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Denny Hamlin said 23XI Racing executives have told him to focus on his driving duties the next couple of weeks so he hasn’t had many talks with Bubba Wallace in the last week but he feels Wallace means it when he says he has learned from the Kyle Larson incident. View the full article

Larson, who was among the first five of the 10 drivers in the final round to qualify, posted an average speed of 96.078 mph to claim the top starting position in Sunday’s playoff elimination race. Larson has already been eliminated from the 2022 driver’s playoffs but his victory last weekend locked his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team in the owner’s Championship 4 next week at ...Keep readingView the full article

Bubba Wallace says he talked to Kyle Larson this week and they had a great conversation. View the full article

Bubba Wallace said he is OK with the suspension but indicated similar instances need to be handled the same way: View the full article

Bubba Wallace said sitting out a race was the toughest part about the last two weeks: View the full article

Hamlin, who is one of six drivers vying for two spots in the Championship 4 at Phoenix, posted the fastest overall lap speed and fastest in Group B (95.079 mph). Hamlin is also a five-time winner at Martinsville but struggled in the spring race at the track. Ryan Blaney (95.074 mph) and Chase Elliott (94.922 mph) – both playoff drivers trying to advance to compete for the 2022 championship ...Keep readingView the full article

Kligerman, who has been running a partial Truck Series schedule while also working as a sideline reporter for NBC Sports’ NASCAR TV coverage, will drive Big Machine Racing’s No. 48 Chevrolet fulltime in 2023. Since the team’s inception in 2021, owner Scott Borchetta has utilized a variety of drivers in the car and picked their first win earlier this season with driver Tyler Reddick at ...Keep readingView the full article

Bubba Wallace says he had a "great conversation" with Kyle Larson to clear the air ahead of his return to action. View the full article

After intentionally wrecking Kyle Larson moments after the two made contact during Stage 2 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, NASCAR made the decision to suspend Wallace for one race. He was the first Cup driver suspended for an on-track incident since Matt Kenseth in 2015. On his return to the track this weekend, Wallace talked with the media outside the 23XI Racing hauler. He described ...Keep readingView the full article

Jones, who is currently last in points among the eight drivers in the semifinal round of the playoffs, won the pole for Saturday’s race with an average lap speed of 95.482 mph. He just edged Sheldon Creed (95.333 mph) and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Sammy Smith (95.314 mph) for the top starting position. Jones already was coming into the weekend with confidence, having won the spring race at ...Keep readingView the full article

Hill currently competes full-time with Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, where he has two wins and remains in contention for the championship. Previously, he won eight NASCAR Truck Series races between 2019 and 2021. Hill, 28, also made his Cup Series debut earlier this year with RCR. Driving a third entry for the team, he finished 18th at Michigan International ...Keep readingView the full article

Rodden has spent 139 Cup races atop the pit box, working with William Byron, Kasey Kahne, and Jamie McMurray. He and Kahne won the 2017 Brickyard 400 together. In more recent years, he has worked on the Motorsports Competition NASCAR strategy group at General Motors. “The addition of Keith Rodden to the Richard Childress Racing team highlights the ‘One Team’ approach to our race ...Keep readingView the full article

Bowman, 29, suffered a concussion in a wreck early in the Sept. 25 race at Texas Motor Speedway. He went on to finish the race but has not competed since. In a statement on Friday, Hendrick Motorsports said Bowman had been medically cleared on Thursday to compete following a full evaluation by Dr. Michael “Micky” Collins, clinical director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ...Keep readingView the full article

Joey Logano remains the only driver to have secured a place in the Championship 4, courtesy of his victory at Las Vegas. Ross Chastain leads all others on points after back-to-back runner-up finishes. Chastain is 19 points above the cut line, followed by Chase Elliott +11 and William Byron +5 points. Below the cut line entering Martinsville are Denny Hamlin, Ryan ...Keep readingView the full article

DGR, which has been a Ford-backed Truck program this season, will switch back to Toyota in 2023 and rebrand itself as Tricon Garage. Tricon previously fielded Toyotas from 2018-2019. Tyler Ankrum delivered the first championship for the team in 2018 as he drove to the ARCA East championship before joining the Truck Series program in 2019. The new entity will field fulltime Truck Series teams ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch said he doesn't anticipate being emotional in his final race with Joe Gibbs Racing. Bob Pockrass looks at the split and what's next. View the full article

Despite not winning a points-paying so far this year – he did win the All-Star Race – Blaney has proven to be one of the most consistent performers all season. He and his No. 12 Penske team have still been able to advance through the playoffs to the semifinal round, even without the benefit of the many bonus points that come with wins. “It’s been a decent year. Obviously, we would have ...Keep readingView the full article

Toyota Racing Development President David Wilson said losing Kyle Busch is like losing a member of the family and they will sit down at Phoenix and say good bye “the right way.” View the full article

Joe Gibbs says the 15 years with Kyle Busch was awesome, and he expects Busch to be especially motivated next year to win a bunch of races: View the full article

Following lackluster racing on the short tracks of Richmond (Va.) Speedway and Martinsville earlier this season, Goodyear developed and tested a new compound for left and right-side tires which it believes will help put rubber down on the track. The spring Richmond race turned into a tire strategy affair as the lack of cautions (five total, including two stage breaks) and multiple green-flag ...Keep readingView the full article