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Van Gisbergen, the three-time Australian Supercars champion making his Cup debut this weekend in the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, set a blistering pace throughout the 50-minute session. He remained at the top of the speed chart most of the practice and set his best average lap speed of 88.571 mph in the final minutes. Cup veteran Denny Hamlin ended up second-fastest (88.262 mph) and ...Keep readingView the full article

Spire Motorsports pit crew member Donovan Williams suffered minor injuries in a freak accident at Dover during All-Star weekend.  The tire carrier for Daniel Suarez's No. 7 Cup car was in front of the heavy cart as they moved downhill towards the pit lane area when it began to roll away.  Nearby was NASCAR on FOX reporter Amanda Busick, and Williams threw himself in front of the cart ...Keep readingView the full article

In a tricky qualifying session at Darlington Raceway, Tyler Reddick went fastest of all with a 29.072s lap, even while hitting the wall at the exit of Turn 4. The closest driver to the championship leader in qualifying was the same driver closest to him in the championship standings -- 23XI Racing teammate Bubba Wallace, who ended the session 0.126s behind the pole-sitter. "Gosh, I came off ...Keep readingView the full article

Larson grabbed control of the race late in the final stage, when he was first off pitroad after the field came in during a caution caused by Ryan Newman spinning off at Turn 4. Larson led on the restart with 51 of 367 laps remaining, then held on through two more late-race restarts. Reddick moved into second on the final restart with 31 laps to go and initially challenged Larson for the ...Keep readingView the full article

The race was sent into a two-lap overtime following a horrific crash involving Ryan Preece that resulted in the Stewart-Haas driver being sent to hospital, with Kevin Harvick in the lead on his final outing at the superspeedway. But Harvick had Buescher and RFK team-mate Brad Keselowski behind him, and a push from the 2012 Cup champion moved Buescher ahead of Harvick shortly after the ...Keep readingView the full article

Daytona delivered on the drama Saturday night when Harrison Burton surged ahead in the #21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford to out-duel Kyle Busch and win his way into the 2024 playoffs. Parker Retzlaff shoved Burton ahead of Busch on the final, a fellow Chevrolet driver. Burton then blocked aggressively, crossing the finish line and finally becoming a winner in the NASCAR Cup Series after 98 career ...Keep readingView the full article

Work continues to prepare Bowman Gray Stadium for racing on Wednesday (weather-permitting). The pre-season exhibition race known as the 'Cook Out Clash' has already been postponed several days due to historic snowfall throughout North Carolina.  The track itself has already been cleared of snow, but work continues in the grandstands and surrounding areas as temperatures finally punch above ...Keep readingView the full article

Bell and his #20 Joe Gibbs Racing team struggled for much of the race and at one point he was in danger of falling a lap down. However, a string of cautions in the final 60 of 267 laps knocked several playoff contenders out of the race and put Bell back in the hunt for the win. He took the lead for the first time on a restart on lap 230, and despite briefly losing it he reclaimed it from ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Larson cashed in on his second opportunity to win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this season, taking the victory in the 30th anniversary of NASCAR’s inaugural Brickyard 400 on Sunday. Larson, who ran in the Indianapolis 500 earlier this season as part of an aborted attempt to do ‘the Double,’ picked up an anticlimactic fourth NASCAR Cup win of 2024 under caution in an otherwise ...Keep readingView the full article

The dream season continues for Tyler Reddick and 23XI Racing, just one day after partnering with Rockstar Energy. The championship leader earned his 14th career pole and his third of the 2026 season at Kansas Speedway. With a fast lap of 29.142s, Reddick beat his boss Denny Hamlin by 0.019s for the top spot. It was a Toyota 1-2-3 in qualifying with last week's winner Ty Gibbs in third. Kyle ...Keep readingView the full article

After powering past Brad Keselowski with 80 laps to go, Denny Hamlin appeared set to sweep victories in both Kansas races this season until Chris Buescher hit the wall with seven laps remaining and sent the race into a two-lap overtime. That set up several different pit strategies as Daniel Suarez stayed out and inherited the lead and three drivers took on only two tyres, that grouping ...Keep readingView the full article

The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Denny Hamlin will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville Speedway. The Virginia native now has five poles at the half-mile short track, and 49 total in his career. "The car is good today," said Hamlin. "We did a lot of really good things in practice. I was hoping to get somewhere in that top eight for qualifying, but ...Keep readingView the full article

