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NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (April 23, 2024) – NASCAR and Speedway Motorsports today announced details for the 2025 NASCAR All-Star Race to be held on Sunday, May 18, for the third consecutive year at iconic North Wilkesboro Speedway. This season’s format will again feature two heat races to set the All-Star Race starting lineup and a 100-lap All-Star Open, plus an extended 250-lap main event. In addition to a longer All-Star Race, several new aspects will debut including a Manufacturer Showdown, a Promoter’s Caution, modifications to Open qualifying, and Pit Crew Challenge eligibility. All eyes will be on the stars of the sport as they take on these new elements at the historic .625-mile track in the annual exhibition.

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CONCORD, N.C. (April 21, 2025) – Tony Stewart, the 112th and latest winner in the NHRA’s Top Fuel ranks, now has a chance to make more history with a victory at the 1,000th Top Fuel race in NHRA history at this weekend’s American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at state-of-the-art zMAX Dragway.

Sammy Smith was the surprise winner at Rockingham after Jesse Love's car failed tech inspection

(ROCKINGHAM, NC – APRIL 20, 2025 – RIS) Hours after the checkered flag, victory burnouts and the post-race celebrations, the results of Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series North Carolina Education Lottery 250 presented by Black's Tire got turned upside down. The Jesse Love-driven winning car failed to get through tech inspection when it was deemed to have violated NASCAR’S Rule 14.14.2.I-5.h which covers trailing arm spacers and pinion angle shims. This gave the win to Sammy Smith.

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ROCKINGHAM, NC – RIS -As the NASCAR Xfinity Racs came down to a finish, any number of drivers could win, but the question was who would win? It was difficult to determine. As it turned out, Jesse Love won, but it was an exciting climax until the caution flew that determined who that would be.
Jesse Love went from third to first on the overtime restart to win Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity race at Rockingham Speedway, the first Xfinity race at the historic track since 2004.
Love led 53 laps and stretched his fuel over the final 96 laps to collect his second win of the season and third career Xfinity win. He did so before a sellout crowd at Rockingham. Sammy Smith, who lost the lead to Love on the overtime restart, finished a season-best second. Smith collected the $100,000 bonus for winning the Xfinity Dash 4 Cash. It was his first Dash 4 Cash bonus.
Parker Retzlaff overcame a flat tire with about 100 laps to go to finish third, tying his career-best Xfinity result.Harrison Burton placed fourth, and Brennan Poole completed the top five. Alpha Prime Racing had two cars finish in the top five for the first time with Retzlaff and Poole.
Kasey Kahne, making his first NASCAR start since 2018, finished 15th after he was collected in two separate incidents.
Saturday's race was slowed by 14 cautions for 83 laps and two red flags in the 256-lap race.
. Katherine Legge failed to qualify for the race but replaced JJ Yeley in a car for Joey Gase Motorsports. She finished last in the 38-car field after a crash. William Sawalich made contact with Legge's car as she was being lapped. The contact spun Legge's car into the path of Kahne's car, causing damage to the right front of Kahne's vehicle.
Nick Sanchez won Stage1 and Dean Thompson won Stage 2
As the race moved on to its conclusion, fuel was the issue for several drivers. Love last pitted with 90 laps to go, in the final 60 laps after the 11th caution, Love was chasing Ryan Sieg, who pitted 10 laps before him, and hanging back knowing that his No. 10 Richard Childress Racing car had a higher chance of making it to the end. For the fifth time this year, the end of the race came out of regulation with a green-white-checkered finish.
With 18 laps remaining, Love was setting up Sieg to pass him on the inside when Daniel Dye went around collecting Kasey Kahne. This was the second spin that caught Kasey Kahne in his NASCAR return after being retired from the sport for eight years. William Sawillich collected the retired driver along with Katherine Legge in her first Xfinity Series start of the year, to bring out the first yellow of the race back in stage one.

Zillish at COTA

In a Very Close-intense  qualifying session at Rockingham Speedway, Connor Zilisch from JR Motorsports blazed his way to claim the pole position for the highly anticipated North Carolina Education Lottery 250. Zilisch showcased his exceptional skills by clocking a remarkable lap time of 22.63 seconds at an impressive speed of 149.536 mph, marking his third pole position this season and his fourth in just 14 NASCAR Xfinity Series races.

