John Speedway covers the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, CARS Tour, and Late Model Stock racing with the intensity of a man who believes the next great stock car driver is racing on a short track right now — and the rest of the world just hasn't figured it out yet. A Chicago transplant who found his calling in Charlotte's motorsports corridor, Speedway brings decades of sports storytelling to the developmental series that build the stars of tomorrow.

Dylan "Mamba" Smith is NASCAR's self-appointed Chief Hype Officer and the loudest voice in the room when it comes to stock car racing's next generation. His weekly column for Grand National Today brings the energy, the takes, and the unfiltered enthusiasm that the short track world runs on. If there's a driver making moves, a rivalry heating up, or a race that deserves more attention than it's getting — Mamba's on it.

Grand National Today launched in 2026 as the editorial home for the intersection of the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, the CARS Tour, and the Virginia Triple Crown. The name honors NASCAR's Grand National era (1950–1970), when stock car racing was built on short tracks by drivers who raced because they couldn't imagine doing anything else. We cover the modern version of that story — the developmental series, the short tracks, and the drivers coming up through them.

Grand National Today is produced by Queen City Garage, a Charlotte-based media company. The publication runs on Mercury Local, a modern news platform built on Next.js, Supabase, and Vercel.