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FORT WORTH, Texas — Ride ‘em, cowboy.

Decked out in Texas-appropriate attire, Carson Hocevar put his No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet on the pole for Sunday’s Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly at Texas Motor Speedway (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

With the second fastest lap in the era of the Gen 7 car, Hocevar toured the 1.5-mile track in 28.175 seconds (191.659 mph) to edge 2023 race winner William Byron (191.564 mph) for the top starting position by 0.014 seconds.

RELATED: Starting lineup | At-track photos: Texas

The Busch Light Pole Award is the first of Hocevar’s career, and at age 22, he’s the youngest-ever pole winner at Texas.

Clad in a firesuit designed as a cowboy outfit — courtesy of sponsor Chili’s — and sporting a black 10-gallon hat, Hocevar reveled in the moment after his lap stood up to all comers.

“Having the cowboy outfit — what better place to be on the pole,” Hocevar said. “I’m normally so hard on myself, and I didn’t think I nailed that lap at all, but I’m super proud of this team.

“I’m so proud, because I’ve never had the No. 1 pit stall, and I’ve had a lot of issues with pit road and we’ve had a lot of bad luck. So I finally get the No. 1 pit stall and I’m pumped about that.”

Austin Cindric, last Sunday’s Talladega winner, qualified third at 191.523 mph in a closely compacted field. Larson, the last driver to make an attempt, was fourth at 191.421 mph.

With 10 drivers to go, Ty Gibbs topped the chart at 191.293 mph, but Michael McDowell, Hocevar’s teammate, eclipsed his time by 0.006 seconds in a lap at 191.333 mph.

“Obviously, with Michael going out and putting up a really good lap time, I felt like we were faster than him in practice, and that gave me a little bit of confidence that our stuff was going to be as quick, if not hopefully a little quicker,” Hocevar said.

McDowell will start fifth on Sunday, with Gibbs sixth. Josh Berry, three-time Texas winner Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace and AJ Allmendinger completed the top 10 on the grid.

One driver who left the session with regret was Cindric, who felt he could have gone faster.

“I feel like I left a pole lap out there,” he said. “I sent it into Turn 1 and didn’t quite get to the bottom and didn’t quite maximize my exit. I guess I can be happy with where we are at, but I definitely feel like you want to do it all.

“We’re in a great spot for (Sunday) and should have a good pit stall, so I feel good about where we are. We’ll try to go get another one.”

Defending race winner Chase Elliott will start 29th.

Note: Since the Gen 7 car was introduced in 2022, only Christopher Bell at Michigan International Speedway in 2023 has run a faster lap than Hocevar at Texas. Bell’s speed at the 2-mile track was 193.382 mph.

Hocevar fastest in practice

Hocevar also paced Cup Series practice Saturday at Texas, recording a lap of 190.894 mph in Group 2. Allmendinger finished second overall at 190.215 mph, pacing Group 1 drivers.

Noah Gragson, Larson and McDowell completed the top five. Berry, Alex Bowman, Tyler Reddick, Erik Jones and Austin Dillon rounded out the top 10. Cindric had the 11th-best time in practice but had the fastest 10-, 15-, 20- and 25-lap averages.

MORE: Practice lap averages

Shane van Gisbergen scraped the wall at the end of Group 1 practice, incurring minor right-side scrapes. Otherwise, the two 25-minute sessions were without incident.

Contributing: Staff reports

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Daniel Suárez enters the race weekend at Texas Motor Speedway with only two top-10 finishes in the first 10 races of the 2025 Cup Series campaign.

At this point in the season one year ago, the driver of the No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet was already a winner, beating Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch in a three-wide photo finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway in one of the closest finishes in Cup Series history.

RELATED: Texas schedule | At-track photos: Texas

As they entered 2025, Suárez and team had high expectations. Although he acknowledged that they had not met their goals by this point in the season, the 33-year-old still holds onto those expectations, recognizing that there is still work to be done.

