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Joey Logano held off a late charge from Team Penske team-mate Ryan Blaney to win a dramatic season finale at Phoenix and become a three-time NASCAR Cup champion.Reigning champion Blaney found himself 2.3 seconds down on Logano entering the closing stages having battled past Hendrick Motorsports' Kyle Larson and William Byron but despite slashing the deficit, he never got close enough as Logano ...Keep readingView the full article

Joey Logano made history with a performance for the ages, from a mercurial regular season to an impressive playoff run, caped with a championship at Phoenix. View the full article

Ryan Blaney came from nearly three seconds back to challenge teammate Joey Logano for the Phoenix race win and Cup Series championship, but he simply ran out of time to get the job done. At the checkered flag, he was 0.330s away from becoming a back-to-back NASCAR Cup Series champion, and he was worn out. The AMR Safety Team tended to him on pit road after the race."I was tired, man," said Blaney ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Larson finished fourth. What he said about the hard racing on the final restart as he was trying to hold on for the best position possible. View the full article

Joey Logano was fading late and Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney was closing fast in a dramatic showdown at Phoenix. Blaney battled his way by the Hendrick Motorsports drivers of Kyle Larson and William Byron before slicing away at the 2.3-second margin to Logano.He almost got to his back bumper, but never got quite there as Logano captured the checkered flag and his third NASCAR Cup Series title ...Keep readingView the full article

Check out the final laps and celebration from the NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway. View the full article

At the conclusion of Stage 1 , the field filed down pit road with Joey Logano leading the race and the title fight. While pit stops were fairly straightforward for the field, a highly unusual moment was soon to follow.The official Toyota Camry pace car was leading the field to the restart for the start of the second stage when a major mistake was made. The pace car was about to miss its pit road ...Keep readingView the full article

Dale Earnhardt Jr. remembers with fondness his interactions with the Allisons and the impact Bobby Allison had on his father. View the full article

This Sunday, 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick will race for the highest honor in NASCAR: the Cup Series championship. He’s one of four drivers — along with Joey Logano, William Byron, and defending champion Ryan Blaney — who survived every elimination in the NASCAR playoffs, and now, one race remains. The highest finisher among those four after 312 laps at Phoenix Raceway wins the championship ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlin admitted that his team's future participation is 'TBD', noting that "there’s certain things that we’re going to have to navigate so I hope so.”It's a staggering admission following the recent court loss where the teams filed a preliminary injunction aiming to keep their charters while the antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR is ongoing. The injunction was denied and the teams will ...Keep readingView the full article

Bobby Allison, 1983 NASCAR Cup Series champion and 2011 Hall of Famer, has died aged 86, his family has announced.The patriarch of the iconic Alabama Gang, Allison's career spanned over 25 years and included 85 Cup wins. He actually earned his 85th win just a few weeks ago when NASCAR finally ended a 53-year controversy and awarded a win that was rightfully his.Allison was presented with a plaque ...Keep readingView the full article

In the definitive moment on the first overtime restart, Cole Custer got bogged down on a restart while behind Austin Hill, himself on older tires. Without hesitation, Justin Allgaier waited for his moment to shoot the gap up the middle to pass them both.Then, a wreck in the back forced the race into double overtime, where Allgaier nearly crashed as he cut in front of Jesse Love to take the ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Bobby Allison, who ranks fourth all-time with 85 NASCAR Cup Series victories, died Saturday at age 86. View the full article

1983 Cup Series champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison has died, according to a release from the Allison family."With deep sadness, the family of Bobby Allison announces his passing at the age of 86. He passed away peacefully at home on November 9, 2024, surrounded by family. He had been in declining health over the past few years but continued to give back to the sport he loved."Bobby ...Keep readingView the full article

Martin Truex Jr. earned pole with a 26.718s lap, besting Joey Logano by 0.010s in the final round of qualifying. The veteran driver is set to retire from full-time competition at the end of the year, but he hopes to leave Joe Gibbs Racing with one last checkered flag after going winless through the first 35 races of the year.Saturday's flyer gave Truex his 25th career pole, stealing a bit of the ...Keep readingView the full article

Radioactive for the NASCAR Cup Series at Martinsville Speedway for the Xfinity 500. View the full article

Christopher Bell isn't racing for a Cup championship this weekend at Phoenix Raceway. He feels he should, and he feels NASCAR could have made decisions to make him one of the four finalists. View the full article

Christopher Bell was in the Championship 4 for 27 minutes before NASCAR removed him due to a safety violation, citing his accidental wall-ride. But what led up to that moment is what has Bell frustrated several days later.“I feel cheated," said Bell. "I feel cheated out of a chance to compete for a championship. It all stems from what happened earlier – 15, 20 to go, whenever the race got ...Keep readingView the full article

No driver has won back-to-back Cup titles since the end of Jimmie Johnson's unprecedented five-year run in 2010, and it's never been done in this volatile knockout format. What would it mean to Ryan Blaney to accomplish such a feat? According to the Team Penske driver, it would be even bigger than the first."There's a lot of neat milestones we all can accomplish this weekend," said Blaney. "But ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlinwas sitting atop the speed charts after 30 laps of the early afternoon Cup practice at Martinsville Speedway. But his day quickly went sour when a piece of rubber jammed his throttle open, and in order to scrub speed from the car, he turned the steering wheel, sending his car crashing backwards into the wall. As soon as the TV announcers saw the significant damage to the right rear ...Keep readingView the full article