Crew chiefs in both the NASCAR Xfinity and Monster Energy Cup Series were fined for lug nut violations after weekend races at Chicagoland Speedway.Denny Hamlin’s crew chief, Chris Gabehart, has been fined $10,000. There was one lug nut not secure on the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at the...

The troubled beginning to the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono last Sunday kept the audience for IndyCar waiting along with NBC Sports, first after the problematic start (pictured) and then for word on Robert Wickens' condition following a devastating crash on the opening green flag lap. The event – which...

Positive news on the TV audience front continued for NASCAR this week, as the Monster Energy Cup Series race from Texas Motor Speedway secured the series' second consecutive uptick over last year.Sunday's telecast of the AAA Texas 500 on NBCSN scored a 1.6 rating, averaging 2.7 million viewers. That's up...

NASCAR's final round of "regular season" racing failed to boost its audience in its second week up against football.Although its Saturday night race avoided conflicts with opening day for the NFL, the Monster Energy Cup Series round at Richmond on NBCSN still faced competition from big college football cames on...

Big, bad football is back, giving racing a significant new challenger for TV audience.NASCAR's throwback Monster Energy Cup Series race at Darlington on NBCSN scored a 1.82 rating, averaging 3.1m viewers. That's down from a 2.81/4.6m last year, although to be fair that race aired on NBC – and this...

Darrell Wallace Jr. tried to take the good with the bad after a 26th-place finish in his Monster Energy Cup Series debut at Pocono Raceway.The new interim driver of the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford, Wallace admitted he was bummed and frustrated after being penalized for speeding three times...

Stewart-Haas Racing and Nature’s Bakery have reached an agreement that will drop all the lawsuits the two sides have filed.Friday night, Stewart-Haas Racing announced it had come to an agreement with the fig bar company to where Nature’s Bakery would sponsor four Monster Energy Cup Series races split between Danica...

The month of May got busier last weekend with Formula 1, IndyCar and NASCAR all in action, and the TV numbers yielded some promising news.The Verizon IndyCar Series was back on broadcast network ABC for the GP of Indianapolis, with Saturday's telecast securing an 0.66 rating, averaging 969,000 households. That's...

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. crashed less than 20 minutes into the second Monster Energy Cup Series practice at Bristol Motor Speedway, leaving Roush Fenway Racing with work to do before Sunday's race.Stenhouse got loose in Turn 2 and spun with the right rear catching the outside wall, resulting in damage not...

Formula 1's traditional season open Down Under continues to give the series a difficult launch for U.S. audiences. NBCSN's live telecast of the Australian Grand Prix in the early morning hours of Sunday averaged 238,000 viewers (rating number was not available). Even so, that audience figure was actually up slightly...