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Joey Logano discussed how people believe he is a playoff underdog. His response was that his team have everything they need to get through the first two rounds and then they’ll have to win. View the full article

Byron has never been a part of the Championship 4, but many still point to this Hendrick Motorsports driver as the title favorite.One look at his 2023 season and it's easy to see why. Byron's five race wins leads all drivers. He also tops the rest of the field in laps led and stage wins. With a total of four wins in his previous six seasons, 2023 has been a breakout year for the ...Keep readingView the full article

Bell and his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team faced two “must win” situations to advance in last season’s playoffs and reach the championship title race – and they delivered on both.First, it was a victory at the Charlotte Roval to reach the semifinal round, then it was a victory at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, the final opportunity to win his way into the Championship 4.As dramatic and ...Keep readingView the full article

Ryan Preece, whose car flipped more than 10 times, was cleared to race Friday morning this weekend at Darlington Raceway. Drivers discussed the crash and car-safety measures. View the full article

Bubba Wallace secured the final spot in the playoffs at Daytona as Chris Buescher led Brad Keselowski in a 1-2 finish for RFK Racing.Chase Elliott finished fourth and missed the playoffs for the first time in his career. 2022 playoff drivers Daniel Suarez, Chase Briscoe, Austin Cindric, Austin Dillon, and Alex Bowman also missed the cut.Martin Truex Jr. locked up the regular season title, but ...Keep readingView the full article

McDowell earned his first career Cup win in the season-opening Daytona 500 in 2021, which locked him into the playoffs for the first time just as the season was getting underway.He and his No. 34 Front Row Motorsports team didn’t win again before the start of the playoffs, and felt they needed to focus on getting a win in the opening round if there was any hope of advancing.“I think the ...Keep readingView the full article

Joey Logano said there were encouraging signs in the Ryan Preece wreck but they need to continue to work on cars not rolling over. He doesn’t need to have any additional drafting tracks to the schedule. View the full article

Bubba Wallace said he texted both Ryan Blaney and Ryan Preece to make sure they were OK and Preece responded with a reference to the movie “Days of Thunder.” View the full article

William Byron said he has seen the in-car camera of Ryan Blaney’s wreck and felt that the car handled the wreck better than it would have before the changes made this summer. View the full article

Ryan Blaney spoke on how he is feeling and how he was wearing a mouthpiece that recorded data for NASCAR and consultants at Wake Forest to analyze. According to NASCAR, his Daytona wreck was among the five hardest hits when it comes to G-forces in NASCAR races this year. View the full article

Kyle Busch reiterated his stance that grass be removed from race tracks (tracks have grass often to help with drainage and/or environmental requirements). He felt Ryan Preece’s car lifted way too easy and shared his thoughts on the Daytona wrecks. View the full article

Tyler Reddick said since Ryan Preece was OK in his accident, he hasn’t dug into much into the whys and how the car performed. He said NASCAR will tell the drivers what it finds in its assessment of those wrecks. View the full article

Denny Hamlin said there needs to be work on the “tupperware” of the roof hatch but in general was happy with the way the Ryan Preece and Ryan Blaney cars performed in their accidents. View the full article

The 2023 playoffs are just around the corner and Busch is hoping to do something that hasn't been done in nearly 30 years — win a NASCAR Cup Series championship with Richard Childress Racing.The team has six Cup titles, all courtesy of the legendary Dale Earnhardt, who won his final title with RCR in 1994. They haven't won it since, and their last real shot was in 2014 with Ryan Newman, who ...Keep readingView the full article

Hamlin, 42, enters Sunday night’s playoff opening race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway seeded third among the 16 drivers.While he and his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team have earned just a pair of victories this year – at Kansas and Pocono – he has been consistently battling for wins throughout the season. Hamlin has three runner-up finishes and has led the fifth most laps in the ...Keep readingView the full article

The reigning Cup Series champion discusses whether he enjoys the challenge this season has presented. Hint: He does not. View the full article

DiBenedetto, 32, joined Rackley at the start of the 2022 Truck season after losing his full-time ride in the NASCAR Cup Series.DiBenedetto started nearly 250 Cup races, running nearly every race between 2015 and 2021. He never won, but scored three runner-up finishes. He even made the 2020 playoffs, ending the season 13th in the final standings.After Wood Brothers Racing went with Harrison Burton ...Keep readingView the full article

Joey Logano on his approach to the playoffs considering the season that he has had and whether there is any swagger left being the 2022 champion. View the full article

Joey Logano doesn’t have his 2022 Cup championship trophy displayed anywhere, and there’s a good reason why. He explains where his Cup trophy has been over the last several months. View the full article

Some drivers relish the challenge of trying to go fast and finding speed. Joey Logano does not. He explains: View the full article