JCM Motorsports owner Colten Miller tapped Milton, Fla.’s Joseph Joiner to drive for his Birmingham, Ala.-based team at this weekend’s 33rd annual Nutrien Ag Solutions Topless 100 presented by Big River Steel at Batesville Motor Speedway in Locust Grove, Ark.

The 31-year-old, whose Hunt the Front No. 10 team remains committed to the Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series, fills in for the Alabama team after Spencer Hughes departed the Miller-owned No. 19m Rocket Chassis ride last week.

“We’re looking forward to seeing what Joseph can do in our equipment,” Miller said today. “He’s a strong competitor and it’s an exciting opportunity for both sides. I really appreciate Joseph for stepping in and helping out.

“We are continuing to build our reputation for fielding competitive cars and attracting top driving talent. This weekend’s pairing reflects the team’s willingness to explore new opportunities and collaborations. We are excited to see how the weekend goes.”

Though Miller’s No. 19m operation didn’t compete in this past weekend’s North-South 100 at Florence Speedway in Union, Ky., his team received a hardship provisional to maintain full-time status on the Lucas Oil tour, that way his team remains eligible for series contingency awards and provisionals.

For now, two parties don’t have anything planned beyond this Friday and Saturday at Batesville, which culminates with Saturday’s 100-lap, $50,000-to-win finale, but both Miller and Joiner are open to more races together down the road.

“As of right now, we’re going to Batesville trying to keep the JCM team’s Lucas Oil eligibility, all the contingencies and stuff for that,” Joiner said in a phone interview. “We’d like to get involved in teaming up somehow. We’re discussing stuff moving forward, but for now, it’s Batesville only this weekend and we’ll talk about the rest later.

“We weren’t planning on racing this weekend anyway, so it’s like, no harm, no foul,” added Joiner, who makes his Topless 100 debut this weekend. “Instead of having a weekend off, we’ll go run his stuff and see what materializes and see what happens. And that’s pretty much. We’ll see what happens.”

During the NASCAR Truck race at Watkins Glen, Jack Wood suffered a major hit against the guardrail in the esses while driving his No. 91 Chevrolet.

He was evaluated and released from the infield care center, but in an announcement on Thursday, the team revealed that Wood will not be racing this weekend at Richmond Raceway.

Bill McAnally Racing stated that it was a “precautionary measure due to an injury sustained at Watkins Glen International. The No. 91 entry has been withdrawn from the event. An update on Wood’s status will be announced at a later date.”

With no replacement driver, the entry list is down to 36 trucks for Richmond, so there will be no DNQs. No other updates were provided regarding the kind of injury he suffered.

Wood is competing full-time in the Truck Series this year, scoring one top ten in 17 starts. He currently sits 19th in the championship standings. The 25-year-old has 78 career starts in the Truck Series, with his best finish coming at Rockingham earlier this year, where he finished seventh.

Motorsport Games to Present at Sidoti Virtual Investor Conference

MIAMI, Aug. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Motorsport Games Inc. (NASDAQ: MSGM) (“Motorsport Games” or “the Company”), a racing game developer, publisher, and esports ecosystem provider of official motorsport racing series, announced today that Chief Executive Officer and President, Stephen Hood, and Chief Financial Officer, Stanley Beckley, will present and host one-on-one meetings with investors at the Sidoti August Virtual Investor Conference, taking place on August 20-21, 2025.

The presentation will begin at 9:15AM ET on Wednesday August 20, 2025 and can be accessed live here: https://sidoti.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ss-V2g9lQH60RQUQD5y7JQ. Motorsport Games will also host virtual one-on-ones with investors on Wednesday and Thursday, August 20-21, 2025. To register for the presentation or one-on-ones, visit www.sidoti.com/events. Registration is free for all investors and not limited to Sidoti clients.

About Sidoti Events, LLC (“Events”) and Sidoti & Company, LLC (“Sidoti”)
In 2023, Sidoti & Company, LLC , Sidoti & Company, LLC (www.sidoti.com) formed an affiliate company, Sidoti Events, LLC in order to focus exclusively on its rapidly growing conference business and to more directly serve the needs of presenters and attendees.  The relationship allows Events to draw on the over 25 years of experience Sidoti has as a premier provider of independent securities research focused specifically on small and microcap companies and the institutions that invest in their securities, with most of its coverage in the $200 million-$5 billion market cap range. Sidoti’s coverage universe comprises approximately 150 equities, of which almost 70 percent participate in the firm’s rapidly growing Company Sponsored Research (“CSR”) and Lighthouse Equity Research (“Lighthouse”) programs.  Events is a leading provider of corporate access through the many investor conferences it hosts each year. By virtue of its direct ties to Sidoti, Events benefits from Sidoti’s small- and microcap-focused nationwide sales force, which has connections with over 2,500 institutional relationships in North America.  This enables Events to provide multiple forums for meaningful interaction for small and microcap issuers and investors specifically interested in companies in the sector.