Bell's only chance of advancing into the final round of the playoffs was in securing victory, and the Joe Gibbs Racing driver came in to pit for new tyres on the final caution, produced by Landon Cassill, and lined up sixth on the restart with 24 of 500 laps remaining. This gave him the opportunity to pick his way past the front five, and methodically ran down and passed leader Chase Briscoe ...Keep readingView the full article

The Playoff round of eight concluded at Martinsville with an unusual 168-lap green flag run following a spin by Michael McDowell. Playing it safe, Team Penske Ford driver Blaney and several other lead-lap cars waited to make their final pit stop well within their fuel window while Almirola (Stewart-Haas Ford) and Chase Elliott were among those who pitted earlier hoping for one or more ...Keep readingView the full article

There was definitely a different feel for NASCAR Cup Series drivers to chase in their return to Phoenix Raceway four months after the 2025 championship race. By the end of the day, Joey Logano secured the pole for Team Penske, but only after a brief afternoon of practice in which there were several tire failures and spins that included the driver chasing four straight wins to open the 2026 ...Keep readingView the full article

Bell, who advanced to the Championship 4 last season with a chance to win the series title at Phoenix, blew a brake rotor early in the race and never was in the fight. But this time around Joe Gibbs Racing driver Bell rallied to win Stage 2, then drove from 20th to first after the final pit stop and easily held off Chris Buescher (RFK Ford) by 5.465 seconds to earn his first win of ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlin is locked into the Championship 4 after a big win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and now his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe has done the same with a big win at Talladega Superspeedway, taking the lead on the final lap. The battle around the final two transfer spots will be wild. Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson have a large margin over the elimination zone, but there is just ...Keep readingView the full article

By every definition, Derek Kneeland is a racer. He is a racer when he climbs the ladder each week to serve as spotter for Kyle Busch and Austin Hill at Richard Childress Racing. He is a racer when he gets behind the wheel of a Pro Late Model several times a year as his schedule permits. And to wit, the 36-year-old will be a racer on Saturday, March 28 when he makes his ARCA East debut at ...Keep readingView the full article

Due to storms moving through the area, NASCAR was forced to cancel Cup Series qualifying at Talladega Superspeedway. As a result, championship leader Tyler Reddick will start from pole position with Kyle Larson joining him on the front row. This will be the fifth time in 2026 that the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota will start from pole, and the second due to a rainout (Atlanta). The field will be ...Keep readingView the full article

As Sunday’s race wound to a finish, Blaney and Harvick found themselves swapping pushes and the lead. With two of 188 laps remaining, Stewart-Haas driver Harvick – looking for his first win in his last full-time season – appeared to have control of the race but saw Blaney edge past him for the lead thanks to help from Riley Herbst. Blaney and Harvick raced side-by-side for virtually ...Keep readingView the full article

Last weekend, Carson Hocevar earned his first NASCAR Cup Series win at Talladega. A few days later, he led a Spire 1-2 to win Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas. And now, he just earned pole position for the Texas Cup race in another Spire 1-2, beating teammate Daniel Suarez by just 0.003s. This is the first time Spire Motorsports locked out the front row for a Cup Series ...Keep readingView the full article

The grid is set for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International. Defending winner Shane van Gisbergen earned pole position -- his first at the Glen but fifth at the Cup level. The impressive qualifying effort also comes on the Kiwi's 37th birthday! Spire Motorsports' Michael McDowell will start from the outside of the front row, a full 0.259s off of SVG's fast lap of ...Keep readingView the full article

Longtime NASCAR executive, and formerly Daytona International Speedway president, Chip Wile is taking over as Drivers’ Advisory Council executive director. Wile assumes the position previously held by Cup Series veteran Jeff Burton, who is remaining with the group as an advisor.  From the press release announcing the organizational structure for 2026, ‘the move is part of a broader effort ...Keep readingView the full article

At a Monster Jam event in Spokane, Washington, NASCAR driver Ryan Vargas was taking part for the very first time. He took the wheel of the famous monster truck, El Toro Loco, and you could say it went pretty well. Vargas scored seven points in the racing competition, the freestyle competition, and the two-wheels skills challenge. That was enough for him to secure the overall event victory on ...Keep readingView the full article

The return of The Chase for the Championship has immediately been pitched to NASCAR fans as a return to civility. This of course doesn’t mean a loss of intensity or consequence but those who were part of the announcement on Monday at NASCAR Productions believe that points racing will result in a product that is a little more professional. And in the process, everyone involved ultimately ...Keep readingView the full article