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In just his third race as Earnhardt’s replacement in Richard Childress Racing’s No. 3 Chevrolet – rebranded as the No. 29 – Kevin Harvick went toe-to-toe with another NASCAR legend and returned Earnhardt’s team to Victory Lane. Harvick raced side-by-side with Jeff Gordon exiting Turn 4 and to the checkered flag at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday, March 11, 2001, and the rookie came ...Keep reading View the full article

Chase Elliott would have liked to run the Truck Series event, but the opportunity just didn't present itself. He said this week: "I put some effort into trying to get into a truck next week. I would have loved to, but it just didn't pan out." The event on the Bristol Dirt Track is unique in the modern era of NASCAR Cup Series competition. Cup cars haven't raced on dirt in an official ...Keep reading View the full article

Wright, who drives the No. 02 Chevrolet for Young’s Motorsports, is the first driver to miss a race this season due to the novel coronavirus. In order to return to competition Wright, 26, will need to receive two negative test results at least 24 hours apart and medical clearance from his doctor. Wright has made two starts this season with Young’s Motorsports, with a best finish of 12th ...Keep reading View the full article

Even though a Hendrick Motorsports driver won the NASCAR Cup Series title in 2020, it’s clear the organization has taken another big step forward this season. Chase Elliott won the 2020 series title behind a five-win season but wins were not as easy to come by for the group’s other three drivers. Through five races this season, newcomer Kyle Larson and William Byron have already secured ...Keep reading View the full article

Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Larson, Ryan Newman, and Chase Briscoe are among the other Cup drivers who have entered the Truck Series race. Wallace will pilot the No. 11 Spencer Davis Motorsport Toyota Tundra in 49th appearance in the Trucks Series, where he has won six times. Notably, Wallace won the Truck race at the Eldora dirt track in 2014. Columbia Sportswear will serve as ...Keep reading View the full article

Although the test session Wednesday at Richmond (Va.) Raceway got a late start due to rain in the area, it did give Wallace his first hands-on look of the new car. The test was primarily for Goodyear and its efforts to develop race tires for the car. “To be honest, I didn’t talk to other drivers about the car before this test. I wanted to just come here and figure it out for myself ...Keep reading View the full article

Friesen, who was already scheduled to compete in the March 27 Truck Series race at the Bristol Dirt Track, has added the March 28 Cup race on his schedule as well. Friesen, who has more than 300 wins in dirt modified racing, will compete for Spire Motorsports in its No. 77 Chevrolet in the Cup race, making his series debut. The Cup Series’ race on dirt is its first in more than 50 years ...Keep reading View the full article

Radioactive from Phoenix Raceway for the NASCAR Cup Series View the full article

This week, NASCAR handed out $70,000 in fines for lug nut violations, resulting in the suspensions of two Cup Series crew chiefs. The crew chiefs of Kurt Busch (Chip Ganassi Racing), Kyle Busch (Joe Gibbs Racing) and William Byron (Hendrick Motorsports) were all fined $10,000 for one improperly installed lug nut. However, the No. 2 car of Brad Keselowski (Team Penske) and the No. 99 of ...Keep reading View the full article

Although he wasn’t planning to make the announcement Sunday following his first Cup win of the season at Phoenix Raceway, Truex ended up confirming his entry in the race after he was told one of his sponsors promoted his appearance in an Instagram post. “Damn, they spilled the beans? Okay, yeah, we are,” Truex said. “We’re going to run the Truck race.” Truex said he will be ...Keep reading View the full article

But seeing was believing. Logano was first off pit road on the final round of pit stops in the race and was the race leader when Sunday’s race restarted with 25 of 312 laps remaining. He lined up on the inside, which had worked to perfection for him earlier in this race and in previous races and got a good run off Turn 4 once the race went green. This time, however, as he moved up the ...Keep reading View the full article

Full highlights from Sunday's Instacart 500 at Phoenix Raceway for the NASCAR Cup Series. View the full article

Joey Logano was first off pit road on the race’s final pit stops but on a restart with 25 of 312 laps remaining, Truex powered to the outside of Logano and grabbed the lead through Turns 1 and 2. The race remained caution-free from there and Truex held off Logano by 1.698 seconds at the finish. Truex had a difficult start in the first stage, at one point tagging the wall and ...Keep reading View the full article

Watch Martin Truex Jr. cruise through the final three laps of the Instacart 500 at the Phoenix Raceway after a late restart with 20 to go pass Joey Logano. View the full article

Austin Dillon makes contact with Alex Bowman spinning him around from behind in the 46th lap of the Instacart 500 on FOX at Phoenix Raceway View the full article

Cindric dominated much of Saturday’s race, leading 119 of 200 laps, but a wreck by Alex Labbe set up a two-lap dash to the checkered flag – a very similar position to how he won his inaugural series championship at this race last November. This time, Cindric was successful again, fending off Justin Allgaier Daniel Hemric on the restart and as several lead-lap cars hit the wall, edged Ty ...Keep reading View the full article

Following a late-race caution that was extended by some light rain, Gibbs held off Corey Heim in a one-lap dash to the finish to win the General Tire 150. The win is Gibbs’ first this season in the ARCA Menards Series, in which he is competing fulltime with Joe Gibbs Racing. Gibbs, the 18-year-old grandson of NASCAR Hall of Fame owner Joe Gibbs, is also competing in Saturday’s Xfinity ...Keep reading View the full article

Lester, 60, will compete in the March 20 Truck Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway driving David Gilliland Racing’s No. 17 Ford. Lester’s last NASCAR race was in the Truck Series in 2007 when he started sixth and finished 20th at Nashville Superspeedway driving for Billy Ballew Motorsports. Lester was the first African American driver in the series to win a pole, which he did three ...Keep reading View the full article

Suarez joined the new Trackhouse Racing organization in the offseason – a group co-owned by former driver Justin Marks and Grammy Award-winning rapper Armando Christian “Pitbull” Pérez. The team was basically started from scratch in large part on the promise of a far more economic ownership model coming in 2022 with the introduction of the Gen-7 car in the Cup Series. In the meantime ...Keep reading View the full article

Friesen, 37, is in his fifth season running fulltime in the Truck Series with his Halmar Friesen Racing and for the organization’s first time, it will field a second Truck entry for the March 27 Pinty’s Truck Race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, which has transformed its concrete surface to dirt. HFR announced this week that joining Friesen in the race will be his wife, Jessica, who has ...Keep reading View the full article