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Nashville Mayor John Cooper and Bristol Motor Speedway have reached a deal to bring the 117-year-old race track back to the NASCAR calendar. “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the mayor, government officials and Nashville community to breathe new life in the legendary Fairgrounds Speedway,” said Marcus Smith, president and chief executive officer of Speedway Motorsports ...Keep readingView the full article

Having contested 24 Formula 1 grand prix for McLaren and Stewart during the 1990s, Jan Magnussen is no stranger to the motorsport limelight. But the Dane admits that he tried to go under the radar for a one-off NASCAR Cup Series appearance at Sonoma in 2010, which he describes as a “fantastic experience”. Despite an impressive junior single-seater career which included prestigious wins at ...Keep readingView the full article

Due to COVID-19 pandemic protocols and for cost-saving, the vast majority of NASCAR race weekends have gone without practice or qualifying since early 2020. In a statement, NASCAR’s senior vice president of competition Scott Miller said: “NASCAR is excited to return practice and qualifying to its race weekends. “We missed seeing cars and trucks on track all weekend long, and ...Keep readingView the full article

The first day of a group test at the Charlotte Motor Speedway oval on Wednesday proved eventful, with Austin Dillon crashing his Richard Childress Chevrolet, while newly-crowned 2021 champion Kyle Larson and veteran Denny Hamlin had spins. Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman reported that the new car was “real edgy and hard to feel”, saying that he found it difficult to “know how much ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR driver Kyle Larson joins First Things First after taking home the 2021 Cup Series Championship Sunday at the Phoenix Raceway. Kyle tells Nick Wright what it felt like to bring the trophy home, and praises his pit crew, who helped him fo from 4th place to 1st place by having their fastest stop of the entire season. Plus, he shares how he's prepping for the 'Clash at the Coliseum', the race that's taking place inside the LA Coliseum. View the full article

Four-time NASCAR Cup champion Jeff Gordon says that 2021 series winner Kyle Larson has done "amazing things" in his first season with Hendrick Motorsports. After a brief stint as a TV analyst with Fox Sports following his racing career, Gordon returned to Hendrick in an official role in June of this year as vice-chairman of the team. Gordon played a large role, along with team owner Rick ...Keep readingView the full article

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who finished second in 2018 with Furniture Row Racing and again in 2019 with JGR, led for 72 laps on Sunday and hit the front in stage three after undercutting his title rivals at what should have been the final stop of the race and cycling him back to the front. He appeared to be heading towards his second championship, after his 2017 breakthrough season, when a ...Keep readingView the full article

Full highlights from Sunday's 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway. View the full article

Kyle Larson holds off Martin Truex Jr in the final laps to capture his first career NASCAR Cup Series title View the full article

Having won out in the 'regular season', Hendrick Motorsports' Larson continued his impressive form throughout the playoffs, and capped off an excellent season with a strong defensive drive from Martin Truex Jr, who was looking to claim his second Cup Series title. Larson led the most laps at Phoenix, but had fallen out of lead late on. However, a late caution for a broken brake rotor from David ...Keep readingView the full article

Four-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Jeff Gordon sits down with Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson. The two discuss Larson's successful first season with Hendrick Motorsports and his first Championship 4 appearance. View the full article

Daniel Hemric moved Austin Cindric in the final corner on the final lap at Phoenix Raceway to win the race and the 2021 Xfinity Series Championship in WILD finish View the full article

Truex has won four races this season – second-most among the title contenders – and won the spring race at Phoenix Raceway, the venue of Sunday’s title race. Yet Truex seems to have flown under the radar because three of his victories came early in the season. While he had to fight and claw for the fourth-place finish at Martinsville last weekend that allowed him to advance to the ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlin describes how fan popularity doesn't matter to him and his anger towards the fans' reactions at Martinsville. He also gave his thoughts on Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott's feud. View the full article

Kyle Larson revealed that he watched the championship last year from the Hendrick war room and explained what he learned from that experience. View the full article

Larson, 28, was indefinitely suspended from NASCAR and fired from Chip Ganassi Racing in March 2020 for using a racial slur over the radio during a public iRacing event. He sat out the remainder of the 2020 season, with a return to NASCAR never a certainty. After fulfilling the requirements by NASCAR to lift his suspension, Hendrick Motorsports opted to add Larson to its four-driver Cup team ...Keep readingView the full article

Wally Brown, JGR’s competition director, certainly believes the Hendrick Motorsports duo of Larson and reigning series champion Elliott have an advantage heading into the Phoenix finale. “Usually a lot of times, JGR might be the favourite going into a championship race. I think we’re definitely the underdogs. We have to beat the guy – Kyle Larson – that has won so many races, been so ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR RaceHub's Jamie McMurray and Larry McReynolds break down the Denny Hamlin-Alex Bowman battle in the closing laps of Sunday's race. View the full article

Busch, a two-time series champion, finished second in Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway, but was still eliminated from further contention for the 2021 series championship. In an interview caught on video by NBC Sports, Busch said a slur commonly used to refer to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities while describing his last-lap tangle with Brad Keselowski. Sunday ...Keep readingView the full article

Although Truex ran up front for most of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway, he never seemed to have quite the speed of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin. Truex, however, was in a far more precarious situation in points than Hamlin and needed every available position to have a chance of breaking into the Championship 4 - among whom the title will be decided next ...Keep readingView the full article