NASCAR veteran reporter Bob Pockrass recently revealed that the sanctioning body faces a weather dilemma as the Cookout Clash approaches Bowman Gray Stadium.
Justin Alexander will be Erik Jones’ crew chief on the No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Club Toyota team in the NASCAR Cup Series this season. He replaces Ben Beshore, who has moved to the position of Director of Race Engineering.
The off-season silence in NASCAR is often deceptive. While the engines are cold, the race shops are burning the midnight oil, and this January, the noise coming out of the Legacy Motor Club camp is loud and clear: they are done settling for mid-pack finishes.
Erik Jones and the No. 43 Legacy Motor Club team will be under new leadership for the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season. Legacy announced Monday that Justin Alexander will assume the role as crew chief for this upcoming season.
LEGACY MOTOR CLUB has hired Justin Alexander, a veteran NASCAR Cup Series crew chief, to serve as shot-caller for Erik Jones and the No. 43 Toyota Camry XSE for the 2026 campaign.
Erik Jones has spent more than 12 years competing across NASCAR’s top three national series, collecting victories at every level and building a loyal fanbase that shows up rain or shine for autographs and photos.
Three drivers will start from the rear in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Round of 8 playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway. Riley Herbst, John Hunter Nemechek, and Erik Jones will have to come from the back due to unapproved adjustments, per Dustin Long of NBC Sports.
Erik Jones and John Hunter Nemechek aren't competing for the NASCAR Cup Series championship this season, but that doesn't mean they're letting playoff drivers simply surpass them.
The NASCAR world loves its drama, and boy, did we get some fireworks at Daytona last weekend. When Kyle Larson got aggressive with Erik Jones in those final laps, shoving the Legacy Motor Club driver around like he was in a demolition derby, fans immediately started buzzing about payback.
Erik Jones wants to speak to Kyle Larson after being sent sideways by him during the final laps at Daytona on Saturday night. While speaking with Toby Christie of Sports Illustrated, Jones was asked if the shoves by Larson were fair.
When Erik Jones met with the media at Indianapolis, he unveiled a new initiative through the Erik Jones Foundation. It was the launch of the Oscar Jones collectible, a plush toy modeled after his dog, Oscar, in partnership with local company Ultimate Canine LLC.
The end of Stage 1 was not ideal for Erik Jones. Jones found himself with a flat tire and in the wall, but NASCAR held the caution. Despite the damage Jones sustained to his car, NASCAR kept the race going for the end of the stage.
Erik Jones showed some speed at Daytona to start the season, but then his No. 43 Toyota team fell into a bit of a rut. A less-than-stellar run was capped off with a P38 finish at Martinsville, which had Legacy Motor Sports wondering if they were doomed in 2025.
The NASCAR Cup Series field had nothing for Shane van Gisbergen at Mexico City. It was much of the same in Sunday’s Chicago Street Race. Van Gisbergen, just a rookie, has quickly become the driver to beat at every road/street course on the schedule.
LEGACY MOTOR CLUB, in the last eight to ten weeks, has been up on the wheel and putting together an astonishing turnaround in the NASCAR Cup Series, with drivers John Hunter Nemechek and Erik Jones putting together fantastic results that has sent the organization’s stock trending upwards.
Erik Jones is on the verge of achieving a milestone start in his ninth full-time season competing in the NASCAR Cup Series division. By competing in this weekend’s event at Texas Motor Speedway, the driver of the No.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.