are also bespoke, inspired by the Boomerang’s originals, although there is a nod to the future courtesy of an LED headlight strip in the nose. Inside, the interior has been reworked with lashings of leather on the surfaces, but the pressures of modern homologation mean that the unique Boomerang steering wheel couldn’t be replicated in the new car.

The Peralta S made its world debut at the Pastejé Automotive Invitational vehicle show in Mexico earlier this year; it is believed that the model is to remain a one-off.

“The Peralta S has a typical 1970s attitude, and has nothing to do with today’s cars,” said Fabrizio. “I wanted to embellish it with citations, styling cues and references to shapes from a past that made history, but it is also a tribute to my father, through a modern reinterpretation of the volumes of the Boomerang.”

In other news, the Monterey Motorsports Festival will also be hosting a talk from classic car detective Laura Kukuk on car collecting, with tips on pre-purchase inspections, authenticity checks and forensic vehicle analysis.

More details on the Monterey Motorsports Festival can be found here.



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NASCAR lawsuit update: 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports could lose charters

The latest update in the antitrust lawsuit by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports against NASCAR could spell bad news for both teams.  On Wednesday, the teams’ request for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear their case was denied.  That put 23XI and FRM — who each run three entries in NASCAR Cup […]

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The latest update in the antitrust lawsuit by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports against NASCAR could spell bad news for both teams. 

On Wednesday, the teams’ request for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear their case was denied. 

That put 23XI and FRM — who each run three entries in NASCAR Cup Series competition — at risk of losing their charters ahead of the July 20 race at Dover Motor Speedway. All six entries from 23XI and FRM will run as chartered entries this weekend at Sonoma Raceway. 

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports initially sued NASCAR in an anti-trust case in October 2024, alleging that the sanctioning body has “anti-competitive and monopolistic control of the sport.” 

23XI and FRM both declined to sign NASCAR’s new charter agreement in September 2024, but an injunction in December 2024 ruled that both organizations could field their cars as chartered entries in 2025. 

A loss of charters would put 23XI and FRM’s drivers in danger of failing to qualify for races, but the bigger issue would be financial — un-chartered teams earn far less purse money than chartered organizations. 23XI has stated that it is committed to racing this season regardless of charter status. 

A trial in the case is set Dec. 1, but a settlement before then is something lawyer Jeffrey Kessler and 23XI Racing co-owner Denny Hamlin would be open to. 

“I have stated publicly that I’ve always hoped cooler heads would prevail,” Hamlin said in a news conference at Pocono Raceway on June 21. “I can tell you that it’s not on our end that needs cooler heads. We’ve said that. The difference is, they (NASCAR) are saying different things on their end. We’re prepared to go all the way.” 

While it’s not likely that a 23XI or FRM entry would miss a race because of field sizes that rarely exceed 40 cars, the financial impact of losing charters would have on the teams — especially Front Row — can’t be understated. 





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Dollar Tree Extends Multi-Year Partnership with LEGACY MOTOR CLUB – Speedway Digest

LEGACY MOTOR CLUB today announced a contract extension with Dollar Tree that secures the continued sponsorship of the Dollar Tree brand on the No. 42 Toyota Camry XSE of John Hunter Nemechek and the No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE of Erik Jones NASCAR Cup Series entries through 2028. First activated in January 2024 under a multi-year deal […]

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LEGACY MOTOR CLUB today announced a contract extension with Dollar Tree that secures the continued sponsorship of the Dollar Tree brand on the No. 42 Toyota Camry XSE of John Hunter Nemechek and the No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE of Erik Jones NASCAR Cup Series entries through 2028.

First activated in January 2024 under a multi-year deal spanning all 38 NASCAR Cup Series events, the partnership with Dollar Tree and LEGACY MOTOR CLUB has provided strong visibility for Dollar Tree nationwide. 

“We’re excited to extend our partnership with LEGACY MOTOR CLUB through 2028,” said Rick McNeely, Chief Merchandising Officer, Dollar Tree. “This continued collaboration puts our brand in front of millions of loyal NASCAR fans and gives us the opportunity to drive deeper engagement with customers in a bold, high-energy environment. We’re looking forward to what’s ahead with Jimmie (Johnson), John Hunter, Erik, and the entire LEGACY MC team.” 

Nemechek, driver of the No. 42, added, “It’s an honor to continue carrying the Dollar Tree brand on our cars. Their support helps us deliver results on track, bring value back to their vendor partners and helps build fandom of the CLUB.”

Jones, driver of the No. 43, also shared his enthusiasm: “Having such a recognizable brand like Dollar Tree with us for years to come gives the CLUB stability and energy. We are building a legacy together and hope to enjoy success for years to come.”

Cal Wells III, CEO of LEGACY MC emphasized the impact of the partnership: “Dollar Tree is a foundational partner to LEGACY MOTOR CLUB. Their continued investment and commitment will enable us to execute our competitive vision and strengthens our ability to support championship aspirations.”

This weekend, the Nos. 42 and 43 teams head to Sonoma Raceway. Nemechek sits 20th in the point standings, 68 points below the playoff cutoff line and Jones is 17th in the standings, 50 points below the playoff cut line with seven races to go in the regular season.

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