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Cup Series has old faces in new places
All of the talk heading into the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season has been about the Next Gen car’s arrival, so it’s been easy to overlook the drivers who have landed in new rides. A […]
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NASCAR’s stars unify to create formal drivers’ council
CHARLOTTE — NASCAR’s top drivers have once again unified to form an independent council to gain a collective voice in decisions that affect the sport. The Drivers Advisory Council announced on Friday is a more […]
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Iwuji teams with Emmitt Smith on full NASCAR Xfinity season
CHARLOTTE — Jesse Iwuji is a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve who also happens to be juggling a budding NASCAR career. He transitioned between jobs this week when he jetted out of Los Angeles […]
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NASCAR scores win with successful ‘Clash’ inside LA Coliseum
LOS ANGELES — Joey Logano won the exhibition Busch Light Clash on a temporary quarter-mile track built inside Memorial Coliseum for a made-for-TV spectacular intended to hype the NASCAR Cup Series’ upcoming season. NASCAR moved […]
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Team Penske to be first with an electric truck at the track
ONTARIO, Calif. — Team Penske will make history at the Los Angeles Coliseum this weekend when it becomes the first NASCAR team to use an all-electric truck to get its car to the track. The […]
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NASCAR goes West to LA Coliseum as warmup for the Super Bowl
LOS ANGELES — NASCAR is hitting Los Angeles a week ahead of the Super Bowl, grabbing the spotlight with its wildest idea yet: The Clash, the unofficial season-opening, stock-car version of the Pro Bowl, will […]
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Mayweather shifts gears from boxing to NASCAR team owner
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is ready to put The Money into NASCAR. The long-delayed debut of The Money Team Racing team is set for the Daytona 500 later this month, with Kaz Grala as the driver. […]
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SRX hires Hawk as CEO to grow budding motorsports property
Tony Stewart and Ray Evernham will have a boss in the second season of the Superstar Racing Experience, a made-for-CBS all-star summer series coming off a surprisingly strong debut. SRX on Thursday named Don Hawk […]
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Look Ahead — 2022 Bold Predictions
Every year, the sports staff of North State Journal (sports editor Cory Lavalette and reporters Brett Friedlander and Shawn Krest) look into our crystal balls and try and predict what some of the bigger news […]
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Look Ahead — 2022 Newcomer of the Year: Next Gen car will reboot NASCAR
North State Journal’s Newcomer of the Year is often either a teenager or 20-something who bursts on the North Carolina sports scene on an inevitable path to superstardom or a new coach brought in to […]