CHARLOTTE, N.C. — 23XI Racing, the NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan, now has three cars in the sport’s highest circuit.

But while young driver Riley Herbst has been announced as the newest teammate of regular-season champion Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace, it remains up in the air if these up-and-coming race teams will compete as ...Read more

Travis Shumake has made a career out of breaking barriers, which is both dangerous and impressive when you consider he's broken those barriers — and some bones — in a dragster going 324 miles per hour.

"The fastest-accelerating machine on the planet," he said. "Faster than the space shuttle launches."

Surviving those rides has made Shumake...Read more

LOS ANGELES — NASCAR won't visit Southern California next year and there's no certainty when the stock-car racing series will return with construction on a new track in unincorporated San Bernardino County slowed.

NASCAR, which moved its 2025 season-opening event from the Coliseum to Winston-Salem, N.C., after three years, had hoped to race ...Read more

Former child actor and “Malcom in the Middle” star Frankie Muniz is taking his talents to the track full-time.

Muniz, who also headlined “Agent Cody Banks” and “Big Fat Liar,” revealed on Tuesday he’ll be racing in the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 33 F-150 for the Reaume Brothers Racing team.

“I don’t ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — NASCAR Cup Series driver Joey Logano has experienced a wide range of emotions in the past two races.

First, at The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Oct. 13, Logano was eliminated from the playoffs at the end of the Round of 12. Just a few hours after the race, Alex Bowman was disqualified, putting Logano back into the title ...Read more

CONCORD, N.C. — Kyle Larson is a winner at Charlotte.

The star driver for Hendrick Motorsports came out on top in the Bank of America Roval 400 on Sunday on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s road course. It marks the sixth victory of the season for the driver who didn’t get to climb into his No. 5 car after running the Indianapolis 500 on the ...Read more

CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR owner Rick Hendrick was raised on a tobacco farm in rural Virginia.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do in life,” he said, “but I knew that wasn’t it.”

What Hendrick did know is that he was an extrovert who loved fast cars. The NASCAR Hall of Famer turned his twin passions for horsepower and people into ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rick Hendrick remembers a time when he was in awe of just being around NASCAR’s top drivers.

At one point, the 75-year-old longtime owner of Hendrick Motorsports was the youngest person on pit road, looking up to Richard Petty and the Wood Brothers. He remembers calling his mother after he finished school — a co-op ...Read more

Any NASCAR race on a road course allows skills and strategies to shine.

The playoff race at Charlotte Motor Speedway will be run on a unique one — the “Roval,” which features 17 turns over 2.28 miles — for the seventh straight year. It’s a fall tradition that began with Ryan Blaney, now the reigning Cup Series champion, stealing the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two Cup Series teams, including the one owned by Michael Jordan, jointly filed an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR.

23XI Racing, the Huntersville-based team Jordan co-owns with longtime driver Denny Hamlin, joined Front Row Motorsports to argue that the sport’s sanctioning body — led by CEO Jim France — has enriched ...Read more