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NASCAR Cup Series driver Corey LaJoie and wife Kelly took to Twitter to announce that they are expecting another child next summer.

The Stacking Pennies star will now have a ‘party of 4’ after welcoming their first child, Levi Ronnie, in March 2020. LaJoie hosts the successful weekly podcast with special guests from motorsports and other industries, diving into all things NASCAR. New episodes of the show are released every Wednesday during the season, with select shows airing during the offseason.

LAJOIE’S LATEST: Three NASCAR champions join the show

On the track, LaJoie, a third-generation racer, drives the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro for Spire Motorsports. He finished ninth in the 2021 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The NASCAR Foundation announced Louisville, Kentucky, native Jeff Harmon as the winner of the 11th annual presentation of the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award during a live-streamed announcement on NASCAR’s YouTube channel Tuesday. As the award winner, Harmon secured $100,000 from The NASCAR Foundation to Down Syndrome of Louisville.

“I’m so excited and humbled to win this award”, said Jeff Harmon when he first received the news. “The other three finalists were all deserving as well, I’m blessed, what an honor. The $100,000 will go a long way in helping Down Syndrome of Louisville grow and expand to help even more kids. Thank you to The NASCAR Foundation and all who voted!”

RELATED: Rewatch the announcement on NASCAR’s YouTube channel

Harmon, who has served, supported, and uplifted Down Syndrome of Louisville and the surrounding communities for 18 years, earned the most online votes from a pool of volunteers, including: Erin Collins of the Dallas Hearing Foundation, Jaeleen Davis of Maggie’s Wigs 4 Kids of Michigan, and Beverly Hodson of Richie McFarland Children’s Center, all of whom have impacted a combined number of 6,330 kids through their continual service. Each of these organizations has each earned a $25,000 donation from The NASCAR Foundation in recognition of their nominated volunteers’ achievements.

“We’re very proud to present this award to Jeff Harmon, he has been doing extraordinary work for Down Syndrome of Louisville and exemplifies the values of Betty Jane France,” said Mike Helton, The NASCAR Foundation Chairman. “Our fans had a tough decision because all four are passionate people who devote hours of their time to help their respective organizations. We’re delighted to present this recognition to Jeff to honor the work he’s doing in the Louisville community.”

Throughout the 11 years of its existence, the Betty Jane France Award has highlighted 44 different individuals who have served and uplifted children in their local communities. The NASCAR Foundation, through this program, has acknowledged 622 years of combined service from these community heroes who have touched at least 374,763 children’s lives overall.

Harmon began his tenure volunteering for the Down Syndrome of Louisville (DSL) 18 years ago, when his son, Justin, was born with Down Syndrome. Serving in the capacity of coach and fundraiser, he logs around 20 hours per month with the organization. The organization serves as a support system for local families and individuals that have dealt with Down Syndrome.

Harmon and the DSL plan to use the $100,000 cash prize to help implement modern playground equipment and sensory room renovations, as well as launching satellite campuses to further support the Down Syndrome community.

Aside from his service, Harmon has been a committed lifelong fan of NASCAR, with his all-time favorite driver being Darrell Waltrip. The racing fan grew up racing modified stock cars with his family and friends, and now gets to share his love of the sport with his own family and children.

To learn more about The NASCAR Foundation’s programs, including the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award and Speediatrics Children’s Fund, please visit NASCARfoundation.org.

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23XI Racing announced a host of competition changes Tuesday, including the news Billy Scott will join its No. 45 team as crew chief for the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, rekindling a pairing with driver Kurt Busch.

The move puts Scott back atop the pit box full-time for the first time since the 2019 season. The 44-year-old Florida native spent two seasons with the former Michael Waltrip Racing team before a four-year stint (2016-19) with Stewart-Haas Racing. He was most recently head of race engineering for Richard Childress Racing.

RELATED: How Kurt Busch came to 23XI Racing | Reliving 23XI’s first win with Bubba Wallace

23XI also announced Robert “Bootie” Barker would return as crew chief for Bubba Wallace on the No. 23 Toyota team. Barker moved into the role last September and helped guide Wallace to his first Cup Series victory last season at Talladega Superspeedway.

