Another busy weekend of racing is upon us, starting with the IMSA Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic, along with qualifying for the IndyCar portion of the Detroit weekend, qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix and NASCAR at Nashville, providing lots more ways to keep racing fans on the sofa instead of doing whatever it is they’re supposed to be doing around the house.

Here’s your quick guide to making sure you don’t miss a single lap. (All times Eastern.)

IMSA WEATHERTECH SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP

It’s the IMSA Chevrolet Sportscar Classic on the streets of Detroit.

When is the race? Saturday, 3:40-5:20pm

What channel is the race on? It streams on Peacock in the U.S., and in most other countries on the official IMSA YouTube channel and IMSA.TV.

NTT INDYCAR SERIES

Before the IMSA race, IndyCar takes the stage for qualifying on the Detroit street circuit

What time is qualifying? Saturday, 12:00-2:00pm

What channel is IndyCar qualifying on? FS1

FORMULA 1

F1 is back on a regular circuit this week with the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona.

What time is qualifying? Saturday, 9:55-11:00am

What channel is F1 qualifying on? ESPN2, or stream on F1TV Pro

NASCAR CUP SERIES

Nashville Superspeedway hosts the the Cup, Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series this weekend

What time is Cup qualifying? Saturday, 5:40pm

What channel is qualifying on? Streaming on Prime Video

When is the Xfinity Series race? Saturday, 7:30pm

What channel is the Xfinity Series race on? The CW

Also on track today: NHRA qualifying in Epping, N.H., along with Formula Drift, the SRO GT World Challenge Asia and Australia, FIM Speedway and more on RACER Network and the RACER+ App. See RACER’s weekly TV guide for full details.

They did it. You know who ‘they are,’ and you know what ‘it’ is. We’ve been here before. Every week. It’s tradition. 

The Libs let all of us patriots scoot on through to ANOTHER Friday. Through another week. Through another month. DUMMIES! While they were all focused on allowing a biological boy to throw GAS by some poor high school softball girls, us sane Americans were biding our time, and making it to another weekend. 

And now, we’re here. And we’re ready to have a big one. Let’s roll. 

Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps – the one where we hit the road with Margo Martin, Karoline Leavitt and NASCAR’s Natalie Decker, and go from there. 

What else? I’ve got the best of the rest from a loaded week of #content, Charley Hull getting bored with her threesome picks (what a problem to have!), and CBS’s Jenny Dell stuffing herself into a gold dress that has folks BUZZING on this final Friday of May. 

Whew. What a way to end the week! Let’s finish strong. 

Grab you a three-day old coffee from your desk, slug it down like a man, and settle in for a Friday ‘Cap!

Charley Hull bats leadoff today with ducks on the pond

I know, an odd drink suggestion from me, but that’s how I started my day, so it’s how you’re gonna end yours. 

The desk in my office is an absolute war zone. I stack coffee cups on it all week long. It’s disgusting, really. I’m ashamed of myself. I’m not proud. But, I still do it. 

Anyway, I finished my first cup of Maxwell House this morning, and went back to the kitchen for Round 2 after wrapping up a blog about Charley Hull. She’ll be here in a second, for those wondering. 

I poured some new joe, topped it with some creamer like a lady, and sucked it down like cocaine. Allegedly, of course. 

About halfway through, I realized something tasted a bit funky. I was getting that ‘old coffee’ aftertaste. Of course, that’s when I realized this wasn’t the cup I started my day with. It was my half-full Wednesday cup. 

What a mess. What a way to start a Friday. Did I pour it out? Hell no. Old Maxwell House is better than no Maxwell House, I always say. I pressed on through like a patriot, threw in a nicotine pouch to offset the taste, and pumped out more #content. 

I’d love to see the gaslighters over at MSNBC do that! No shot. They’d probably take a mental health day – and be praised for it! Not me. That’s bush league. We live. We learn. We press on. 

Now, back to that Charley blog I was pumping out!

