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Johnny Sauter, who won the 2016 series championship, returns to the Championship 4 and will be joined by his GMS Racing teammate Justin Haley, who is making his first bid for the series title. Sauter enters as the favorite leading the series this season with six wins. “A second title would be the ultimate accomplishment,” said Sauter. “This has been a dream season. Throughout the years ... Keep reading View the full article

Furniture Row Racing team owner Barney Visser says he has no second thoughts about closing his NASCAR Cup series championship-winning team at the end of 2018. View the full article

Pearn and driver Martin Truex Jr. have the chance to win back-to-back championships, something no one has done since Jimmie Johnson won five titles in a row between 2006 and 2010. “I can't really put into words,” Pearn said Wednesday during a teleconference. “It's been an emotional time for all of us, and the fact to be able to go down there and have a shot at it and have a good shot at ... Keep reading View the full article

Who do you think will win the NASCAR Cup Series championship and why? Jim Utter: I believe ultimately it will come down to what team makes the least mistakes and avoids any entanglements on the track, but based strictly on performance and speed this season, it's hard not to go with Kevin Harvick. When Harvick and the No. 4 Stewart-Haas team are 'on,' they are clearly the best. The championship ... Keep reading View the full article

Burton, the 18-year-old son of former NASACAR Cup driver and current NBC Sports broadcaster, Jeff Burton, will compete full-time next season in the Gander Outdoors Truck Series season for Kyle Busch Motorsports. Harrison will take over the No. 18 Toyota, replacing Noah Gragson, who is moving up to the Xfinity Series next season with JR Motorsports. Safelite AutoGlass will serve as primary ... Keep reading View the full article

Speaking to reporters ahead of this weekend’s Championship finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Earnhardt Jr. says he can’t wait to discover who will be crowned NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series champion. “What a memorable season it’s been, my first as a broadcaster with NBC, and could have never imagined witnessing the action that we’ve seen so far the second half of this season,” he ... Keep reading View the full article

David Pearson’s most famous NASCAR moment will always be the 1976 Daytona 500, crawling across the line to victory after an infamous clash with Richard Petty. Coming in NASCAR’s heyday, when the charismatic Petty highlighted a generation of drivers that captured America’s imagination beyond its southern roots, as sponsor cash poured in, Pearson, who died earlier this week aged 83 (link) ... Keep reading View the full article

Joey Logano is the underdog in this year's championship race and looking to pull off upset of his career View the full article

Kyle Busch says the NASCAR Cup series' final four championship contenders at Homestead this weekend are the "best of the best". View the full article

David Pearson's most famous NASCAR moment will always be the 1976 Daytona 500, crawling across the line to victory after an infamous clash with Richard Petty. View the full article

Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr says he enters the 2018 title decider at Homestead this weekend under little pressure because Furniture Row has been less competitive this year. View the full article

While the test session offers news drivers a chance to get behind the wheel of a NASCAR race car, Vilarino brings an impressive resume. He had amassed 20 victories and 33 podiums in 46 races since 2012 and hasn’t competed in the series since 2015. Now the Spaniard is now thinking about returning to the European NASCAR Championship, but hasn't made a decision yet. From 2012 to 2015 ... Keep reading View the full article

Moffitt has not had a steady ride in NASCAR since 2015 and things looked no different heading into the 2018 season. But at the last minute Moffitt was asked to take the helm of Hattori Racing Enterprises’ No. 16 Toyota this year. Even though a full season in the Camping World Truck Series wasn’t guaranteed at the time, Moffitt’s performance helped keep the team moving ... Keep reading View the full article

When the dust settled Sunday at Phoenix, the “Big 3” of Kevin Harvick, Busch and Martin Truex Jr. – which had dominated the series all season – found themselves locked in to compete for this year’s championship at Homestead, Fla. Joining those three will be Joey Logano, who earned his way into the Championship 4 by virtue of his win at Martinsville, Va. “Yeah, you want to race ... Keep reading View the full article

This weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, FRR will compete for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship for the third time in the past four years. The team’s driver, Martin Truex Jr., is looking for his second consecutive title. The ending, regardless of outcome, will be bittersweet. The team announced in September that it will cease operations at the end of the season. Visser ... Keep reading View the full article

David Pearson, a three-time top-level NASCAR champion whose rivalry with Richard Petty was pivotal in the category's rise, has died at the age of 83 View the full article

NASCAR icon David Pearson, born December 22, 1934, has passed away. Wood Brothers Racing confirmed the news on social media. The Spartanburg, South Carolina driver competed in 574 NASCAR Cup Series races between 1960 and 1989, winning 105 of them and locking up three championships in 1966, 1968 and 1969. Pearson was also one of the fiercest rivals to NASCAR's most successful driver in ... Keep reading View the full article

Kevin Harvick said he tried to find a "safe spot" in the Phoenix NASCAR Cup race while attempting to salvage his championship bid in a damaged car View the full article

The 27-year-old from San Diego, CA, had warned TriStar Motorsport preseason that he wanted to throttle back on his commitments, resulting in him making just 13 starts this year in the #72 car he shared with Corey LaJoie. Last Sunday’s event at ISM Raceway in Phoenix was the last of these. After winning the 2006 Hoosier Sprint Car Rookie of the Year award aged 15, Whitt became the youngest ... Keep reading View the full article

Martin Truex Jr.’s 14th-place finish in Sunday’s Can-Am 500 at Phoenix was good enough to lock him into next weekend’s Championship 4 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano will battle for this year’s championship in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Truex, the reigning series champion, is looking to become the first repeat champion since ... Keep reading View the full article