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For the first time in nearly 50 years, NASCAR will have a scheduled mid-week race for its flagship Cup Series, with a 500-kilometer race at Darlington Raceway. Once again, there will be no practice and no qualifying for the event. NASCAR has already determined the starting lineup for the race …

A Historic Night at the Lady in Black For a while now, NASCAR has danced around the idea of primetime mid-week evening races. Tomorrow, we’ll have a chance to see just what that looks like. Last Sunday, the race attracted a robust 3.7 rating (translating to 6.3 million viewers) – …

In a Nutshell: For years I wrote on a Sunday night deadline (that sometimes stretched to the point my alarm clock was going off while I was still trying to clean up the punctuation) for at least a half-dozen websites in various forms and under various titles. At Frontstretch, that …

NASCAR has announced that they are moving up the start of the Toyota 200 Xfinity Series race from 8 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 19. The start time for the Xfinity Series race is being moved up by two hours in response to Tropical Storm Arthur, …

Chris Gayle, crew chief for Erik Jones in the NASCAR Cup Series, has been suspended for one race and fined $20,000 after yesterday’s (May 17) event at Darlington Raceway due to a lug nut violation, NASCAR announced today, May 18. In post-race inspection, Jones’ No. 20 for Joe Gibbs Racing …

TJ Bell will pilot the No. 49 truck for CMI Motorsports at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, the team announced today, May 18. The No. 49 for CMI failed to qualify for the first two races with team owner …

After being signed onto drive the No. 6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for JD Motorsports full time with Gary Keller in 2020, David Starr finds himself out of a ride just four races into the 2020 season due to sponsorship issues. The entry list for tomorrow’s (May 19) …

Ryan Preece will start from the pole in Wednesday’s (May 20) Toyota 500k at Darlington Raceway. The starting lineup is based on where drivers finished in Sunday’s The Real Heroes 400. Positions 1-20 were inverted while those 21-40 will start where they ended the race. This put 20th-place finisher Preece …

It has been 71 days, but NASCAR restarted with The Real Heroes 400 at Darlington on Sunday (May 17). Who took home the checkered flag? We will tell you on Stock Car Scoop with Bryan Nolen. Frontstretch’s new podcast focused on the motorsports news of the week also takes a …

For a few hours on Sunday, May 17, we got to focus on something other than social distancing, rates of infection and toilet paper shortages.  Some stay-at-home orders may still be in place, but the NASCAR COVID-19 quarantine came to an end… and gave millions a break. They got to …