Laid Back Racing NASCAR magazine for US & Canadian fans
Inside the Magazine

About Laid Back Racing

Laid Back Racing is an editorial NASCAR magazine for fans across the United States and Canada. We cover the Cup Series the way we'd talk about it on the porch after the race — informed, plain-spoken, and never in a hurry.

Who We Are

We're a small editorial team of NASCAR fans who grew up on Sunday afternoons with the race on. Some of us came in through Daytona, some through dirt-track Saturday nights, and a couple through the Canadian short-track circuit. What we share is a belief that stock car racing reads better when it's written for people who actually watch the races, not for search engines or stat-sheet completists.

The site is independently run. We aren't owned by a manufacturer, a team, or a broadcast partner, and we don't write press-release rewrites. When we get something wrong, we fix it on the page and say so.

What We Cover

Our coverage centers on the NASCAR Cup Series — the teams, the drivers, the cars, the schedule and the storylines that move week to week. We follow the Xfinity Series and Craftsman Truck Series too, particularly when a Cup driver crosses over or a young name starts forcing the conversation upward.

You'll find team profiles, driver guides, race recaps, schedule explainers, and plain-language breakdowns of the technical side — the Next Gen chassis, the 358-cubic-inch V8, the difference between a superspeedway package and a short-track setup. We try to write the kind of pages we wish existed when we were figuring this sport out ourselves.

Our Voice

The site name is the brief. Laid back doesn't mean lazy — it means readable, honest, and unhurried. We don't shout. We don't pad. We don't pretend a 14th-place finish was a triumph because the team's PR shop says so. If something's interesting we'll say why; if it isn't, we'll move on.

We write for mobile first because that's how most of you actually read. Short paragraphs, scannable headers, no autoplay video, no walls of pop-ups blocking the text you came for.

How We Differ from Stats-Heavy Sites

There's no shortage of NASCAR stat databases on the internet, and most of them are excellent. We're not trying to be one. Our job is the magazine job — context, character, and the feel of a season — built on top of facts we double-check against trusted sources before publication. If you want lap-by-lap telemetry, you have great options. If you want to actually understand why Tyler Reddick is running away with 2026 or why a Spire car suddenly matters at Talladega, that's where we come in.

Thanks for reading. The garage is open all year — pull up a chair.

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