{"id":402019,"date":"2026-01-11T06:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402019\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:27:04","slug":"nascar-to-announce-new-championship-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402019\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASCAR to Announce New Championship Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> By NASCAR Race Mom via www.nascarracemom.com,  4h ago <\/p>\n<p> #NASCAR to Announce New Championship Format Ricky Stenhouse Confirms on Fox and Friends NASCAR confirmed on Thursday afternoon that they have scheduled a press conference \u201cto announce the championship format for the 2026 season and beyond\u201d, bringing an end to the modern format after 12 years. That announcement is scheduled to take place on Monday, January 12 at 3:30 p.m. ET at NASCAR Productions Facility in Concord, North Carolina, and it is set to end months of speculation regarding what the new format might look like. Here\u2019s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. talking about NASCAR\u2019s new championship system on Fox &amp; Friends:\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascarracemom.com\/2026\/01\/nascar-to-announce-new-championship.html\" class=\"post-external__source btn link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> www.nascarracemom.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By NASCAR Race Mom via www.nascarracemom.com, 4h ago #NASCAR to Announce New Championship Format Ricky Stenhouse Confirms on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-402019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}