Tyler Ankrum won NASCAR's return to Rockingham

ROCKINGHAM, NC  -RIS -  McAnally-Hilgemann Racing's Tyler Ankrum saved fuel to snap a 130-race winless streak in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, visiting Victory Lane in the series' first trip to Rockingham Speedway in 12 years. With the win, Ankrum also took home the final $50,000 bonus in the Triple Truck Challenge.

Most recent winner Tony Stewart in testing a couple of  years ago

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CONCORD, N.C. – One of the most electrifying spectacles in motorsports returns to zMAX Dragway this month with more thunder than ever as the 15th annual NHRA 4-Wide Nationals takes over zMAX Dragway for the milestone 1,000th Top Fuel race in NHRA history, April 25-27. In recognition of its 1,000th Top Fuel event, this year’s NHRA 4-Wide Nationals is set to include landmark moments like a special celebration of notable Top Fuel winners, legends in attendance and a weekend filled with nitro racing.
Weekend celebrations will include a driver autograph session with notable winners through the years, special appearances and more.

(ROCKINGHAM, NC - APR 15, 2025 - RIS) Early entry lists for the return to Rockingham by NASCAR's Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series races. 

CONCORD, N.C. (April 14, 2025) — Ahead of zMAX Dragway’s thrilling 44,000-horsepower, four-wide spectacle of speed, American Rebel Beer has partnered with zMAX Dragway as the entitlement sponsor for the April 25-27 American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals. Tickets for the April 25-27 spectacle are on sale at www.charlottemotorspeedway.com

Tony Stewart with his first Top Fuel Wally trophy

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LAS VEGAS (April 13, 2025) – Tony Stewart, Austin Prock & Dallas Glenn Get Wins at NHRA 4-Wide Nationals
- “Smoke” rolls to first career TF win
- Prock gets first FC victory of season
- Glenn wins PS final on holeshot

(BRISTOL, TN – APRIL 13, 2025 – RIS) Kyle Larson picked up where he left off in Saturday’s Xfinity race, dominating the Food City 500 by leading 411 laps on the “Last Great Colosseum” at Bristol Motor Speedway and averaging just over 100 mph for the race. Larson’s victory is his 31st in NASCAR Cup competition.

(BRISTOL, TN – APRIL 12, 2025 – RIS) Kyle Larson essentially had the track to himself in the Xfinity Series SciAps 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway, leading 277 laps, setting the fastest lap of the race and finishing over two seconds ahead of runner-up Carson Kvapil. 

Doug Kalitta - Top Fuel No. 1 qualifier

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LAS VEGAS (April 12, 2025) The final pass of Saturday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway proved to be a great one for Doug Kalitta, as the former Top Fuel world champion picked up the win in the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge and rolled to the No. 1 position in one impressive pass at the 25th annual NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.

(Bristol, TN – Apr 12, 2025 – RIS) The two Chevrolets of Alex Bowman and Kyle Larson will lead the NASCAR Cup Series to the green flag from the pole position. Posting top 10 speeds on the final practice leaderboard, the 31-year-old Tucson, Arizona, native went on to lay down a best lap of 14.912 seconds, at 128.675 mph, in his Chevrolet to earn the pole position for tomorrow’s Food City 500. 

BRISTOL, TN =- RIS – Kyle Larson might not do the triple at Bristol Motor Speedway, but he won the pole for today’s Xfinity race.  The first two rows are locked up by Chevys, and Kyle Larson in the No. 17 HendrickCars.com Chevy is on the pole. Larson came up short in the NASCAR Truck Series race last night, P2. This afternoon, he hopes to win his first Xfinity Series race of the season.

(BRISTOL, TN – APRIL 11, 2025 – RIS) Chandler Smith drove away from a charging Kyle Larson in a late-race restart to take the Weather Guard Truck Race at Bristol. Smith earned a bonus of $50,000 as winner of one of the Triple Truck Challenge races.

Greg Anderson - top Friday qualifier in Pro Stock

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LAS VEGAS (April 11, 2025) – Four-time Top Fuel world champion Steve Torrence powered to the provisional No. 1 qualifier on Friday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, as he looks for his first top position of the year at the 25th annual NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.