“Bootie and I clicked from the start,” Wallace said in a 23XI news release. “He’s been a great addition to the No. 23 team and in just the short time he’s been the crew chief, he’s helped me on and off the track to be better every time I get in the car. To get the win together at Talladega, the first win for both of us, was really special. I’m excited to continue to build this team with Bootie and to see what we can accomplish together next season. I’m pumped to get the year started at the LA Coliseum and then head to Daytona for the Daytona 500.”

Barker and Scott will hold other roles in 23XI’s competition department, with Barker as senior setup engineer and Scott as senior race engineer. The team announced several other competition hires, including the addition of Dave Rogers, who helped Daniel Hemric claim his first Xfinity Series championship in 2021 as a crew chief for Joe Gibbs Racing. Rogers will serve as 23XI’s performance director.

Scott’s most successful campaign at SHR came during his one-year partnership with Busch, who notched one win and a career-best 22 top-10 finishes in 2018. Busch left Stewart-Haas for Chip Ganassi Racing the next year.

Busch was mum about his team’s crew-chief prospects for next year during an interview session on the eve of the Cup Series season finale at Phoenix Raceway. “We’re looking all over the place,” Busch said Nov. 6, “but I believe the crew chief that we’ll end up with will be a guy that you’ve heard of before and that is a winner in the Cup Series.” Ten days later, Busch was bullish about his prospects with Scott.

“The chemistry Billy and I had together a few years back at SHR was strong,” Busch said in Tuesday’s news release. “We raced smart and built solid consistency with each other. That showed with the results and the fun the team had together. Winning races is what it’s all about and our past experiences will help build the future at 23XI.”

23XI will expand its operations for 2022, adding a second team for its second season of Cup Series competition. NBA legend Michael Jordan joined driver Denny Hamlin in forming the organization, which debuted with driver Wallace in a single-car effort in the No. 23 Toyota this season.

Busch became a free agent once Chip Ganassi Racing announced its sale to Trackhouse Racing Team in June. The 2004 Cup Series champion just finished his 21st full-time season in NASCAR’s top division, and he comes to 23XI with a streak of scoring at least one win in his last eight seasons.

Scott was a longtime race engineer before transitioning to a crew-chief role in 2014. His only action atop the pit box last season came in two spot starts for Our Motorsports in the Xfinity Series, with Cup regular Austin Dillon behind the wheel.

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Not even two weeks ago, Chandler Smith picked up his second victory of the 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, clinching Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors in the process. After the race, he took a few pictures, talked to some media members and humbly left the track. After all, it wasn’t his night to celebrate — Ben Rhodes, the night’s third-place finisher, claimed the ’21 series title and, well, did enough celebrating for the both of them.

Even still, Smith wasn’t in the mood for relishing in his accomplishments. In his eyes, he fell short this season.

“I didn’t really celebrate, to be honest,” Smith said Monday during a call with reporters. “Happy I got the Rookie of the Year and happy about the win, but … how do I say this in the most polite way for myself? I expected myself to win these races. I was very disappointed that I didn’t get the wins throughout the season; circumstances weren’t really great throughout the season to be honest with you.

MORE: Smith wins Phoenix, clinches Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors

“When we finally were good, something happened. And any time we weren’t good, nothing happened. So, just being honest. Getting those two wins was definitely a confidence boost, because you have those doubters and they still tell you that.”

It’s easy to understand Smith’s high expectations entering the year. For starters, he’s driving the No. 18 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota — that alone sets a driver up for success. Smith kind of burst onto the national series scene, though, in 16 starts scattered across 2019 and ’20, finishing in the top five in half of them. He looked like a prospect ready to break out in a big way.

With a full-time ride lined up for ’21 in one of the series’ best trucks, it seemed all the puzzle pieces were falling together for Smith to compete for the title while riding his way to several victories.

The first race of the season fell right in line with that as well, with Smith leading a race-high 22 laps at Daytona International Speedway … before a tire issue derailed his day for a ninth-place finish. An eight-race stint with an average finish of 21.875 followed, with Smith only landing in the top 10 once (Richmond Raceway) in that stretch all the way into May.