What a week of #content!

What a pairing! Hottest threesome in golf history? Has to be, right? Charley put up with that nonsense for 18 holes! No shot I’d last that long – both on and off the course. 

Come on! That was a good one. An obvious one. But a good one nonetheless. 

Anyway, I’m with Charley here all the way. 

If the group in front of me has been slow all day, there will be a point in the round where I tee it up on a Par 5 with all four of them still very clearly in the fairway, and let it rip. 

If they get hit, so be it. We let the chips fall where they may at that point. 

I just have no tolerance for it. Well, OK, that’s not fair. I have some. If I’m slugging down a Busch Light Apple and a good song is on, and I’m shooting the shit with someone else in the cart, I don’t mind waiting for a bit. A bit. Not forever. 

But the group in front lining up every single putt like they’re on 18 at Augusta on a Sunday needs to move it the hell along, or else they’re getting a Noodle in the earhole. That’s just the way it is. 

Anyway, sounds like Charley’s a big fan of fast work, fellas! Get in line. 

OK, let’s get to the best #content from a week overflowing with it. I’d pay good money for this version of NCAA 26:

Margo, Karoline & Nat, oh my!

What a week! Good work from everyone involved! Couple obvious thoughts …

1. Good to see FAU Amanda cheering on our Florida Panthers! What a team. What a run. Can’t wait to humiliate Canada again this month. 

2. Peyton shanking one off a house? Amazing. We’ve all been there. Nothing more intimidating than teeing off with houses on your right. White-knuckle City. 

3. Jenny Dell? Jenny Dell. Jenny Damn Dell!

4. Good to see ICE is finally cleaning up Nantucket! JordOn and Bill don’t need those distractions this summer. 

Speaking of that, let’s use it as a jumping off point for our final rapid-fire of the week. Quick, let’s all hop on a ferry and head on over to Martha’s Vineyard – also known as a poor man’s Nantucket!

Amazing. God, there is nothing more entertaining than an old, white, female liberal. They’re truly the most insufferable species on the planet. 

“I think it could be any of us next.” 

What? Huh? Is she an idiot? Stupid question, I know, but I had to ask it. No, dummy. You’re not next. You’re perfectly safe in your $1 million Martha’s Vineyard home, paid for by your oil-trader husband who’s 100% sick of you by now. 

I assume you’re also, I don’t know, a LEGAL citizen of this country, yes? If so, you’re good. I promise, you’re good. 

I wouldn’t mind a ‘Crazy Liberal White Lady’ wing of ICE, though. I smell a new executive order in our future! 

OK, two more on the way out. From insufferable white Libs, to the Hot Women of the White House:

Vroom, vroom, ladies! Choose your fighters, boys and girls. The crazy Lib on Martha’s Vineyard, or Margo & Karoline on a joy ride in Elon’s Tesla. 

Easy call for me. I assume for you, too. 

Speaking of hot drivers, let’s end the week – and the month – with NASCAR’s Natalie Decker. New mom, but the same Nat. Love the grind. 

See you Monday. 

OutKick Nightcaps is a daily column set to run Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. (roughly, we’re not robots).

You worried about ICE getting you next? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.

The NASCAR Cup Series rolls into Nashville, and the storylines are heating up faster than a Tennessee summer night. After a chaotic Coca-Cola 600, Ross Chastain’s win in a backup car turned heads — but was it a fluke, or the start of a Trackhouse resurgence? With the lights going down for a rare night race at the concrete beast of Nashville Superspeedway, everything from tire wear to team strategy is about to be tested under the stars.

• Can Ross Chastain back up his Charlotte win at his statistically best track?
• Is Joe Gibbs Racing ready to capitalize on late qualifying runs and dominate Nashville?
• Will cooler night conditions shake up the field and allow surprise comers and goers?
• And which dark horse is flying way too far under the radar heading into Sunday?

