The Headline(s): Martin Truex Jr. weathered two strong challenges in the closing 25 laps of Saturday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway, holding off both Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano to score his first career Cup win on a short track, first Cup win of 2019, 20th career Cup win, …
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Sunday proved a redemption song for Venturini Motorsports driver Michael Self, who scored the win in the rain-shortened Kentuckiana Ford Dealers 200 at Salem Speedway. Man our No. 25 @SinclairOilCorp Toyota was UNBELIEVABLE today!! All thanks to these two guys, @KevinReed2013, and everyone at @VenturiniMotor. The cars I get to …
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The Headline(s): Though far from a dominant performance, Kyle Busch stayed out on old tires, capitalized on a cluster of a restart and drove away from brother Kurt Busch to score the 2019 Food City 500 win. It was Busch’s third Cup victory of 2019, 54th of his career and …
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Despite having a car that was tops in just about every average speed metric during practice on Saturday, Kevin Harvick‘s race at Bristol may have ended long before the green flag drops. Harvick’s No. 4 car took four attempts to finally clear tech inspection Sunday (April 7), and as a …
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Darrell Waltrip’s 2019 retirement press conference at Bristol Motor Speedway was, in every way, a conundrum. If there’s been one word to describe what the NASCAR season has been to this point, conundrum is the word. Such was the case with Friday’s (April 5) official announcement that Jaws, a fixture …
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Michael Annett winning at Daytona, after going winless in nearly 230 career Xfinity Series starts, to begin 2019 was an accomplishment. But what’s been an even more impressive accomplishment thus far? Scoring three more top 10s in the six races since, sitting fourth in points and a prime contender to …
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Friday’s Food City 500 qualifying session ended with as loud an ovation as can be expected from the smattering of fans in the gargantuan stadium, as Chase Elliott bested Ryan Blaney‘s fast lap from practice to win his fifth career Cup Series pole. Elliott will start alongside Hendrick Motorsports teammate …
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Moving back to the bullrings did nothing to slow the dominant Penske and Joe Gibbs Racing teams at Bristol, with Ryan Blaney topping the first practice session Friday afternoon. Penske/Gibbs drivers Joey Logano, Erik Jones, Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski each finished second, third, fifth and sixth on the practice …
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The Headline(s): Denny Hamlin overcame a characteristic pair of pit road penalties and missing a pit road approach under green with a stellar late-race pit stop. That got him out front, where he beat Clint Bowyer by more than two seconds. Hamlin scored his second win of 2019 and the …
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With the release of the 2020 schedule, which NASCAR track change will be the most well received by fans and which will likely be viewed as the biggest mistake? Zach Gillispie: Honestly, I think the move to ISM Raceway for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship race is great. …
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