MEDIA NEWS

Clint Bowyer announced on October 8th that he will retire from NASCAR competition following the 2020 season.

NASCAR and SPEED SPORT, America’s Motorsports authority since 1934, today announced a strategic digital partnership.

NASCAR today announced the final installment of events in the revised 2020 schedule, including the full Playoffs schedule for all three national series.

NBC Sports announced today that long-time NASCAR analyst and team owner Brad Daugherty has joined its NASCAR commentary team. He is scheduled to make his debut with NBC Sports during the Michigan doubleheader weekend of August 8-9.

Thursday’s NASCAR Cup Series race from Kansas averaged a 0.9 rating at 1.47 million viewers on NBCSN, making it the least-watched Cup race on any network since at least 2000.

CBS Sports and Superstar Racing Experience (SRX), a new sports property created by The Montag Group, NASCAR Hall of Famers Ray Evernham and Tony Stewart, and investor George Pyne, have entered into a multi-year partnership to produce a six-race, short-track series that will air Saturday nights in primetime on CBS Television Network and CBS All Access in the summer of 2021.

NASCAR Heat 5's Gold Edition video game from 704 Games was released today available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. You can order the game through 704 Games website, or download directly to your game systems.

NBC Sports’ first NASCAR Cup Series race of the 2020 season produced significant viewership gains from 2019, as the Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 Powered by Big Machine Records at Indianapolis Motor Speedway averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 4.370 million viewers – up 46% vs. same race in 2019, which ran in September – according to Fast National data by Nielsen and digital data from Adobe Analytics.

Monday morning United States President, Donald Trump took to twitter asking why NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace has not apologized publicly about promoting the noose hoax in his garage stall three weeks ago at Talladega Superspeedway.

NBC Sports’ NASCAR analyst Dale Earnhardt Jr. and INDYCAR Series reigning champion Josef Newgarden joined NBC Sports commentator Leigh Diffey on yesterday’s episode of Countdown to Crossover, a week-long daily digital series featuring NASCAR, INDYCAR and IMSA drivers with NBC Sports commentators to preview the historic NASCAR/INDYCAR crossover weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 4-5. The series runs through Friday, July 3.