It’s official: Corey LaJoie remains without a NASCAR home. On Wednesday, Rick Ware Racing announced that Cody Ware will pilot the No. 51 car for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. Yes, you read that correctly—Cody Ware, the son of team owner Rick Ware, is taking the seat. Cue the muttering about nepotism now.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 15, 2025) – Cody Ware is a fulltime NASCAR Cup Series driver. The 29-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina, will contest the entire 2025 Cup Series schedule behind the wheel of the No. 51 Ford Mustang Dark Horse for Rick Ware Racing (RWR). Billy Plourde will be his crew chief.
CONCORD, N.C. – Trackhouse Racing and Pinnacle Racing Group announced today that four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Hélio Castroneves will drive the No. 82 Pinnacle Racing Group Chevrolet in the ARCA 200 at Daytona on Feb. 15 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. (more…)
Will Drive the No. 91 Wendy’s® Chevrolet with Darian Grubb as Crew Chief
CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA – When you’ve won the Indianapolis 500 four times, the 24 Hours of Daytona three times and over 30 major open wheel races, you’ve realized most of your racing dreams. (more…)
Drew Blickensderfer to Call Shots for Gragson and Team
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (January 3, 2024) – Having secured Noah Gragson on a multi-year agreement in July to drive in the NASCAR Cup Series starting in 2025, Front Row Motorsports (FRM) is excited to announce Gragson will drive the No. 4 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, entering the team into a new era. (more…)
As reported on Autopian, and written by NASCAR driver Parker Kligerman….
One of The Autopian’s fearless leaders, Matt Hardigree, had a Lucid Air back in the summer of 2023. He came to Chicago with it for the inaugural NASCAR Street race and asked me to meet him for an Autopian meet-up. He brought me to some famous hot dog place where there were no seats and I couldn’t eat any of the food, but the company was nice. Eventually, I had to head back to get dinner as the next day I would be racing on the track. He offered to drive me back to my hotel because the biblical rain that would plague that whole weekend had arrived. (more…)
In an Instagram posting by D2 Motorsports Racing (@d2motorsportsracing), Former NASCAR Cup Series competitor Jeremy Mayfield has just been announced as the team driver for the 2025 season in the Grand National Super Series (@grandnationalsuperseries) (GNSS).
The Grand National Super Series describes themselves as “America’s newest full/steel bodied stock car series!”. More information can be found on their Instagram page and their website.
GNSS races in the North Carolina and Virginia areas, based on their 2024 schedule. Tracks include Carteret County Speedway in NC and Lonesome Pines Raceway in VA.
Featured image is from D2 Motorsports Racing (@d2motorsportsracing)‘s Instagram posting.
Destiny Nash stands in a swirl of white smoke as a pile of dust gathers at her feet. The 18-year-old is sanding a car bumper, part of her auto-collision class at Palmetto Academy of Learning Motorsports. The class is part of a unique curriculum being offered at the Horry County charter school, making it the only motorsports high school in the country. While there are other high schools in the U.S. that offer a racing program, the Conway school, located at 826 W. Cox Ferry Road, Conway, SC, is the only one that provides a hybrid learning curriculum.
Toni Breidinger will drive full-time for TRICON Garage in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series in 2025, the team announced Tuesday.
