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Suarez’s No. 96 Gaunt Brothers Racing team failed to qualify for the season-opening Daytona 500 and on the first lap of last week’s race at Las Vegas, Suarez brought out the first caution on Lap 2 when his car stalled on the frontstretch. He was eventually able to get back in the race once his crew addressed an ignition problem but by then he ended up four laps down and finished ...Keep reading View the full article

Can it also be the track that returns him to Victory Lane in his final fulltime season? On April 28, 2002, in just his 13th career start in the Cup Series, Johnson registered his first victory, leading the final 14 laps and holding off Kurt Busch to do so. A NASCAR record-tying seven series championships and 83 career victories later, Johnson – a native of El Cajon, Calif. – rolls into ...Keep reading View the full article

Ryan Blaney led most of the final 50-minute session but Bowman rocketed to the top of the speed chart in the final 15 minutes with an average lap speed of 176.626 mph. Blaney ended up second (176.185 mph) and Bubba Wallace was third (176.176 mph). Kurt Busch and Christopher Bell completed the top-five. Rounding out the top-10 single-lap speeds were Clint Bowyer, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson ...Keep reading View the full article

Kyle Busch is eager to rise to the challenge of the new Cup Series drivers challenging his Truck Series dominance View the full article

Bowman quickly posted the fastest average lap speed when the 50-minute session began and continued to improve throughout, leading the way at 179.439 mph. In all, Chevrolet drivers claimed the top four positions and six of the top-10 speeds. Kyle Larson ended up second (177.703 mph) and Tyler Reddick was third (177.607 mph). Kurt Busch was fourth and Matt DiBenedetto completed the ...Keep reading View the full article

All times Eastern Standard Time Friday, February 28 3:05 p.m. - Xfinity Series practice 4:05 p.m. - Cup Series practice 5:02 p.m. - Xfinity Series final practice 5:35 p.m. - Cup Series final practice Saturday, February 29 1:05 p.m. - Xfinity Series qualifying 2:35 p.m. - Cup Series qualifying 4 p.m. - Xfinity Series race (FS1) Sunday, February 23 3:30 p.m. Cup ...Keep reading View the full article

'Challenge accepted.' That's what Chase Elliott tweeted when he revealed that he would take a shot at the $100,000 bounty placed on Kyle Busch. The bounty, a combination of $50,000 put forward from Kevin Harvick and another $50,000 from Gander RV and Outdoors CEO Marcus Lemonis, challenging any full-time Cup driver who can defeat Busch in one of his four remaining Truck races this ...Keep reading View the full article

Following Joey Logano's Pennzoil 400 win, early indications suggest that the Penske crew chief changes are ready to pay dividends. View the full article

Newman, who continued to recover from a head injury sustained in a last-lap wreck in the Feb. 17 Daytona 500, made a visit Wednesday to Roush’s offices and received a standing ovation from employees. RFR president Steve Newmark has said there is no timetable for Newman’s return to competition but the veteran driver had expressed a desire to continue racing. Ross Chastain continues ...Keep reading View the full article

Jimmie Johnson will hope to find some old magic when NASCAR's top series moves to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California View the full article

In the offseason, Team Penske shuffled its driver-crew chief duos on all three of its NASCAR Cup Series team with Logano getting matched up with Wolfe and what was most of Brad Keselowski’s No. 2 team. Read Also: Team Penske announces crew chief shakeup for Cup teams The season kicked off with the Daytona 500, a superspeedway race that operates under its own set of ...Keep reading View the full article

Brad Keselowski and Adam Alexander go ""Next Level"" on the final restart at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. View the full article

Kobe Bryant, 41, and his daughter Gianna, 13, were among nine people killed in a tragic helicopter crash in Calabasas, California on January 26. The retired NBA legend's death shocked the sports world and NASCAR was no exception with several drivers paying tribute to the fallen and sending their thoughts and prayers to the families of those they left behind. Here's a small sampling of the ...Keep reading View the full article

Team Penske's Joey Logano and Paul Wolfe recap the strategy that brought them to Victory Lane at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. View the full article

NASCAR's long emotional week after Ryan Newman's frightening Daytona 500 crash has finally come to an end View the full article

Chastain had shown speed all weekend in Roush Fenway Racing’s No. 6 Ford and found himself running in the top-10 in much of Sunday’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, including finishing 10th in the first stage. Late in the race, Chastain was running a lap down after an unscheduled pit stop, but battling to earn the free pass position. With six of 267 laps remaining, Chastain spun out in ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR Cup driver Ryan Newman continues to receive treatment for a head injury after his dramatic Daytona 500 accident, but is determined to get back to racing when fit again View the full article

Ryan Blaney had another victory slip through his grasp at Las Vegas. This one will be a lot easier to stomach than Daytona. View the full article

Briscoe dominated much of Sunday’s race, the final 150 laps of which was postponed from Saturday. He easily held off Austin Cindric for the victory in the Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The win is the third of Briscoe’s career. Ryan Sieg finished third, Noah Gragson was fourth and Harrison Burton completed the top-five. Following the break between Stages 2 and 3, all of ...Keep reading View the full article

Blaney moved around teammate Joey Logano to take the race lead with just 12 laps to go in the race. Alex Bowman was able to take over the second position and appeared to be closing in on Blaney when a caution for a spin by Ross Chastain changed everything. Blaney and Bowman opted to pit but several others did not. He restarted back in the 12th position and was only able to secure 11th as a ...Keep reading View the full article