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One race into the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season and Dillon has already matched his Top-10 total from all of last season. Dillon’s sixth-place finish Sunday not only tied his career-best in the series but he was also the top finishing Chevrolet driver in the season opener. Not bad considering he was also caught up in two of the three accidents in the race’s final 13 ...Keep reading View the full article

So far, mission accomplished. Hill had run just one full season in Trucks and had just one previous top-five finish when he was hired by HRE to drive its No. 16 Toyota this season, replacing Brett Moffitt, who won last season’s championship. In one race – his victory in the Truck Series season opener at Daytona – Hill may have silenced most of the doubters while at the same time giving ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR Cup racer Aric Almirola said his Daytona 500 crash was unnervingly reminiscent of the 2017 Kansas accident that left him with back injuries View the full article

When you need some analysis, you go to the expert. View the full article

Hamlin, who outlasted teammates Kyle Busch and Erik Jones to score his first NASCAR Cup Series win since 2017, became the 12th driver to win multiple Daytona 500’s in the 62-year history of the event. One of the first stops of the day was to the set of “Live with Kelly and Ryan” where Hamlin talked about the fiery crash that occurred towards the end of the race, the prophetic note he ...Keep reading View the full article

McDowell defends Daytona 500 decision not to push Logano View the full article

The 21-car 'Big One' pile-up that caused the 2019 Daytona 500's first red flag turned the "most amazing" day for star NASCAR underdog Matt DiBenedetto into the "most heartbreaking" View the full article

All three of NASCAR’s national series teams – Monster Energy Cup, Xfinity and Gander Outdoors Trucks – will debut a new left-side tire in this week’s races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. “Two things are sure about Atlanta Motor Speedway – first, it is an extremely worn track surface which is very hard on tires; and second, the racing there has been consistently entertaining,” said ...Keep reading View the full article

Motorsport.com has learned that Kyle Busch has agreed terms to re-sign with Toyota’s powerhouse Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series squad in a multi-year deal that will be formally revealed in the coming days. Busch, the 2015 Cup champion, is understood to have put pen to paper at Daytona over the weekend, before his strong drive to finish runner-up to Denny Hamlin in the 500. Busch entered ...Keep reading View the full article

Hamlin went the entirety 2018 without recording a single win, marking the first time the Virginia native didn’t secure a victory in a season since he ran a seven-race schedule in the Cup Series in 2005. Now, just one race into the 2019 season, Hamlin is a race winner once again. After a multi-car accident on Sunday sent the 61st running of the Daytona 500 into overtime, Hamlin took over ...Keep reading View the full article

Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano had a post-race dispute with fellow Ford driver Michael McDowell over what he felt was a lack of cooperation in the Daytona 500 View the full article

Column: Daytona 500 was action-packed opener NASCAR needed View the full article

But Sunday, Jones managed to drive his damaged No. 20 Toyota up into contention for the win in overtime before hanging on to a third-place finish in the Daytona 500. Jones’ career-best finish in the 500 – he wrecked out of his first two 500s – gave Joe Gibbs Racing a 1-2-3 finish as his teammate Denny Hamlin picked up his second career victory in the “Great American Race.” “A day ...Keep reading View the full article

Denny Hamlin did it again at Daytona and won NASCAR's biggest race of the year for the second time View the full article

After their impressive finishes at the 2019 Daytona 500, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch and Erik Jones break down what happened, Denny Hamlin's win, the late J.D. Gibbs, the end of the restrictor plate era, whether this was Busch's best shot to win the Daytona 500, the battle of the manufacturers, and much more. View the full article

There might have been some curious thoughts and questions to why JTG Daugherty Racing selected Preece to drive one its Cup Series cars this season, but the rookie proved he belonged Sunday afternoon at Daytona International Speedway. Preece lined up in the top five on the final restart and helped push Joey Logano into the top three before falling back on the final lap in overtime to finish ...Keep reading View the full article

Busch had never finished higher than third in NASCAR's biggest race entering Sunday, but found himself out front for a two-lap shootout at the close of this year's Daytona 500. He and teammate Denny Hamlin worked together on several restarts to ensure the two drivers got lined up on the bottom, saying, "Here at restrictor plates, when you have guys like that up front, you try to work together ...Keep reading View the full article

Kyle Busch felt like an amiable teammate and was willing to do whatever it took to get Joe Gibbs Racing to victory lane at the Daytona 500 View the full article

Ross Chastain and Ryan Preece were part of a bumper crop of Daytona 500 rookies View the full article

It was a wild day at Daytona. Relive all of the crashes from the 2019 running of the Great American Race, from RIcky Stenhouse's early move that cost Bubba Wallace, among others, to William Byron's ability to make it through two big, late crashes before a third took him out -- and, of course, The Big One that cost 21 drivers a chance at crossing the finish line. View the full article