NASCAR (Official Thread)

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Thank you to those who have served and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Memorial Day is beautiful for a lot of reasons but race fans are especially lucky, as this Sunday is arguably their Super Bowl. Fans from all disciplines of racing will be spoiled with the F1 Monaco GP at 7:30am ET, Indianapolis 500 at 12:45pm ET, and Coca-Cola 600 at 6pm ET.

However this year is even more special for a different reason. 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson, will be competing in both the Indy 500 and Coke 600! Double Duty!

IndyCar and NASCAR in the same day. 1100 miles. 2 tracks.

Don't miss the F1 Monaco GP at 7:30am ET, Indianapolis 500 at 12:45pm ET, and Coca-Cola 600 at 6pm ET

Happy Memorial Day everyone!

 

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Kyle Larson completed the Indy 500, flew to Charlotte to race in the Coke 600, and has experienced two rain delays in two different races today

 

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Hood official: Caitlin Clark image to be on race car

WNBA rookie star Caitlin Clark's picture will be on the hood of driver Josh Berry's No. 4 Ford for this week's Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Image of Caitlin Clark to be on hood of car at Brickyard 400​

Caitlin Clark made her first appearance at Indianapolis Motor Speedway -- on Josh Berry's No. 4 Ford.

The rookie driver took his Stewart-Haas Racing entry to the traditional 2.5-mile oval with an image of the WNBA rookie star plastered across the hood of his car.

Speedway officials had hoped to get the top pick in the WNBA draft to the facility for May's Indianapolis 500 festivities, but the Indiana Fever spent most of that time playing road games. This weekend, Clark is participating in All-Star activities in Phoenix.

So Panini, one of Berry's sponsors, did something neither NASCAR nor IndyCar officials could -- helping make Clark the face of race weekend.

 

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Some nasty crashes at the end of the Coke Zero 400 Saturday night at Daytona.

Josh Berry is upside down.

 

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Some nasty crashes at the end of the Coke Zero 400 Saturday night at Daytona.

Josh Berry is upside down.

damn they trying to kill Caitlin on every court!

 

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NASCAR to hold 2025 Cup race in Mexico City

NASCAR will take its elite Cup Series international for the first modern points-paying race outside the United States with a June 2025 stop in Mexico City.

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NASCAR to hold Cup race in Mexico City next June​

NASCAR will take its elite Cup Series international for the first points-paying race outside the United States with a June 2025 stop in Mexico City.

The Cup Series will race at storied Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, where NASCAR and track officials have a Tuesday morning news conference to announce the June 15 race, track officials told The Associated Press.

NASCAR's second-tier Xfinity Series and NASCAR Mexico Series will be part of the weekend.

The Xfinity Series ran in Mexico City from 2005 to 2008, and current Cup Series stars Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. were winners during the four-year stretch.

But the Cup Series has never gone international in the modern era for anything besides exhibition races. The Cup Series held exhibitions in Japan between 1996 and 1998, plus once in Australia in 1988.

The only two points-paying Cup races previously held internationally were in Canada. The first was at Stamford Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in 1952, then at Canadian Exposition Center in Toronto in 1958.

Now NASCAR will take its stars -- including Mexican driver Daniel Suarez -- to the same circuit beloved by Formula 1 fans. The Mexico City Grand Prix was voted the best event on the F1 calendar until the fan-decided polling ended during the pandemic.

The 17-turn road course is 2.674 miles long and sits at an elevation of 7,342 feet. The track was built in 1959 and named for racing hermanos (brothers) Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez. The circuit has hosted eight F1 races since a 2015 remodel.