Photo from www.x.com/f1 By Ryan Wu What appeared to be another dominant weekend for Championship leader Kimi Antonelli ended in disaster when a late issue with his front left wheel shield made the car difficult to control. The problem led to multiple off-track excursions before ultimately triggering a safety car period, and Antonelli could manage only a 16th-place finish. Lewis Hamilton secured sprint pole position at his home race, edging Antonelli by just over one hundredth

Photo from www.x.com/F1 By Ryan Wu George Russell added further intrigue to this year's Championship race with a narrow victory over Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli as both drivers finished within two seconds of the English driver. Russell has now cut Antonelli’s championship lead to 40 points with plenty more to be contested, especially with a sprint race weekend upcoming at Silverstone. A week after winning his maiden race for Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton finished in fifth pla

Photo from www.x.com/f1 By Ryan Wu The legends find a way. After 31 races and an entire 2025 season without a podium, Lewis Hamilton added to his Formula 1 record with the 106th win of his career and the first for the Scuderia. He became the first non-Mercedes driver to win a race this season. Hamilton was joined by George Russell and Lando Norris who took the remaining podium places, recovering nicely from two straight DNFs in his last two races. Race Recap Russell started t

Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images By Adam Carabine The StatChat Power Rankings return in 2026! While finishing position is important, it’s not always indicative of the full picture. StatChat rankings are determined using a large number of statistical inputs. Let's look at the Top 10: Chase Briscoe – This week: 10 – Last week: 9 Briscoe has struggled a bit on road courses in the Cup Series, considering what success he had on them in the O’Reilly Auto Parts (Xfinity at the

Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images By Adam Carabine Though it was in a slightly different capacity, Denny Hamlin returned to Victory Lane for the fourth week in a row. Hamlin, one of the co-owners of 23XI Racing, was celebrating this weekend as a boss, rather than as a driver, as part-time entrant Corey Heim earned his first ever Cup Series victory at the Coronado Street Course in San Diego! Let’s have a look at how it all shook down! Lap 1: Green flag – to the surpris

Kyle Larson backed up his NASCAR 26 cover reveal with the fastest lap in Friday’s NASCAR Cup Series practice session at Naval Base Coronado.

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of Stats Saturday. This weekend the Cup Series travels to San Diego, California for the Anduril 250 Race the Base at the Coronado Street Course, also known as the Qualcomm Circuit. This is the first year that NASCAR has done this race, and it is a brand-new track that is being built for this event. The circuit is planned to be 3.4 miles long, featuring 19 turns. Since this is the first event here, the

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to San Diego, California for the United Rentals Driven to Serve 250 at the Coronado Street Course, also known as the Qualcomm Circuit. This is the first year that NASCAR has done this race, and it is a brand-new track that is being built for this event. The circuit is planned to be 3.4 miles long, featuring 19 turns. Since th

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, you might be familiar with the Cup Series’ Stats Saturday article, but this year we are branching it out to the Top 3 Series. It’s now time for another Truck Stats Thursday. This weekend the Craftsman Truck Series travels to San Diego, California for the Navy 250 at the Coronado Street Course, also known as the Qualcomm Circuit. This is the first year that NASCAR has done this race, and it is a brand-new track that is being built fo

Photo by David Jensen/Getty Images By Adam Carabine The StatChat Power Rankings return in 2026! While finishing position is important, it’s not always indicative of the full picture. StatChat rankings are determined using a large number of statistical inputs. Let's look at the Top 10: Erik Jones – This week: 10 – Last week: 11 Erik Jones and Legacy Motor Club have been really improving these last few weeks. Jones has an average finish of just over 10th in the last five ra

Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images By Adam Carabine Is this déjà vu? (we said that last week too). For the third week in a row, Denny Hamlin has won the race from the pole! This week, it was a little less complicated for him, as he didn’t have to go to the rear early in the race. Let’s have a look at how it all shook down! Lap 1: Denny Hamlin on pole, Kyle Larson beside him, the race is green! Larson takes the lead from Hamlin by Turn 2. Lap 2: Daniel Suarez gets

Fifty athletes will participate in fun run on the San Diego street course Press Release | NASCAR SAN DIEGO (June 12, 2026) – NASCAR San Diego today announced that it will welcome 50 athletes from Special Olympics Southern California for a one-of-a-kind Fun Run experience on the NASCAR San Diego street course’s Qualcomm Circuit on Thurs., June 18. From 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., the athletes will participate in a fun run between Turns 14 and 16, offering a unique opportunity to

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of Stats Saturday. This weekend the Cup Series travels to Long Pond, Pennsylvania for the Great American Getaway 400 at Pocono Raceway. Pocono is a unique triangle-shaped track that only has three corners rather than the traditional four. It is 2.5 miles long, and features three distinctly different corners, each modelled after other race tracks. Turn One is modelled after Trenton Speedway, Turn Two is

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Kansas City, Kansas for the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway. Kansas is a 1.5-mile tri-oval speedway, built in 2001. Jeff Green won the first O’Reilly Series race there that same year. Brandon Jones won the most recent race at Kansas last year. Tomorrow’s race will be 200 laps long (for a total of 300 miles), with s

Highlight of Navy Community Day will highlight am opening day of action “Forged by the Sea” during NASCAR San Diego Weekend presented by Anduril Press Release - NASCAR SAN DIEGO (June 9, 2026) – NASCAR San Diego announced today that the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race on Friday, June 19, will be named the Navy 250, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States Navy during NASCAR San Diego Weekend presented by Anduril. The historic race will take place on the Qu

Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images By Adam Carabine The StatChat Power Rankings return in 2026! While finishing position is important, it’s not always indicative of the full picture. StatChat rankings are determined using a large number of statistical inputs. Let's look at the Top 10: Chase Briscoe – This week: 10 – Last week: 11 It felt like Briscoe was barely on the TV broadcast on Sunday in Michigan, though to be fair, there were a lot of things happening all at once.

Photo by Brett Farmer/Getty Images By Adam Carabine Is this déjà vu? Denny Hamlin won the pole, went to the rear, and then drove all the way to the front for the second week in a row. There was a lot of crashing and carnage at Michigan, but Denny rose above it to capture the win. Let’s have a look at how it all shook down! Lap 1: Denny Hamlin should have been on pole, but had to make repairs to his car, so he had to start at the rear. Carson Hocevar became the contro