Things did turn around a bit from there, with Smith compiling seven top 10s and a pair of wins (Bristol Motor Speedway and Phoenix Raceway) in the remaining 13 races, staying alive in the playoffs until Martinsville Speedway’s Round of 8 elimination race before seeing his title hopes run dry. One race removed from a Championship 4 appearance after a tumultuous regular season isn’t bad, but Smith made no bones about the fact this year didn’t meet his — or his Cup champion boss’ — standards.

“B-minus is what I would grade (our season),” said Smith, who noted his plans for next year are being finalized and should be announced in the next week or so. “Just because, realistically, going into the season and halfway through the season I knew we were capable and had the resources and everything at our disposal to win a championship, but we just weren’t all clicking. We just weren’t consistent as far as showing up at the race track and being good, and when we did show up and were good there were too many mistakes being made. Granted, we had the rookie stripe. So I guess it was acceptable but in my eyes I still didn’t accept that. I’m glad we picked it up the last half of the season and the consistency started coming, the results started to show a little bit. I’m still not happy with the first half of my season to be completely honest with you.”

Smith mentioned the team started to hit its stride toward the later part of the season in a similar fashion to the year before as “me and Danny’s (Stockman, crew chief) relationship got better and he started to trust my input more and I started to trust his input more and the team started clicking.”

Now with his “first full-time year in anything in a very long time” under his belt, a Sunoco Rookie of the Year trophy soon to be added to his collection and a pair of race victories in the record books, Smith is focused on his super late model offseason schedule, which includes the prestigious Snowball Derby, which he placed fourth in last year.

The 19-year-old’s 2021 regular season is going to stick with him all through until ’22, it seems. And if it does, expect him to come out firing in his sophomore campaign and right the wrongs from a season of missed opportunities to be among the title favorites once again just a few short months from now.

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On Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET, The NASCAR Foundation will reveal the winner of the 11th annual Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award live on NASCAR’s YouTube Channel.

TUNE IN: Nov. 16 at 11 a.m. ET

The Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award, named in honor of the foundation’s late founder and chairwoman, Betty Jane France, recognizes NASCAR fans who volunteer for children’s causes in their racing communities. Each finalist receives a minimum $25,000 donation for their organization with the overall winner receiving a $100,000 donation from The NASCAR Foundation to further their efforts.

The 11th annual Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award finalists include:

— Erin Collins of Dallas, Texas, a volunteer with the Dallas Hearing Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers medical and surgical treatment, hearing technologies, speech and hearing rehabilitation and education support to those in financial need. For the past 12 years, Collins has dedicated her time to serving kids living with hearing loss, initially volunteering in a fundraising capacity for the organization and eventually creating a youth program to provide a safe space where the kids can be surrounded by peers also living with hearing loss.

— Jaeleen Davis of Midland, Michigan, a volunteer with Maggie’s Wigs 4 Kids of Michigan, a non-profit organization that provides wigs and support services to children ages 3 to 18 throughout the state of Michigan. Davis has volunteered for 13 years with the organization, raising awareness and funds through her Miss America platform, which has also allowed her to introduce bills in Michigan and Ohio to get insurance companies to cover the cost of children’s wigs.

— Jeff Harmon of Louisville, Kentucky, a volunteer with Down Syndrome of Louisville, an organization that supports, educates and advocates for individuals with down syndrome, enabling them to reach their full potential. Having served in both coaching and fundraising roles over the last 18 years, Harmon’s passion and dedication for volunteering has touched hundreds of kids and families and the communities where they live.

— Beverly Hodsdon of Exeter, New Hampshire, a volunteer with Richie McFarland Children’s Center, an early childhood program that helps young children reach their full developmental potential while supporting their families throughout the process. Hodsdon has been a pillar of the organization for 17 years, devoting her time to help in different capacities as a board member, creating fundraising events, bringing the largest donor of the organization and providing graphic design and marketing services.

