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23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, the two teams suing NASCAR, asked a judge to dismiss the sanctioning body’s counterclaim in court.

Joey Logano wondered Tuesday if Chipper Jones ever had driven a race car at Talladega after the former Braves slugger criticized the NASCAR champion in a series of social media posts.

If there’s beef between teammates Austin Cindric and Joey Logano — and none other than Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Chipper Jones is convinced there is — then Team Penske has some work to do to smooth things over.

Austin Cindric celebrated his first win of the season by wearing Talladega’s Superspeedway traditional victory wreath all around the track. “Feels like I just won the Indy 500,” he said of Sunday’s NASCAR race. “I’m trying to walk on the plane with this.”

Kyle Larson experienced his first IndyCar crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, hitting the Turn 1 wall during open testing on the 2.5-mile oval.

Spire Motorsports has parted ways with championship-winning crew chief Rodney Childers after only nine races with the team.

NASCAR driver Katherine Legge says she’s receiving “death threats” and “hate mail” from fans after crashing during the Xfinity Series race in Rockingham and collecting veteran driver Kasey Kahne.

Jesse Love, who was initially announced as winning the NASCAR Xfinity race at Rockingham, was disqualified in postrace technical inspection, giving the win to JR Motorsports’ Sammy Smith.