The 2023 Camping World SRX Series was the third season of the
Superstar Racing Experience, a
stock car racing
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing run on oval tracks and road courses measuring approximately . It originally used production-model cars, hence the name "stock car", but is now run using cars specifically built for racing. It ori ...
series in the United States. The six-race season began at
Stafford Motor Speedway on July 13 and ended at
Lucas Oil Speedway
Lucas Oil Speedway is a motorsports racing facility located at the intersection of U.S. Route 54 and Missouri Route 83, in Wheatland, Missouri, United States. Its primary circuit is a dirt track banked oval motorsport race track. Co-located ...
on August 17.
Marco Andretti
Marco Michael Andretti (born March 13, 1987) is an American auto racing driver who drives the No. 98 car for Bryan Herta Autosport, Andretti Herta Autosport part-time in the IndyCar Series. He is the third generation of the famous Andretti racin ...
entered the season as the defending series champion and returned to run full-time in the SRX Series in 2023.
Ryan Newman won the series championship by 45 points over Andretti and
Brad Keselowski after winning one race during the season at Stafford II.
Drivers
Full-time drivers
Part-time drivers
Notes:
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Ryan Hunter-Reay was also scheduled to be a full-time driver in the SRX in 2023,
but he decided to pull out of the series after getting an
IndyCar
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ride with
Ed Carpenter Racing
Ed Carpenter Racing is an American racing team based in Speedway, Indiana that currently competes in the IndyCar Series. The team is owned by driver Ed Carpenter. The team is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and currently fields the No. 20 Dal ...
in June for the rest of the
2023 IndyCar Series
The 2023 NTT IndyCar Series will be the 112th official championship season of American open wheel racing and the 28th season under IndyCar Series sanction. The showcase event will be the 2023 Indianapolis 500.
Background
The 2023 season was s ...
season.
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Paul Tracy was scheduled to run full-time but was suspended after the race at Pulaski County and did not return to the SRX for the rest of the year.
Schedule
The 2023 schedule was announced on December 21, 2022. All races were held on Thursday nights instead of Saturday nights. The 2023 season also started in July and ended in August for the first time. The first two seasons started in June and ended in July.
The 2023 SRX schedule featured a return to
Stafford Motor Speedway for the third straight year (making it the only track on the SRX schedule in all three years of the series) and series co-founder
Tony Stewart's
Eldora Speedway dirt track for the first time since
2021
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. The other three tracks, two of which are paved and one (
Lucas Oil Speedway
Lucas Oil Speedway is a motorsports racing facility located at the intersection of U.S. Route 54 and Missouri Route 83, in Wheatland, Missouri, United States. Its primary circuit is a dirt track banked oval motorsport race track. Co-located ...
) of which is a dirt track, were new to the SRX.
The original schedule included the paved quarter-mile
Thunder Road International SpeedBowl in
Barre, Vermont as the second event of the season, but due to
extensive flood damage in the area the event was moved to Stafford (making it the only track so far in SRX history to host back to back races), with Thunder Road being granted a guaranteed date in 2024.
The schedule was designed based on the
NASCAR Cup Series
The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Division. In 1971, ...
schedule in order to attract drivers from that series to race in the SRX race on the Thursday before the weekend's Cup Series race. Each race except for the season finale at
Lucas Oil Speedway
Lucas Oil Speedway is a motorsports racing facility located at the intersection of U.S. Route 54 and Missouri Route 83, in Wheatland, Missouri, United States. Its primary circuit is a dirt track banked oval motorsport race track. Co-located ...
was held at a track in the same area of the country as the track that the Cup Series raced at that weekend.
Broadcasting
All six races were broadcast live on TV in the United States on
ESPN, replacing
CBS and
Paramount+.