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As NASCAR inches closer to the 2022 Busch Light Clash in February at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Next Gen testing will continue on Wednesday and Thursday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Live streaming will be available on NASCAR’s YouTube and Facebook channels (11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Wednesday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Thursday).

RELATED: Catch up on Wednesday’s action | Watch Thursday’s session

These testing sessions follow the series’ short-track test in October at Bowman Gray Stadium that consisted of a Goodyear tire test and generational star power turning laps at the historic venue. Wednesday will mark the fourth time the Next Gen car has appeared on the oval layout at the Concord, North Carolina, track. Cup Series champions Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr. took part in the track’s test last year, Busch returned earlier this year, and wheel-force testing was conducted there in June.

This week’s session will feature a bigger roster of drivers and teams, as organizations are beginning to prepare for the 2022 season. The two-day organizational test allows teams to field their own cars, limiting entrants to one car for one- or two-car teams and two cars for three- or four-car teams. Recent changes to the Next Gen car’s structure include a position change for the exhaust and new slots on the rear windshield to reduce the temperature in the cockpit.

On-track activity is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET Wednesday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Thursday. Each session is open to the media, and NASCAR.com will have a full report.

MORE: New rules package, technical updates | Next Gen development timeline | Photos from the test

Team Driver(s)
No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain
No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet Austin Dillon
No. 4 Stewart Haas Racing Ford Kevin Harvick and Chase Briscoe
No. 6 RFK Racing Ford Brad Keselowski
No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Corey LaJoie
No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman
No. 10 Stewart Haas Racing Ford Aric Almirola and Cole Custer
No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Denny Hamlin
No. 12 Team Penske Ford Ryan Blaney
No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet AJ Allmendinger and Justin Haley
No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Christopher Bell
No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford Austin Cindric and Harrison Burton
No. 22 Team Penske Ford Joey Logano
No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet William Byron and Kyle Larson
No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford Michael McDowell
No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet Erik Jones
No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota Kurt Busch
No. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
No. 51 Petty Ware Racing Chevrolet Cody Ware and JJ Yeley
No. 66 Motorsports Business Management Ford Timmy Hill
No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Ford BJ McLeod
No. 94 GMS Racing Chevrolet Ty Dillon
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BRASELTON, Ga. — Even as he walked around the IMSA paddock filled with sportscar enthusiasts at the Motul Petit Le Mans event over the weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Chad Knaus was smiling and accepting congratulations for a job well done in his full-time gig — vice president of competition for the NASCAR Cup Series champion Hendrick Motorsports team.

A week ago, Knaus was celebrating with champagne and confetti after Hendrick driver Kyle Larson wrapped up a 10-win season with a championship bow. This weekend, Knaus led his previous Hendrick champion driver Jimmie Johnson as the pair wrapped up an IMSA Michelin Endurance Challenge season — competing in the four endurance races and finishing fourth on Saturday.

RELATED: Learn about Chad Knaus’ current role

Johnson, whose former No. 48 NASCAR team took over Larson’s 2021 No. 5 effort, was genuinely happy for his friends and their success. Fresh off his inaugural IndyCar season, the seven-time NASCAR champ was an integral part in that group’s inaugural season together under Cliff Daniels in 2020 — Johnson’s final year of NASCAR competition.

In particular, Johnson said he was proud of second-year NASCAR Cup Series crew chief Daniels’ accomplishment leading the Larson team. Johnson has known Daniels for years through their time at Hendrick — when Daniels was working on SIM data and various engineering positions — long before Daniels began leading Cup teams.

“I’m so thankful for the time I had at HMS,” Johnson said. “I’m so thankful for everything they provided and gave to me and I know along the way I was able to help in many ways, too.

“I think bringing Cliff Daniels into the crew chief position was a good move. We had a lot of great guys on that team already that knew Cliff, but they jelled and we had a great year in 2020 to kind of grow the team. And Cliff kept adjusting.

“Larson comes in and is on top of his game and they have just an epic year with 10 wins and the championship. Truly happy for any and all those folks and probably carrying a bit more pride for Cliff just because of the history I have with him and understand the journey he’s been on to be an elite-level crew chief and he’s able to do that in his second year.”