“We all have high standards and high goals,” Suárez said Saturday. “With that being said, we have work to do. We haven’t started the season as consistent and as fast as we would love to as a company. We almost won Las Vegas with a second there. And we have had some spikes of speed, but we have had more spikes of no speed than spikes of speed.

“We changed a lot of things in the offseason, in our process, and in the structure of the team and I don’t feel that we’re seeing the results of that just yet. I think it’s going to come, but we’re not there just yet, so we have to just continue to work and continue to work on the basics, and hopefully we can show on track all the work that we’ve been putting in pretty soon.”

Despite the inconsistent start to the year, the mile-and-a-half style race tracks have produced the strongest performances for the No. 99 Chevrolet team. With a second-place finish at Las Vegas early in the year and a fifth-place finish at the Texas track last year, this weekend could prove fruitful in getting the program back on track.

“I think that actually, if anything, regular mile-and-a-halves, without counting Darlington and Homestead, which are pretty different mile-and-a-halves, I think that we are pretty good along with road courses,” Suárez said. “But we’re still a little bit inconsistent in our speed, you know, and that’s something that we have to work on as a company, as a group, not just in the 99. I believe that we’re heading in the right direction. It’s just taking longer than I was expecting.”

With adversity early in 2025, the Monterrey, Mexico native is staying humble at heart and embracing the coming weeks leading up to the NASCAR Cup Series’ first race in Mexico on June 15 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City.

The upcoming home race is allowing Suárez to enjoy every moment by bridging the gap and introducing the Mexico City fans to NASCAR as much as he can before Cup cars hit the road course next month.

“Man, honestly, I am over the moon with everything that is happening with NASCAR,” Suárez said. “I feel very, very blessed to be in this position and to be able to be the face for Mexico and for the Latinos in NASCAR is quite a privilege.

“To be living and experiencing the NASCAR dream in this era is quite an honor, and really, a lot of work has been taking place with everything in Mexico. It’s getting closer and closer. It feels very, very real. I feel like it’s just around the corner. Yeah, I mean, extremely happy.”

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FORT WORTH, Texas — A NASCAR official displayed the spoilers from both the No. 22 Team Penske car of Joey Logano and the No. 60 RFK Racing entry of Ryan Preece at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday after their respective disqualifications last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.

Brad Moran, managing director for the Cup Series, met with the media outside of the series competition hauler to explain the separate issues with the two spoilers that led to the teams forfeiting their top-five finishes.

At superspeedway races, a specific brace is utilized to help maintain the required spoiler angle at high speeds. For Logano’s No. 22 Ford, two violations were discovered in post-race inspection.

RELATED: Texas schedule | Cup Series standings

First, a nut was missing from the bolt that keeps the brace intact. Secondly, a fastener on the brace was not securely fastened and maintained. Both violations could potentially cause deflection in the spoiler when the cars reach high speeds.

“First of all, all fasteners need to be fastened and secure at all times during an event,” Moran said. “So obviously, that’s one problem. And the second problem is that, like I just mentioned, all the parts that are in this assembly, which is the brace, the bolts, the lock nuts, the washers, must be maintained. And obviously, one was missing.

“We don’t go out the intent, but we all know superspeedways, we pay a lot of attention to spoiler area deflections. There’s a lot of work that goes into it by the teams, you know, they may have innocently left the nut loose. We don’t know that, we don’t take that into consideration.”

For Ryan Preece’s No. 60 RFK Racing entry, it was discovered that the team had an unapproved number of spoiler shims, which similarly deals with spoiler deflection.

“They’re allowed two shims maximum at a superspeedway that must go the entire distance; the maximum they can be is 50 (thousands), which these are OK,” Moran said. “Where the problem comes in is that there was a third (shim). Pretty cut and dry, black and white.

“Unfortunate. The 60 had a great race, same with the 22, but we have to do our job to keep parity in the field. Everybody knows the rules. You know, this is our job to find things like this, clean it up.”

