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Later today, four drivers will battle it out for 312 laps around Phoenix Raceway for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship. Pole-sitter Denny Hamlin chases an elusive crown after two decades while Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe attempts to win it in his first Championship 4 appearance. Hendrick Motorsports seeks to add to their incredible legacy with a 15th title with former champion ...Keep readingView the full article

One of the greatest race car drivers in Ford Performance history, three-time champion Joey Logano has a deep appreciation for the history of the Blue Oval marque and it shows in the form of his 1924 Model T. Logano has called it ‘my favorite car in my collection’ and ‘the most challenging car to drive,’ but loves it because ‘it is what made Ford, Ford,’ and thus a prize in his ...Keep readingView the full article

With packed grandstands, a strong crosswind due to weather rolling in, NASCAR made an emotional full-throttle tribute to Dale Earnhardt in the opening laps of the 2026 Daytona 500.  On lap three, after the cars had gotten up to speed, most of the people inside the 2.5 mile superspeedway held three fingers up in reference to Earnhardt’s iconic No. 3. As the field flew past the main ...Keep readingView the full article

On Saturday morning, the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series cars were set to go out on track for practice at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. However, it was a safety truck driver that ended up stealing the show with quite the save. Exiting the infield access road to the frontstretch, the safety truck started to spin sideways, with the driver quickly trying to recover it. However, it overcorrected ...Keep readingView the full article

Sam Mayer started Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race from pole position, but fell back after a flat tire forced him onto pit road. He rallied back to finish seventh with a fairly clean car, but it didn't stay that way. Mayer's Haas teammate Sheldon Creed was victorious for the very first time in his 138th career start, and so he decided to go and congratulate him.  After ...Keep readingView the full article

While the battle for the lead captivated viewers, few eyeballs (and almost no cameras) were fixated on the very back of the field near the end of Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. But suddenly, three trucks nowhere near the front of the suffered significant damage after a major crash on the frontstretch. The race was red-flagged, and TV cameras only caught part of the story, but ...Keep readingView the full article

It might be a moot point with the forecasted temperature on Sunday for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol, but Goodyear has created a tire that intends to lay down rubber no matter what, even if temperatures are cold. Two of the past four races at The Last Great Coliseum have featured extreme tire wear due to the track surface failing to take rubber. As a result, it just shredded tires and ...Keep readingView the full article

On the second day of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsport versus NASCAR antitrust case trial, the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of the Sanctioning Body was called to the witness stand. It was a frequently uncomfortable afternoon for Scott Prime, who was called upon to explain what appeared to be internal strife within NASCAR leadership over the charter terms CEO Jim ...Keep readingView the full article

The 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit trial began in earnest on Monday and included jury selection, opening statements by both parties and the partial testimony of the first witness. Denny Hamlin. Between the partial testimony of the co-owner of 23XI, which was conducted by Jeanifer Parsigian, a partner at Winston & Strawn, and the opening statement delivered ...Keep readingView the full article

Even as recently as 2025, championships have been won and lost on pit road in NASCAR. In this simplified guide, new fans can find all the information they need regarding how pit stops work, and how easily they can go wrong. With the Next Gen car that is currently used at the Cup level, it takes around 8-12 seconds for the top Cup Series teams to complete a stop. Options on pit road ...Keep readingView the full article

There were a handful of cool suit system failures in the NASCAR Cup race at the Circuit of the Americas and while many might want to place the blame on faulty hardware the root cause is actually a bit more complex and often due to team choices for performance. A cool suit system typically consists of a small box that is a miniaturized air conditioning unit which has an input and output for a ...Keep readingView the full article

Scott Woodruff doesn’t have a title at the nascent International Hot Rod Association but if you have to call him something, ‘Woody’ probably wouldn’t balk at ‘director of fun’ because that is generally the mandate Darryl Cuttell has provided him. For over two decades, he was the brand and media manager at JEGS Performance, just as a point of reference. However, he preferred the ...Keep readingView the full article

When it comes to the YouTuber known as Cleetus McFarland making his NASCAR O’Reilly Series debut this weekend at Rockingham Speedway, future NASCAR Hall of Famer Rodney Childers articulated the benefits and potential concerns as well as anyone. “We need the publicity and we need the personalities,” Childers told Motorsport.com on Friday morning. “You know, we have a lot of drivers these ...Keep readingView the full article

