NASCAR Xfinity Series News & Notes – Off Weekend, Looking Toward Daytona

NASCAR Xfinity Series Race Wawa 250NASCAR Xfinity Series

Next Race: Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola
The Place: Daytona International Speedway
Track Length: 2.5 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Friday, August 22
The Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
The Purse: $1,651,939
TV: CW, 7 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 250 miles (100 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 30),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 60), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 100)

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Richmond And Daytona Loom Large In Final Cup Series Playoff Push

Richmond RacewayWATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – While NASCAR road course racing always presents the potential for dramatic influence on the NASCAR Cup Series championship standings, Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen essentially strengthened the stance of those on the upside of the upcoming Playoff grid and further motivated those that will now need a trophy hoist in the remaining two regular season races at Richmond or Daytona.

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Kaulig Racing Announces Driver Lineup for Upcoming Xfinity Series Races

Kaulig RacingWELCOME, N.C. (August 4, 2025) – Kaulig Racing will turn to two veterans to pilot its No. 11 Chevrolet in the next two NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) races.

Daytona 500 champion and former road course winner in NASCAR’s top two series, Michael McDowell, is set to take on Watkins Glen International with Kaulig Racing this weekend in the Mission 200 at the Glen. McDowell, whose early career began with open wheel and sports cars, earned his first NXS win at Road America in 2016. His most recent road course win came in the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) in 2022 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.

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IMSA Insider – BMW Doubles Down at Road America

IMSAIMSA:  Forte’s Good Karma; “Spike” Stays Hot; BMW’s Double Win

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – If the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s new six-hour endurance race at Road America delivers half the action, entertainment and plot twists of yesterday’s two-hour, 40-minute sprint race, a bevy of spectators and television viewers will have gotten their money’s worth.

The phrase “argy bargy” was on display with more car-to-car contact than you’ll see in a month of Saturday nights at your local short track. But there were some popular podium finishers, championship shakeups aplenty and some emotional victors in the Motul SportsCar Grand Prix.

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Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing Team Winward Racing Extends IMSA GTD Points Lead at Road America

Winward Racing
IMSA, Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI, Aug 2025 (Photo by Brian Cleary/bcpix.com)

ELKHART LAKE, Wisconsin – A convincing pole-winning performance by Russell Ward in the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 on Saturday was the major factor in the Winward Racing team and drivers building their 2025 IMSA GT Daytona (GTD) championship leads despite a rough and tumble and largely frustrating race at Road America on Sunday. The top qualifying effort, which garnered 35 valuable championship points, was the fourth career and first pole of the season for Ward. The pole-winning effort returned the No. 57 team’s championship leads to more than 100 points with just three races remaining on the 2025 schedule.

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Spire Motorsports Partners With Fly Alliance For Daytona, Las Vegas

Spire Motorsports Partners With Fly Alliance For Daytona, Las Vegas

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (August 1, 2025) – In the ever-competitive world of NASCAR Cup Series racing, speed and efficiency play symbiotic roles not just on the track, but also in the air as teams look to navigate the 38-race schedule in the most productive manner possible.  It’s the same with Spire Motorsports.

When Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson and his team of drivers, crew chiefs and executive leadership need to get to the track and home with speed and precession, they look to Fly Alliance as the organization’s go to air-travel provider on a weekly basis.

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IMSA Insider: See What’s Brewing at Packed Road America IMSA Weekend

IMSA Insider:  See What’s Brewing at Packed Road America IMSA Weekend

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s annual midsummer tour of North America’s iconic road courses continues with a trip to Road America for the Motul SportsCar Grand Prix. Opened in 1955 and celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2025, the 14-turn, 4.048-mile circuit’s basic layout has had minimal design changes albeit several surface changes.

Set an hour north of Milwaukee in Elkhart Lake, Wis., the track has rightly earned the nickname “America’s National Park of Speed.” It’s an apt moniker, one that pays homage to the bucolic nature of the facility’s park-like 640 acres along with the breathtaking character of a track where some of the world’s fastest race cars may top 175 mph three times each lap.

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IMSA Insider #609: The Road Ahead: Road America Field Revealed

IMSA Insider #609:  The Road Ahead: Road America Field Revealed

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The lone IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship sprint race featuring all four classes kicks off the stretch run to the finish of the final four race weekends of 2025. The freshly renamed Motul SportsCar Grand Prix at Road America marks the last time, for now, this race runs at the standard length two-hour, 40-minute duration before increasing to six hours in 2026.

The combination of four championship battles all under 100 points, intense racing, fun family atmosphere and great food and beverage options highlight the annual trip to the track frequently known as “America’s National Park of Speed.”

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IMSA Insider #607 – Dragons Slay CTMP; Lamborghini Launches New GT3 Car

IMSA Insider #607 – Dragons Slay CTMP; Lamborghini Launches New GT3 Car

Three Takeaways: IMSA Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

Analytics Rule; Three First-Timers; A Man For All Seasons (and Classes)

By David Phillips

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – IMSA’s lightning-fast, exotic Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) entries from Acura, Aston Martin, BMW, Cadillac, Lamborghini and Porsche bring unquestioned prestige, high-tech, speed and glamour to the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

But as Sunday’s Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park demonstrated, the WeatherTech Championship’s other three classes of Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) can put on one heckuva show when left to their own devices.

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Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing Teams Return to Watkins Glen Leading all IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar GT Daytona (GTD) Championships

Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing Teams Return to Watkins Glen Leading all IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar GT Daytona (GTD) Championships

WATKINS GLEN, New York – Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing teams in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge series bring the momentum of recent race wins, podium finishes, and across-the-board GT Daytona (GTD) championship leads to Watkins Glen International this weekend for the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen, June 20 – 22. Three Mercedes-AMG GT3 entries from Winward Racing, Korthoff Competition Motors and Lone Star Racing compete in Sunday’s featured Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen WeatherTech Championship race while the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT4 carries the Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing flag in Saturday’s two-hour Pilot Challenge race.

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