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No. 60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing wins Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen

Reflecting on the win, Colin Braun credited the team’s strategy and execution, saying, “It was just really good pitch strategy by the guys. Tom did a great job hitting the fuel number he needed to hit. The Acura, HRC, MSR guys were right on with the math to make it work. In the end, it […]

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Reflecting on the win, Colin Braun credited the team’s strategy and execution, saying, “It was just really good pitch strategy by the guys. Tom did a great job hitting the fuel number he needed to hit. The Acura, HRC, MSR guys were right on with the math to make it work. In the end, it just came down to a battle of the fuel save. Great to grab the win, super proud of everybody, and hopefully, it kicks off some good momentum.”



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Hamlin continues climb in NASCAR’s career wins list

DOVER, Del. — Denny Hamlin has stood his ground that wins — enough of them to soon earn his place inside NASCAR’s career top-10 list — matter more to his legacy than a championship. Easy to say, of course, with 58 race victories to zero titles. The 44-year-old Hamlin, still driving the No. 11 Toyota […]

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DOVER, Del. — Denny Hamlin has stood his ground that wins — enough of them to soon earn his place inside NASCAR’s career top-10 list — matter more to his legacy than a championship.

Easy to say, of course, with 58 race victories to zero titles.

The 44-year-old Hamlin, still driving the No. 11 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing as he has done since his rookie season in 2006, is motivated to reach the top 10 this season during the final 15 races of the Cup season. Kevin Harvick is 10th on the career list with 60 and Kyle Busch, still active with Richard Childress Racing, is ninth with 63, giving Hamlin realistic numbers to shoot for the rest of the season.

Best to take advantage at tracks where he’s had success, such as Dover Motor Speedway, where he won Sunday for the second straight year and third time overall, compared with a track like this weekend’s race on the Indianapolis oval, where Hamlin is 0-for-16.

“I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to go back to back so bad,” Hamlin said of Dover. “(Indy’s) a track that I’ve just come so fricking close to winning. I just want to cross off all the major racetracks on our schedule.”

Hamlin is a driver who thrives in the chaos like few others — if any can — in the series. His win at Dover came days after the race team he owns with Michael Jordan suffered a setback in its court fight with NASCAR. He insisted ahead of the race that the legal issues never caused a distraction for him in the race car, then proved it on the mile concrete track with a series-best fourth win of the season.

Maybe more dark clouds — like the ones that opened up Sunday, causing a rain delay just laps ahead of the scheduled finish — can fuel Hamlin at Indy.

“All I can hope is that something happens this week that derails everything and then I’ll do better,” Hamlin said.

Hamlin then turned to a NASCAR employee and cracked, “Maybe it’ll come from them.”

Can Hamlin realistically get to 60 in 2025? He won eight times in 2010, six times in 2019 and seven in 2020, all totals that would get him to 60 this year.

“When you get him in a situation where he’s got the ball in his hands and it’s time to go win the race, he finds a way to do that most times,” crew chief Chris Gayle said.

It’s a fitting analogy for a race team owned by a former NFL coach.

At his pace, Hamlin remains a contender to cash in this November at Phoenix Raceway and win his first NASCAR championship — even if he lost out on the $1-million prize in the series’ first In-season challenge.

$1 million is on the line

The idea for the challenge was largely championed by Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 winner who floated the idea of a midseason tournament on his “Actions Detrimental” podcast. When NASCAR bought into the idea and announced the creation of the tournament last year, Hamlin called the tournament on social media “such a win for our sport and drivers.” He jokingly added, “I will collect my 1M royalty next season.”

Hamlin earned the No. 1 seed — and was promptly eliminated in the first race by Ty Dillon, the No. 32 seed.

Dillon faces Ty Gibbs next week at Indianapolis to decide the first winner of the tournament.

Was the In-season challenge a success?

Hamlin said the five-race, bracket-style tournament overall was a success — but not without a few kinks. Some of the seeding was off, such as Shane van Gisbergen not qualifying for the field, then ripping off consecutive wins on the Chicago street race and Sonoma Raceway during the tournament races.

And sure, everyone loves a Cinderella in March. But two in July isn’t necessarily making the tournament the NASCAR story of the summer.

“I think it has been unfortunate, right, you probably had a lot of the top seeds get knocked out pretty early in it, but overall, I thought the implementation of it has been good,” Hamlin said.