Preece was relegated to 38th in the 39-car field with Logano placed last in the official results. Both drivers also earned just one point in the championship standings, with the disqualification erasing what would have been a 40-point day for Preece and 41 points for Logano.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — A tale of two cities transpired on pit road as the checkered flag flew on the SpeedyCash.com 250 from Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night. With Corey Heim standing tall, victorious at the start/finish line, Ben Rhodes and Daniel Hemric were left with mixed emotions after the final restart in NASCAR Overtime.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos: Texas

Rhodes restarted on the outside front row on the final restart on Lap 172 and held pace with Heim, who had the dominant truck all night, leading 96 of the 174 total laps.

Heading into Turn 3, coming to the white flag, there was slight contact between the two front-runners, pushing the No. 99 of Rhodes up the race track and leaving the door open for the No. 19 of Daniel Hemric to charge to the bottom, making it three-wide at the white flag.

When the race was all said and done, neither Hemric nor Rhodes would wind up in Victory Lane, with the No. 11 of Heim taking home the win. Exiting his ThorSport Racing in frustration, Rhodes said he felt he was raced unfairly and had no room to challenge for victory at the end.

“I think we got used up by the 11 being on the outside line with clean air on both of our noses,” Rhodes said on pit road post-race. “He just decided to run us up the track and out of the groove at both ends of the track. So on the last restart, you know, we’re in three and four. We’re coming back around to the white; he runs me way high. We both have to lift, pretty unacceptable, in my opinion, because, you know, we could have wrecked there.

“So, you know, I’m not gonna cry about it, but it just stinks when you have a good opportunity to win a race and then you get run a little dirty. But you know, I know how it is with him, and he’s got his third win of the season. We’re still looking for our first right now, so when you have these opportunities, you need to seize them, and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

WATCH: Rhodes upset by Heim’s tactics | Hemric: ‘Second’s not fun’

Parked one spot ahead of the two-time Craftsman Truck Series champion on pit road was the runner-up finisher, Hemric, who was able to capitalize on the Heim-Rhodes scrap to maneuver his Chevrolet to the inside of the two and have a shot at the win entering Turn 1.

“I knew when they got side by side I’d have a big run,” Hemric said. “I didn’t know if I have enough pure tire capability left to make the move, and kind of created just enough angle to get left of the 11 to get three-wide at the bottom, just didn’t have enough left to make it stick through one and two.”

“So either way, we were not good when we started. (Crew chief) Josh Graham did the exceptional job of tuning on me correctly, in the right direction, and yeah, ultimately found ourselves with the opportunity and stayed quite close.”

Close it was, as the Kannapolis, North Carolina native had a shot on the final lap to punch his ticket to Victory Lane for the second time this season. At the end of the night, that is all Hemric could ask of his No. 19 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing team.

“Just trying to win,” Hemric said. “That’s what this team deserves. That’s what everyone on this No. 19 team deserves. I feel like, you know, we put so much into this deal, and we overcame some adjustments and stuff that we had to go through at the beginning of the race. You’ve got to go for the win. That’s what we did. Came up short, but great execution today.”

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FORT WORTH, Texas — A casual glance at the box score might tell you Corey Heim’s victory in Friday night’s SpeedyCash.com 250 was a cakewalk.

Quite the contrary. Heim’s 14th career win was anything but easy.

The driver of the No. 11 Tricon Garage Toyota and Craftsman Truck Series points leader had to survive two overtimes at Texas Motor Speedway to pick up his first victory at the track and his third of the season.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos: Texas

Heim was barely ahead when caution stalled the first overtime almost before it began. The restart in the second extra period packed a surfeit of drama into the final two laps.

Starting second to Heim’s outside, Ben Rhodes held his ground, racing side-by-side through the first two corners. As the drivers navigated Turn 3, both had to lift off the gas, allowing Daniel Hemric to make a strong move to the inside at the start/finish line.

