Adam Stern
@A_S12
Motorsport/Fighting Reporter of @SBJ
"American driver Jak Crawford said it would be a 'missed opportunity' for Cadillac if he won this year's Formula 2 championship and did not get a seat. ... Sources have told ESPN race winners Sergio Pérez and Valtteri Bottas top Cadillac's list." espn.com/f1/story/_/id/…
.@TNTdrama + @TruTV got 2.009 million viewers for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race @MonsterMile that wound up being rain delayed for nearly an hour toward the end. ➡️ Viewership dropped 27% during the delay. ➡️ Last year's race was held in April and got 2.401 million on @FS1.

Chicago alderman: "After this meeting [with NASCAR last night], I am absolutely convinced they want to come back and race in ’27, ’28 and beyond..(But) it’s time to hit the reset button and make sure that the Chicago taxpayers get what they’re entitled to."wgntv.com/sports/nascar_…
Experiential marketing agency @bespokese has been acquired by @publicisgroupe. Bespoke will now be a part of Publicis Sports and its co-founders Mike Boykin and Greg Busch will continue to lead the agency. ow.ly/NxJI50Wtovm
.@FoxSports got 734,000 viewers for Sunday's NTT IndyCar Series race at Toronto, up from 504,000 the last time it aired on linear TV in 2019 on the now defunct NBCSN. ➡️ It's the most watched edition of the Toronto race since @ABCNetwork got 1.129 million in 2012.

.@CocaCola will promote a limited-time offering of 1980-style Diet Cherry Coke that is being sold @Kroger family stores with Kroger's paint scheme with RFK Racing for this weekend's Brickyard 400 @IMS.




Driver reportedly loses finger and spectator gets hit by loose wheel and hospitalized in @NHRA crash at Pacific Raceways near Seattle. - @KOMOnews komonews.com/news/local/rac…
"Multiple series sources [are] telling IndyStar that Iowa is expected to be dropped from IndyCar's schedule altogether come 2026." indystar.com/story/sports/m…
Here's a look at how the build-out of an @MLB field in the center of @ItsBristolBaby is coming along from SBJ's @Bretjust1T, ahead of next month's Speedway Classic.
.@UFC says it drew a gate of $8.088 million last night from a sold-out crowd of 18,138 people @SmoothieKingCtr in New Orleans as local legend Dustin Poirier fought for the final time.

The president of the Czech Republic rode his own motorcycle to this weekend's @MotoGP race there. - "Pavel did not give up his motorcycle hobby even after being elected president, even though police officers ...tried to talk him out of it several times." seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-…
Following the third edition of the street race, NASCAR had 90 days to hash out the future of the event with the city of Chicago. But in the end, it only ended up taking a couple of weeks. via @A_S12 sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/…
.@F1Movie has eclipsed $400 million at the box office, with $1,745,728 grossed yesterday to take the total to $401,227,641, per @IMDB's Box Office Mojo.

.@NASCARChicago says it will not be on the 2026 NASCAR schedule.

.@TheCW and @TheSavBananas have bought a paint scheme with Viking Motorsports (@VKNGMotorsports) for next weekend's NASCAR Xfinity race @IMS to advertise the live TV debut of the baseball team on the channel July 27th. ➡️ @MattDRacing will throw out the first pitch at the game.


.@PatricioOWard is leading the @IndyCar driver merchandise sales chart by a wide margin. sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/…
Indianapolis Motor Speedway broke an all-time monthly merchandise sales record in May. In addition to other merch like posters and bomber jackets, the speedway's 55 stores sold: 👕 83,000 t-shirts 🧢 46,000 hats 🚗 24,000 die-cast cars ow.ly/JSPJ50WrrYo
.@IMS had its best ever month of May in merchandise sales with demand of items like 83,000 t-shirts, 46,000 hats, 24,000 diecast cars, hundreds of @HomefieldApparl jackets and thousands of @OscarMayer Wienie 500 shirts. sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/…
"NASCAR stated: 'Discovery has revealed that evidence Plaintiffs submitted to the Court in connection with their second (preliminary injunction) motion was manufactured. It has also shown that declarations submitted under penalty of perjury...were false.'"nbcsports.com/nascar/news/na…
.@NASCAR has done a deal with digital game maker 916 Gaming on a "NASCAR Victory Lane" online slot machine experience that will debut on @BetMGM's platform in New Jersey and Ontario this month before reaching other markets later this year.