Plus, we break down why AJ Allmendinger is no longer just a road course specialist and what makes him a sneaky contender for Nashville. From surprising trends to deep data insights, Ryan Stevens from WinTheRace.info brings the numbers and the receipts. If you’re betting, building DFS lineups, or just want to sound smarter than your friends, this preview delivers. Who’s your dark horse for Nashville? Drop your picks in the comments.

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“This morning my dad took his final checkered flag,” shared Mike’s son, Travis, on Facebook. “You’ll always be my best friend, thank you for teaching me everything I know about life. You’re no longer suffering and I promise I’ll see you again, dad.”

The Michigan driver won several of short track racing’s crown-jewel events during his impressive career. Eddy won the Winchester 400 in 1981 and 1983, making him one of just nine multi-time winners of the historic event. In that event alone, Eddy is credited with 1,859 laps led during his career.

Robert Wickens went into his first race of the season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Long Beach with a simple goal: “To leave with our heads held high.” The Canadian undoubtedly did that over the course of his maiden event aboard a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R specially adapted to allow him to drive with hand controls. But there was also a feeling of what might have been for Wickens and team-mate Tommy Milner.

The positives included the 2nd generation electronic brake system developed by Bosch Motorsport proving “flawless from start to finish” during the 100-minute race. It allowed him to show his pace competing at this level of motorsports for the first time since returning into professional racing after his life-changing accident in IndyCar back in 2018.

Wickens ended up fastest in second free practice as he threaded his GT Daytona class DXDT Racing Chevy between the walls on the daunting 1.97-mile Long Beach Grand Prix Circuit. He then ended up just over half a second from pole position in qualifying despite a side-swipe from another car on his hot lap — he completed his lap with damaged suspension.

“It was all sunshine and rainbows going into qualifying,” says Wickens, a driver who has always felt an affinity with street circuits. “We thought if we do everything right and play our cards right, we have a shot at pole on debut. Frankly, if you had told me that last week, I would have said you are dreaming.

“But we ended up eighth. The electronic hand control system from Bosch was doing everything I needed it to do. That’s why it hurts that we didn’t get to maximise my qualifying.”

Wickens regards the system developed by Bosch for the Corvette as a breakthrough that has allowed him to take the next step of his racing comeback with a programme in the five IMSA sprint races aboard the Corvette. It is, says Jordan Smart, motorsport application engineer at Bosch Motorsport, “deeply integrated with the car”.

The brakes on the Hyundai TCR car in which Wickens returned to competition in IMSA’s Michelin Pilot Challenge support series were based on hydraulic braking. Now, the Bosch Electronic Brake System (EBS), explains Smart, allows the inputs Wickens makes on the controls on the steering wheel to create “a little electrical signal that is converted into brake pressure” at the wheel. “It’s true brake-by-wire.”

Wickens and Milner went into the Long Beach race on 12 April with ambitions to improve on eighth place on the grid, though with one proviso. Driver changes are an integral part of the IMSA series and DXDT knew that come the race it would lose time to its rivals in the pits.

“It just takes a little more time currently with the position we are in with Robert having to be lifted out of the car,” says Bryan Sellers, DXDT’s programme manager on the IMSA team. “We have a lot of moving pieces with getting Robert out, with getting the next driver in.”

That loss of time resulted in Milner falling to P10 from the seventh position out of which Wickens ducked into the pits. The longtime factory Corvette driver made it as high as fifth, but as he passed a BMW for that position he receives a tap on the rear that dislodges the bodywork.

Race control demands Milner pits to have the errant bodywork properly secured, the delay resulting in a 15th- place finish in class for the DXDT Chevy.

“Safety is the top priority and after having some contact our rear bumper was a little bit loose, and they gave us a black flag to pit for repairs,” explains Wickens. “Our race was more or less over at that point, so we finished whatever it was. I don’t think it tells the whole story.”

“That’s racing,” says Smart. “The system we have developed gave Robert the potential and the pace was there. That was the key takeaway for us: we provided him the tool to get to that level.”