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Erik Jones agrees to multi-year contract extension with Legacy Motor Club

Jones' signing comes on the heels of a recent organizational shakeup at LMC. Longtime NASCAR engineer Jacob Canter took over as director of competition and Bobby Kennedy was hired in a newly created position of general manager.

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2024 NASCAR at Kansas schedule, entry list, and how to watch

Denny Hamlin held off a charging Kyle Larson to win at Dover, securing his third win of the 2024 season. He and William Byron are the only drivers with multiple victories this year.

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Heim talks 'brutal' timeframe to learn ahead of NASCAR Cup debut

Heim, 21, competes full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series, where he has won several races. But he is also the reserve driver for Legacy Motor Club so when Erik Jones suffered a back injury in a 70G crash at Talladega Superspeedway, Heim was called up to drive the car in…

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Jimmie Johnson on the Next Gen: "You can’t slip and slide this car"

The new car demands you drive it differently than previous generations, which has been a difficult transition for Johnson, who has been involved in a crash in every race he's attempted with the Next Gen car.

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Johnson crashes early, but LMC still earns two top-tens in Daytona 500

While team co-owner and Hall of Fame inductee Jimmie Johnson’s race didn’t go as well as he hoped, LMC’s two full-time drivers – John Hunter Nemechek and Erik Jones – both left Monday’s rain-delayed Daytona 500 with a strong start to the 2024 season.

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Pastrana on his Extreme E debut for LMC: "The change is coming"

Pastrana, an 11x X-Games Gold Medalist, extreme sports icon and occasional NASCAR competitor, made his debut this past weekend in the Extreme E series, competing with a new team fielded by Legacy Motor Club, co-owned by Johnson and Maury Gallagher.

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Jimmie Johnson: Toyota move "overwhelming in the greatest of ways"

With LMC’s move from Chevrolet to Toyota in the offseason, Toyota will field eight full-time Cup teams for the first time since the 2011 season. Johnson will run at least nine events himself, putting nine fully funded teams on track in at least a quarter of the races.

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Jimmie Johnson, Travis Pastrana to join Extreme E

LMC, which fields two full-time entries in NASCAR’s Cup Series and a part-time entry for Johnson, will make its Extreme E debut in the 17-18 February Desert X Prix with drivers Travis Pastrana and Gray Leadbetter.

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Jimmie Johnson, Travis Pastrana to join Extreme E in 2024

LMC, which fields two full-time entries in NASCAR’s Cup Series and a part-time entry for Johnson, will make its Extreme E debut in the Feb. 17-18 Desert X Prix with drivers Travis Pastrana and Gray Leadbetter.

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Trevor Bayne, Corey Heim join Legacy Motor Club in new roles

Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 champion, will join LMC as a driver optimization leader for the 2024 Cup Series season working under LMC’s new competition advisor, Matt Kenseth.

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Local Media Consortium Selects EX.CO as Preferred Video Platform

Bonneville International and WRAL among LMC members now working with EX.CO’s video platform and technologies

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Local Media Consortium Picks Ex.Co Video Publishing Technology

Bonneville, WRAL already working with Ex.Co

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NASCAR Cup driver/team changes for the 2024 season

While top teams such as Team Penske, Hendrick Motorsports, and Joe Gibbs Racing remain unchanged, there's still plenty to talk about throughout the 2024 field.

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Jason Burdett named crew chief for Jimmie Johnson

A veteran member of the industry, Burdett joins the third LMC Toyota Camry XS entry, which will run part-time with Johnson driving. Three races have already been announced including the Coke 600 at Charlotte, with several more expected.

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Beshore joins Nemechek at LMC as Cup crew chief

LMC had previously announced it had signed Nemechek to drive its No. 42 Toyotas beginning next season and on Monday said Beshore – who worked with Nemechek in the Xfinity Series this past season – will join him.

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Nemechek to run Homestead Cup race with LMC

LMC announced early last month that it had hired Nemechek to compete full-time in its No. 42 Cup car beginning in the 2024 season.

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Hocevar secures 2024 NASCAR Cup ride with Spire Motorsports

Hocevar, 20, revealed the multi-year deal on NASCAR Race Hub. He will replace Ty Dillon as the full-time driver of the No. 77 Spire Motorsport Chevrolet, competing alongside team-mates Corey LaJoie and Trackhouse signee Zane Smith.

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Carson Hocevar to compete in Darlington Cup race with LMC

The 20-year-old native of Portage, Mich., will make just his second career Cup start in Sunday night’s Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.

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Berry returns at Daytona in LMC's 'challenging' 2023 season

Josh Berry has been tapped to once again drive LMC’s No. 42 Chevrolet, this time in next Saturday night’s Cup series regular season finale at Daytona.

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Noah Gragson and NASCAR team Legacy Motor Club part ways

The team says Gragson "requested to be released from his contract."

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Mike Rockenfeller to replace Gragson at Indy and Watkins Glen

Mike Rockenfeller, 39, will drive the No. 42 Legacy Motor Club (LMC) Chevrolet following the indefinite suspension of Noah Gragson.

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Erik Jones hopes to take "next step" after LMC's "big gains"

Jones and the Legacy Motor Club organization were already off to a difficult start when it was announced in May that LMC would move from the Chevrolet to Toyota camp at the end of the year.

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NASCAR 2023 Chicago schedule, entry list, and how to watch

Last weekend at Nashville, Ross Chastain earned his first victory of the 2023 season, winning from pole position and leading 99 of 300 laps. It was the third victory of his Cup career.

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Erik Jones and No. 43 Legacy MC team penalized by NASCAR

NASCAR penalized LMC after finding modifications made to the greenhouse of the car.

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Toyota NASCAR move allows Legacy MC "to control our own destiny"

LMC, which was rebranded this year from Petty GMS Racing following the addition of seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson to its ownership group, announced Tuesday it would switch manufacturer alliances from Chevrolet to Toyota after the 2023 season.

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