(BRISTOL, TN - APR 11, 2025 - RIS) Mother Nature had April showers in mind for the Bristol Motor Speedway area, keeping all track activities indoors and forcing NASCAR's Craftsma Truck Series Weather Guard truck race starting lineup to be set by their performance metric. This gave the first starting position to Daniel Hemric, followe by Tyler Ankrum, Chandler Smith, Corey Heim and Jake Garcia. 

(BRISTOL, TN - APR 11, 2025 - RIS) Here are the entry lists for this weekends NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series races at Bristol Motor Speedway. Truck qualifying was rained out and the starting order set according to the NASCAR rulebook.

Denny Hamlin Speeds to win at Darlington

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(DARLINGTON, SC – 06 APR, 2025 – RIS) Denny Hamlin’s pit crew got him back on the track first in an overtime restart, with a three-wide battle behind him saw race dominating William Byron sweep into second place, followed by Christopher Bell and Tyler Reddick. The win is number 56 in Hamlin’s Cup Series career. “The pit crew just did an amazing job,” said Hamlin after they earned him wins both last week and this week.

Early arrivals were driven around the track in this and a few other exotics on Friday

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(CONCORD, NC – 06 APR, 2025 – RIS) This weekend saw the grand opening of a new motor sports ‘country club’ in Concord, NC. Across the street from Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Turns One and Two, Ten Tenths is the brain child of Marcus Smith and Rick Hendrick. Following two years of the Smith Heritage Invitational meeting at AutoFair, the grand opening of the club featured a collection of historically significant classics, vintage race cars and examples of current supercars, plus a race for Historic Trans-Am cars and a Pro-Am race that pitted ten pro racers against amateurs who bid for the opportunity with the proceeds going to Speedway Children’s Charities.

DARLINGTON, SC – RIS.News.com -  Brandon Jones took the lead with 12 laps to go and went on to win Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity race at Darlington Raceway.Jones snapped a 98-race winless streak with the victory — his second at Darlington and sixth of his Xfinity career.

William Byron snagged the fastest lap in qualifying for Sunday's NASCAR Cup race.  He was followed by Ryan Preece.  In a thrilling display of skill and determination, Byron clinched the pole position at Darlington, adding another remarkable achievement to his racing career. The Darlington Raceway, known for its uniquely challenging track, has always been a proving ground for the best drivers in NASCAR.

DARLINGTON, SC – RIS – Chistopher Bell will start of the pole for Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity race at Darlington Speedway.  Bell won the fall race in the Xfinity Series at Darlington last year from the pole. Is he going to win his second in a row?

The 1965 Indianapolis 500-winning paint scheme appears on Josh Berry's Wood Brothers car

(DARLINGTON, SC - MAR 31, 2025 - RIS) Preliminary entries for this weekend's 'Throwback" weekend featuring paint schemes that remind us of past racers and sponsors. The Wood Brothers' No. 21 Ford is carrying a paint scheme echoing the Lotus-Ford driven by Jimmy Clark to win the Indianapolis 500.

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MARTINSVILLE, VA – Denny Hamlin dominated the NASCAR Cup Series at Martinsville, Virginia on Sunday.  Hamlin ended a 19-race winless streak at his home-state track, fending off a furious challenge by Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell to win at Martinsville Speedway.

Jack Beckman gave John Force Racing the team's 300th Funny Car victory

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- Millican slips past Stewart in TF final
- Beckman hands JFR 300th FC victory
- Anderson sets track record in PS win
POMONA, Calif. (March 30, 2025) – Clay Millican edged out Tony Stewart in an explosive Top Fuel final round on Sunday for Rick Ware Racing, winning for the first time at historic In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip at the 65th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals.

After restarting seventh on an overtime restart, Austin Hill avoided the chaos unfolding around him to slip past the leaders coming to the checkered flag and earn his second win of the season in dramatic fashion at Martinsville Speedway.

Shawn Langdon won the Mission Top Fuel #2Fast2Tasty Challenge

POMONA, Calif. (March 29, 2025) – Defending world champion Austin Prock and his John Force Racing teammate Jack Beckman dominated the Funny Car ranks on Saturday at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, as Prock powered to the No. 1 qualifier position at the 65th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals and Jack Beckman won the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge specialty race.

