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NASCAR has yet to review the radio communications from the closing laps of Sunday's race (they intend to do so in the week ahead). And while Ryan Blaney drove off with the race win, strange things were happening throughout the field as Chevy and Toyota grappled for the final spot in the Championship 4. If we break down the communications ourselves though, it's clear that manufacturer loyalty ...Keep readingView the full article

Making a case for — and against — Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano, William Byron and Tyler Reddick winning the Cup Series championship at Phoenix. View the full article

NASCAR has pledged to review radio communications between several teams in the closing laps of Sunday's controversial penultimate Cup race of 2024 at Martinsville, which decided the Championship 4 protagonists.Victory for Ryan Blaney secured his place along with Joey Logano and Tyler Reddick, but race control elected to remove Christopher Bell from next week's title decider in Phoenix after the ...Keep readingView the full article

Christopher Bell reacted to getting disqualified from the cup championship for a safety violation. View the full article

Tyler Reddick will carry the banner for dirt late model racers as he races for the Cup title. View the full article

In a stunning turn of events, Christopher Bell's Championship 4 spot was revoked and awarded to William Byron after the end of Sunday's race. View the full article

NASCAR senior Vice President of competition Elton Sawyer visited the Media Center at Martinsville to clear the air over their decision to remove Christopher Bell from the Championship 4. Bell appeared to ride the wall, which was banned following Ross Chastain's dramatic wall-ride into the Championship 4 during the 2022 season.Bell didn't only ended up in the wall partway through the corner after ...Keep readingView the full article

While Ryan Blaney won his way into the finale, chaos was unfolding behind him in the fight for the fourth and final transfer spot.Questionable radio comms, manufacturer loyalty on full display and a surprise wallride defined the final race to make the Championship 4. After lengthy deliberations and tense scenes on pit road, NASCAR finally made a decision.Christopher Bell, who had beat William ...Keep readingView the full article

Ryan Blaney and William Byron will join Joey Logano and Tyler Reddick in the Championship 4 that will contest the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series in Phoenix next weekend after a breathtaking showdown at Martinsville.Team Penske Ford driver Blaney, the defending Cup Series champion, prevailed in a three-way fight for the win in the closing laps with Hendrick Chevrolet Motorsport team-mates Kyle Larson ...Keep readingView the full article

In the closing laps, while Ryan Blaney won his way into the finale, chaos was unfolding behind him.William Byron had two fellow Chevrolets side-by-side behind him with Austin Dillon and Ross Chastain. Radio communication from the the No. 3 of Dillon talked about 'knowing the deal' and then someone asked: "Does the 1 [Chastain] crew chief know the deal." Neither driver ever passed the No. 24, who ...Keep readingView the full article

In the closing laps of the race, it became a three-way fight for the win between Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, and Ryan Blaney.Larson was in control, but Elliott and Blaney had 30-lap fresher tires to decide who would be part of the Championship 4.With 25 laps remaining, Elliott finally made his way around Larson. Blaney then traded blows with Larson before getting by as well. With 14 to go, he ...Keep readingView the full article

Aric Almirola held off all challengers to win the pivotal cutoff race, denying Sammy Smith in second and Chandler Smith in third as they were attempting to win their way into the title-decider.Almirola, who competes part-time in the Xfinity Series with Joe Gibbs Racing, now has three wins this year and seven in his career. S. Smith was within half a second of him at the very end, but just could ...Keep readingView the full article

Martin Truex Jr. was the last driver on track in the pole round of qualifying, rocketing to the top of the charts with a 19.686s lap that denied Hendrick Motorsports a front row lockout."I felt great about our car on stickers," said Truex, who also led the way in Cup practice. "You know, you never want to get too optimistic but it fired off really good in practice -- especially that second run ...Keep readingView the full article

After setting the fastest time early in practice, things went very wrong for Denny Hamlin. The car fired off into Turn 3 as a high rate of speed, spinning sideways and backing into the outside wall."Stuck throttle! F****** stuck throttle!" exclaimed Hamlin the radio. There was significant damage to the rear clip of the car. Hamlin drove the wounded No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota back to the ...Keep readingView the full article

I truly believe Christian Eckes made a miscalculation during Friday night's Martinsville cutoff race, and I'm not talking about the morality of the bump-and-run for the win, but the logic in it.He may have just chosen a race win over a championship when we end up looking back on this season:"My kingdom for a 'clock'," to use the words of doomed king Richard III. Eckes went home with a Martinsville ...Keep readingView the full article

Christian Eckes was a dominant force in Saturday's NASCAR Truck race at Martinsville, but a rash of late yellows completely changed the complexion of the finish. Several drivers chose to pit for fresh tires, rapidly cutting through the field and one of them had his sights set on the Championship 4.Taylor Gray drove all the way to the back bumper of Eckes and powered into the race lead. Moments ...Keep readingView the full article

The Round of 8 cutoff race has historically been the wildest in all of the playoffs -- even more so than the title-decider. Drivers are willing to do just about anything to advance and we've seen it all over the past decade. Some prevailed, others did not, but each solidified their place in playoff history with their daring attempts to bend the odds to their will. For this piece, we're focusing ...Keep readingView the full article

It’s no secret that the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing pit crew of Denny Hamlin’s car this season is in a slump. This was a crew leading the charts in individual and average pit stop time for the first quarter of the 2024 season. But as the playoffs approached, things seemingly started to fall apart, leaving the fate of Hamlin’s appearance in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4 round at Phoenix in ...Keep readingView the full article

It would be all too easy for Armin Schwarz to pick the Toyota Celica GT-Four as his favourite car. After all, from a career that graced the World Rally Championship podium with four different manufacturers, it was in the Group A weapon that he claimed his only WRC victory in Catalunya in 1991.Yet the machine the German selects instead never won a WRC event. Finishing third on the Safari Rally in ...Keep readingView the full article

Last year, Netflix released its first season of “NASCAR: Full Speed,” a docuseries following the 2023 Cup Series. The film crew zeroed in on potential championship contenders, planning to shadow the eight drivers they expected to make it to the end. When Christopher Bell made the top eight, they brought him on screen almost randomly.“I wasn’t in that plan, was I?” Bell asked.“You were ...Keep readingView the full article

The FIA Rally Star programme will provide extra support to rising star Romet Jurgenson and has opted to retain Taylor Gill and Max Smart to contest the 2025 FIA Junior WRC.The three drivers have impressed after earning selection into the FIA’s fully-funded programme that aims to unearth future WRC talent.Jose Caparo (Peru), Gill (Australia), Jurgenson (Estonia) and Smart (South Africa) impressed ...Keep readingView the full article

Radioactive for the NASCAR Cup Series at the Homestead-Miami Speedway for the Straight Talk Wireless 400. View the full article

Homestead-Miami Speedway was a microcosm of Kyle Larson's entire season. A fast car, shocking setbacks, unforced errors and remarkable comebacks -- and in the end, it was all for naught. A surprise cut tire put Larson in the wall and out of contention for the majority of Sunday's race. Just as he was making a little headway, the spun car of Chris Buescher forced him to come to a complete stop on ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick discussed his epic win at Homestead-Miami and what it means down the stretch on "Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour." View the full article