Sports Journalist · 119 articles
As Shane van Gisbergen and Trackhouse Racing were busy celebrating their first win of the season, Bubba Wallace and Christopher Bell were seen in a tense post-race exchange. The two drivers stood in front of each other after the chequered flag and spoke at length, with Wallace appearing to lay out his side of the […]
Ahead of the Watkins Glen race, RFK Racing notified that the team would move forward with an appeal against the penalties NASCAR issued to Ryan Preece for the incident involving Ty Gibbs at Texas Motor Speedway in Sunday’s Würth 400. Denny Hamlin, however, has made it clear that he does not see the appeal process […]
It was last week, after the Texas race, that NASCAR handed down penalties to Ryan Preece for dumping Ty Gibbs while electing to spare Kyle Busch for wrecking John Hunter Nemechek. Preece was hit with a 25-point deduction and a $50,000 fine after the incident that sent Gibbs into the Turn 3 wall during the […]
NASCAR implemented several changes for the current season after taking input from veteran drivers, NASCAR fans, and media. The sanctioning body returned to the chase format after moving away from the elimination-style format. Along with that shift, NASCAR also acted on Denny Hamlin’s suggestion to rotate the finale venue, aimed at preventing any single team […]
Although Shane van Gisbergen walked away with the bulk of the points at Watkins Glen, 68 to be precise, the spotlight in the standings still refused to shift away from Tyler Reddick, who has been sitting at the top since the opening stretch of the season. Reddick finished inside the top five at Watkins Glen […]
As many expected, Watkins Glen once again turned into a Shane van Gisbergen show, with the New Zealander returning to the road course and once more leaving the field chasing shadows. Yet beneath the headline result, another story was modeled altogether, one that revealed the rest of the garage may finally be beginning to chop […]
Despite clipping the grass and slamming the wall after the bus stop for a scare that could have brought his run to a halt, Connor Zilisch kept the car running without a caution and, with a pass in the final corner in a wounded machine, protected his unbeaten record at Watkins Glen. His Cup season […]
The 12th race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series is pretty much set for Watkins Glen International this weekend, and attention has shifted to drivers who specialise in road courses. Shane van Gisbergen won last year’s event, and with Tyler Reddick’s recent form, especially at the first road course event of the season at Circuit […]
Merely a week ago, during a sit-down with former Stewart-Haas Racing driver Tony Stewart, FOX Sports analyst Kevin Harvick raised the idea of returning to NASCAR alongside him. That conversation stayed in the air, but Harvick now appears to be placing conditions on whether that return ever gets off the ground. In a story that […]
NASCAR is heading toward its second road course event of the season, but the sanctioning body’s decision to place the race at Watkins Glen International in the middle of May has turned into a headache for fans and campers alike. After one season of battling rain, mud, flooded campsites, and travel issues, NASCAR is now […]
NASCAR drivers will no longer be able to drive off into the Turn 1 runoff on starts and restarts at Watkins Glen International, now that the sanctioning body has introduced changes to track limits at Turn 1 and the exit of the Carousel. The decision aims to limit how far drivers can extend beyond the […]
Ryan Blaney became a father in November 2025, when he and his wife Gianna welcomed their first child, a son named Charley Bennett Blaney, after their marriage in December 2024. What followed was a broader change in how he approaches life around racing, how he processes outcomes, and how he connects the dots between track […]