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The 2025 Firekeepers Casino 400 is back at Michigan International Speedway for another year of racing. A 400-mile race that requires 200 laps to complete, it will mark the next race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. Here’s what you need to know about the race, how to watch and more.

When is the Firekeepers Casino 400?

The Firekeepers Casino 400 is scheduled for Sunday, June 8th at 2 p.m. ET.

Where is the race?

The Firekeepers Casino 400 will take place at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.

How long is the race?

The Firekeepers Casino 400 is a total of 200 laps and 400 miles.

Where can I watch the Firekeepers Casino 400? What channel will it be on?

The race will be broadcast live on Amazon Prime Video.

How can I stream or watch the race without cable?

The Firekeepers Casino 400 can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

What is the Michigan International Speedway Schedule?

Friday, June 6th

• NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Practice – 1 p.m. ET
• ARCA Menards Series Practice – 2 p.m. ET
• ARCA Menards Series Qualifying – 3:05 p.m. ET
• ARCA Menards Series Henry Ford Health 200 – 5 p.m. ET (FS2)

Saturday, June 7th

Sunday, June 8th

Who is driving in the race?

There are 36 drivers entered into the Firekeepers Casino 400. Qualifying starts on Saturday, 6/7. 

Newly announced Phorm Energy has joined 14-time NASCAR Cup Series champions Hendrick Motorsports in a multi-year partnership that will help launch a new game-changing energy drink. The agreement, which begins immediately and runs through 2027, will feature dynamic marketing integrations, including primary sponsorship of the No. 24 Chevrolet team, branding with pit crew athletes and a presence inside Hendrick Motorsports’ new athletic center.

Phorm Energy is a powerful partner for those committed to unlocking their full potential. Available in four varieties – Screamin’ Freedom, Blue Blitz, Orange Fury and Grape Smash – Phorm Energy boasts natural flavors, natural caffeine from green tea, electrolytes for hydration and a blend of ingredients aimed at supporting mental focus. Built by two American manufacturers with proud St. Louis roots, this energy drink is the first innovation from the partnership of Anheuser-Busch, 1st Phorm and Dana White.

“Launching Phorm Energy is a huge moment for our team and partnering with Hendrick Motorsports is just another way we can continue to grow and deliver something truly special,” said Sal Frisella, CEO, 1st Phorm. “We have built this brand for people that embrace the grit and grind in their everyday lives, and that’s something that Hendrick Motorsports and their drivers inherently know and understand. We know we found the right partner in Hendrick Motorsports and together we have big plans.”

As part of this new partnership, Phorm Energy will become a primary sponsor of the No. 24 Chevrolet for two races during the 2026 Cup Series season and four events in 2027. The team opened 2025 with its second consecutive DAYTONA 500 victory and currently leads the regular season standings.

The Phorm Energy brand will also serve as a full-year associate sponsor of the Nos. 5, 24 and 48 Hendrick Motorsports teams in 2025, 2026 and 2027. The partnership will incorporate the organization’s elite athletes with Phorm Energy logos placed on firesuits and helmets for the Nos. 5, 24 and 48 pit crews. The three race cars will feature Phorm Energy branding around fuel ports and enhanced logo placement on fueler uniforms.

In addition, the collaboration will extend to Hendrick Motorsports’ new 35,000-square-foot athletic center and corporate meeting space, which broke ground in April and is scheduled to open before the 2026 season. Located on the team’s campus in Concord, North Carolina, the state-of-the-art facility will feature Phorm Energy products and branding, while serving as a hub for training, recovery and overall health for Hendrick Motorsports athletes and employees.

“It’s an amazing opportunity to work with a powerhouse like Anheuser-Busch, as they launch Phorm Energy and build something new,” said Jeff Gordon, vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. “As a brand grounded in shared values of dedication and hard work, we’re proud that the No. 24 team and our incredible athletes get to be part of their community. We’re making a major investment in our facilities to support our teammates with the best possible resources, and it’s exciting to have Phorm Energy involved from day one. We look forward to collaborating on a distinctive and authentic program.”

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Introduction

Every track, past, present, and future, has a story to tell–a storied history with some legendary moments and legendary winners. Since its inception in 1949, 179 unique speedways and tracks have been featured on the NASCAR circuit across its many distinctive series. Today, only 53 of those still remain on the schedule across all of NASCAR’s divisions, while the others often waste away. Some get sold to real estate developers. They get turned into condos or a Walmart or a parking lot or a shopping mall. Others get left to ruin, a painful reminder of their former glory. And some get torn down in order to build a new short track, but never reach beyond the blueprint and/or good idea phase of planning.

For this new series, titled Forgotten Speedways, I thought that it would be interesting to take a look back at some of the tracks that were once mainstays on the NASCAR schedule at some level but have since, for one reason or another, been left off the schedule entirely to erode to Father Time. And, with NASCAR’s more recent interest in having a presence in the Nashville area, I thought it would be appropriate to kick off this series with the long-forgotten other Tennessee racetrack that was once exclusive to the Xfinity and Truck Series, Memphis Motorsports Park.

A Brief History

Memphis Motorsports Park opened in 1986 by founder Ed Gatlin in Millington, Tennessee, a suburb of the Memphis Metropolitan Area. The idea was to, across 400 acres of land, build a racing complex of sorts, consisting of a 0.83-mile dragstrip, a 1.7-mile road course, a dirt track, and a go-kart track. Under this initial leadership, the park hosted the NHRA and the IHRA for their Midsouth Nationals racing events, which were held from 1988 to 2009.