About Motorsport Games:
Motorsport Games is a racing game developer, publisher and esports ecosystem provider of official motorsport racing series. Combining innovative and engaging video games with exciting esports competitions and content for racing fans and gamers, Motorsport Games strives to make racing games that are authentically close to reality. The Company is the officially licensed video game developer and publisher for iconic motorsport racing series including the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the FIA World Endurance Championship, recently releasing Le Mans Ultimate Version 1.0 featuring new cars, updated 2025 content and additional improvements. Motorsport Games also owns the industry leading rFactor 2 and KartKraft simulation platforms. rFactor 2 also powers F1® Arcade through a partnership with Kindred Concepts. Motorsport Games is also an award-winning esports partner of choice for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, creating the renowned Le Mans Virtual Series. Motorsport Games is building a virtual racing ecosystem where each product drives excitement, every esports event is an adventure, and every race inspires.

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Katherine Legge admits adapting to NASCAR has been a challenge, but the Great Britain native is getting the hang of driving a stock car after her long history driving sports cars like in IMSA.

At 45 years old, Legge is one of the oldest drivers in the Cup Series this season and an unofficial rookie as well. She’s made six starts in the first 24 races and has had her struggles. Her best finishes have been 17^th in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis and 19^th in the Chicago Street Race. As for her four other appearances, she has not finished higher than 30^th.

If you think that’s bad, Legge has struggled even more in the Xfinity Series, which is supposed to help prepare a driver for eventually competing in the top tier. She’s made 11 career starts and has failed to finish seven of those times, including failing to finish five of her six Xfinity races this season (four times were due to crashes).

To her credit, however, in Legge’s six starts in the Cup Series this year for Live Fast Motorsports, she’s only failed to finish just once. “There’s been so many challenges,” Legge said on this week’s edition of the Stacking Pennies podcast with Corey LaJoie.

“First of all, the car is very different to everything I’ve driven before. Everything I’ve driven before has a lot of downforce and just is different. This moves around a lot. Very heavy weight transfer. You don’t set the car up in a similar way. So, a lot of the stuff that I’ve learned in sports cars or any car doesn’t translate. It’s almost like a different sport.

“So there’s the actual driving aspect of it, but then there’s all the auxiliary stuff like even when you go to a track, I’ve never been to most of these tracks, like where is credentials, where do you drive out to pit lane? The choose, the first time I had to do the choose, I was like, ‘What now? What are we talking about here?’ And so it’s just a lot of new stuff.”

Legge’s mind cannot wander in a NASCAR race

The biggest difference and the hardest thing Legge has had to learn and adapt to is, how in NASCAR, your mind has to be racing at two or three times the speed you’re going in your race car. In other words, you have to constantly be thinking, anticipating, questioning and still find a way to make forward progress around other cars.

“The most challenging thing I guess that covers all of it across the board is having to consciously think live time about everything,” Legge said. “You get to the point where you’ve been doing it for so long, I was in sports cars. I could go to an IMSA race and I didn’t use my brain that much, right? I just turned up.

“I knew what to do in pit stops. I knew what the car needed. I knew what to tell my teammates. I knew when I looked at the data, I could brake a little bit later in Turn 4. (It was) easy. Do that the next time out. There wasn’t a lot of conscious thinking going on. My subconscious was just doing it all for me.

“(Driving a sports car is) smoother and it’s better because your subconscious mind can work so much more efficiently than your conscious mind can. Your conscious mind is like a step behind in my opinion. So, I’m trying to make it like program it so that it’s more and more subconscious and more comfortable.

“Like when I get in the car and I relax, I’m like, “Okay, I know what I’m doing now. I know how to do a start. I know how to look at the lights on the dash for pit lane. I know when to pull into pit lane. I know what the stage is. I know that we’re going to be doing a pit stop in the middle of the last stage.”

Big Game Motorsports will add another World of Outlaws entry

Big Game Motorsports is bringing a second entry to the track this weekend. Donny Schatz will drive the No. 15 car for the team starting Friday at Ogilvie Raceway in Minnesota.

The current deal is for 7 World of Outlaws races.

The team stated, “We’re excited to have Donny Schatz run a second team car during the next seven World of Outlaws races.”

After 18 years, Schatz and Tony Stewart Racing have parted ways. the team made that announcement yesterday.

Schatz is currently 6th in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series standings

Big Game Motorsports comments

“We’re excited to have Donny be a part of the team for the next two and a half weeks,” Big Game Motorsports Owner Tod Quiring said in a team press release.

“Donny has produced a storied career with his 10 World of Outlaws championships and more than 300 World of Outlaws wins. He is also known as one of the cleanest race car drivers in the history of the sport and he does a tremendous job of taking care of equipment.”

“All of that combined with the support from our crew and driver, David Gravel, made it an easy decision to create this second team while the World of Outlaws are racing close to our shop the rest of August.”

Schatz is an eight time champion of the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series.

Big Game Motorsports also fields the No. 2 car driven by David Gravel.

Knoxville Nationals Results: August 9, 2025 (World of Outlaws)

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