But Heim pressed the accelerator, charged between trucks and surged into the lead, clearing Hemric and Rhodes in Turn 1. Heim pulled away slightly to beat Hemric to the stripe by 0.279 seconds, as Rhodes lost momentum and faded to sixth.

“I wasn’t going to let that one get away from me,” said Heim, who led a race-high 96 of 174 laps and gained an extra playoff point by winning Stage 2. “I’ve given up too many this year so far. I’m just overwhelmed — so many restarts there at the end and guys were taking me three-wide.

“I wasn’t going to let them take it from me… They tried to take me three-wide into (Turn) 1, and I drove until I couldn’t anymore.”

WATCH: Heim elated, exhausted after victory

At age 22, Heim is the youngest driver in series history to reach 14 wins. Friday night‘s Truck Series race also was the first to go to overtime after 21 straight events had ended in regulation.

Rajah Caruth ran third behind Heim and Hemric, with Tyler Ankrum finishing fourth and Tanner Gray fifth.

Rhodes took issue with the way Heim raced him into Turn 3 on the white-flag lap in the second overtime.

“I was a little upset, and even still watching the replay, with how I was run in 3 and 4 by Heim,” said Rhodes, a two-time series champion. “Basically, to see him come off the bottom, and the groove is extremely narrow here. That’s why all those wrecks kept happening.

“I had to lift. I think he had to lift, and that’s what opened up for three-wide down the frontstretch and why we’re in sixth place.”

All told, the race produced 11 cautions for 57 laps, a testament to the intense action at the Fort Worth track.

Texas Motor Speedway, arguably the most treacherous 1.5-miler on the schedule, claimed three early victims. On Lap 31, rookie Giovanni Ruggiero drove too low entering the tri-oval, clipped the grass below the apron and shot up the track, collecting Brandon Jones and Kaden Honeycutt in a violent collision.

The impact ripped the right front wheel off Jones’ Toyota and destroyed Honeycutt’s Chevrolet.

“It is just so hard to see the grass here on the frontstretch when you’re behind other trucks,” Ruggiero said. “I definitely misjudged it on my part. Really unfortunate for all of my guys.

“We had a really fast JBL Tundra — definitely not how I wanted tonight to go. Just have to keep digging and come back stronger for the next one.”

On Lap 52, Layne Riggs spun underneath the Ford of reigning series champion Ty Majeski. Thirteen laps and two cautions later, Riggs was off course again after contact with Luke Fenhaus’ Ford, this time bouncing through the frontstretch grass and tearing the nose off his F-150.

Andres Perez de Lara backed into the Turn 2 wall on Lap 57, damaging his Chevrolet beyond repair. Before the end of the second stage, the race was peppered with six cautions, with the longest green-flag run coming from the start of the race to a competition caution at Lap 20.

The tenor of the race changed after the second stage break. During a 60-lap green-flag run that began on Lap 87 and featured a cycle of green-flag pit stops, Heim built a lead of 15.794 seconds before Frankie Muniz crashed in Turn 2 on Lap 147 to cause the eighth caution of the night.

Grant Enfinger and Heim divided the stage wins, with Enfinger leading twice for 18 laps. His fortunes went south with 13 laps remaining, when Stewart Friesen’s No. 52 Toyota broke loose and made contact with Enfinger’s No. 9 Chevrolet in a contest for second place, sending both trucks into the outside retaining wall and collecting Chandler Smith’s No. 38 in the melee. That forced a red flag with 11 laps left.

From that point, the race reclaimed its frenetic character and required the two overtimes to get to the finish. The result left Heim 46 points ahead of second-place Chandler Smith in the series standings.

The Craftsman Truck Series’ next race is the Heart of America 200, scheduled Saturday, May 10 (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1, NRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Kansas Speedway.

NOTE: Post-race technical inspection concluded without issue, confirming Heim as the winner. The Nos. 07, 15 and 99 trucks will be brought to NASCAR’s Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, for further inspection.