The other side of the argument is this: Would any fan or media outlet really care about a pair of winless drivers such as Gibbs (the sixth seed) or Dillon at this point of the season without $1 million at stake?

“For a team like us, at this point in the season, we’re not exactly where we want to be yet, but we’re trending in a good direction,” Dillon said on TNT. “Our story doesn’t get told in years past. It’s mainly the guys trying to fight for the points position. It’s the guys running up front, trying to win the race. But our story and our growth in the year stops getting told. I’m grateful we’ve been able to show our personality as a team.”

Unlike the All-Star race where the winner pockets $1 million, the driver with the best finish earns the cash prize, a ring, jackets and a trophy.

How they fared

Dillon had luck on his side during his run, with his lone top-10 finish coming in the first race in Atlanta. He advanced in that race after Hamlin crashed out and finished 31st. Dillon twice has finished 20th, including at Dover. He has a best finish of 13th in five career races on the Indy oval.

Gibbs, the grandson of team owner and football and NASCAR Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs, and Dillon have failed to win in a combined 374 Cup races. Dillon has only two career top-five finishes in a career that dates to 2014. The 22-year-old Gibbs has a much better pedigree, winning the 2022 Xfinity Series title, a series in which he was a 12-time winner. He has six top 10s already this season and could make NASCAR’s playoffs on points.

Gibbs has three straight top 10s in the tournament, including a fifth-place finish at Dover. Gibbs finished 23rd on the Indy oval last season.

He’s done enough to impress his grandfather.

“There’s some people there that we got off to a terrible start, it was awful, (but) I had people on that group that came to me encouraging me, ideas for me, after it. I think they care for Ty. It just was a huge deal,” the 84-year-old Gibbs said. “This sport will really measure you. But those guys have fought back.”



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Lonsdale Sports Arena first sanctioned stock-car race in North

Sights and sounds from NASCAR Cup Series Race Day at Talladega Superspeedway Sights and sounds from NASCAR Cup Series Race Day at Talladega Superspeedway as the Jack Links 500 runs on Sunday afternoon. The Lonsdale Sports Arena in Cumberland, Rhode Island, hosted the first sanctioned stock car race outside the South in 1947. Fonty Flock […]

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  • The Lonsdale Sports Arena in Cumberland, Rhode Island, hosted the first sanctioned stock car race outside the South in 1947.
  • Fonty Flock won the national championship race at the arena, witnessed by 18,000 spectators.
  • The arena, built on a former sand and gravel mine, also hosted other sporting events, including a record-breaking high school football game.

CUMBERLAND – What is now a shopping plaza that includes a Stop & Shop and a McDonald’s holds a noted place in American auto racing history: It is the site of the first sanctioned stock car race in the United States outside the South.

Not only would the first stock car races in the North be held in Cumberland, but the national championship would be decided there.

On Oct. 26, 1947, Fonty Flock, of Atlanta, won the national championship race on the one-third-mile, high-banked, paved oval track of the Lonsdale Sports Arena off Mendon Road on the bank of the Blackstone River, just downstream from Pratt Dam.

A crowd of 18,000 watched the seven races that Sunday afternoon, part of a program sanctioned by National Stock Car Circuit head Bill France, who, a couple of months later, would become head of the newly formed NASCAR, the governing body of stock car auto racing.

Only days before the history-making auto races, Lonsdale Sports Arena made history in another sport: The bowl-shaped arena hosted 32,000 spectators in what was the largest football crowd ever in Rhode Island at that time, as Cranston High School beat La Salle Academy, 20-2. The huge crowd snarled traffic for hours in the area.

Edward A. McNulty, a Pawtucket contractor, bought the site in 1934 and used it to mine sand and gravel for his road-building business. In 1947, he built the track to host midget-car races. Two years later, McNulty won Lincoln Town Council approval to open a drive-in movie theater in Lonsdale, just across the Blackstone River from his race track.

While the late 1940s were the heyday for the race track, it was doomed to a life of less than a decade. Being so close to the Blackstone River meant the track was prone to flooding. It closed in 1956.

And, although Bill France sanctioned the first stock car races at Lonsdale months before founding NASCAR, no record could be found of a NASCAR-sanctioned race ever being held there.



