Eight races into the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, three different teams (Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Wood Brothers Racing) have found victory lane while few have been running at the finish of every race.
Erik Jones went off on NASCAR for a questionable decision to throw a caution flag that led to him getting penalized. Jones decided to pit on lap 138 of the Goodyear 400 on Sunday at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C.
The finish at the Cook Out 400 at Martinsville didn’t go according to plan for Legacy Motor Club’s Erik Jones. NASCAR cited Jones’ No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE as failing to meet minimum on-track weight requirements.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. took a shot at Erik Jones while talking about the issues at the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville. On Dale Jr. Download, Earnhardt called out Jones for hitting a driver during the Martinsville Cup race.
Following post-race inspections at Martinsville Sunday night, Legacy Motor Cub driver Erik Jones was disqualified. The No. 43 car failed to meet post-race weight requirements.
Erik Jones and the No. 43 LEGACY MOTOR CLUB team suffered a bit of insult to injury following Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway.
While it isn’t a particularly hot day in Martinsville, the cars on track are very hot. Ask Ty Gibbs, Erik Jones, and Austin Cindric. Those three NASCAR drivers are having problems with their cool suits, the mechanisms that pump cool water under the firesuits drivers wear while racing.
After another wild and controversial Daytona 500 weekend, the NASCAR Race Director, Jusan Hamilton, is breaking things down. Why was the caution thrown in Duel 2, taking the win from Erik Jones, when it wasn’t thrown in the actual race on Sunday?
With the unpredictability and unknowns of Daytona each year, that is likely the beginning of what is sure to be an action-packed Sunday in Daytona Beach.
Unofficially speaking, the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season got under way two weeks ago at Bowman Gray Stadium with the traditional season-opening exhibition race, The Clash.
[Editor’s note: The following article is from Athlon Sports’ 2025 Racing Annual magazine. Order your copy online today, or buy one at retail racks and newsstands nationwide.] If there was a face of frustration in 2024, it belonged to Erik Jones.
The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season is scheduled to mark Erik Jones’ ninth as a full-time competitor in the series and fifth in a row driving the No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE entry for Legacy Motor Club.
There is no sugarcoating it, 2024 was not a great season for Legacy Motor Club. There is reason to be optimistic in 2025, though. Making it in the NASCAR Cup Series is tough and LMC is doing things the hard way.
Major congratulations are in order for NASCAR Cup Series driver Erik Jones, and his wife Holly Jones. On Wednesday, just one day before the Thanksgiving holiday, the couple welcomed their first son, David Wayne Jones, into the world.
NASCAR released the penalty report following this past weekend’s Xfinity-Cup Series Playoff events at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that occurred between October 19-20, 2024.
Jones and Legacy Motor Club may not have the speed or the resources of the top teams in the NASCAR Cup Series, but it was only two years ago that they broke through for a massive upset at Darlington.
Erik Jones is targeting a return to racing on May 12 at Darlington, missing this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway as a precaution after doctors cleared him in his recovery from a back injury.