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Daugherty, the former NBA star and part owner of JTG Daugherty Racing, became the first Black owner in the Cup Series to win the Daytona 500 when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. took the checkered flag last Sunday. For JTG, it was just the second Cup win in the team’s 14-year existence – the first came in 2014 with driver A.J. Allmendinger at Watkins Glen, N.Y. – but this one came on the sport’s ...Keep readingView the full article

Here are five things learned at Daytona and five storylines to keep an eye on as the NASCAR season now finds its rhythm. View the full article

NASCAR on Wednesday announced the 45-year-old native of Vernon, Texas, had been suspended following a violation of Sections 4.1 & 10.1.A of the NASCAR rulebook, in particular its Substance Abuse Policy. As is typical, NASCAR did not divulge the substance which resulted in the violation. Roper did not compete in the 2023 series opener at Daytona International Speedway last weekend but his ...Keep readingView the full article

Former NBA All-Star Brad Daugherty grew up idolizing Richard Petty. Now he too has a Daytona 500 to his name as co-owner of JTG Daugherty Racing. View the full article

Bob Pockrass talks with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. about his celebration so far, what’s left to come and going to Fontana. Stenhouse Jr. talked about meeting with students in Chicago and meeting children in La Rabida Children's Hospital. View the full article

Relive the best scanner moments from the 2023 Daytona 500. View the full article

Keselowski and his RFK Racing Ford team-mate Chris Buescher led a combined 74 of the 212 laps, with Keselowski leading the most with 42, and he won the first stage. But they lost their stranglehold at the front of the field with four laps remaining, when Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet pairing Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon drafted past their Mustangs, with more Chevys pushing them from ...Keep readingView the full article

The UK has become a backbone of rallying’s top flight, appearing on the inaugural calendar in 1973 and holding a spot on the schedule until 2019 courtesy of Rally GB, formerly known as the RAC Rally. However, the event dropped off the calendar in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has failed to return. A bid fronted by promoter Bobby Willis to bring the WRC back to the UK in Northern ...Keep readingView the full article

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spoke with Adam Alexander about how he celebrated his Daytona 500 win and what it meant to receive so much love after the race. View the full article

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. took a visit to the Windy City on his victory tour and signed autographs for excited students of the Chicago Public Schools. View the full article

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. took pictures with students from Chicago Public Schools. View the full article

Final stop in Chicago for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Is La Rabida Children’s Hospital. View the full article

Ricky Stenhouse's victory celebration since Sunday has included eating at Waffle House, a trip to Chicago and perhaps a tattoo next. View the full article

Ricky Stenhouse's victory celebration since Sunday has included eating at Waffle House, a trip to Chicago, and perhaps a tattoo next. View the full article

The speedway in Fontana, Calif., is expected to undergo renovations after this year’s race to convert to a ½-mile short track. Regardless of the timetable, Sunday’s race will be the last on the 2-mile, banked paved asphalt oval. Following last year’s race – the first on the track with the Next Gen car – Goodyear has elected to bring different left and right-side tires this ...Keep readingView the full article

Chevrolet scooped the biggest race of the NASCAR Cup season when Ricky Stenhouse scored a surprise win, just beating the Ford of Joey Logano and Toyota’s Christopher Bell when a caution for a huge wreck at Turn 1 ended the race in overtime. Chevy’s Camaro ZL1 features the biggest visual nose change among NASCAR’s three manufacturers in 2023, with the faux headlights and grille section ...Keep readingView the full article

Following the season-opening spectacle that is Daytona 500, NASCAR's 'true' season begins now. Auto Club Speedway kicks off a three-week stretch on the west coast in what is going to be the final race on the two-mile oval before it is reconfigured into a short track. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. snapped a 199-race winless streak with his Daytona 500 victory, and returned JTG Daugherty Racing to ...Keep readingView the full article

"It has been such a horrible, horrible black place where I was last year. Don't let anyone ever put you down, because only you know your true potential. The people close to me know it and finally, we managed to get it back out again. I'm just so happy to be back fighting at the front again with this amazing team, amazing car." This emotional response from Craig Breen after returning to the ...Keep readingView the full article

Hamlin, who led the race for six laps, said on his podcast – Actions Detrimental with Denny Hamlin – that he had an big opportunity to win until the final pitstop cycle, when he pitted from a top-five place with 23 laps to go with Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team-mate Martin Truex Jr. The plan was for them to rejoin in tandem, but Truex needed much less gas to get the end and exited the ...Keep readingView the full article

The small, family run JTG Daugherty Racing team had only one Cup win, back in 2014, before hitting it big at Daytona on Sunday. View the full article

A timely caution following a strategic pass for the lead on the final lap of the second overtime preserved Stenhouse’s win in the NASCAR Cup season opener. It was a much-needed win for Stenhouse and his team. Stenhouse had last won in 2017 – a winless streak of 199 races. While JTG Daugherty’s only previous Cup victory had some in 2014 with driver A.J. Allmendinger at Watkins Glen ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon came away frustrated while Jimmie Johnson and Travis Pastrana had a great time in The Great American Race. View the full article

As the race reached its crunch point, Daniel Suarez went off on lap 198 and ended up in the infield grass to bring out a caution and send the race into a first period of two-lap overtime. Stenhouse grabbed the lead for the first time in the race with a shove from Kyle Larson in the first overtime, but a clash involving Austin Dillon and William Byron sent the race into a second two-lap ...Keep readingView the full article

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. claimed victory in the longest Daytona 500 in history. The race went 30 miles (12 laps) past the scheduled distance, due to multiple late-race incidents. The final crash forced the event to end under caution, and it was Stenhouse who was just ahead of reigning Cup Series champion Joey Logano. It is the third career win for Stenhouse (all on superspeedways), and his first in ...Keep readingView the full article

Austin Dillon gave his thoughts on him and his teammate, Kyle Busch wrecking at the end of the 2023 Daytona 500. View the full article