The Complete 2025 NASCAR Silly Season Move Tracker
What’s Happening? Silly Season is officially underway, and that means a lot of movement for NASCAR’s top teams and drivers….
Rick Ware Racing is one of the most interesting NASCAR Cup Series teams of 2024, and the anchor driver of the team’s No. 15 car is Kaz Grala. However, he is not quite a full-time Cup Series driver with the team, so could we see Grala go somewhere else in 2025?
What’s Happening? Silly Season is officially underway, and that means a lot of movement for NASCAR’s top teams and drivers….
What’s Happening? Rick Ware Racing was one of the most intriguing race teams of the offseason, signing Justin Haley as…
Kaz Grala is currently fitting in fine with Rick Ware Racing, a team whose trajectory is going upwards. Why not stick with that team, especially if the funding is still there to compete? Yes, RWR is still not at the level of other teams, but they’re getting better.
Why not stick with the same team and try to work upwards? As we see on this list, very few realistically available teams for Grala are a definite upgrade at the Cup Series level, so it might make the most sense to stick with RWR.
What’s Happening? Kaulig Racing Team President Chris Rice joined Sirius XM NASCAR Radio on Thursday, and he addressed recent rumors…
Kaulig Racing is a struggling team right now, but Team President Chris Rice teased last month that something is happening behind the scenes. Could that mean a new driver like Kaz Grala joining the fray? Kaulig still has that open All-Star Car, the No. 16, that Grala could slot nicely into.
However, is Kaulig much of an upgrade over Rick Ware Racing? Kaulig currently sits 31st and 32nd in Owner’s points, with Justin Haley, Grala’s RWR teammate, piloting the No. 51 car to 30th. However, Kaulig is still a weekly race-win threat in Xfinity, and Grala might enjoy hopping in good equipment should that opportunity open up.
What’s Happening? Harrison Burton was on the hot seat heading into 2024, and it appears The Wood Brothers is set…
The Wood Brothers seems likely to get rid of Harrison Burton, as he is on his way to another subpar season in 2024. However, is Grala at the top of The Wood Brothers’ list? SHR-free agents are bound to be looking at this ride.
According to Adam Stern, Josh Berry recently met with The Wood Brothers, so Grala may have a lot of competition for this ride. However, it is a team that made the Playoffs in 2017 with Ryan Blaney and in 2020 with Matt DiBenedetto.
What’s Happening? Gene Haas announced to the media on Thursday that he will keep the fourth SHR charter and rename his…
With Gene Haas staying in the sport with his newish “Haas Factory Team,” he needs one Cup Series driver and two Xfinity Series drivers. Cole Custer is obviously a candidate for one of these rides, but what about Grala? Grala has funding, as he was able to nab the RWR seat.
Grala could enter the Cup Series with a single-car team or enter a very good Xfinity Series program. Remember that SHR won the Xfinity Series Championship last year with Custer, so it could be an opportunity for Grala to win races.
What’s Happening? As the NASCAR Xfinity Series season heads into the summer stretch, Hailie Deegan sits 28th in points, the lowest…
AM Racing is currently struggling with Hailie Deegan behind the wheel. The team was considering starting a second car during the off-season but did not go through with it. Could they start a second car and slot Grala into it?
Deegan might benefit from having a veteran on her team. However, could Deegan have performed poorly enough for AM Racing to let her go? Maybe Grala slots into that spot if Deegan is let go.
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An email sent by former Joe Gibbs Racing Competition Director Chris Gabehart claims that resentment towards him from members of the Gibbs family made him feel that the future of JGR was a “no-win situation.”
Last week, Joe Gibbs Racing filed a lawsuit against former Crew Chief and Competition Director Chris Gabehart, claiming that the former Daytona 500 Champion had schemed to steal vital information from the team in the lead-up to his departure from JGR for Spire Motorsports.
Not even ten days since JGR filed this lawsuit, the two have continued to trade barbs and accusations back and forth through the court system.
In a filing earlier this week, Gabehart accused the team of misleading him in his duties as competition director in 2025, and specifically calling out JGR’s No. 54 team, driven by Joe Gibbs’ grandson Ty, alleging that the team received “differential treatment.”
Friday, an email sent to JGR CFO Tim Carmichael by Gabehart in November 2025 (released as part of this lawsuit) showed just how uncomfortable he had grown working at JGR during his tenure as Competition Director, with the industry veteran stating that Ty Gibbs and his mother, Heather, held “resentment” towards Gabehart.
The now former Competition Director went on to say in this email that, as the two were the future bosses of JGR, “I’m afraid that leaves me in a no-win situation.”
