NASCAR suspended team owner Chip Ganassi for a violation of COVID-19 protocols at Daytona International Speedway last weekend. He also was fined $30,000. NASCAR said Ganassi, 62, was penalized for allowing a “non-essential individual” into a restricted area. Pending an appeal, Ganassi will serve his suspension this upcoming weekend at the NASCAR Cup Series event…… MORE

Michael McDowell always goes into a NASCAR Cup Series road course event feeling confident and prepared to win. For the first time in his career — he’ll bring a huge trophy with him. McDowell earned his first NASCAR Cup Series victory in the Daytona 500 last weekend and the road course specialist arrives for Sunday’s…… MORE

Michael McDowell emerged from an ugly final-lap wreck to take the lead and went on to win Sunday’s weather and crash delayed running of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. The victory was McDowell’s first in the NASCAR Cup Series in 357 starts. The Front Row Motorsports driver was running third behind Team Penske…… MORE

The final two practice sessions for the season-opening Daytona 500 were washed out by rain on Saturday. Polesitter Alex Bowman was among the drivers who were looking to troubleshoot on Saturday, one day before NASCAR’s most prominent race. Bowman wasn’t able to get a lap in around the 2 1/2-mile track at Daytona International Speedway…… MORE

Florida native Aric Almirola drove to a convincing victory in the opening Bluegreen Vacations Duel at Daytona’s qualifying race Thursday night at Daytona International Speedway. Almirola’s No. 10 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford led a dominating 52 of the 60 laps and held off Christopher Bell’s No 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota by a mere .041-seconds for…… MORE

Alex Bowman swapped car numbers for the 2021 season — from 88 to 48 — but has certainly retained his Daytona magic, earning the pole position for Sunday’s Daytona 500 (2:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). The qualifying result gives the Hendrick Motorsports driver a record fourth consecutive front-row start in…… MORE

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch may carry the nickname “Rowdy” but it was a couple of his competitors acting that way that allowed him to move into the lead out of the final turn and earn his second career Busch Clash victory Tuesday night. Busch’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs…… MORE

Richard Childress Racing and BetMGM announced the first sponsorship between a NASCAR team and a sports betting operator on Wednesday. While numerous sportsbook sponsorship deals have been struck in team sports across the United States, this marked the first in NASCAR. Financial terms of the one-year deal were not disclosed. BetMGM has signed on for…… MORE

The eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series will return in 2021 with a 10-race schedule. Started last spring to fill the void left by the pause in racing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the iRacing event proved so popular that NASCAR announced Tuesday that it will be making an encore. “The success of our eNASCAR iRacing Pro…… MORE

Austrin Cindric, looking to make his NASCAR Cup Series debut, will attempt to qualify for the Daytona 500 under the Team Penske banner. Cindric, a 22-year-old Ohio native, captured the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship. He earned five wins in a six-race stretch at midseason, then captured the season-ending event at Phoenix. He will compete…… MORE

NASCAR officially lined up a 2021 race schedule that includes a full February in Florida, along with the elimination of the regular early-season stop in California. The NASCAR Cup Series officially will begin with the Feb. 14 Daytona 500, while the circuit stays put for another week to contest a Feb. 21 race on the…… MORE

Chase Elliott has spent the last several years being known primarily as NASCAR’s most popular driver and the son of “Million Dollar” Bill Elliott. But late on Sunday afternoon, the 24-year-old Elliott became known as something much better — the Cup Series’ 2020 champion. Elliott passed fellow Championship 4 driver Joey Logano for the lead…… MORE

Team Penske owner Roger Penske has two drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4 race for the first time. Both drivers are former Cup champions. Brad Keselowski won his title in 2012 under the 10-race Chase format. Joey Logano won the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway to secure the 2018 championship. So how does…… MORE

The much-anticipated NASCAR Cup Series Season Finale 500 takes place Sunday (3 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Phoenix Raceway with a relatively new look but highly motivated Championship 4 group of drivers. Only Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin was championship eligible a year ago, and this Sunday he will contend…… MORE

23XI Racing, the new NASCAR team co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, announced a technical partnership Thursday with Hamlin’s longtime team, Joe Gibbs Racing. Bubba Wallace will drive the No. 23 car, which will be a Toyota Camry when it debuts for the start of the 2021 season. The team also announced that Mike…… MORE

NASCAR Cup Series Race — 16th Annual Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas Sunday, October 25, 2020 1. (9) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 334. 2. (6) Martin Truex Jr. (P), Toyota, 334. 3. (15) Christopher Bell #, Toyota, 334. 4. (10) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 334. 5. (5) Alex Bowman (P), Chevrolet, 334.…… MORE

Kyle Larson will drive the historic No. 5 car for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Cup Series next season. The team’s announcement Wednesday comes just nine days after NASCAR said Larson would be reinstated from suspension on Jan. 1. He was disciplined by the governing body and fired by Chip Ganassi Racing after he uttered…… MORE

Wet weather continued in Fort Worth on Monday, forcing NASCAR to again move back the conclusion of the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Officials will make another attempt at finishing the race on Tuesday. The hopeful starting time is 12 p.m. Eastern and it will be televised on NBCSN.…… MORE

Martin Truex Jr. was sent to the rear of the field ahead of Sunday’s race in Texas after NASCAR officials confiscated the spoiler from his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Two other vehicles — the No. 49 of Chad Finchum and No. 96 of Daniel Suarez — also failed prerace inspections and were moved…… MORE