Contributing: Staff report

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR and JDV Productions have postponed Saturday’s Cheshire County Clash NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event at Monadnock Speedway due to a forecast of inclement weather.

Officials from JDV Productions, the racetrack, and NASCAR are working collaboratively to find a date in the best interest of competitors and race fans. An announcement on the new event date is expected to come next week.

For updated event information as available, fans may go to nascar.com/regional.

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Kyle Petty shares a laugh when talking about the latest edition of his eponymous charity motorcycle journey, one that’s evolved to more regional routes that go a little easier on the odometer.

“The 500- and 600-mile days of our youth are gone,” Petty says with a chuckle.

That may be, but the 64-year-old former racer has packed a week’s full of activities into a healthy 1,400 miles in the 29th anniversary edition of this year’s Kyle Petty Charity Ride. The 2025 trek begins Saturday in Traverse City, Michigan, and ends May 9 in Hot Springs, Virginia, cutting a diagonal hook from the upper Midwest back to the Mid-Atlantic — all for a worthwhile cause.

RELATED: More about the Kyle Petty Charity Ride

The ride has raised $22 million in its lifetime for the Victory Junction camp and other children’s charities, including $1.8 million in funds raised from last year’s ride. The year-round camp opened its doors in 2004 in memory of Kyle’s son, Adam Petty; in the years since, more than 136,000 camp experiences have been provided to children ages 6 to 16 with serious and chronic medical conditions.

This year’s ride to benefit Victory Junction has been billed as a “Tour of Wonders,” and with good reason. The path takes participants along Great Lakes vistas, to majestic Niagara Falls, before landing at the endpoint near Virginia’s Shenandoah region. Multiple pit stops are planned, including the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, plus some laps at Watkins Glen International in New York.

Roughly 225 riders plan to make the weeklong trip, including celebrities such as Richard Petty, Ken Schrader, Kenny Wallace and the timeless Hershel McGriff. Petty says many riders are returning participants who have created a community through their years on the road, but he adds that newcomers have breathed new life into the ride, experiencing the trip and its sightseeing for the first time.

“We try to leave it open for new people coming up,” Petty says. “New people can experience it, and it’s funny, though, if you can get somebody to come once, they’re more than likely to come out three or four more times, and some of them just become long-term connections.”

Those long-lasting bonds extend to Victory Junction, which celebrated its 20th anniversary and completed extensive renovations to its water-park facilities last year.

“It’s just been incredible,” Petty said. “We are at that place now, after 27 years, that we have kids that came when they were 8 or 9, and now they come back as counselors. We have kids that came when they were 16 or 17, and now they’re working there. That’s phenomenal because it’s that same old thing: People tell you they already believe in the product, you don’t have to sell it. They already have that passion. They already have that desire to help other people, and when you see that’s really cool. So that’s the biggest thing is hopefully we’ll see more kids than we’ve ever seen.”

Even though this year’s ride is about to set sail, another big, round number is coming up for the event’s record books — next year’s 30th anniversary. Previous milestone editions of the ride have made significant coast-to-coast expeditions — such as roughly 3,700 miles from Seattle to Key Largo, Florida, for the 25th anniversary, and a 2,800-mile jaunt from Carlsbad, California, to Daytona Beach for the 20th.

Petty says organizers are already in the early planning stages for next year. The route? To be determined.

“We’ve crossed the country just about every way you can cross it,” Petty said. “… We’ve got so many suggestions in so many different ways. The problem is we’ve only got seven to nine days when the ride starts, so I don’t want to wear these people out, man. I want them to come back for the 31st year, but we’re already planning.”

Petty still marvels at how the philanthropic venture he founded is now nearing the end of its third decade. Fads have come and gone, he said, but the charity ride’s staying power has been built by the riders’ passion and those who rallied behind the family after Adam Petty’s death in 2000 and the camp that was part of his vision for the future.

That feeling, and the ride itself, have endured.