RELATED: More about Cliff Daniels’ work with No. 5 team

Knaus, who left the pit box this season to lead Hendrick’s overall technical efforts, was equally as proud for the work put in and the trophy it produced. But for him, it was also about raising the overall game of Hendrick, which put two drivers — Larson and 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott — in the Championship 4 and had all four drivers — including William Byron and Alex Bowman — qualify for the playoffs via wins.

“Obviously, with the 5 (Larson), I was extremely happy that they won and I was super proud of them,” Knaus said. “What an amazing year they had of working together and competing at a super high level and frankly, probably deserved the championship more than most.

“The 9-car (Elliott) was extremely fast all year long. They had some hiccups along the way, but they made the final four and they were running very competitively. And then you have the 24 (Byron) that was running well and had some issues but really a strong series during the playoffs and then unfortunately the 48 car (Bowman) that won Martinsville a week ago and then went to Phoenix and ran like 15th all day.

“You really only feel as good as your worst car. But I’m very proud of everybody at Hendrick Motorsports and their contribution throughout the year. It was really, really high and we really wanted this one badly, obviously.

“To be able to close out the Gen-6 era with a lot of wins and a championship and welcome Kyle to the organization and be able to do it in this fashion was a really special year for us all.”

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The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour confirmed an additional date for Thompson Speedway on the 2022 schedule, with a second visit to the Connecticut track planned for Saturday, Oct. 8.

The 0.625-mile track already had one confirmed date on the schedule — Aug. 17, a Wednesday event — and now adds another. There are now 15 confirmed events slated for 2022.

RELATED: Current 2022 schedule

The storied short track has hosted 148 Whelen Modified Tour races, starting in 1985. The track also hosted a pair of NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour races in 2011 and 2012.

NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2021 inductee Mike Stefanik holds the all-time wins record in the series at Thompson with 15 victories. Ted Christopher is second with 13, while reigning and three-time series champion Justin Bonsignore has 12 victories there.

Bonsignore also holds the record for most consecutive NWMT victories at Thompson with six straight in 2018 and 2019. Richie Evans (the first four NWMT races held at Thompson in 1985), Jeff Fuller (1991-1992), Steve Park (1995-1996), Stefanik (1998) and Christopher (2010-2011) are all next with four consecutive wins.

In total, 36 drivers have recorded a NWMT race win at Thompson Speedway. The most recent winners in 2020 were Ron Silk and Craig Lutz.

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Daniel Suarez has driven for a different NASCAR Cup Series organization in each of the last four seasons, a nomadic career arc of whistle-stops with teams large and small.

This year, Suarez has found solid footing after his first campaign with Trackhouse Racing, gained a new teammate for 2022 in Ross Chastain, and carved out his spot as a thoughtful voice and contributor within the growing start-up team. For the first time in a long time, the 29-year-old driver has no need to pack his bags for a new destination in the offseason.

RELATED: Silly Season Tracker | Power Rankings 2022 look-ahead

“I don’t think people really understand the difference that it makes, every single time that you have to start from zero again with people, with mechanics, with engineers, that communication. It’s almost like resetting the clock,” said Suarez, set for his sixth Cup Series season next year and his second in Trackhouse’s No. 99 Chevrolet. “If you if you think about it, all these things that are very, very successful, I mean, just go back and look at the Championship 4 right now. All these guys, they’ve been working together for a long time, for years. So they know each other very well and they have built a team, they have gotten the best people possible, and I haven’t been able to do that since I went to Cup.

“So I feel like now with Trackhouse, I’m able to build that slowly and I feel like we’re heading in the right direction.”

One year in, there’s modest performance to show for the team’s first go-around — highlighted by a season-best fourth-place result on Bristol Motor Speedway’s dirt. But the organization — headed by car owner Justin Marks and megastar partner Pitbull — has made an aggressive push for its next chapter with its summertime purchase of Chip Ganassi Racing’s NASCAR assets.

Suarez will remain at the center of that evolution to a two-car team, with Chastain joining in the No. 1 Chevy for next season, and he intends to remain an active contributor to the team’s direction.