MARTINSVILLE, VA – RIS – Christopher Bell will sit on the pole for Sundays NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday afternoon. Bell has seen joy and heartbreak when it comes to a NASCAR Cup Series race at the Martinsville Speedway. Back in the Fall 2022 Martinsville Cup Series race he got his first victory at Martinsville which put him in the Championship Four. Last fall at "The Paperclip" NASCAR determined that Bell made an unsafe move and put him on the tail end of the lap he was on as he was one lap down, costing him four spots and leaving him those four points short of advancing to the Champ 4. grandfather clock.

Connor Zilisch on the pole for Martinsville's Xfinity race

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(MARTINSVILLE, VA – MAR 28, 2025 – RIS) Rookie Connor Zilisch scored the pole position in his first Xfinity Series appearance at Martinsville. Corey Heim will start first in Friday evening’s Craftsman Truck Series race.

Hemric takes the checkers at Martinsville

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(MARTINSVILLE, VA – MAR 28, 2025) Daniel Hemric nailed the back flip off the roof of his Gates Hydraulics Chevy after winning the Corey Heim’s heartbreak season continued at Martinsville after he led 129 laps and took the first two stages before a cut left-rear tire sent the No. 11 Toyota into a spin, dropping him to last on the lead lap approaching the choose with 28 laps left of the 200-lap race.

(MARTINSVILLE, VA - MAR 26, 2025) Here are the preliminary entry lists for this weekend's NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Craftsman Truck series races.

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HOMESTEAD, FL – RIS – The favorite to win the NASCAR Cup race at Miami Homestead came through with a pass with six laps to go that sealed the win for Kyle Larson.  Larson soared to victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race, bypassing teammate Alex Bowman late at Homestead-Miami Speedway for his 30th career Cup win.

Paul Lee celbrates with his Wally

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PHOENIX (March 23, 2025) – Top Fuel’s Shawn Langdon won for a second straight year at Firebird Motorsports Park on Sunday, powering past Kalitta Motorsports teammate Doug Kalitta in the final round in front of a sellout crowd at the 40th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals.
-  Langdon wins second straight in Phoenix
-  Lee grabs first career FC victory
-  Anderson wins wild PS final

HOMESTEAD, FL – RIS – Justin Allgaier won the NASCAR Xfinity race at Homestead Miami Speedway in an exciting overtime finish with Sam Mayer finishing second.  Kyle Larson had a 15-second lead when the caution flag flew with six laps to go via a Taylor Gray spin, but only five cars were on the lead lap. Contact from Sam Mayer stymied Larson on the final restart, and Allgaier passed those two and Austin Hill from the second row to win for the second weekend in a row. Allgaier had never recorded a top-5 finish at Homestead until Saturday's race.

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PHOENIX (March 22, 2025) – Capps, Langdon and J. Coughlin Win First Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge Of 2025 in Front of Sellout Crowd at NHRA Arizona Nationals. Funny Car’s Ron Capps claimed the first Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge win of the year on Saturday in front of a sellout crowd at Firebird Motorsports Park, defeating Matt Hagan in the final round of the bonus race as part of the 40th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals.

(HOMESTEAD, FL – MAR 22, 2025 – RIS) Alex Bowman Scored his sixth career NASCAR Cup Series pole, turning the quickest lap in qualifying at Homestead-Miami Speedway to beat out Josh Berry, Noah Gragson, Chase Briscoe and William Byron. Bubba Wallace topped Erik Jones’ time in practice for the Straight Talk Wireless 400 by only 25 thousandths of a second, clocking a best lap of 32.344 seconds at 166.955 mph. Wallace also had the best 10-lap average over his practice runs, averaging 163.752 mph, beating out Denny Hamlins’ 163.547 average. Friday night’s Craftsman Truck race winner Kyle Larson was third in both practice and the 10-lap average. 

(HOMESTEAD, FL – MAR 22, 2025 – RIS) Taylor Gray will start on the pole position for the Hard Rock Bet 300  NASCAR Xfinity race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Three rookies, Gray, Connor Zilisch and Nick Sanchez will start in the top trio of starting positions, with veteran Justin Allgaier starting fourth. Another rookie, Christian Eckes, will start in fifth position.

PHOENIX (March 21, 2025) – Top Fuel’s Doug Kalitta powered to the provisional No. 1 position on Friday at Firebird Motorsports Park, making the only run in the 3.60s at the 40th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals.