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The Trackhouse No. 1 and No. 99 teams stood together for the invocation and national anthem at Richmond. Ross Chastain explains the message they wanted to send by doing so. View the full article

Ross Chastain, who has taken blame when he felt he was responsible for the contact, indicated he didn’t feel he triggered the wreck and did not have any contact with Christopher Bell. View the full article

Kyle Larson took his celebratory lap after winning the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway. View the full article

Christopher Bell spoke on his team's mishap in the Toyota Owners 400, explaining his next-to-last restart. View the full article

Larson becomes the sixth different winner in the first seven races. Josh Berry, subbing for an injured Chase Elliott, scored a career-best finish of second. Ross Chastain, Christopher Bell, and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top-five. Chandler Smith finished 17th in his Cup Series debut, beating both of his Kaulig teammates. Stage 1 went to William Byron, while Denny Hamlin won Stage ...Keep readingView the full article

The victory is the 20th of Larson's career, and his first of the 2023 season. He becomes the sixth different winner in the first seven races, earning HMS its third win of the year. Berry, subbing for an injured Chase Elliott, took advantage of a late-race caution to finish second. "It's really cool," said Larson. "We've been close to winning a couple. William (Byron) has been extremely ...Keep readingView the full article

Nick Sanchez dominated the race from pole, winning both stages and leading 168 of 171 laps. At the white flag, he was battling door-to-door with reigning Truck Series champion Zane Smith. He got sideways, just as Hocevar came upon them with a massive run. Sanchez's truck got hooked to the right and slammed the outside wall, collecting both Smith and Christian Eckes. "Coming to the last lap ...Keep readingView the full article

The win came in Smith's tenth career NXS start, and is the second consecutive win for Kaulig Racing. The team also won last weekend at COTA with A.J Allmendinger. Smith also won at Richmond last year as a NASCAR Truck Series driver. He has been impressive as a rookie in the Xfinity Series with four top-fives in the first seven races of the year. “Feels great," said an elated Smith after ...Keep readingView the full article

Although wet weather tires will be available for the race if need be, NASCAR decided against using them for practice and qualifying. At the beginning of the year, the sanctioning body revealed a wet weather package for short ovals, including Richmond. Read Also: NASCAR could see its first oval race with rain tires this year NASCAR was forced to postpone Friday's ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick earned Toyota its first win of the year at COTA, surviving multiple overtime restarts to win the race. It was his fourth career win and his third at a road course. Jenson Button was best amongst the international stars. Fellow F1 World Champion was Kimi Raikkonen 29th after getting collected in a late-race incident. This week, an Appeals Panel amended the penalties issued ...Keep readingView the full article

After Sunday’s race at COTA, a frustrated Daniel Suarez – angered by an incident in Turn 1 earlier in overtime that dropped him deep in the field – repeatedly slammed into the rear of Bowman’s No. 48 Chevrolet as both brought their cars to pit road. NASCAR fined Suarez $50,000 for a violation of Sections 4.4.B&D NASCAR Member Conduct Note: Contact with another vehicle on pit road ...Keep readingView the full article

In a statement with its decision, the panel said the teams did violate NASCAR rules and retained the $100,000 fine and four-race suspensions to each of the four crew chiefs – Cliff Daniels, Rudy Fugle, Alan Gustafson and Blake Harris. However, the panel rescinded the 100 owner and 10 playoff points assessed to each team and the 100 driver points assessed to drivers Kyle Larson, Alex Bowman ...Keep readingView the full article

Blaney, who was one of those punted into a spin soon after a restart in the closing stages at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, believes there is a better way to avoid the chaotic scenes of the triple overtime attempts on Sunday. It took almost an hour for the final 10 laps of the race to be run. “It’s just the Wild West right now on that side at a few of those tracks,” said Blaney ...Keep readingView the full article

When Brad Keselowski’s Ford Mustang pulled off with no power in the Esses with 12 laps to go, it unfortunately spoiled what would’ve been a fascinating endgame over who had sufficient fuel to make the finish to a thus-far excellent stock car road course race. Could anybody beat race dominator Tyler Reddick – who had the fastest car but was clearly managing his pace to save fuel? Last ...Keep readingView the full article

Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”. After fielding Raikkonen at Watkins Glen last year, Marks said he’d increase the programme to “six to eight” Cup races in 2023, while retaining its focus on road courses. Raikkonen also finished 29th place at the NASCAR Cup race at the Circuit of the ...Keep readingView the full article

Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”. After fielding Raikkonen at Watkins Glen last year, Marks said he’d increase the program to “six to eight” Cup races in 2023, while retaining its focus on road courses. Raikkonen raced to a 29th-place finish at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas on ...Keep readingView the full article

Briscoe, in his No. 14 Ford, rookie Ty Gibbs in the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, and Kyle Larson in the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet participated Tuesday in a Goodyear tire test at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The test, which concludes Wednesday, was held to test various tire combinations in preparation for the May 28 Coca-Cola 600 on the 1.5-mile oval. While last year’s 600 ...Keep readingView the full article

The final 10 laps of the Cup event took almost an hour to complete, with a trio of overtime restarts required following a series of Turn 1 multi-car pileups after restarts, which resulted in car and tire damage causing cautions for debris. In total, there were five restarts in the final 15 laps. Harvick, who was in the thick of the action in his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang and ended the ...Keep readingView the full article

The final 10 laps of the Cup event won by Tyler Reddick took almost an hour to complete, with a trio of overtime restarts required following a series of Turn 1 multi-car pileups after restarts, which resulted in car and tyre damage causing cautions for debris. In total, there were five restarts in the final 15 laps. Harvick, who was in the thick of the action in his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford ...Keep readingView the full article

At least Kimi Raikkonen had faced the NASCAR Cup experience once before, arriving at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas having been booted out of last year’s race at Watkins Glen and into the tirewall, so at least he knew what he could expect. Fellow F1 world champion Jenson Button joined him at COTA, and they were quickly lapping at a decent pace in practice and qualifying – where the pair ...Keep readingView the full article