CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead sang the national anthem from a remote location. Troy Aikman, borrowing Matthew McConaughey’s trademark phrase “Alright, alright, alright,” commanded drivers to start their, uh, simulators. NASCAR’s new normal resumed Sunday with another virtual eNASCAR event, the second in an iRacing Pro Invitational Series thrown together after […]
Justin Allgaier (7), Austin Cindric (12) and Justin Haley (16) battle for position on the virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway oval. (Photo: NASCAR) After seeing a wealth of social interaction and receiving favorable reviews of its virtual NASCAR race last weekend, Fox Sports has signed up to broadcast the rest of the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series. iRacing requires a […]
Less than a week after a successful inaugural eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series race, NASCAR, iRacing and Fox Sports announced Tuesday that subsequent races will be aired nationally on the Fox broadcast network (where available and subject to change), FS1 and the Fox Sports app, beginning with Sunday’s race at the virtual Texas Motor Speedway at […]
Denny Hamlin, racing on the actual Homestead-Miami Speedway oval in 2018, won Sunday's IRacing event on the virtual Homestead track. (Photo: Lynne Sladky, AP) For sports fans who've gone nearly two weeks without any live events, Fox Sports 1 offered an attractive alternative to Sunday's postponed NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. But instead of actual cars trading […]
NASCAR went viral on Sunday for the iRacing Pro Invitational and drivers had a lot of fun with the unique event. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson were just some of the big names who took part in the 100-lap simulation-style esports race on a virtual Homestead-Miami […]
NASCAR has quickly found a way to fill weekend time for racing fans even with tracks closed because of the spread of the coronavirus. Starting on Sunday, it will kick-off a multi-week eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series consisting of actually NASCAR drivers virtually racing against one another in the simulation game “iRacing.” Among the drivers selected to participate […]
Almost a week has passed since Alex Bowman’s No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Camaro all but disappeared from the view of Kyle Busch in the closing laps of the Auto Club 400 in Fontana, Calif. Before he claimed the checkered flag, Bowman led 110 of the race’s 200 laps. Second-place Busch crossed the finish line almost […]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Less than a month after Denny Hamlin celebrated his Daytona 500 crown in the sport’s most famous victory lane, Daytona International Speedway has announced major adjustments to the traditional NASCAR Cup Series season-opening race week for 2021 — changing the course of the popular Busch Clash race and condensing the schedule. Next winter, the […]
FONTANA, Calif. – A week after feeling like he would have made a run at Ryan Blaney for the win in Las Vegas, Alex Bowman left no doubt at Auto Club Speedway. In a dominating performance in the Auto Club 400, Bowman led five times for 110 laps and won for the second time in […]
What channel is the NASCAR race on today? What time does the NASCAR race start? These are the questions that plague race fans every Sunday, when each NASCAR Cup Series race will be on either FOX or FS1 for the first half of the 2020 season with differing start times. As for Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas […]