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Smith will pilot the No. 38 Ford F-150 full-time in the 2025 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series season for Front Row Motorsports, the team announced Monday.

Lajoie will drive a limited schedule in the No. 01 Ford for Rick Ware Racing including attempting to qualify for the 2025 Daytona 500, Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reports.

Orey Fidani, Lars Kern, Bell and Marvin Kirchhoefer secured a breakthrough victory for AWA in the GTD class. The No. 13 Corvette finished 1.454 seconds ahead of the No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche of Adam Adelson, Elliott Skeer, Tom Sargent and Ayhancan Guven, sportscar365.com reports.

Ford Multimatic Motorsports delivered the maiden race win for the Ford Mustang GT3 by taking GTD Pro class honors in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Olsen, sharing the No. 65 car with full season IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers Chris Mies and Fred Vervisch, secured the win for the 'Blue Oval' by storming past the No. 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R at the final restart with 38 minutes to go, sportscar365.com reports.

Tower Motorsports emerged victorious in LMP2 at the Rolex 24 at Daytona after surviving late-race attrition as multiple class leaders dropped of contention with mechanical issues and contact in the final hours. Bourdais elected not to make a final pit stop, allowing the Tower driver to assume the class lead after four front-runners faded in the last three hours of the race, sportscar365.com reports.

Porsche Penske Motorsport scored a historic victory in the 63rd Rolex 24 at Daytona, delivering the German manufacturer back-to-back overall wins in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener and its record-extending 20th overall in the race. Nasr took the No. 7 Porsche 963 to a 1.335-second win over the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 of Tom Blomqvist, sportscar365.com reports.

Vanthoor has scored pole for the 63rd Rolex 24 at Daytona, putting BMW M Team RLL on top for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season opener, sportscar365.com reports.

HYAK Motorsports welcomes back SUNNYD as a race team partner for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. SUNNYD, will serve as the primary sponsor for five Cup Series races for Stenhouse Jr and the No. 47 team.

Larson led all 40 laps from the pole Saturday night en route to his third Chili Bowl Midget Nationals win in six years, holding off young Daison Pursley in a three-lap sprint to the finish at Tulsa Expo Raceway.

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Johnson will attempt at least two races in NASCAR's top series in 2025. Johnson will attempt to make the field for the Daytona 500 next month and the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, The Racing Experts reports.

Truex Jr. will drive the No. 56 Toyota for TRICON Garage in his attempt to qualify for the 2025 Daytona 500, the team announced Thursday.

Rick Ware Racing announced Wednesday that Ware would pilot the team's No. 51 Ford entry in all 36 points-awarding races and the season-opening exhibition Cook Out Clash Feb. 2 at Bowman Gray Stadium, The Racing Experts reports.

The NASCAR team owned by Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. will attempt to make its Cup Series debut in the Daytona 500 with a champion driver and a partnership with a Grammy Award-winning artist. JR Motorsports has entered reigning Xfinity Series champion Allgaier into next month's season-opening "Great American Race" in a Chevrolet sponsored by the whiskey label created by 10-time Grammy winner Chris Stapleton, the Associated Press reports.

Truex quietly moved into the reserve driver role for all of Joe Gibbs Racing's Cup Series and Xfinity Series teams late last year and will be the organization's go-to backup for 2025, The Athletic reports.

Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing has announced that NASCAR veteran Derrick Finley will serve as the Crew Chief for the organization's third NASCAR Cup Series entry, the No. 60 Ford Mustang driven by Preece, in the upcoming 2025 season.

Busch received medical clearance to represent Team USA in this year's Race of Champions. Busch and Travis Pastrana will represent Team USA, The Racing Experts reports.

MBM Motorsports can confirm that NASCAR has deemed Wallace is not eligible to compete in the 2025 Daytona 500, despite eleven previous 500 starts and several superspeedway wins, due to lack of recent races in major professional motorsports.

Beard Motorsports and Alfredo will once again partner to attempt the 2025 Daytona 500, Racing America reports.

Colapinto will join Alpine as one of their reserve drivers in 2025, it has been announced, with the Argentinian racer further bolstering the team's back-up pool for the season ahead, Formula1.com reports.

Hendrick Motorsports could have its next, young superstar in place. Day, a 19-year-old dirt racing extraordinaire, signed with NASCAR's winningest organization and will look to take the next step in his career starting in 2025.

So much for a slow January for NASCAR Cup driver Cindric. He was picked Monday to drive the No. 64 Ford Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT3 at this month's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Rolex 24 at Daytona., Autoweek reports.

Castroneves, four-time Indianapolis 500 winner and one of the more popular drivers of his generation, is expected to make his NASCAR debut in next month's Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500, industry sources confirmed. Castroneves will drive a car fielded by Trackhouse Racing, The Athletic reports.

Motorsports Business Management will enter the No. 66 Ford Mustang Dark Horse in the 67th annual Daytona 500 with veteran NASCAR racer Wallace behind the wheel.

Having secured Gragson on a multi-year agreement in July to drive in the NASCAR Cup Series starting in 2025, Front Row Motorsports is excited to announce Gragson will drive the No. 4 Ford Mustang Dark Horse, entering the team into a new era, NBC Sports reports.

Smith is coming back to the No. 38 Ford Mustang Dark Horse. The 25-year-old Huntington Beach, Calif. native will again race for Front Row Motorsports in the NASCAR Cup Series beginning in 2025 under a multi-year agreement, NBC Sports reports.