By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
It’s not hyperbole to describe Sunday night’s Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium as an unequivocal success.
That was the overwhelming consensus of race fans and competitors alike, after Chase Elliott outlasted hard-charging Ryan Blaney to win the season-opening exhibition race for the first time.
That said, here are three top-line conclusions drawn from Sunday’s race.
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For the last three years, NASCAR tried a grand experiment, taking its annual preseason exhibition, the Cup Series Clash, to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Much the same as the NFL playing games in London, the idea was NASCAR should stage a race in a new market to grow the sport and let new fans see an event live.
by Austin Konenski, Motorsports Wire
Starting in 2025, NASCAR will introduce an unprecedented rule change to all three levels. On Tuesday morning, Sports Business Journal’s Adam Stern reported that NASCAR will partner with Xfinity to award one point to the driver with the fastest lap in a Cup, Xfinity, or Truck Series race. It will be called the “Xfinity Fastest Lap.” (more…)
DALLAS (Feb. 4, 2025) – The most tenured team partnership in all of NASCAR continues unabated in 2025. Interstate Batteries, the leading replacement battery brand in the United States, has signed a multi-year extension with Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) to continue their partnership well into a fourth decade.
STUART, Va. (February 3, 2025) – Wood Brothers Racing today announced a new partnership with PPG that will see the global leader in paints, coatings and specialty products featured as the primary partner on the No. 21 Ford Mustang driven by Josh Berry for the Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 27.
No Reserve Offering is 2025’s First Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) Bring a Trailer Auction Fundraiser and Features a Taurus-Bodied Ford Raced in its Prime by Davey Allison (MSHFA Class of 2021) as a Robert Yates Racing Texaco/Havoline Thunderbird
– Known as “Superstar,” the No. 28 Ford Thunderbird Contested Three Races in 1992, Leading All and Finishing Second at Rockingham After Leading 190 Laps
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (February 3, 2025) – Not everyone can be a “Superstar” but now you can own one if you are the top bidder in the latest Bring a Trailer charity auction benefiting the non-profit Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. Ending this Wednesday, February 5, at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST, this exclusive BaT auction features a Taurus-bodied Ford stock car raced in its competition prime by Davey Allison (MSHFA Class of 2021) as one of the successful Robert Yates Racing (RYR) Texaco/Havoline Ford Thunderbirds.
Chase Elliott, driver of the #9 NAPA Auto Parts Chevrolet celebrates after winning the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium on February 02, 2025 in Winston Salem, North Carolina. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Pole winner Chase Elliott held off a dramatic charge from Ryan Blaney to win Sunday night’s Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium in front of a teeming, vociferous sellout crowd at the historic quarter-mile.
Entering Its 25th Season, FOX NASCAR Marks Its 22nd Daytona 500 Broadcast, Tied for Most by Any Television Network in History
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — FOX Sports presents the 67th running of the Daytona 500, FOX’s 22nd broadcast of the “Great American Race,” which ties it for the record-most by any television network, on Sunday, Feb. 16 (2:30 PM ET, FOX and FOX Deportes).
Main Street Auto to Sponsor DGM Racing’s No. 92
Lake Wales, Fla., (January 31, 2025) – DGM Racing welcomes CJ McLaughlin and Main Street Auto to the team’s No. 92 Chevrolet Camaro. McLaughlin will pilot a third entry for the Central Florida based team at the NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) season-opener at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, February 15. (more…)
WINSTON SALEM, N.C. (Jan. 31, 2025) – NASCAR and Bowman Gray Stadium announced today that AdventHealth Hendersonville will serve as the Official Health Care Provider of Bowman Gray Stadium for Cook Out Clash Weekend. It is the branch’s first track partnership, adding to a continued relationship with NASCAR and many of its other venues across the country. Team members from the Western North Carolina-based hospital will provide care for drivers, crew and NASCAR employees at the AdventHealth Care Center.
