Kevin Harvick started from the pole in Sunday’s (March 7) Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. By the competition caution, he was sitting outside the top 10 and stumbled to a 20th-place finish, one lap off the pace. Is it time for 2020’s nine-race winner to be a little nervous about his sluggish start …
Read moreStock Car Scoop: Should Kevin Harvick Have Reason to Worry?
Kyle Larson did nothing short of dominate Sunday’s (March 7) Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, cruising to his seventh career victory and first as a member of the Hendrick Motorsports team. Larson led 103 laps en route to the win, bringing the No. 5 back to victory lane for the first time since …
Read moreKyle Larson Dominates Las Vegas, Wins in 4th Start with Hendrick
AJ Allmendinger’s car came to life late in the Alsco Uniforms 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday (March 6). The longtime racer’s No. 16 got by Daniel Hemric on a late-race restart, passing the driver who had been out front for most of the race and setting sail en route to the win. The …
Read moreAJ Allmendinger Claims 6th Xfinity Win at Las Vegas
NASCAR didn’t have three first-time winners in its first three Cup races for 2021… but it came close at Homestead-Miami Speedway. William Byron won just his second Cup race ever Sunday (Feb. 28), his first with new crew chief Rudy Fugle just three races into their new partnership. Why has Fugle made such an impact …
Read moreStock Car Scoop: The NASCAR Fallout From Noah Gragson and David Starr at Homestead
Late-race dominance paid off for William Byron. Despite struggling early and starting 31st, Byron led 102 laps en route to winning Sunday’s (Feb. 28) Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The triumph was Byron’s second win, having already scored his maiden victory in the 2020 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway last August. 🙌 …
Read moreWilliam Byron Dominates Late at Homestead for 2nd Career Cup Win
For the second week in a row, the NASCAR Xfinity Series had a first-time winner… and for the third straight week, a race in one of the sport’s three series was won by a first-timer. Myatt Snider won a chaotic, drama-filled Contender Boats 250 on Saturday (Feb. 27) afternoon, scoring his first career win after …
Read moreMyatt Snider Scores 1st Xfinity Win in Wild Homestead Race
In 2019, the documentary Blink of an Eye premiered via Fathom Events in theaters around the country. Chronicling the career of Michael Waltrip and the fateful events of the 2001 Daytona 500, the one-night-only Sept. 12 showing gave way to a widespread release on streaming. Waltrip’s 0-for-462 winless streak in the NASCAR Cup Series came to …
Read moreReel Racing: A Conversation with Michael Waltrip on 2019’s ‘Blink of an Eye’
Does the NASCAR Cup Series schedule feature too many road courses? What is the ideal number? Luken Glover: Yes. Road courses can present great racing, but there are a lot of times when they are uneventful races too. Sometimes they can be wreckfests, like we saw in all three series in some capacity at the …
As the laps wound down Sunday (Feb. 21), Chase Elliott was in position to win his fifth consecutive road course race at Daytona International Speedway. That’s until both rain and late-race carnage came to the track, flipping around a dominant performance on this road course into a disastrous ending in mere minutes. Why did Elliott …
Read moreStock Car Scoop: Who Does Chase Elliott Have To Blame For Losing Daytona?
It took until the final pair of laps, but Christopher Bell made it back-to-back first-time winners to kick off the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season. Bell passed Joey Logano in the waning laps of Sunday afternoon’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 253 at the Daytona International Speedway road course, chasing down the No. 22 and cruising to …
Read moreChristopher Bell Uses Late Charge to Win Daytona in 1st Cup Victory
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