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When Dolly Parton Went NASCAR Racing at Bristol Bristol Motor Speedway

When Dolly Parton Went NASCAR Racing at Bristol

Lauren Miller October 20, 2026

Tyler Reddick’s No. 2 Chevrolet carried a Dolly Parton sponsorship at the 2019 Alsco 300—and the result...

Honda’s Civic Type R TCR Goes From Last to the Podium at VIR After a Wiped-Out Qualifying Lap Rocco Pasquarella and Tim Lewis celebrate their No. 5 KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering Honda Civic Type R TCR podium finish at the Virginia Is For Racing Lovers Grand Prix. Photo: Honda Racing Corporation USA

Rocco Pasquarella and Tim Lewis celebrate their No. 5 KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering Honda Civic Type R TCR podium finish at the Virginia Is For Racing Lovers Grand Prix. Photo: Honda Racing Corporation USA

Honda’s Civic Type R TCR Goes From Last to the Podium at VIR After a Wiped-Out Qualifying Lap

EL Puckett October 20, 2026

A qualifying incident that wipes out your two best laps is supposed to ruin your weekend, not...

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Ford Sent a Fully Restricted Dakar Truck to America’s Toughest Desert Race — And It Nearly Won

EL Puckett October 20, 2026

Rally-raid trucks built to FIA’s Dakar rulebook aren’t supposed to show up at an American desert race...

MotoGP’s 2027 Reset Is Official — Smaller Engines, Synthetic Fuel, and Zero Volts of Hybrid Assistance

Johnny Puckett October 20, 2026

Somewhere in Brno this summer, the five manufacturers who spend their weekends trying to beat each other...

IndyCar’s First-Ever Race in Washington Is a Novelty. The Championship Fight Isn’t.

Johnny Puckett October 20, 2026

On Sunday, August 23, the NTT INDYCAR SERIES will take the green flag on Pennsylvania Avenue for...

A 110-Point Cushion, an Electrical Fault, and the Six Laps That Cost Matt Payne the Sprint Cup Broc Feeney's Triple Eight Ford Mustang Supercar on track

Broc Feeney's Triple Eight Ford Mustang Supercar on track

A 110-Point Cushion, an Electrical Fault, and the Six Laps That Cost Matt Payne the Sprint Cup

EL Puckett October 20, 2026

Matt Payne walked into Sunday at Queensland Raceway with the kind of lead that should never evaporate...

How Sprint Point Payouts Compare Across Racing Series Graphic: Backfire Racing.

How Sprint Point Payouts Compare Across Racing Series

EL Puckett October 20, 2026

Short-format sprint races have become a fixture across several major racing series, but the way points are...

IMCA Will Now Let You Legally Overbore a Broken Crate Engine — With Strings Attached

EL Puckett October 20, 2026

IMCA seals its 602 and 604 crate engines for a reason: nobody gets to bore, port, or...

Mercedes Swapped Cars Twice at Zandvoort — Ferrari Couldn’t Pull It Off Once Photo: Liauzh / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Mercedes Swapped Cars Twice at Zandvoort — Ferrari Couldn’t Pull It Off Once

Johnny Puckett October 20, 2026

Lap 35 at Zandvoort, and Lewis Hamilton had just muscled his Ferrari past Oscar Piastri for fifth....

Mercedes Is Turning Kimi Antonelli’s Home Race Into a Championship Insurance Policy Photo: Eustace Bagge via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Mercedes Is Turning Kimi Antonelli’s Home Race Into a Championship Insurance Policy

EL Puckett October 20, 2026

Toto Wolff confirmed this week that Kimi Antonelli will take a grid penalty at the Italian Grand...

Backfire Racing

When Dolly Parton Went NASCAR Racing at Bristol

Honda’s Civic Type R TCR Goes From Last to the Podium at VIR After a Wiped-Out Qualifying Lap

Ford Sent a Fully Restricted Dakar Truck to America’s Toughest Desert Race — And It Nearly Won

MotoGP’s 2027 Reset Is Official — Smaller Engines, Synthetic Fuel, and Zero Volts of Hybrid Assistance

IndyCar’s First-Ever Race in Washington Is a Novelty. The Championship Fight Isn’t.

A 110-Point Cushion, an Electrical Fault, and the Six Laps That Cost Matt Payne the Sprint Cup

How Sprint Point Payouts Compare Across Racing Series

IMCA Will Now Let You Legally Overbore a Broken Crate Engine — With Strings Attached

Mercedes Swapped Cars Twice at Zandvoort — Ferrari Couldn’t Pull It Off Once

Mercedes Is Turning Kimi Antonelli’s Home Race Into a Championship Insurance Policy

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