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Chandler Smith was running sixth entering Turn 3, but he ended the night holding the checkered flag. He didn’t benefit from a wreck, but instead made a dramatic four-wide pass for the lead as the field drag-raced to the finish line. He beat runner-up Gio Ruggiero to the line by 0.044s, and just 0.069s separated the entire top five in the end. John-Hunter Nemechek had the lead exiting the ...Keep readingView the full article

After Denny Hamlin's big win in the Dover All-Star Race, NASCAR heads home to Charlotte, North Carolina, for one of its most prestigious races on the calendar -- the 67th running of the Coca-Cola 600. In this guide, you can find all the information you need to be ready for 600 miles of racing in the heart of NASCAR: Charlotte Motor Speedway Track Specs and Origins Track Length: 1.5 ...Keep readingView the full article

Chase Briscoe could choose to believe that making the Cup Series final four in his first season with Joe Gibbs Racing was akin to playing with house money but he left Phoenix Raceway on Sunday far more disappointed than he imagined. “I mean, it was definitely a good first year, right,” said Briscoe on Tuesday ahead of the NASCAR Awards Show. “I texted our group chat and told them, ‘we ...Keep readingView the full article

In many ways, Chase Briscoe and crew chief James Small entered this season feeling as though they were racing for their careers and now they are going to Phoenix to race for the Cup Series championship.   On its face, that sounds kind of crazy because Small won eight times with Martin Truex Jr., including three races back in 2023. Briscoe signed a multi-year deal with Gibbs at the start of ...Keep readingView the full article

After a wildly chaotic Duel #1, things were far calmer in the second Duel qualifying race. Chase Elliott captured the checkered flag in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, followed by Carson Hocevar, Kyle Larson, Michael McDowell, and Christopher Bell. The two Hendrick and Spire cars up front worked closely together to control the finish, and none of them made a move on each other until ...Keep readingView the full article

Hendrick Motorsports now has two wins in the 2026 season, and both are courtesy of Chase Elliott. The driver of the No. 9 HMS Chevrolet now has 23 career wins, and his second Texas win in the last three years. He finished just ahead of Denny Hamlin in second and Alex Bowman in third. Tyler Reddick, who was charging with two fresh right-side tires, finished fourth, with Chris Buescher ...Keep readingView the full article

With just a few laps to go in Stage 1 at the famed superspeedway, a major incident unfolded at the front of the field. Following the first round of green-flag pit stops, AJ Allmendinger was in control of the race with Noah Gragson to his outside. Entering Turn 3, an awkward bump from Erik Jones sent Gragson into Allmendinger's door, before sending both cars careening into the outside ...Keep readingView the full article

At the end of a scheduled media availability on Saturday at Watkins Glen, Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott interjected as the press conference was being wrapped up, and requested some time to speak about the NASCAR Hall of Fame voting that is set to take place later this month. It wasn't in response to a question, but a deliberate statement he wanted to make in front of the assembled ...Keep readingView the full article

Chase Elliott was first voted NASCAR Cup's Most Popular Driver in 2018, and he has held that title ever since. He now won the National Motorsports Press Association award for the eighth consecutive year. His father Bill won the award 16 times between 1984 and 2002.  This is also the 35th consecutive year a member of the Earnhardt or Elliott family has won the fan-chosen award. Prior to the ...Keep readingView the full article

Chevrolet has unveiled its new body for the 2026 NASCAR Cup season. They have been utilizing the Camaro ZL1 since 2018, which succeeded the Chevy SS, and will continue to do so with an updated design for next season. In a release, Chevrolet explained that they wanted to align it with their recently released Camaro ZL1 Carbon Performance Package accessories kit. The changes include a larger hood ...Keep readingView the full article

There has been a constant theme over the past week as it pertains to the testimony of senior NASCAR officials under examination from 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports lead attorney Jeffrey Kessler. The official is asked a series of specific questions about their knowledge of something that should fall under their authority. The official then deflects with a ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I ...Keep readingView the full article

One day after being sued by Joe Gibbs Racing over an alleged 'brazen scheme' to steal data from the organization while negotiating his employment separation and a job opportunity with Spire Motorsports, Chris Gaebhart responded with a statement that suggests he intends to challenge his longtime employer in court. “Yesterday afternoon, Joe Gibbs Racing filed a lawsuit claiming - falsely - that ...Keep readingView the full article

