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Reddick, in the No. 45 Toyota for 23XI Racing, had topped Group B qualifying in the first round Saturday with a track record lap of 94.210 mph. However, he wasn’t able to repeat the performance in the final round as Byron topped the speed chart with an average lap speed of 93.882 mph to earn his first pole of the 2023 season. Reddick ended up second-fastest (93.763 mph) and Austin Cindric ...Keep readingView the full article

Erik Jones, who drives the No. 43 Chevrolet, finished eighth last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway – his first top-10 of the season while his teammate, Noah Gragson in the No. 42 Chevrolet, ended up 12th, his best finish of the 2023 season. Entering Sunday’s race at Circuit of the Americas, Jones is 21st in the series standings and Gragson, a rookie, is 27th. Since last November when ...Keep readingView the full article

Erik Jones is 21st in the series standings, after finishing eighth at Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend in his first top-10 of the season, while rookie team-mate Noah Gragson is 27th following his a personal best finish of 12th. Since last November when the former Petty GMS Racing team announced its new part-owner in seven-time Cup Series champion Johnson, the rebranded ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2009 Formula 1 world champion is making his NASCAR debut this weekend aboard the #15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang, with technical support from Stewart-Haas Racing. In the only 50-minute practice session this weekend, he ran 13 total laps and logged the 28th quickest time out of 39 entries. He was 1.770s slower than pace-setter Tyler Reddick's 23XI Racing Toyota, but ahead of 2007 F1 ...Keep readingView the full article

Button, 43, is driving the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang with support from Stewart-Haas Racing. In the only 50-minute practice session this weekend, he ran 13 total laps and went 28th quickest out of 39 entries. He was 1.770s off pace-setter Tyler Reddick, but ahead of fellow F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen by about half a second. His steep learning curve began even before exiting ...Keep readingView the full article

In the final 15 minutes of the 50-minute session, Reddick posted the top average speed (92.988 mph) in a group of cars that went out on new tires. Kyle Larson ended up second-fastest (92.618 mph) and Ross Chastain – who won this race a year ago – was third (92.519 mph). Kyle Busch was fourth and Chastain’s Trackhouse Racing teammate, Daniel Suarez, rounded out the ...Keep readingView the full article

Among the 39 entries for Sunday’s race at COTA are past Formula 1 champions Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button, Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Jordan Taylor and IndyCar racer Connor Daly. Team Penske racer Cindric, the 2022 Daytona 500 winner, had an extensive sportscar background himself before embarking on his full-time NASCAR career. While he began with an advantage on road courses from ...Keep readingView the full article

The 2014 Cup Series champion's Stewart-Haas Racing Ford will switch from its regular #4 to use the #29 in a throwback paint scheme reminiscent of the design which adorned Harvick's Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet when he won his first Cup race in 2001. His breakthrough victory at Atlanta over Jeff Gordon came in just Harvick’s third series start with RCR’s #3 team ...Keep readingView the full article

Kevin Harvick appeared in command on his way to win at Phoenix when a late-race caution for a spin by Harrison Burton sent all the lead-lap cars into the pits. The top six each took on only two new tyres, but Kyle Larson was first off pitroad, only for another crash shortly after the restart with three laps to go sending the race into a two-lap overtime. On the ensuing restart, Byron went to ...Keep readingView the full article

Who knew that Tom Cruise would have such an impact on a nine-year old Jenson Button? Little did we know that the kid from Frome in Somerset, who was just beginning to tear up the kart tracks of the UK and then onwards to Formula 1 stardom, was so in awe of Cole Trickle and his somewhat unorthodox journey to winning a fictitious version of the Daytona 500 for Harry Hogge… “Where I grew up we ...Keep readingView the full article

Button will race the #15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang with support from Stewart-Haas Racing at COTA, where he will also face 2007 F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen in a third Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet. It will be Button's first appearance in any division of NASCAR and comes a few months ahead of his planned assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours in a Next Gen Cup car prepared by Hendrick Motorsports ...Keep readingView the full article

Byron, whose NASCAR national series debut came with Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2015, will return to the organization this year to run three races in the No. 51 Chevrolet. HendrickCars.com will be the primary sponsor for Byron, who now competes fulltime in the Cup Series with Hendrick Motorsports. Byron’s first race in the KBM truck will be April 8 for the Truck Race on Dirt at Bristol. He ...Keep readingView the full article

Following testing in January, drivers will put NASCAR's modified aerodynamic package into action this weekend in Phoenix. View the full article

A look from the Phoenix test in January of how cars ran with the 2-inch spoiler and changes to the underbody of the car that will be used this weekend. View the full article

Read about Shannon Spake's journey and her insight on this week's FOX Bet Super 6 NASCAR Stage 2 contest that could help you cash in on Clint Bowyer's $10K! View the full article

Former Formula 1 champion Kimi Raikkonen on what happened in his accident at Watkins Glen and what he enjoyed about his first NASCAR Cup Series weekend. View the full article

Kevin Harvick said his focus on the short-track package is Phoenix this weekend and not the potential of what could be good for the championship race in November. He also won’t know about his teammates’ setups for practice until their debrief. View the full article

NASCAR has seen three different winners in the first three races with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. snapping a 199-race winless streak to win Daytona 500. The following week at Fontana, Kyle Busch won in just his second start as a Richard Childress Racing driver. And then it was William Byron winning at Las Vegas, leading a Hendrick Motorsports 1-2-3. Ross Chastain tops the championship ...Keep readingView the full article

The team is running four races with the No. 17 Chevrolet Camaro, just as they did last season. HendrickCars.com will again serve as the primary sponsor. The team will run three road courses and one oval. They plan to enter the following NASCAR Xfinity Series races: - COTA on March 25 with William Byron - Sonoma Raceway on June 10 with Kyle Larson - Watkins Glen International on August ...Keep readingView the full article

Kimi Raikkonen will drive the "Project91" car for Trackhouse Racing later this month in his second Cup Series stint. View the full article