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Ryan Preece described what happened in his accident at Daytona and what it was like to watch the video and why he called former UFC fighter Miesha Tate this week. View the full article

Check out the full highlights for the Sports Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 at Darlington Raceway. John H. Nemechek, Austin Hill, Denny Hamlin and more battle it out in this Xfinity Series Playoff race. View the full article

Hill took the lead during a round of pit stops under caution late in the race but a spin by Parker Kligerman with four of 147 laps remaining sent the race into a two-lap overtime.Hill appeared to spin his tires on the restart – a problem that plagued him much of the race – and Hamlin quickly got around him to reclaim the lead.Hamlin edged Hill by 0.657 seconds to earn the victory in his only ...Keep readingView the full article

Preece, who drives the No. 41 Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing, got turned by driver Erik Jones late in Saturday night’s regular season finale at Daytona International Speedway. Preece’s car darted across the track and collected the No. 14 Ford of his teammate Chase Briscoe.As Preece slid from the asphalt onto the grass on the backstretch, the car went airborne and eventually flipped nearly a ...Keep readingView the full article

Bell, who was fastest in Saturday’s practice, capped the day by winning the pole for Saturday night’s playoff opener at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.Bell led a Toyota rebound from a poor qualifying performance in the Darlington spring race, topping the final round with an average speed of 169.193 mph, just edging his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin (169.042 mph).The pole is Bell’s third ...Keep readingView the full article

Ryan Preece insisted that he's in no pain after revealing bloodshot and bruised eyes stemming from his wild wreck at Daytona. View the full article

Bell’s top average speed of 168.428 mph came in the first 20-minute session, as did four of the top-five overall speeds.Michael McDowell ended up second quick (167.276 mph) and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was third (167.049 mph).Bubba Wallace was fifth overall, but the top driver in the second session (166.591 mph).Among those drivers who ran at least 10 consecutive laps, Austin Cindric has the fastest ...Keep readingView the full article

Kevin Harvick entered the final cup playoffs winless on the season. He has been here before and said, “You go into it and you see what happens.” View the full article

Joey Logano discussed how people believe he is a playoff underdog. His response was that his team have everything they need to get through the first two rounds and then they’ll have to win. View the full article

Byron has never been a part of the Championship 4, but many still point to this Hendrick Motorsports driver as the title favorite.One look at his 2023 season and it's easy to see why. Byron's five race wins leads all drivers. He also tops the rest of the field in laps led and stage wins. With a total of four wins in his previous six seasons, 2023 has been a breakout year for the ...Keep readingView the full article

Bell and his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team faced two “must win” situations to advance in last season’s playoffs and reach the championship title race – and they delivered on both.First, it was a victory at the Charlotte Roval to reach the semifinal round, then it was a victory at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, the final opportunity to win his way into the Championship 4.As dramatic and ...Keep readingView the full article

Ryan Preece, whose car flipped more than 10 times, was cleared to race Friday morning this weekend at Darlington Raceway. Drivers discussed the crash and car-safety measures. View the full article

The 2019 world champion this year rejoined the Ford squad that afforded him his full-time WRC debut in 2012, essentially on a one-year deal.It appears Tanak will once again play a key role in the silly season as teams begin to form driver line-ups for the 2024 season.Tanak has endured a challenging return to M-Sport, headlined by a victory in Sweden and a second-place finish in Croatia, but his ...Keep readingView the full article

Bubba Wallace secured the final spot in the playoffs at Daytona as Chris Buescher led Brad Keselowski in a 1-2 finish for RFK Racing.Chase Elliott finished fourth and missed the playoffs for the first time in his career. 2022 playoff drivers Daniel Suarez, Chase Briscoe, Austin Cindric, Austin Dillon, and Alex Bowman also missed the cut.Martin Truex Jr. locked up the regular season title, but ...Keep readingView the full article

McDowell earned his first career Cup win in the season-opening Daytona 500 in 2021, which locked him into the playoffs for the first time just as the season was getting underway.He and his No. 34 Front Row Motorsports team didn’t win again before the start of the playoffs, and felt they needed to focus on getting a win in the opening round if there was any hope of advancing.“I think the ...Keep readingView the full article

Joey Logano said there were encouraging signs in the Ryan Preece wreck but they need to continue to work on cars not rolling over. He doesn’t need to have any additional drafting tracks to the schedule. View the full article

Bubba Wallace said he texted both Ryan Blaney and Ryan Preece to make sure they were OK and Preece responded with a reference to the movie “Days of Thunder.” View the full article

William Byron said he has seen the in-car camera of Ryan Blaney’s wreck and felt that the car handled the wreck better than it would have before the changes made this summer. View the full article

Ryan Blaney spoke on how he is feeling and how he was wearing a mouthpiece that recorded data for NASCAR and consultants at Wake Forest to analyze. According to NASCAR, his Daytona wreck was among the five hardest hits when it comes to G-forces in NASCAR races this year. View the full article

Kyle Busch reiterated his stance that grass be removed from race tracks (tracks have grass often to help with drainage and/or environmental requirements). He felt Ryan Preece’s car lifted way too easy and shared his thoughts on the Daytona wrecks. View the full article

Tyler Reddick said since Ryan Preece was OK in his accident, he hasn’t dug into much into the whys and how the car performed. He said NASCAR will tell the drivers what it finds in its assessment of those wrecks. View the full article

Denny Hamlin said there needs to be work on the “tupperware” of the roof hatch but in general was happy with the way the Ryan Preece and Ryan Blaney cars performed in their accidents. View the full article

The 2023 playoffs are just around the corner and Busch is hoping to do something that hasn't been done in nearly 30 years — win a NASCAR Cup Series championship with Richard Childress Racing.The team has six Cup titles, all courtesy of the legendary Dale Earnhardt, who won his final title with RCR in 1994. They haven't won it since, and their last real shot was in 2014 with Ryan Newman, who ...Keep readingView the full article

Hamlin, 42, enters Sunday night’s playoff opening race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway seeded third among the 16 drivers.While he and his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team have earned just a pair of victories this year – at Kansas and Pocono – he has been consistently battling for wins throughout the season. Hamlin has three runner-up finishes and has led the fifth most laps in the ...Keep readingView the full article

The reigning Cup Series champion discusses whether he enjoys the challenge this season has presented. Hint: He does not. View the full article