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While Shane van Gisbergen drove off with his fifth win of the 2025 season, his Trackhouse Racing teammate Ross Chastain was in the fight of his life. Chastain and Logano battled for every point, and in the end, Chastain needed to finish four spots higher than the three-time and defending series champion. On the final lap, it was all slipping away as Denny Hamlin passed Chastain. However ...Keep readingView the full article

Ross Chastain needed to make up 13 points on Joey Logano in Sunday's elimination race at the Charlotte Roval, gaining ten on the reigning champion through stage points alone. However, the Trackhouse driver made two errors on pit road that severely hurt his chances. First, he blew the exit of pit road and had to come to stop, and then sped on pit road late in the race. Despite all that, he still ...Keep readingView the full article

Shane van Gisbergen won Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, dominating most of it — but SVG had to work for it. There was a intense battle with Kyle Larson during the final stage before SVG got away and captured the checkered flag well ahead of the pack. "Yeah, just started getting hot and sliding around, but what an awesome race, Kyle [Larson] and Christopher ...Keep readingView the full article

Ross Chastain entered this race 13 points Joey Logano in the battle around the NASCAR Cup playoff cutline. In the opening stage, the Trackhouse driver made big gains as he scored six stage points with a fifth-place finish in Stage 1. Three-time and defending Cup champion Logano scored none, bringing the margin down to just seven. After a solid pit stop, he made an unusual mistake at the ...Keep readingView the full article

Which driver will take NASCAR's checkered flag this weekend at Charlotte's elimination race? Here are the latest odds. View the full article

Carson Hocevar says he understands why NASCAR fined him $50,000 this week for an engine rev with safety worker present on Sunday at Kansas Speedway. The second-year Cup Series driver was stuck on the track after a spin, a common occurrence with this car, but he wants everyone to know it wasn’t malicious. The car was stalled in second gear and he needed to fire it back up to put it in neutral ...Keep readingView the full article

As is usually the case in public media scrums, Denny Hamlin has become increasingly careful with his words and Saturday afternoon at Charlotte Motor Speedway was no exception. This comes a day after a NASCAR legal filing asked the judge overseeing their respective antitrust lawsuits to effectively rule against 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports on the fundamentals. NASCAR included in this ...Keep readingView the full article

There are many things that are much bigger than racing and Tyler Reddick is competing with a heavy heart this weekend at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval -- making his pole run on Saturday all the more impressive from a purely racing specific standpoint. Reddick, who is also racing to advance into the Round of 8 this weekend, has spent time in the hospital this past month as four-month-old ...Keep readingView the full article

You know the old adage -- better to be lucky than good. Sammy Smith, as engineered by crew chief Phillip Bell, was exactly that on Saturday evening at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. They were six points below the cutline, with both a fading right front tire, and little room to go forward inside of five laps to go. So Bell called Smith down pit road in the hopes that a caution would give them ...Keep readingView the full article

Connor Zilisch now ten wins this year alone, giving him a huge cushion for the start of the penultimate round of the playoffs. But while Zilisch captured the checkered flag at the Charlotte Roval, four more drivers fell out of title contention. They were Taylor Gray, Austin Hill, Nick Sanchez, and Harrison Burton. Gray's elimination was particularly painful, as the race ended under caution and ...Keep readingView the full article

Connor Zilisch, still a rookie, was unstoppable in the final road course race of the year, earning his tenth win of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity season. "Enough people stayed out with me to give me a gap," said Zilisch. "Thank you all for coming out. So much fun getting to race in my hometown. JR Motorsports cars were so fast this weekend. First in practice, qualified on the pole, led a lot of laps ...Keep readingView the full article

It took until lunchtime on Saturday for Bubba Wallace and Denny Hamlin to talk about what happened on the final lap while racing for the win at Kansas Speedway. Six days. Since then, Hamlin had took questions from the media, recorded a podcast and even tweeted about his lack of regret or remorse, and that created additional tension between himself and the driver that pilots his No. 23 car at ...Keep readingView the full article

With several seconds of tire falloff, some cording, and wildly slick conditions, drivers will have a lot of work to do on Sunday. In practice, teams and fans reacted as several cars struggled to find grip, with drivers complaining over the radio. Roval favorite Shane van Gisbergen wasn't happy with the balance of his car in his practice, and his teammate Daniel Suarez quipped to PRN's Alan ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick denied Shane van Gisbergen pole position at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval on Saturday, taking the top spot with a lap of 1:25.939s, just 0.032s clear of the Supercars ace. This is a huge pole for Reddick, who is in the Cup elimination standings 29 points below the cutline going into Sunday’s race. "Just an incredible effort by this team," said Reddick. "This has been a ...Keep readingView the full article

Ty Gibbs, finally in a position to have to face questions about the competition meeting at Joe Gibbs Racing following the incident with Denny Hamlin at New Hampshire, did not offer much beyond what his teammates have already said about the matter. “Yeah, I’m sure all the other guys answered it for you, so, I’ll just leave it at that,” Gibbs said on Saturday before qualifying at the ...Keep readingView the full article

Bubba Wallace and Denny Hamlin finally cleared the air with a "heart-to-heart" after last week's incident at Kansas. View the full article

With each passing week, Shane Van Gisbergen is becoming more of a well-rounded product and now comes the Charlotte Motor Speedway where he is once again the favorite to win a Cup Series road course race. And despite his first round elimination from the playoffs, ‘SVG’ continues to show rapid improvement on ovals with his first career top-10 and upper-level passing statistics at Kansas, even ...Keep readingView the full article

Scott Zipadelli, Corey Heim and the Tricon Garage No. 11 are the best team in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series this season … and arguably … ever no matter what happens a month from now at Phoenix Raceway. Heim, the top Toyota prospect, has been paired with what used to be the Hattori Racing Enterprises No. 16 road crew under the Tricon Garage banner since the start of the 2023 season and ...Keep readingView the full article

As it was seemingly always going to be, Corey Heim is locked into the NASCAR Truck Series final four while everyone else will have to figuratively survive the wildest possible wild card round to challenge him there. In the process, Heim also made history, becoming the first driver to win 10 times in the third highest level of the discipline, breaking a tie he shared very briefly with 1999’s ...Keep readingView the full article

Ten different team owners provided affidavits where they expressed support for the current charter system, which is at the center of a contentious lawsuit between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and NASCAR. The team owners talked about a desire for permanent charters, pointing out the positive impact they have had, while also warning of the consequences stemming from a future without ...Keep readingView the full article