Garage 56 driver lineup announced

Plus: a German NASCAR team?

Mar 10, 2023

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Over the past year or so, you may have heard people talking about “a NASCAR running Le Mans”.

That would be correct. It’s a project called Garage 56.

The Garage 56 project is a partnership between NASCAR, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet, and Goodyear – the winningest team, manufacturer, and tire in NASCAR’s 75-year history.

Hendrick Motorsports, 14-time NASCAR Cup Series champions, announced NASCAR's Garage 56 project in March 2022.

This project aims to enter a modified version of the Cup Series' new NextGen stock car into the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 100th-anniversary edition of the iconic race.

Garage 56 is the entry that the Automobile Club de l'Ouest sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and beyond” of innovative machinery.

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