CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With his illustrious racing career expanding, Hélio Castroneves made a bet.

Should the four-time Indianapolis 500 champion win in his Superstar Racing Experience debut, then-SRX director Don Hawk told him he’d start making connections in NASCAR.

Castroneves, one of IndyCar’s most popular drivers, is now officially set ...Read more

Over the past year, Oakland grocery store manager Ananda Neil has received updates on his auto insurance policy with mounting dread. When his six-month, per-mile policy for his 2022 Hyundai Santa Fe renewed in October 2023, it edged up from $77.19 to $83.39 a month and 15.5 to 16.7 cents a mile. But in April, it leaped to $167.75 a month and 37 ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — 23XI Racing, the NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan, now has three cars in the sport’s highest circuit.

But while young driver Riley Herbst has been announced as the newest teammate of regular-season champion Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace, it remains up in the air if these up-and-coming race teams will compete as ...Read more

Travis Shumake has made a career out of breaking barriers, which is both dangerous and impressive when you consider he's broken those barriers — and some bones — in a dragster going 324 miles per hour.

"The fastest-accelerating machine on the planet," he said. "Faster than the space shuttle launches."

Surviving those rides has made Shumake...Read more

LOS ANGELES — NASCAR won't visit Southern California next year and there's no certainty when the stock-car racing series will return with construction on a new track in unincorporated San Bernardino County slowed.

NASCAR, which moved its 2025 season-opening event from the Coliseum to Winston-Salem, N.C., after three years, had hoped to race ...Read more