“It’s one of those crazy ideas that just hooked with a certain group of people, and then the camp came and it gave it a purpose,” Petty says. “Even though we were going to children’s hospitals, when the camp and Adam’s accident happened, it just gave it a purpose and a focus, and so many people have come along since then. I’ve told people all the time, when we built camp, we had a personal tragedy, and we raised our hand and said, ‘I think this is what we’re going to do.’ We turned around one day, and there were people behind us that were like, ‘yes, we’ll do that with you.’ The rides have kind of been the same thing. You look back one day, and all these people want to ride with you.

“So it surprises me that it’s still here after 30 years, but when I’m on the ride and I’m talking to the people on the ride, and I’m talking to the fans that come out along the way and the people you meet, it doesn’t surprise me as much.”

Riders on the Kyle Petty Charity Ride, with a majestic mountain backdrop to the open road
Kevin Kane Photography
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 1, 2025) — NASCAR and Coca-Cola are doubling down on their shared commitment to the military community by bringing together the motorsports industry this May through the longstanding NASCAR Salutes Together with Coca-Cola program. The annual initiative is designed to support and recognize active duty servicemembers, veterans, military families and fallen heroes through a variety of programs throughout the month, culminating in the 600 Miles of Remembrance at the 2025 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 25 (Sun., 6 p.m. ET, Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). 

For more than a decade, NASCAR Salutes Together with Coca-Cola has aimed to support the military and veteran community by hosting at-track experiences for military members, veterans and their families, galvanizing partners across the motorsports industry in a month-long show of public recognition and providing critical investments to military and veteran service organizations through NASCAR Impact and other league-wide initiatives. Each year, the monthlong Salutes program is designed to lead into Memorial Day Weekend and the 600 Miles of Remembrance, during which each NASCAR Cup Series driver will take the green flag at the Coca-Cola 600 with the name of a fallen service member on their car.

RELATED: NASCAR Salutes hub page

“The Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race is more than a competition; it’s a tribute to the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice and those currently serving,” said Eric Kacker, Vice President of Coca-Cola North America’s Sports & Entertainment. “Partnering with the USO and Speedway Motorsports, we honor their legacy and heroism during this Memorial Day weekend at the 66th running of the Coca-Cola 600.”

In addition, NASCAR and Coca-Cola are showing their support for the men and women of the Armed Services with a new ad campaign that kicks off this weekend during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and NASCAR Cup Series races at Texas Motor Speedway. The campaign celebrates the service and sacrifice of U.S. military members and their families through a multitude of at-track integrations, original content features and fan engagement opportunities throughout the month.

“Salutes is a part of NASCAR’s DNA and provides some of the most impactful moments on-and-off the track for our entire industry,” said Michelle Byron, Executive Vice President, Chief Partnership & Licensing Officer at NASCAR. “Our partnership with Coca-Cola not only allows us to make critical investments in these organizations that are providing vital services to the military and veteran community, but it also allows us to take a moment and recognize those who have sacrificed so much.”

Once again, Honor and Remember will work with several NASCAR teams to host Gold Star Families at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the 600 Miles of Remembrance tribute. Recently announced as a NASCAR Impact partner, Honor and Remember hosts families who have lost loved ones in the line of duty at race weekends throughout the NASCAR season.

This year, NASCAR Impact will also encourage fans with a military background to sign up as peer supporters through Sound Off, a nonprofit established to help veterans and active duty servicemembers get the mental health support they need through the Sound Off app. Forty-seven percent of military members who show signs of PTSD or depression do not seek help, in part because of fears related to stigma or blowback. Sound Off provides a platform where military members who would otherwise avoid mental health support can engage anonymously with veterans with similar lived experiences.

In addition, NASCAR Salutes Together with Coca-Cola will also seek to:

Host at-track experiences for military members, veterans, and their families, including:

– Discounted grandstand tickets for military members all season long through NASCAR MilTix Presented by GOVX. Active military and veterans can verify their status and purchase tickets by visiting NASCAR.com/miltix. 