“I guess what gets me most excited is just how the team is growing with me, and I’ve been able to influence how I can make the team better for me,” Suarez said before last weekend’s season finale at Phoenix Raceway. “You know, I’ve never had that before. Pretty much in the past, ‘this is what you got and good luck’ and that was it. And if it was good, great; then if it was not so good, too bad. But that was it. My voice wasn’t loud enough to make adjustments.

“I feel like with Trackhouse, they listened to me a lot, and we’ve been making a few adjustments here and there and we’ve been growing together, and I really like that a lot. I feel like the future of Trackhouse Racing is extremely bright and I’m very, very happy to be along for the ride with them.”

Chastain’s relationship with Marks pre-dates CGR’s transition to Trackhouse ownership. Both shared driving duties in the Camping World Truck Series for team owner Stacy Compton in the 2011 season, when Chastain made his national-series debut. And both went on to win Xfinity Series races for Ganassi — Marks at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in 2016 and Chastain at Las Vegas Motor Speedway two years later.

So their careers have been intertwined — or entangled, with an emphasis on “tangle,” depending on the viewpoint.

“He’s still the same guy, and that’s what’s crazy,” said Chastain, who netted three top-five runs last season. “I told him years ago that he was too nice. He’s too nice to race in the Xfinity Series on those road courses, man. He’d be so fast and then we’d all just run him over. I’ve wrecked him, and he’s been wrecked by half a dozen other guys and girls. I told him then, and so I’m glad that he’s on my side, and I’m glad that he didn’t hold a grudge because they very easily could have written me off because I crashed him — several times — just driving over my head. So he’s still the same good guy that he was back then.”

Marks has made it clear that he is not a fly-by-night investor into the sport, positioning Trackhouse for the longer haul. While others have come into NASCAR with big plans, big dreams and more talk than action, Marks has intended to make good on the team’s mission.

In addition to the on-track product, Trackhouse has made strides in the entertainment industry and the philanthropic space, striving to reach a broader audience. So far, Suarez said it has been more than just buzzwords and unfulfilled hype.

“Sometimes, in the sport and in life in general, sometimes you don’t really know when somebody is going to actually do what they what they tell you they’re going to do, right?” Suarez said. “They promise you something, you don’t really know if they’re gonna do it or not. Justin, he is one of those guys that he actually delivers more than what he promised me the first time.

“You know, a lot of people were calling me dumb for trusting another new team at the beginning of the year, and I guess I don’t look that dumb right now, right?”

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – As the 2021 season comes to an end, NASCAR prepares for a return to Nashville, Tennessee, from Nov. 30 through Dec. 2 to host its annual Champion’s Week celebration.

The NASCAR Awards held Dec. 2 at the Music City Center will formally crown this season’s champions, as fellow drivers, industry luminaries and celebrities descend upon the heart of downtown Nashville for the first time in two years to celebrate a memorable 2021 season.

In addition to the Cup Series champion, NASCAR will honor the Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series champions in the largest awards show to date. In addition, the champions of the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, ARCA Menards Series West and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, as well as the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion, have been invited to the NASCAR national series events in Nashville to celebrate their titles.

In addition to the NASCAR Awards, the streets of Nashville will once again host the “Burnouts on Broadway presented by DoorDash” on Dec. 1 from 6:30 p.m. CT to 8 p.m. CT, an event where all drivers will look to leave their mark – literally – on lower Broadway under the neon-lit streets.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to return to Nashville to celebrate the champions of our sport,” said Pete Jung, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at NASCAR. “Although we weren’t able to celebrate in person in Nashville last year, we saw the city’s energy and passion for motorsports on full display when we came to Nashville Superspeedway earlier this year. Nashville welcomed us with open arms in 2019 and we’re looking forward to another unforgettable Champion’s Week in Music City.”

The formal postseason NASCAR Awards is a tradition that stretches back to 1981, when the event was held in New York City. It relocated to Las Vegas in 2009 and then called Nashville its home for the first time in 2019.

For more information on Champion’s Week, including a more detailed schedule, please visit www.nascar.com/championsweek.