Overall, Chris Gabehart, through his legal counsel, is objecting to the latest expedited discovery motions made to the court from former employer Joe Gibbs Racing but also says he is making efforts to recover the deleted texts with Spire co-owner Jeff Dickerson at the center of the latest legal wrangling. Big picture, the Gabehart legal team wants these latest series of motions denied because ...Keep readingView the full article

On Monday night, Joe Gibbs Racing submitted to the Western District of North Carolina photographs from over the weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway that accused Chris Gabehart of violating a temporary restraining order. Specifically, as part of the lawsuit from JGR that alleges a ‘brazen scheme’ from Gabehart to steal and potentially share proprietary information in violation of a non-compete ...Keep readingView the full article

Chris Gabehart said in a Wednesday legal filing that the lawsuit against him by former employer Joe Gibbs Racing isn’t about protecting trade secrets but instead ‘punishing a former employee for daring to leave.’ And while less seemingly less consequential on the merits of the lawsuit itself, Gabehart also revealed his reasons for leaving Joe Gibbs Racing in the first place by citing a ...Keep readingView the full article

In a late Wednesday night series of court filings, Chris Gabehart and his retained attorneys responded to or otherwise addressed the continued legal claims made against him and Spire Motorsports by Joe Gibbs Racing. The first document filed to the docket was a second first-person declaration in which the former engineer, crew chief and competition director made the case that his role as Chief ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlin returned from a tumultuous off-season by scoring an eventful top-5 in the Cookout Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium on Wednesday night. Like much of the field, it wasn’t pretty, and Hamlin survived the chaos better than his peers more than anything else, but it was a top-5. He did it in his first race this season in which he will have to start nursing a re-injured surgically repaired ...Keep readingView the full article

Following their championship race clinching victory earlier in the month at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Denny Hamlin detailed a conversation he had with team owner Joe Gibbs over the eventual decision to pair him with crew chief Chris Gayle. Hamlin said, and this is in the aftermath of then crew chief Chris Gabehart being elevated to competition director, that he has roughly 24 hours to agree to ...Keep readingView the full article

Immediately after the race, Christian Eckes could not have been any more contrite about the incident that ended the race at Bristol for Corey Heim and his chance at a $500,000 Triple Truck Challenge sweep. “That sucked for sure,” Eckes said. “They deserved a half million bucks and I took that away from them. Obviously, it wasn’t intentional to spin (him out) or even hit him. I was just ...Keep readingView the full article

Christian Eckes, 25, will compete full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series in 2026, reuniting with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing (MHR) after a year apart.  Eckes drove for McAnally-Hilgemann in both 2023 and 2024, but moved up to the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2025 with Kaulig Racing. Eckes ended the year 13th in the championship standings with six top fives and 15 top tens, but next year will see him ...Keep readingView the full article

Seven NASCAR Cup drivers entered Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway, so it's no surprise one of the sport's top drivers captured the win. Driving for Halmar-Friesen Racing, Christopher Bell won after taking and extending his lead on a late-race restart. "Oh man, that was just so awesome to be able to win a truck race," said Bell. "It’s been since 2017 I ...Keep readingView the full article

It's a Toyota lockout of the first two rows with Joe Gibbs Racing 1-2-3 in Las Vegas NASCAR Cup qualifying. Christopher Bell rocketed to the top of the charts and was the only driver to break into the 28-second bracket. Four of Bell's 15 career poles have happened in Vegas, with the other three taking place in 2022 (first career pole in the Cup Series), 2023, and 2024. "Our Interstate ...Keep readingView the full article

Christopher Bell started Sunday's race in seventh place, and after the first pit stop cycle, he found himself in position to challenge for the race lead. Battling his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, he took the lad and led several laps. As he encountered heavier lapped traffic in the final 15 laps of the stage, Denny Hamlin got back alongside him and they battled back-and-forth. While those two ...Keep readingView the full article

The Cookout Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, originally scheduled for this weekend, and then postponed to Monday is now scheduled to take place on Wednesday night. A truly historic snowstorm affected the vast majority of North Carolina on Saturday and state resources are required for clean-up before anything can be devoted to the NASCAR Cup Series preseason exhibition event. While most of the ...Keep readingView the full article

Cleetus McFarland does want to race in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series race on April 25 at Talladega Superspeedway and says he will find out on Tuesday if he did enough over the weekend at Rockingham Speedway to be approved. He spoke to the topic on Monday in his Bald Eagles podcast. “Now we’ve got to wait for an approval for Talladega which will come (Tuesday) whether we’re approved or ...Keep readingView the full article