- Stewart-Haas Racing made two announcements on Wednesday.  First, they officially dropped their appeal of Kevin Harvick's 100-point penalty after Talladega. Later, they officially appealed the penalties handed down Tuesday on the No. 41 team and Cole Custer for potential race manipulation in Charlotte.

- A bad couple of weeks continued for Stewart-Haas Racing Wednesday. The hauler for Riley Herbst's No. 98 team was involved in an accident in Arizona en route to Las Vegas. There is significant damage to the tractor, but the trailer appears to be fine. FOX Sports' Bob Pockrass posted a statement from the team that indicates that one of the hauler drivers was taken to a hospital for treatment. They still plan to be on-site in Las Vegas in time for load in on Friday.

- INDYCAR held a private driver evaluation test Wednesday at Sebring International Raceway for potential new drivers to the series.  Formula 2 racers Marcus Armstrong, Juri Vips and Jake Dennis were present, along with IMSA's Tom Blomqvist and Agustin Canapino, who has IMSA DPi experience, but is currently the points leader in Turismo Carretera in Argentina.

With a track length unavailable, lap speeds aren't available. However, RACER is reporting that Blomqvist was unofficially fastest with a lap at 52.708 seconds, .330 seconds faster than Juri Vips. Dennis was third, then Armstrong and Canapino.

- The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Speedvision is returning this fall as an ad-supported free streaming service. It will be backed by Robert Scanlon, co-founder of the original Speedvision who formerly headed up what is now the Motor Trend network, Bill Goldberg, Rick Hendrick and others.

Programming at launch will include enthusiast series such as Gearz, the Stacey David-hosted series that currently airs on Motor Trend, and shows featuring Goldberg, Ray Evernham and more.

Speedvision launched as a cable network in 1995 with automobile programming and racing from various series. The channel continued to grow until it was re-branded as the SPEED Channel in 2002. At that point, it became the place to go for NASCAR programming. NASCAR Cup Series qualifying sessions migrated there from a combination of FOX Sports Net (now Bally Sports) and the now-defunct CNNSi. It became the exclusive home of the then-NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2003 and continued to build into a network in 90 million homes. The network, then known simply as SPEED, was shut down on Aug. 17, 2003 and was replaced by FOX Sports 1.

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"It’s awesome. I mean, I love racing full time. And obviously this is a completely different type of racing than I’ve done for the majority of my career. To me, [racing with Kaulig] is more just like a new challenge, and I’ve really enjoyed it." - Landon Cassill, on being part of Kaulig Racing.