– Access to complimentary grandstand tickets and unique VIP experiences throughout the month of May for service members from local bases, made possible by Chevrolet’s NASCAR Troops to the Track Program and Vet Tix.

– The “Mobility Pit Box,” which will host mobility-impaired race fans and veterans attending races at Texas Motor Speedway, Kansas Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway. The Mobility Pit Box was designed and announced by Toyota in 2023. It was gifted to NASCAR at the beginning of the 2024 season to expand its availability, highlighting Toyota’s vision of “Mobility for All.”

Bring together the motor sports industry in recognition of our military, including:

– Xfinity, a Proud Premier Partner, which will display red, white, and blue Xfinity windshield headers on their race cars during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Bet MGM 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This initiative showcases Xfinity’s commitment to hiring veterans, National Guard and reserve service members and military spouses who bring unique skills and experiences to Comcast NBCUniversal.

– Craftsman, who will also display red, white and blue windshield decals on all NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series trucks racing in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

– Goodyear, which will continue its tradition of replacing its iconic “Eagle” sidewall design with “Honor and Remember” during the Coca-Cola 600 in support of the Virginia-based nonprofit supporting Gold Star Families.

– Mechanix Wear, who will provide NASCAR officials special camouflage “MultiCam Mechanix Wear” gloves for the Coca-Cola 600.

Invest in veteran and military service organizations so that they can continue their critical work, including:

– Sound Off

– Honor and Remember

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PHILADELPHIA (May 1, 2025) — Comcast is proud to announce nominations for the 2025 Comcast Community Champion of the Year are now open at ComcastCommunityChampion.com. In its 10 years, this prestigious annual award has served to recognize the philanthropic efforts of individuals within the NASCAR community.

To nominate and learn additional details about the award, visit ComcastCommunityChampion.com today through Monday, June 16.

Created in 2015, the Comcast Community Champion of the Year Award was designed to honor the outstanding efforts and achievements of NASCAR industry members who have worked to selflessly give back to their communities and beyond. Comcast will select and honor three finalists, sharing their stories publicly. Following the finalists’ selection, a committee of NASCAR & Comcast executives, as well as 2024 winner Erik Jones, will name the 2025 Comcast Community Champion of the Year, awarding $60,000 to the champion’s affiliated charity and $30,000 to each of the two finalists’ selected charities later this year.

“I’m really looking forward to hearing who the nominees are for this year’s Comcast Community Champion Award,” Jones said. “Last year, the award meant so much to us and our foundation. I can’t wait to see the impact it’s going to have on the next recipient and their organization.”

Any individual with a 2025 annual credential or NASCAR full season license from any of NASCAR’s top three national series is eligible to be nominated as a 2024 finalist, including:

  • Team owners, drivers and all NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series employees
  • Full-time employees of tracks that are currently on the schedule for NASCAR’s three series
  • NASCAR Media members who have a Print, Broadcast or Photography Hard Card
  • NASCAR Officials
  • NASCAR Partners/Sponsors
  • Family members of drivers and crew members
  • Driver and team employees (motorhome drivers, agents, managers, etc.)
  • Support industry personnel (engine builders, parts and service providers, etc.)

Since the inception of the program, Comcast has supported over 30 different nonprofit organizations — a powerful reflection of the unwavering dedication and long-standing philanthropic spirit shared by all finalists and champions. Over the past 11 years, Comcast has made it a priority to reach and uplift as many communities as possible, creating meaningful change across the country. With over $1 million contributed to deserving organizations connected to members of the NASCAR family, Comcast has not only deepened its roots within the sport but also extended its impact far beyond the track. This initiative is more than a program — it’s a movement grounded in compassion, community and a shared commitment to making a lasting difference where it matters most.

