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Brenden 'Butterbean' Queen is having quite the year in his emerging stock car racing career. The 27-year-old recently won the 2025 ARCA Menards Series championship, ending the 20-race season with eight wins, 17 top fives, and 17 top tens. He bested Lavar Scott by 106 points in the final standings. Queen also made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut earlier this year at Bristol, driving the No. 11 ...Keep readingView the full article

William Byron had a chance to win Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but lost the lead after nearly losing control in Turns 1 and 2. As he refocused and set his sights on taking the lead back, Byron's race ended abruptly in a violent and unnecessary wreck. Byron's No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet slammed into the back of the slowing No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet of Ty ...Keep readingView the full article

On August 28th, actor-turned-racer Frankie Muniz announced that he had suffered a broken wrist in a fall from a ladder at his home. The 39-year-old 'Malcolm in the Middle' star was sidelined for several weeks, missing the last four NASCAR Truck races. Mason Maggio and Tyler Tomassi have piloted the No. 33 Reaume Brothers Racing Ford in his absence. However, Muniz is officially back and ...Keep readingView the full article

In a surprising announcement, Viking Motorsports announced that Matt DiBenedetto will not finish the 2025 season behind the wheel of the No. 99 Chevrolet. DiBenedetto has driven for the small NASCAR Xfinity Series team since the beginning of its brief history. The former Cup driver is 22nd in the championship standings, with a best finish of fifth at Talladega. “We’d like to thank Matt ...Keep readingView the full article

The NASCAR playoffs head to Talladega, and the only thing we know for certain is that "it'll be chaos." View the full article

Denny Hamlin was actively crying during the cool down lap following his victory in the South Point Casino 400 on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and there was a lot to unpack during a vibe check post-race press conference. 60 career Cup Series winsBack to the Final FourAn ailing fatherThe 23XI lawsuit against NASCARThe mortality of his own career So yes, there was so incredibly much for ...Keep readingView the full article

It's starting to really feel like the year Denny Hamlin captures that elusive Cup championship. Here's why he's currently the front-runner. View the full article

On one hand, the math is pretty straightforward for everyone not named Denny Hamlin as it pertains to their pathway to the championship four but then again, the next race takes place at Talladega where the results could be decided by The Big One. And guess who isn’t currently in a position to race for a championship? Team Penske. Denny Hamlin Adv.Kyle Larson +35Christopher Bell +20Chase ...Keep readingView the full article

Driving a special New Zealand-themed paint scheme, Shane van Gisbergen continues his rapid oval progression at the Cup level. After earning his first stage points on an oval at New Hampshire Motor Speedway three weeks ago, he went to Kansas the next week and earned his first top ten. As expected, he then won the Charlotte Roval for his fifth win of the season (all on road and street ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlin had to out-duel Kyle Larson and run down teammate Chase Briscoe in a dramatic showdown for the NASCAR Cup Series win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Hamlin made the pass for the win with just four laps to go, rocketing past Briscoe on the outside. Hamlin went on to finally collect his coveted 60th career win, matching Kevin Harvick and entering the top ten in the all-time wins list ...Keep readingView the full article

With 31 laps, William Byron's race came to a shocking and violent end. Byron had bobbled just before that, which handed the race lead to Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson. Soon after, the caution flew as the No. 24 crashed across the track in a bizarre incident. While trying to hunt Larson back down for the race lead, Ty Dillon (who was off-sequence), was trying to get to pit ...Keep readingView the full article

Ryan Blaney’s car sustained significant damage near the end of Stage 1 when a left-front tire went down. The Penske driver and 2023 NASCAR Cup Series champion was running 12th when disaster struck the No. 12 team. He was unable to maintain control as a left-front tire went down, careening into the outside wall. Blaney limped the car back to the pits before exiting the vehicle, which ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR been racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway since 1998 with Mark Martin winning the inaugural event. Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports drivers hold the top six starting spots on the grid with Denny Hamlin leading a 1-2-3 for JGR. However, the pole-sitter has only won this race once before, and that was Kyle Busch back in 2009. Recent races have seen an emergence of Penske-powered ...Keep readingView the full article

Which driver takes the checkered flag as the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Vegas? Here are the latest odds. View the full article

Aric Almirola is heading back to Phoenix Raceway at the end of the month with unfinished business. He has an Xfinity Series championship to win for Joe Gibbs Racing. No, this isn’t the Xfinity Series championship but Almirola winning the Focused Health 302 does send the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 19 to the owners championship, which does have some monetary and pride value to the ...Keep readingView the full article

For a moment, it looked like Jesse Love might lock himself into the Championship 4 with a victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Unfortunately for the Richard Childress Racing driver, despite leading 22 laps and scoring a lot of stage points, that's not how the story ended. After losing the lead to Connor Zilisch just before the final caution of the race, he lost an additional spot on pit road to ...Keep readingView the full article

Aric Almirola held on against Connor Zilisch, collecting his tenth career win and his third of the 2025 season. The ex-Cup driver took the lead after Zilisch was chasing a loose race car and bobbled in Turn 2, with the two cars made door-to-door contact down the backstretch as Almirola moved ahead. Zilisch tried to respond, but his car was out of control and Almirola managed to hang on. "Thank ...Keep readingView the full article

The driver ratings for iRacing Studios' newly released NASCAR 25 video game have sparked a lot of debate across the fandom. NASCAR also posted a video where drivers guessed and debated the ratings, which featured several humorous but very real disagreements. A lot of the discussion centers around how and why William Byron was ranked as the No. 1 driver with a perfect score of 100, but there ...Keep readingView the full article

At least for the next month, through the duration of what could be the final season under the current NASCAR elimination playoff format, the Sanctioning Body is working to stay ahead of any attempts to manipulate races and advancement into the final four. This comes in the aftermath of what transpired last year in the penultimate race at Martinsville, a concerted Chevrolet blockade that ...Keep readingView the full article

Joe Gibbs Racing dominated qualifying for the Round of 8 playoff opener at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Denny Hamlin secured pole position with a fast lap of 29.213s, besting teammate Chase Briscoe by 0.036s and teammate Christopher Bell by 0.042s. "I felt good about it," Hamlin told TruTV. "There wasn't a whole lot left out there for it, but great job to get my car good. It was good in the short ...Keep readingView the full article