These exchanges, including the claims made by Gibbs in his filing earlier this week, have swept fans into a whirlwind of sorts, with the two sides even meeting in court today for the lawsuit’s first official hearing.
Of course, Gabehart’s claims about the state of operations at JGR pale in comparison to the accusations made by the Gibbs team in their initial lawsuit.
On Tuesday, the team even added Spire Motorsports, Gabehart’s current employer, as a co-defendant, and requested the court force Gabehart to sit out at least the 18 months since his termination before doing any work in NASCAR similar to his role at JGR.
The team is also asking that any information procured by Spire from Gabehart be returned, though the CEO of TWG Motorsports, which owns Spire, Dan Towriss, told Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports Friday that “Spire doesn’t want data from Joe Gibbs Racing. It doesn’t have data from Joe Gibbs Racing. No point in time has it had data from Joe Gibbs Racing.”
Alongside Spire, Gabehart adamantly denied any wrongdoing in a post to social media last week, saying, “I feel compelled to speak out today and forcefully and emphatically deny these frivolous and retaliatory claims.”
What’s Happening? Former Joe Gibbs Racing Crew Chief and Competition Director Chris Gabehart has filed a new response slamming JGR as…
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A few years ago, I looked at the racetracks preserved on iRacing that no longer exist in real life. After digging deeper, I expected to find one common reason they all shut down. Instead, each one tells a completely different story — from booming cities and land value spikes to ownership changes, broken promises, and even mysteries that still don’t have clear answers.
Some tracks were pushed out by urban development. Some lost the one person fighting to keep them alive. Others faded due to declining support — or were never meant to last forever in the first place. No two closures are the same, and that’s what makes this deep dive so fascinating.
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NASCAR’s documentary series “Full Speed,” which used to live on Netflix, had its first two seasons look back at entire playoff runs. But now, NASCAR is shifting the series to Amazon Prime Video for its third season, and the scope of the series will also shift to new storylines.
Dropping on March 5, the new season is aimed at zooming in on one event: the 2026 Daytona 500. Instead of a multi-episode run, this time it’s a single-episode documentary that goes all in on one race.
The film will follow big names and storylines from the Daytona 500. It will spotlight the winner, Tyler Reddick, and lean into driver storylines around the weekend. That includes Kyle Busch trying to get his groove back, Brad Keselowski clawing his way back after a broken leg, Connor Zilisch being pushed as the next big thing, and Noah Gragson bringing chaos wherever he goes.
Some fans might question the move away from Netflix, especially after Season 1 pulled in 3.4 million views in the first half of 2024. Then in 2025, the docuseries clocked 900,000 views after its early May release and added another 200,000 between July and December.
But with Prime Video stepping in as one of NASCAR’s broadcast partners, moving the series lines up with a bigger play to keep content under one roof.
Amazon has already dipped into NASCAR storytelling with projects like the docuseries Earnhardt about Dale Earnhardt. Moving Full Speed to Prime follows the same playbook. And for fans who still haven’t seen previous installments, the first two seasons are also heading over to Prime Video.
However, Reddit fans are divided in their opinions about the decision. Some fans actually get why NASCAR changed the format and platform, while a chunk of fans think leaving Netflix is risky because Netflix is where casual viewers stumble into shows. Others push back, pointing out that Prime actually has a massive reach in the U.S. and strong marketing muscle.
While one fan commented, “Makes sense. I highly doubt they were gonna make a new season around a points format they don’t use anymore,” another stated, “Idk the semantics and numbers and everything behind it so I’m probably talking out of my ass….buttttttt….at what point does nascar take the less money for the exposure. You need to be on Netflix, people watch Netflix. People don’t watch Amazon video as much. Who’s gonna watch this that isn’t a nascar fan already. You have a higher chance of getting people lost on Netflix than lost on Amazon Prime Video.”
One fan commented on the news, saying, “100%. I have Amazon Prime and Netflix. AP is a train wreck for videos especially now with their ad program with videos. I steer clear because Netflix is still ad free.” Another fan supported NASCAR’s move, saying, “Prime actually has slightly more subscribers in the USA and in my opinion is better at marketing. It’s a lateral move.”
Another backed NASCAR, stating, “Most NASCAR fans will find some way to be on prime in the month of June. I think they are counting on people watching it then if they have not already seen it. Similar to the Earnhardt documentary that dropped in June last year.”
Another fan comment implied something less glamorous yet very real, pointing out that the Netflix seasons didn’t see a surge in viewership. The first season did okay, but later numbers dipped: “Netflix didn’t seem to work that well for the 2 playoff seasons.”
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