But the property we’re looking specifically at today is the D-shaped oval purpose-built to attract NASCAR and their top 3 nationally touring divisions. Ground for the track broke in 1997, under the new ownership of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach. However, in July of 1998, Dover Motorsports acquired the facility and held ownership of the track through the 2010 season. Beginning in ’98, the track hosted its first sanctioned NASCAR races, hosting the then-NASCAR Busch and Craftsman Truck Series. The track also hosted ARCA events sporadically throughout its tenure.

After NASCAR held its final race at the track in 2009, ARCA continued to race at the facility until 2020. After NASCAR left, the property was sold to the now-defunct Palm Beach International Raceway. Now, the track is currently owned by IRG Sports and Entertainment Group.

Track Layout

The former NASCAR oval at Memphis Motorsports Park is a D-shaped short track oval, similar to the design of Richmond Raceway and Iowa Speedway. It measures in at 0.75 miles in length and consists of a worn and abrasive asphalt surface. The banking in the wide-sweeping corners is 11 degrees. Meanwhile, the backstretch is 3 degrees in banking while the frontstretch is barely steeper at 4 degrees. When the track was built, it was built on the land where the now-closed dirt track once sat. A new dirt track was later built on the site of the defunct go-kart track.

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The track was an exclusive to the lower ranks of NASCAR as they never were able to secure a Cup Series date. Still, it made for a fun stand-alone weekend. The NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series raced there typically in the fall, usually in the month of October, typically when the NASCAR Cup Series was racing at Atlanta.

Both ARCA and the Trucks hosted their first races there in the track’s inaugural season, 1998. The Xfinity Series was added to the weekend festivities in 1999. The second and third-tier series raced at MMP until 2010, their last races occurring in 2009. ARCA, meanwhile, returned in 2001 but only for a one-off. In 2017, Memphis Motorsports Park became a regular fixture on the ARCA Menards schedule until 2020.

After the 2020 season, the D-shaped over was shuttered. However, the drag strip continued to host IHRA races until 2023.

Notable Winners

The list of winners at Memphis Motorsports Park reads like the who’s-who of NASCAR racing. The driver with the most wins there in the Xfinity Series at 2 is Kevin Harvick. Harvick won there in 2000 and then again during his 2006 championship campaign. Other former Busch/Nationwide winners include Carl Edwards, Clint Boyer, Jeff Green, Brad Keselowski, Randy LaJoie, Martin Truex Jr., among others.

In the truck garage, Ron Hornaday won there three times while Jack Sprague and Travis Kvapil both have two wins apiece. Other Truck Series winners were Greg Biffle, Bobby Hamilton, and Ted Musgrave.

The Track Today

Sadly, the track today has been left to ruin. Since the closure of the drag strip in 2022, the track was sold to IRG Sports and Entertainment. Currently, it sits abandoned. It has been taken over with overgrowth and brush, especially in the in-field. There is no word as to what plans are for the land. We only know that slowly, it is being demolished.

That does it for this entry of Forgotten Speedways, Daily Downforce readers. Do you remember Memphis Motorsports Park? It was a mainstay on the schedule when I was growing up and first getting into the sport. Would you like to see it make a comeback? And, if so, to what capacity? Is there room for another D-shaped short track oval in a modern NASCAR schedule? Let us know what you think! And, if you enjoyed this series and would like to suggest other tracks we can cover, let us know! Until next time, stay awesome.

23XI Racing driver Corey Heim has opened up on one of the toughest moments of his young racing career.

The 22-year-old was all set up to take the Truck Series championship in 2023, having already won the regular season title despite missing a race with illness, until being wrecked by Carson Hocevar in the championship race.

Heim wrecked Hocevar in retaliation and was punished with a 25 point drop plus a five-figure fine, with Christian Eckes eventually taking the title in one of the wildest races in Truck Series history, with four overtime restarts.

The young driver has been racing part-time in the Cup Series with 23XI this year alongside his Truck Series commitments, and opened up to The Athletic about what he admitted was a challenging time.

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Heim: 2023 title wreck blown out of proportion

“The 2023 championship in the Trucks, just with Carson (Hocevar) and the whole mess there. It was just a big rollercoaster of emotions and the public perception. For the most part, I’ve been a really clean driver.

“I don’t really cause a lot of crap, but being under that microscope with 30 to go in a Truck (championship) race and everything happening the way it did, it put me in a bad light. I had to handle that because I pride myself on racing the way I want to be race, so seeing people come crashing down on me for retaliating was tough.

“The good part of it was I had the whole offseason to just get over it. It wasn’t like I had to go racing next week with that mindset. But from a broad perspective, I feel like it was a warranted thing, but I had to just understand I was under a microscope, and it got blown out of proportion a little bit from my standpoint.”

Heim has absolutely dominated the Truck Series in 2025, already claiming four wins and four more top-three finishes through 12 races, putting him well over 100 points clear of the rest of the field.

He could see more Cup Series action than expected in the near future too, with 23XI in serious danger of losing drivers Bubba Wallace and Tyler Reddick after an appeals court ruled that NASCAR could strip the team’s charters.

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Chase Elliott’s long-standing relationship with NAPA Auto Parts, spanning 11 years since his NASCAR Xfinity Series days, has hit the headlines when it was revealed that NAPA was poised to partner with one of Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports teammates and Cup Series competitors on a Supercars adventure.

Kyle Larson, who recently made his feelings clear on teammates Elliott and William Byron’s personalities , has faced challenges. His bid for ‘The Double’ ended abruptly as he crashed at the Indy 500 with Arrow McLaren, then suffered another crash at the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, a race which left Elliott pointing the finger of blame.

Following these setbacks, news broke that Larson has withdrawn from a scheduled Supercars race in Australia this November, a venture that was to be supported by Elliott’s major sponsor, which boasts $12.6 billion in revenue. This development coincides with Hendrick Motorsports announcing a significant partnership with a $138 billion titan connected to Kyle Busch.