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Jeffrey Hrunka - INDYCAR Contributor Casey Shepherd/MotorsportsToday (Nashville 2025) After months of speculation, the second half of the 2027 NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule was released on Friday. An international trip to Barcelona and the removal of Nashville Superspeedway and Washington D.C. highlight the changes. For the first time in 13 years, IndyCar will race outside North America with a multi-year agreement with Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain. It’ll mark the ho

Riley Ogle/Motorsports Today (Chicaoland 2026) Avondale, AZ- A stellar “rookie campaign” continues. Although Corey Heim won’t have a proper full-time rookie season, he continues to impress in his part-time effort with 23XI, posting a fifth-place finish in the Freeway Insurance 500 at Phoenix Raceway. A late race call to take two tires was the difference in a bad day. "Bootie [Barker] made great adjustments all day. I think we gained like five from the two tires, and I picked

Jeffrey Hrunka - INDYCAR Contributor Riley Ogle/Motorsports Today (WWT Raceway 2026) Avondale, AZ- All about opportunity. Tyler Reddick takes advantage of Kyle Larson’s bad day to vault himself back into contention for the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Championship. Reddick surged from fourth to first on the last restart of the Freeway Insurance 500 to take his sixth win of the season on Sunday. "This group never lost motivation, never lost the drive to keep searching and keep tryi

Jeffrey Hrunka - INDYCAR Contributor Riley Ogle/MotorsportsToday (WWT Raceway 2026) Avondale, AZ- It was too little, too late for Sam Mayer late-race rally in the Timberland Pro 200, as Jesse Love held him off to solidify a dominant victory at Phoenix Raceway on Saturday night. With the win, Love takes over the points lead from Sheldon Creed for a 36-point advantage over championship runner-up Justin Allgaier. “Found my happy place there at the end to kind of make just enough

Jeffrey Hrunka - INDYCAR Contributor Riley Ogle Motorsports Today (WWT Raceway 2026) Avondale, AZ- With the integration of The Chase, it effectively eliminated the ability to have bad days. For Bubba Wallace, his number of good days has been outdone by the better days of championship leaders Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin, making his postseason push a little more difficult. Ahead of the Freedom Insurance 500, Wallace sees his 185-point deficit to championship leader Larson as a

Jeffrey Hrunka - INDYCAR Contributor Photo Courtesy Meg Oliphant/Getty Images Avondale, AZ- With the right adjustment at the right time, Kaden Honeycutt stole the win from Ty Majeski with a late race resurgence in the Zero Carbon Bioethanol 150 Powered by Poet at Phoenix Raceway on Friday night. He led 52 laps en route to his fourth win of the season and his second in The Chase. Honeycutt couldn't earn this victory alone, as it was his pit crew who put him in position late. O

Jeffrey Hrunka - INDYCAR Contributor Fisher Giannotti/Motorsports Today (Rockingham 2025) Avondale, AZ- After three years at Alpha Prime Racing, Brennan Poole will fill in the vacant seat at Jordan Anderson Racing for 2027. He rounds out the driver lineup, joining Daniel Dye as the team’s two full-time drivers. For Poole and team owner Jordan Anderson, this partnership comes full circle after the two raced against one another as kids. Now, Anderson sees Poole as an establishe

EDDIE KALEGI - STAFF WRITER Josef Newgarden celebrating his win at Nashville Superspeedway last season. (Photo Credit: Casey Shepherd, Motorsports Today, August 2025) Just like INDYCAR’s most recent trip to the desert in 2018, Saturday afternoon’s Good Ranchers 250 at Phoenix Raceway ended in a Josef Newgarden win, a much-needed victory to set the tone for a resurgent season for Team Penske. Newgarden’s teammate David Malukas started from the pole for the first time in his NT

EDDIE KALEGI - NASCAR REPORTER Denny Hamlin left wondering after another Cup Series title slips away. (Photo Credit: Eddie Kalegi, Motorsports Today, November 2nd, 2025) Standing on pit road with less than five laps to go in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship at Phoenix Raceway, there was a peculiar vibe in the air. More than 100 fans, partners, and Toyota employees were gathered behind Denny Hamlin’s pit box, with team owner Joe Gibbs seated just behind crew chief Chris

EDDIE KALEGI - NASCAR REPORTER Kyle Larson celebrates second NASCAR Cup Series championship with family. (Photo Credit: Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images, November 2nd, 2025) A race that marked perhaps the end of an era for how NASCAR crowns its champions had it all; from intense racing at the front, to tire issues for all four drivers in the championship fight, to an eventful overtime finish, Phoenix Raceway delivered. 20 years of trying will continue into year 21 for Denny Hamli

Adam Tropper - Motorsports Today Reporter Jesse Love crosses the start/finish line to secure the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Avondale, A.Z - The NASCAR Xfinity Series will be crowning a champion one more time, as after 11 seasons, the second-tier series will have a new entitlement sponsor heading into 2026. There’ll be no shortage of excitement, as there are plenty of key storylines heading into this race. The 2025 season (and the Championship 4 lineup) has been domina

Adam Tropper - Motorsports Today Reporter Corey Heim climbs out of his Truck right after securing his first Craftsman Truck Series Championship Avondale, A.Z. - It may have been Halloween night, but in order to win a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship, drivers need to be fearless. Despite some uncertainty, this ended up describing the driver by Corey Heim. Although Heim was the heavy favorite to win it all heading into this weekend, surprisingly, no championship cont

Jeffrey Hrunka - IndyCar Contributor Casey Shepherd (Motorsports Today, 2025) IndyCar announced its 2026 season schedule on Tuesday,...