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Best In The Desert’s Legendary Vegas-to-Reno Race to Launch on Revolutionary Motorsports Platform, WatchParty

Press Release | July 22, 2025 Best In The Desert announces that the upcoming Vegas-to-Reno race will debut with full integration on WatchParty, the motorsports entertainment platform designed to unify and elevate the way fans, teams, and promoters experience live racing. This is a press release from BITD… Las Vegas, NV (July 21, 2025) — Best In The Desert is proud to […]

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Press Release | July 22, 2025

Best In The Desert announces that the upcoming Vegas-to-Reno race will debut with full integration on WatchParty, the motorsports entertainment platform designed to unify and elevate the way fans, teams, and promoters experience live racing.

Best In The Desert Vegas to Reno Race WatchParty

This is a press release from BITD…

Las Vegas, NV (July 21, 2025) — Best In The Desert is proud to announce that the upcoming Vegas-to-Reno race—one of the most iconic and demanding off-road events in North America—will debut with full integration on WatchParty, the groundbreaking motorsports entertainment platform designed to unify and elevate the way fans, teams, and promoters experience live racing.

For years, off-road racing fans have had to cobble together a race-day experience from scattered sources—jumping between team Instagram stories, third-party trackers, race organizer websites, and delayed social media updates—making it nearly impossible to follow the full story of a race as it unfolds. Even teams and promoters have struggled with fragmented communication and limited fan engagement tools.

WatchParty changes that. For the first time in desert racing history, everything is in one place.

“Vegas-to-Reno is one of the longest single-day off-road races in the U.S., and now it’s going to set a new standard for how the world watches off-road racing,” said Bryan Folks, CMO of Best In The Desert. “This partnership with WatchParty gives our fans, our racers, and our staff a single, integrated command center for everything—video, data, tracking, you name it.”

WatchParty is built from the ground up to serve the needs of modern motorsports fans and professionals. The platform offers:

  • Multi-Feed Video Canvas – Watch from every angle with feeds from official broadcasts, in-car cameras, drones, and on-course camera ops.
  • Immersive 3D Tracking & Streaming Integration – Real-time competitor positions overlaid on interactive terrain maps alongside live feeds.
  • Instant Timing, Scoring & Leaderboards – Immediate access to race stats with customizable leaderboards and social media integration.
  • Community-Driven Experience – Integrated feeds from Instagram, Race-Dezert forums, and other social channels fuel the conversation without ever leaving the app.

“WatchParty was designed to fix a broken experience,” said Dustin Camilleri, Co-Founder of WatchParty. “You shouldn’t need three apps, five browser tabs, and a spreadsheet to follow your favorite off-road race. Now you don’t.”

This race will also mark the beginning of a limited-time free trial period for WatchParty, allowing fans to explore the full range of features. While core functionality will remain free, subscription-based upgrades and premium features will be introduced in the coming months to support ongoing development and expanded race coverage.

With Vegas-to-Reno as its proving ground, WatchParty aims to redefine how desert racing is consumed and celebrated—putting power and personalization in the hands of every viewer, while giving teams and promoters a centralized, professional-grade tool for delivering and managing coverage.

Fans can access the full Vegas-to-Reno experience live on WatchParty from race day through final results. Additional platform announcements and future event integrations are expected in the coming months.

 

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NASCAR on The CW Hits Impressive Viewership Milestone 20 Races Into the Season

What’s Happening? Following the race at Dover, the CW finished the 20th race of its inaugural full season of NASCAR Xfinity Series coverage. In doing so, the network, the newest to the NASCAR lineup, has achieved 16 races with more than 1 million viewers through its first 20 races. The CW says the rain-shortened Dover […]

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Following the race at Dover, the CW finished the 20th race of its inaugural full season of NASCAR Xfinity Series coverage. In doing so, the network, the newest to the NASCAR lineup, has achieved 16 races with more than 1 million viewers through its first 20 races.

  • Saturday’s rain-shortened race at Dover Motor Speedway saw Connor Zilisch walk away with his fourth win of the season and his first short track win of his National Series career. On the broadcast side, the CW, which is broadcasting NASCAR for the first time as part of a new media rights deal, drew in 1.047 million viewers.
  • While the CW’s consistency in scoring 1 million or more viewers is impressive, this race, the 20th of the season, gave the CW 16 races so far this season with over 1 million viewers. This means that the network has had over 1 million viewers tune in for over 75% of races so far this season.
  • Xfinity Series viewership is up 16.854% compared to available viewership data from 2024. This boost in viewership came as promised to NASCAR fans. In the months following the announcement of the partnership between NASCAR and the CW, NASCAR officials often spoke about the CW’s large broadcast network, leading most fans to expect a rise in viewership and exposure for NASCAR’s secondary series.
  • Despite early issues with local networks, including production errors and conflicting broadcasts, the CW started the season with an impressive 13-race streak of more than 1 million viewers. However, it is worth noting that since the streak ended at Nashville Superspeedway, the network has had over 1 million viewers in only three of the past six races.

