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Newman, 45, last made a Cup start in the 2021 finale. Sunday at Darlington Raceway will be his 726th NASCAR Cup Series start. He won 18 races during his career, including the 2008 Daytona 500. Newman has never raced the Next Gen car, but he has been paying close attention during his time away from the cockpit. “I’ve paid attention to everything in respect to the car’s development ...Keep readingView the full article

The South Korean marque will head into the final four stages with its part-time driver Dani Sordo sitting second, 57.5s adrift of Toyota’s runaway leader Kalle Rovanpera, but only 11.1s ahead of Thierry Neuville, the team’s highest-placed driver in the championship. Its second full-time driver Esapekka Lappi is fourth, 2.3s behind Neuville after losing grip of third across ...Keep readingView the full article

The Shriners Children's 200 was a very exciting race. Kyle Larson took the Stage 1 win to start things off, and John Hunter Nemechek barely won Stage 2 after battling it out with Larson. The race had 10 cautions and a massive 15-car crash with 23 laps to go in Stage 2. Kyle Larson and John Hunter Nemechek would continue to go back-and-forth in the final two laps with Larson making a final push and squeezed out the close victory. This was his first victory at Darlington. View the full article

The reigning world champion has so far produced a faultless display to head into Sunday’s final four stages with a 57.5s lead over Hyundai’s Dani Sordo. Rovanpera has endured a quiet start to his title defence by his own high standards, with the 22-year-old yet to score a victory this year. His last visit to the top step of the podium came in New Zealand last October. The Finn has also ...Keep readingView the full article

With five of 147 laps remaining, Larson had clawed his way back up to second behind Nemechek after a pit road speeding penalty left him to restart in the rear of the field at the start of the final stage. Entering the final lap, Larson pulled alongside Nemechek exiting Turn 2 and by Turn 3 he edged ahead of Nemechek as the two collided and both hit the wall. As both came off Turn 4 toward ...Keep readingView the full article

On the final stretch of the Xfinity Series Shriners Children's 200, Kyle Larson bumped into John Hunter Nemechek causing him to spin out. Larson prevailed, winning his first career race at Darlington. View the full article

Sheldon Creed and Austin Hill were among the drivers involved in a multi-car wreck at the Shriners Children's 200. View the full article

The reigning world rally champion won five of the day’s seven tests to transform an overnight 10.8s advantage into a 57.5s lead, as the Finn moved closer to a first WRC win since New Zealand last October. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville leapfrogged team-mate Esapekka Lappi to claim third, with 2.3s splitting the duo. M-Sport’s Ott Tanak ended Saturday in a lonely fifth driving the sole ...Keep readingView the full article

Joey Logano has mixed thoughts on whether NASCAR security should step in during a fight between drivers. View the full article

Daniel Suarez said nothing good comes from fighting except for commercials, but his teammate Ross Chastain did the right thing last week. View the full article

Kyle Busch quips that Noah Gragson maybe wasn’t the guy who should have had to send to a message to Ross Chastain. And he feels drivers should get 30 seconds to throw punches. View the full article

Truex, whose No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, had not shown to be particularly fast in Saturday’s practice session, rocketed to the top of the final round of qualifying with an average lap speed of 169.409 mph. Brad Keselowski, who had posted the fastest lap of the day in the first round, was the final car to make a qualifying attempt. However, he only ended up 10th fastest among the 10 cars ...Keep readingView the full article

Ross Chastain said drivers don’t need to be fighting but Bob Pockrass wonders, what’s the trigger point to take things into his own hands? Here is Chastain’s response. View the full article

Ryan Blaney, like several drivers, suggested that if there is a fight, each driver should be allowed to get in a punch before NASCAR security breaks it up. Then again, Blaney doesn’t seem to be someone who wants to start throwing punches. View the full article

