Corey LaJoie is an unlikely wild card heading into Sunday’s Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway. While he’s a very respectable 19th in the Cup Series standings with the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, LaJoie is a sudden popular choice to be running toward the front on Sunday. That’s because he will be…… MORE

NASCAR handed down heavy punishment to the Stewart-Haas Racing Team on Wednesday over a “counterfeit part” found on the No. 14 car after Monday’s Coca-Cola 600, leading to hefty fines, points reductions and the banishment of the team’s crew chief for the next six races. The SHR team was docked 120 points — in both…… MORE

Team Penske driver Ryan Blaney broke a 59-race winless streak with a victory in the 64th annual Coca-Cola 600 on Monday at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. After Kyle Larson spun on Lap 375 of the 400-lap event, Blaney’s No. 12 Ford started beside polesitter William Byron for the seventh time on the front…… MORE

NASCAR Cup Series driver Alex Bowman will return for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 after missing four weeks with a fractured vertebra. Bowman, 30, sustained the injury during a sprint car race at a dirt track in West Burlington, Iowa, on April 25. “I’m excited to get back into the car,” the Hendrick Motorsports driver told the…… MORE

Josh Berry advanced to Sunday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina by winning the circuit’s All-Star Open earlier in the evening. With 23 laps to go, Berry took the lead from Ty Gibbs, who also advanced to the All-Star Race by finishing second. In his No. 48 Chevrolet, Berry got…… MORE

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — William Byron planned to go to a hockey game. He wasn’t prepared for a marathon. An ardent Carolina Hurricanes fan, Byron traveled to Raleigh by helicopter — courtesy of team owner Rick Hendrick — to watch the ‘Canes play the Florida Panthers in Thursday night’s opener of the NHL’s Eastern Conference…… MORE

It’s fitting that North Wilkesboro Speedway was the chosen venue for the 2023 NASCAR All-Star Race as the sport celebrates its 75th anniversary. The track last held the event 27 years ago, with Jeff Gordon taking the checkered flag. After moving to Texas and New Hampshire, it returns to North Wilkesboro’s .625-mile short track for…… MORE

Just in case you’ve lost count, there are now two Phoenix Raceways. One, of course, sits proudly in the Sonoran Desert as the final leg of NASCAR’s West Coast Swing and the host site for the season-ending Championship 4 race. The other “Phoenix” harkens to the immortal mythological bird that rises from the ashes of…… MORE

Denny Hamlin is coming off his first victory of the season last weekend, and on Sunday he will attempt to become the first driver to win consecutive races at Darlington since Greg Biffle in 2005-06. The 1.366-mile oval at Darlington Raceway is the venue for Sunday’s Goodyear 400. “It’s a tough track mentally and physically,”…… MORE

Denny Hamlin stormed around Kansas Speedway in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, clipped leader Kyle Larson on the last lap and won Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 NASCAR Cup Series race in Kansas City, Kan. On the hottest race day of the season — 89 degrees — Larson tried to close out his third win of the…… MORE

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Racing in the Indianapolis 500 has long been a dream of Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson. Earlier this week, Larson took the first concrete step toward making that dream a reality. On a visit to the Arrow McLaren race shop in Indianapolis, Larson was fitted for the seat he will occupy…… MORE

Kansas Speedway featured six winners in the past six races at the 1.5-mile track. That includes Kurt Busch, last year’s winner of the AdventHealth 400 who will be in the FS1 broadcast booth for Sunday’s race. Bubba Wallace was the most recent to visit Victory Lane in Kansas in the fall race, filling in for…… MORE

The anticipation for the door-to-door competition expected for the Wurth 400 was drawn out to Monday due to rain, but the event at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway always makes for high-intesity racing. The Monster Mile’s one-mile concrete surface is a stark contrast to last week’s 2.6-mile track at Talladega Superspeedway. Kyle Busch, who won last…… MORE

NASCAR driver Alex Bowman will be out 3-4 weeks after sustaining a fractured vertebra in a sprint-car crash. He was treated for a compression fracture following an accident Tuesday night at 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, Hendrick Motorsports announced Wednesday. “First, I want to let everyone know I’m feeling OK,” Bowman posted on social…… MORE

There are few places on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule that raise the pulse of both driver and fan like the Talladega Superspeedway. There are 11 former winners in the field for Sunday’s GEICO 500, from six-time Talladega winner Brad Keselowski — whose win tally is second only to the late 10-time Talladega master Dale…… MORE

Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson passed Joey Logano with 29 laps remaining to win Sunday afternoon’s NOCO 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. Larson, who took two tires on the fifth caution period with 55 laps to go, restarted fifth with Logano — who stayed out on older tires — at…… MORE

Chase Elliott says a broken leg will not prompt him to quit snowboarding or discourage him from participating in other off-track activities. Elliott is slated to returning to NASCAR racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia when he will drive the Hendrick Motorsports No. 9 Chevrolet for Sunday’s NOCO 400. Elliott, 27, has been…… MORE

Chase Elliott will be back in the No. 9 Chevrolet for Sunday’s Noco 400 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia just six weeks after sustaining a fractured tibia during a snowboarding incident in Colorado. Elliott, 27, was medically cleared Tuesday and then was tested Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning in the Driver-in-the-Loop simulator in Concord, N.C.,…… MORE

Christopher Bell pulled away from fellow Toyota driver Tyler Reddick in an eight-lap shootout and won under caution Sunday night, claiming the Food City Dirt Race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. In his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Camry, the 28-year-old Bell notched his first victory of 2023 and fifth in 116 starts.…… MORE

NASCAR returns to the dirt track at Bristol Motor Speedway for the third consecutive year, but will this finally be the one where a “dirt driver” finds his way to Victory Lane? When NASCAR announced that a dirt race at Thunder Valley would be part of the 2021 schedule, the natural assumption was that drivers…… MORE

NASCAR penalized two Hendrick Motorsports teams — the No. 24 of William Byron and the No. 48 of Alex Bowman — on Thursday after their cars failed inspections following Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway. Both drivers were docked 60 driver points and five playoff points, and both teams were stripped of…… MORE

Owners of NASCAR Cup Series teams boycotted their scheduled meeting with NASCAR officials over revenues, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. The two sides are in a dispute over how to divide revenue from the organization’s next television contract, which soon will be up for renegotiation. The current pact with FOX Sports and NBC expires following the…… MORE

Kyle Larson won the final race off pit road, held on over two restarts and scored his first 2023 victory in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. In the first of three straight weeks of short-track racing in the NASCAR Cup Series, Larson and the field pitted with 25 laps…… MORE

Tyler Reddick passed William Byron with five laps go, withstood a charge by Kyle Busch in three NASCAR overtimes, and won Sunday’s EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix road course race in Austin, Texas. After passing Byron’s No. 24 Chevrolet in Turn 11 with five circuits remaining, Reddick’s No. 45 Toyota led the field and beat Busch’s…… MORE

Joey Logano passed Brad Keselowski on the final lap Sunday afternoon as Ford broke Chevrolet’s hot start to 2023 and the reigning series champion won the Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga. Following a pair of separate crashes up front that brought out cautions for Kevin Harvick and Kyle Larson, Keselowski…… MORE