“Driving positive change is a core mission at Comcast, and we are proud to honor the philanthropic contributions of individuals within the NASCAR community who consistently go above and beyond to support and strengthen their communities,” said Matt Lederer, vice president of Brand Partnerships, Comcast.

Past champions include:

  • NASCAR driver, Erik Jones, representing The Erik Jones Foundation
  • OnPoint Motorsports Driver, Ryan Vargas, representing FACES: The National Craniofacial Association
  • Senior Director of Live Shows at CSM Productions, Jes Ferreira, representing Foster Village Charlotte
  • World Wide Technology Raceway Owner, Curtis Francois, representing Raceway Gives Foundation
  • NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace, representing the Live To Be Different Foundation
  • Dover Motor Speedway President, Mike Tatoian, representing USO Delaware
  • NASCAR champion, Joey Logano, representing the Joey Logano Foundation
  • Chip Ganassi Racing’s pit crew department, representing Ronald McDonald House
  • JR Motorsports fabricator, Wade Jackson, representing Camp LUCK
  • NASCAR driver, Joey Gase, representing the Iowa Donor Network

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PHILADELPHIA (May 1, 2025) — Xumo, Comcast’s and Charter’s joint venture that offers consumers nationwide a simple, easy way to stream all their favorite shows and movies and proud partner of NASCAR, today announced that the NASCAR Channel, NASCAR’s official FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) channel, will launch on Xumo Play. The channel offers race fans round-the-clock NASCAR content, including classic races, re-airs of the season’s events, original series, documentaries and more.

NASCAR’s FAST channel will anchor a new comprehensive hub for all things NASCAR across Xumo’s streaming devices, Xumo Stream Box and Xumo TV. Whether it’s the roar of re-aired races, behind-the-scenes stories from NASCAR Studios, or fan-favorite video podcasts, the new destination will bring together NASCAR-related programming available across streaming apps, giving viewers an easy way to dive deep into the culture, history, and adrenaline of the sport. Users can easily access the destination by saying “NASCAR” into their Xumo voice remote.

“Our new partnership with NASCAR marks an exciting new chapter for our brand and for motorsports fans everywhere,” said Fern Feistel, Vice President, Marketing at Xumo. “Whether watching at home or live at the track we’re making it easy for fans to enjoy all the adrenaline and drama of NASCAR through the launch of the NASCAR FAST channel, our NASCAR hub, and on-site experiences. This partnership is just the beginning of how Xumo is redefining the future of NASCAR streaming content.”

In addition to the at-home experiences, Xumo will have a physical presence at multiple NASCAR races throughout the season, starting with the Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly at Texas Motor Speedway the weekend of May 4. Fans in attendance can stop by the Xumo ‘Easy Street Pit Stop,’ where they’ll be able to charge their phones, enjoy snacks and refreshments, and stay cool to recharge throughout the weekend’s events.

“Our partnership with Xumo represents an important step in expanding NASCAR’s digital footprint and making our sport more accessible to fans across multiple platforms,” said John Dahl, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Content. “The launch of the NASCAR Channel on Xumo Play is the first of many exciting projects we have planned together.”

The NASCAR Channel joins a host of other sports-focused options on Xumo Play, including The NBA Channel, NBC Sports NOW, NFL Channel, PBR RidePass and PGA TOUR. In addition to streaming through Xumo TVs and Xumo Stream Boxes, Xumo Play is available on all major streaming platforms, including Amazon, Android, Apple, Roku, Samsung, Sony, Xfinity, Xumo and more.

The simplicity of Xumo’s streaming devices is made possible by the platform that powers it. It is the same global entertainment operating system that powers tens of millions of devices from Comcast and its partners across the globe, bringing some of the TV’s best features, like seamless content discovery, voice search and personalization, to life. Xumo TVs are currently available in retail locations across the country, including Walmart, Best Buy, BJ’s and more, and Xumo Stream Boxes are currently offered through major U.S. operators, including Comcast’s Xfinity, Charter’s Spectrum, Mediacom, Cox and GCI.