The top five speeds from Saturday practice all came from the first 20-minute session with Chase Elliott leading the way with an average lap speed of 168.232 mph in his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Erik Jones, driving the No. 43 for Legacy Motor Club, ended up second-fastest (167.653 mph) and William Byron, in Hendrick’s No. 24 Chevrolet, was third (167.550 mph). Tyler Reddick was ...Keep readingView the full article

On Friday, following the conclusion of pre-race Cup Series inspection, NASCAR announced that two cars - Reddick's No. 45 and Ty Gibbs' No. 54 Toyota - had both failed twice, which required a crew member to be ejected and the loss of pit selection for the weekend's race. However, in such instances, NASCAR does not normally eject the team's crew chief. This time, NASCAR sent Reddick's crew chief ...Keep readingView the full article

The Toyota driver started the day with a 10.8s advantage but a stunning drive resulted in the Finn to clean sweep the trio of stages to open up a 52.4s-lead over Hyundai’s Dani Sordo. Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi has moved to third, 57.0s adrift, but ahead of Thierry Neuville (+57.9s) and M-Sport’s Ott Tanak (+1m34.1s) after team-mate Pierre-Louis Loubet crashed out of fifth on stage ...Keep readingView the full article

The Frenchman led the rally after winning Friday’s opening stage although drama struck at the of stage three when his Ford Puma developed a fire. At the time Loubet and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul detected a burning smell but were initially unable to locate the issue. A frustrated Loubet thought his rally was over at this point. However, Loubet was able to get the issue under control to ...Keep readingView the full article

After three overtimes, Christian Eckes secured the Buckle Up South Carolina 200 in the NASCAR Truck Series. It was a pretty clean race throughout the first two stages, with Christian Eckes winning Stage 1 and William Byron winning Stage 2. As it got closer to the end, things got really intense. The race ended with eight cautions, multiple wrecks and restarts. View the full article

What had been a very tame race, turned a bit chaotic down the stretch with six cautions in the final 56 of 158 laps. Eckes, with fresh tires, powered past Hailie Deegan on older tires on a restart on lap 132 to move into the lead for the final time but then had to hold off various challengers through two two-lap overtimes. Just as Eckes took the white flag in the second overtime, the race ...Keep readingView the full article

Evans ran off the road on stage seven (Mortagua, 18.15km) while occupying sixth position following a challenging day opening the road. A drought breaking victory in Croatia last month meant the Welshman headed to Portugal tied at the top of the championship standings with part-time Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier, who isn’t competing in Portugal this weekend. Evans had been struggling ...Keep readingView the full article

The Toyota driver produced an head turning display despite being disadvantaged by road position to end the day leading Hyundai’s Dani Sordo by 10.8s. Rovanpera won three of the day’s eight stages to become the fourth different leader of the event to date. A late push from Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville pushed the Belgian to third, 26.0s adrift ahead of M-Sport’s Pierre-Louis Loubet, who led ...Keep readingView the full article

The Toyota driver went off the road 13.8 kilometres into stage seven (Mortagua, 18.5km) while occupying sixth position after difficult day opening the gravel roads. It is unclear exactly what happened to the Welshman that has triggered a premature end to his day. The Toyota team has confirmed Evans and co-driver Scott Martin climbed out of the car and are okay after the incident. Evans was ...Keep readingView the full article

Darlington is known as the track too tough to tame, and it's almost considered an insult to not hit the wall at some point during the race weekend. Mostly because if you don't hit it at least once, then you probably aren't trying hard enough. The track opened in 1950 and hosted NASCAR's first ever 500 mile race. Hard on tires and even harder on drivers, Darlington is a race that everyone wants ...Keep readingView the full article

Tanak produced an impressive showing in his M-Sport Ford Puma, winning one of the three morning stages to lead Toyota's Rovanpera by 3.0s. Dani Sordo led Hyundai's effort completing the loop in third, 3.6s adrift, but ahead of team-mate Thierry Neuville, 14.6s back, and road sweeper Elfyn Evans, who is 18.0s off. Pierre-Louis Loubet and Esapekka Lappi completed the Rally1 field after Toyota's ...Keep readingView the full article