About Jayski’s NASCAR Silly Season Site

Jayski’s NASCAR Silly Season Site is one of the longest-running and most comprehensive NASCAR fan resources on the internet. Founded in 1996 and now in its fourth decade of continuous coverage, Jayski.com has become the go-to destination for NASCAR fans seeking news, race information, paint schemes, driver and team updates, and the sport’s rich history.

The Beginning

The site was founded by Jay Adamczyk in 1996, after he had difficulty finding consolidated news about a NASCAR team he was following. Rather than accept the scattered state of NASCAR coverage online, Adamczyk built his own resource – grouping news, rumors and information in one place for fellow fans. He branded the site using his military nickname, Jayski, and the name has been synonymous with NASCAR news ever since.

The site’s name – Jayski’s Silly Season Site – is a reference to the midpoint of the NASCAR season when driver and team changes most often circulated. In the late 1990s, when social media didn’t exist and NASCAR coverage was limited, Jayski became the rare insider source that drivers, teams and even NASCAR itself trusted to break news. Adamczyk quit his job as a computer programmer for the Federal Aviation Administration in December 1999 to run the site full time – a testament to how significant it had become in just a few years.

The ESPN Era

In January 2004, ESPN began hosting Jayski, recognizing its value to the NASCAR audience. Three years later, in April 2007, ESPN purchased the site outright as part of its renewed investment in NASCAR following reacquisition of broadcasting rights. Under ESPN, Jayski continued to operate as an independent editorial voice within the ESPN ecosystem, with Adamczyk remaining at the helm on a daily basis.

The site was recognized during this period as one of Time magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2011 – a rare distinction for a sports-focused fan site and underscoring how deeply embedded the brand had become in the NASCAR community.

In early 2017 the site was redesigned and more formally integrated into ESPN.com. On January 28, 2019, ESPN ceased operations of Jayski as part of a broader withdrawal from NASCAR coverage that also saw the departure of several prominent NASCAR journalists.

The Return

When ESPN shut the site down in January 2019, many assumed Jayski was gone for good. The response from the NASCAR community told a different story. Fans, industry insiders and members of the sport itself expressed an outpouring of support – making clear that Jayski had filled a role no other site had replaced.

NASCAR recognized the site as an asset to the sport and approached Adamczyk about a new partnership. ESPN agreed to return the rights to Jayski-related properties, and NASCAR Digital Media stepped in to host the site and manage its advertising. A partial site was relaunched in April 2019, with a full relaunch on May 13, 2019.

The comeback was, in Adamczyk’s own words, unexpected  – but the demand was undeniable. Jayski had become too important to the sport to disappear.

Jayski Today

Jayski.com today operates as an independent NASCAR news clearinghouse, covering all aspects of the sport across the NASCAR Cup Series, O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The site aggregates news from across the NASCAR media landscape, publishes original updates and maintains the most comprehensive archive of NASCAR information available online – including more than 30 years of historical coverage dating back to 1996.

Day-to-day operations are led by Scott Page, who serves as Director of Operations and has run the site since its relaunch with NASCAR Digital Media in 2019. Amanda, who has been part of the Jayski since 2013, covers the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Dustin joined the team in 2021 and focuses on the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series. Jay Adamczyk, the site’s founder, remains involved on a limited basis.

The site’s paint scheme archive – tracking the liveries of every NASCAR team across every season – is widely regarded as the most complete resource of its kind on the internet. The driver and team pages, updated continuously throughout the season, have been a staple of Jayski since its earliest days.

Jayski’s NASCAR Silly Season Site is hosted by NASCAR Digital Media and operates independently. It remains, as it has been for three decades, the place NASCAR fans go first.