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NASCAR Changes Rule Amidst Lawsuit | Connor Zilisch Continues To Impress

Out of the Groove is the No. 1 NASCAR News and Talk Show on YouTube. With fresh episodes produced daily, Eric’s audience — the Groovy Gang — tunes in daily not only to stay up to speed with the sport, but also to be a part of the spirited and fun online conversation. Out of […]

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Out of the Groove is the No. 1 NASCAR News and Talk Show on YouTube. With fresh episodes produced daily, Eric’s audience — the Groovy Gang — tunes in daily not only to stay up to speed with the sport, but also to be a part of the spirited and fun online conversation.

Out of the Groove consistently delivers the latest stories from around the NASCAR world, including Cup, Xfinity, Trucks, and ARCA. Out of the Groove is the best YouTube series for fans who want to stay in the know!



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How to Watch the NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis

The NASCAR Cup Series heads to hallowed ground this weekend, competing in the Brickyard 400 presented by PPG at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Find out how to watch the race this Sunday, July 27 and see who joins the list of Brickyard 400 winners, and who claims the $1 million prize in the NASCAR In-Season Challenge. […]

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The NASCAR Cup Series heads to hallowed ground this weekend, competing in the Brickyard 400 presented by PPG at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Find out how to watch the race this Sunday, July 27 and see who joins the list of Brickyard 400 winners, and who claims the $1 million prize in the NASCAR In-Season Challenge.

Kyle Larson (5) celebrates his win by kissing the Yard of Bricks following the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK

The Brickyard 400 presented by PPG is the fifth and final race of the inaugural NASCAR In-Season Challenge. Ty Dillon will race against Ty Gibbs for the $1 million championship prize, with the higher finisher between the two drivers in the race claiming the award.

This will be the final NASCAR Cup Series race televised on TNT for the 2025 season as the In-Season Challenge concludes. The green flag waves at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 27.

Both practice and qualifying coverage for the Brickyard 400 will be on truTV. Practice takes place on Friday, July 25, at 1:05 p.m. ET, while qualifying is Saturday, July 26 at 2:35 p.m. ET.

Cole Custer (00) and Riley Herbst (98) lead the field through turn one on the first lap of the Pennzoil 250.

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This weekend in will also see the NASCAR Xfinity Series racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as well as the return of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at nearby Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.

Saturday’s Pennzoil 250 for the NASCAR Xfinity Series airs at 4:30 p.m. ET on The CW Network. Qualifying will air at 1 p.m. on Saturday on the CW App.

If you are having difficulty finding The CW Network, click here for a station guide from The CW, which will show you the tune-in info for The CW in your region. All you have to do is enter your zip code into the station guide.

Meanwhile, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series both race at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday, July 25. Coverage on FS1 begins at 3:05 p.m. ET with NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series practice, and includes Truck Series qualifying and both races.

The ARCA Menards Series is scheduled to take the green flag at 5:30 p.m. ET for the LIUNA! 150 presented by Dutch Boy. The TSport 200 for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET.

Friday, July 25

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TV

12:05 p.m. ET

NASCAR Xfinity Series Practice

CW App

1:05 p.m. ET

NASCAR Cup Series Practice

truTV

3:05 p.m. ET

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Practice

FS1

4:10 p.m. ET

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Qualifying

FS1

5:30 p.m. ET

ARCA Menards Series LIUNA! 150 presented by Dutch Boy

FS1

8 p.m. ET

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series TSport 200

FS1

Saturday, July 26

Time

Session

TV

1 p.m. ET

NASCAR Xfinity Series Qualifying

CW App

2:35 p.m. ET

NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying

truTV

4:30 p.m. ET

NASCAR Xfinity Series Pennzoil 250

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Sunday, July 27

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2 p.m. ET

NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 Presented by PPG

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