On April 25, 2023, the lineup of commentators for the SRX in 2023 was announced. Lap-by-Lap
Allen Bestwick and pit reporter
Matt Yocum moved over from CBS and returned in 2023. Bestwick previously worked for ESPN on their
NASCAR coverage from 2007 to 2014 (first as a pit reporter, then as a studio host and then as a play-by-play) and
IndyCar Coverage from 2014 to 2018. There were three rotating guest color commentators in the booth:
Joey Logano at Stafford I, Berlin and Eldora,
Conor Daly at Pulaski County Motorsports Park and Lucas Oil Speedway, and
Darrell Waltrip
Darrell Lee Waltrip (born February 5, 1947) is an American motorsports analyst, author, former national television broadcaster, and stock car driver. He raced from 1972 to 2000 in the NASCAR Cup Series (known as the NASCAR Winston Cup Series dur ...
at Stafford II.
Lindsay Czarniak
Lindsay Ann Czarniak (born ) is an American sports anchor and reporter. She currently works for Fox Sports as a sideline reporter for NFL games. After spending six years with WRC-TV, the NBC owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., Czarn ...
, who was the host role for the SRX on CBS in 2021 and 2022, did not return for this season. She previously worked for ESPN in the same role on their
IndyCar coverage. On July 6, ESPN revealed that
Nicole Briscoe
Nicole Briscoe ( Manske; born July 2, 1980) is an American sportscaster who is employed by ESPN. Originally focused on covering auto racing for the network, which included stints as the host of ''NASCAR Countdown'' and ''NASCAR Now'', Briscoe beca ...
, who was the studio host for ''
NASCAR on ESPN'' from 2011 to 2014, would be the host on the SRX TV broadcasts in 2023, replacing Czarniak.
There was no roving reporter this season, a role previously filled by
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in 2021 and
Willy T. Ribbs
William Theodore Ribbs Jr. (born January 3, 1955) is a retired American race car driver, racing owner, and sport shooter known for being the first African-American man to have tested a Formula One car (he did so in 1986) and to compete in the Ind ...
in 2022, resulting in each broadcast only having four commentators (down from five).
Results and standings
Race results
Drivers' championship
Points are awarded for both heat races as well as the feature:
(
key
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)
* – Most laps led (feature) 1 – Heat 1 winner 2 – Heat 2 winner
Notes
See also
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2023 NASCAR Cup Series
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2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series
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2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
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2023 IndyCar Series
The 2023 NTT IndyCar Series will be the 112th official championship season of American open wheel racing and the 28th season under IndyCar Series sanction. The showcase event will be the 2023 Indianapolis 500.
Background
The 2023 season was s ...
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2023 Indy NXT
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2023 ARCA Menards Series
The 2023 ARCA Menards Series is the 71st season of the ARCA Menards Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began at Daytona International Speedway with the BRANDT 200 on February 18 and will end wi ...
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2023 ARCA Menards Series East
Luke Fenhaus finished second in the championship by 58 points.
Lavar Scott finished third in the championship by 69 points.
The 2023 ARCA Menards Series East was the 37th season of the ARCA Menards Series East, a regional stock car racing s ...
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2023 ARCA Menards Series West
The 2023 ARCA Menards Series West is the 70th season of the ARCA Menards Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began on March 10 at Phoenix Raceway with the General Tire 150 and will ...
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2023 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
The 2023 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was the thirty-eighth season of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, a stock car racing tour sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the New Smyrna Beach Visitors Bureau 200 at New Smyrna Speedway on February 11 and ...
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2023 NASCAR Pinty's Series
The 2023 NASCAR Pinty's Series will be the seventeenth season of the Pinty's Series, the national stock car racing series in Canada sanctioned by NASCAR. The season will begin with the race at Sunset Speedway on May 13 and conclude with the rac ...
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2023 NASCAR Mexico Series
The 2023 NASCAR Mexico Series was the sixteenth season of the NASCAR Mexico Series, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in Mexico. It was the nineteenth season of the series as a NASCAR-sanctioned series. It began with the L ...
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2023 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
The 2023 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is the fifteenth Racecar Euro Series season, and the eleventh under the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series branding. The season is scheduled to start on 6 May with the first points race of the season at Circuit Ricardo ...
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2023 NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race
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References
External links
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