Hailie Deegan is probably more important to NASCAR racing than it realises. Since Danica Patrick retired from competition, Deegan has emerged as the most likely successor to her standing as the leading lady of stock car competition in America. But this week Deegan’s hype train hit the buffers, as at the age of 24, her Xfinity Series team pulled her from its No. 15 Ford Mustang and left her at a ...Keep readingView the full article

At the launch of its all-electric concept car, NASCAR was at pains to state that it likely wouldn’t ever be its Cup Series platform or race in the Daytona 500. So why build it then? For a series that prides itself in being faithful to its roots, and being the oldest of schools when it comes to racing, the multi-billion dollar sanctioning body has been flexing its muscles recently when it ...Keep readingView the full article

"This is anyone's race now." Jeff Gordon said itKyle Larson said it We all know it. With William Byron outdueling Ryan Blaney, and Joey Logano ultimately being a non-factor in the finish on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, there is not a single Team Penske driver in the Cup Series Final Four. And given that they have swept the championships in the NextGen era, and in pretty commanding ...Keep readingView the full article

In 2026, the grueling NASCAR Cup Series schedule will be punctuated by just two off-weekends. However, both the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) and NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS) will be racing on Easter weekend at the historic Rockingham Speedway. They will be joined by the ARCA Menards East Series. The track has a tumultuous recent past, going dark for several years and ...Keep readingView the full article

Weather-permitting, NASCAR will hold the Cookout Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium on Sunday, February 1st. For those who may be unfamiliar with this event's purpose on the schedule, 'The Clash' is a pre-season exhibition race that has been a part of the NASCAR calendar since 1979. Originally developed as a 20-lap sprint race at Daytona International Speedway and only featuring pole winners from the ...Keep readingView the full article

The Watkins Glen weekend was full of highs and lows for 19-year-old Connor Zilisch. After leading the most laps in Friday's Truck race, he lost out to Kaden Honeycutt in overtime. However, he won Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly race with a dramatic pass on Jesse Love in the final corner of the final lap. And then there's the Cup race. Zilisch entered the Glen outside the top 30 in points, and still ...Keep readingView the full article

12 months ago at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Josh Berry wheeled the historic #21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford into Victory Lane and became the 206th different winner in NASCAR Cup Series history. It was a surprise win with Berry leading just 18 laps, and since then, no other driver has added their name to the NASCAR Cup Series winners list. Before Berry, Harrison Burton won for the first time in ...Keep readingView the full article

Looking at the NASCAR Cup Series grid, there are eleven multi-car teams with sizes ranging from two to four cars. But which driver from each can claim to be the best? Motorsport.com considered race wins, average finish, head-to-head weekly battles, and the final championship result of each of the team's full-time drivers in deciding who was the 'No. 1 driver' within each organization. Part-time ...Keep readingView the full article

During the hour-long practice session in Phoenix, the issues began when championship contender Chase Briscoe lost a left rear within five minutes of the start of the session. It was the first of many, and those failures are likely not an anomaly but a result of teams being aggressive with suspension adjustments and tire pressures. Phoenix Raceway is a unique type of oval because it is ...Keep readingView the full article

Who knew that Tom Cruise would have such an impact on a nine-year old Jenson Button? Little did we know that the kid from Frome in Somerset, who was just beginning to tear up the kart tracks of the UK and then onwards to Formula 1 stardom, was so in awe of Cole Trickle and his somewhat unorthodox journey to winning a fictitious version of the Daytona 500 for Harry Hogge… “Where I grew up we ...Keep readingView the full article

Roughly a year ago right now, Stewart Friesen was fed-up with racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and threatened to leave it in a knee-jerk reactive fit.  It was a really bad day. Now, the organization he co-owns with Chris Larsen won a race at Bristol Motor Speedway with his personal favorite race car driver behind the wheel and the excitement was palpable. This is ...Keep readingView the full article

You have to separate Cleetus McFarland from Garrett Mitchell to see it sometimes but whatever name you call him is a deeply motivated albeit very inexperienced high-level racer with incredibly large ambition. But literally everyone who has worked with Cleetus says the 30-year-old has the resolve needed to successfully navigate his way towards the Daytona 500. This includes everyone at Richard ...Keep readingView the full article