Chase Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet failed pre-race inspection twice and was moved to the rear of the field for Sunday’s championship race at Phoenix. The Hendrick Motorsports driver is part of the Championship 4, competing with Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin at the NASCAR Cup Series Season Finale 500 at Phoenix Raceway. He…… MORE

Chase Elliott may have the momentum going into the weekend thanks to his 11th-hour victory at Martinsville Speedway, but Joey Logano considers himself the favorite to win a second NASCAR Cup Series title in Sunday’s Season Finale 500 at Phoenix Raceway (3 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Logano’s confidence is founded…… MORE

Chase Elliott began Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway in a bit of trouble. He was 25 points below the cutline in the battle for a spot in next weekend’s Championship 4 race and he was riding a 0-for-20 career streak at short tracks. But none of that mattered as the massively popular…… MORE

The 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4 will be decided by Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway (2 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) and expectations are high that positions in this championship foursome are still very much up for grabs. Team Penske’s Joey Logano is the only driver locked in…… MORE

With hopes to win a second-straight NASCAR Cup Series championship scuttled by a poor finish at Charlotte two-plus weeks ago, Kyle Busch still had something to race for in the final races of 2020 — prolonging his streak of consecutive seasons with a race win. On Wednesday evening, Busch secured his goal as he won…… MORE

For the third day in a row, NASCAR was forced to move back the resumption of the Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway another day in Fort Worth. With ongoing unfavorable weather conditions and continued precipitation, NASCAR rescheduled the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 until Wednesday. The start is now scheduled for 3 p.m. ET…… MORE

A bizarre mist descended on Sunday’s Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway and just wouldn’t leave. As a result, NASCAR stopped the race with just over 50 laps completed. The red flag waved until 8:45 p.m. ET at which point it was announced that the race would be postponed…… MORE

Success tends to breed success in NASCAR Cup Series Playoff races at Texas Motor Speedway. From 2012 through 2015, seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson dominated the fall race at the 1.5-mile track, winning four straight Playoff events there. Kevin Harvick has a chance to duplicate that feat in Sunday’s Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 (3:30 p.m. ET…… MORE

Richard Petty Motorsports hired Erik Jones on Wednesday to replace Bubba Wallace in the iconic No. 43 Chevrolet for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season. Jones, 24, spent the past three Cup seasons with Joe Gibbs Racing, who announced in August he would not return to the No. 20 Toyota in 2021. “It is an…… MORE

Kyle Larson, suspended by NASCAR in April for the use of a racial slur, will be permitted to resume competing on Jan. 1, the sanctioning body announced Monday. Larson was participating in an iRacing video-game event on April 12 when he said the N-word during a live stream. NASCAR suspended him from competition the next…… MORE

Driver Kyle Larson said in a television interview that he has “definitely grown more in these last six months than the 28 years I’ve been alive” — the time since he uttered a racist slur that got him suspended from NASCAR and fired from his racing team. Larson used the word in a livestream broadcast…… MORE

Clint Bowyer is leaving the driver’s seat for the announcer’s booth. The 41-year-old driver announced Thursday that he will retire from the NASCAR Cup Series at the end of the current season, and he will join FOX’s announcing team next year. Bowyer tweeted, “Just like my driving career, I will be part of a great…… MORE

The NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021 won’t be inducted until 2022. The Hall of Fame announced Thursday that it is postponing the induction ceremony, originally set for Feb. 5, 2021, because of uncertainties regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Red Farmer, the late Mike Stefanik and Landmark Award winner Ralph Seagraves make…… MORE

Nearly six months after NASCAR suspended him indefinitely for using a racial slur, former Chip Ganassi Racing star Kyle Larson on Sunday posted a lengthy open letter on his website, detailing the steps he has taken in the months since and shedding light on the effect the incident has had on people in his life.…… MORE

With 17 laps to go in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, Denny Hamlin was the last car on the lead lap. When the caution-filled YellaWood 500 finally ended in triple overtime, Hamlin was out front. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver used a stay-out-of-trouble strategy by riding well back in the field to…… MORE

NASCAR Cup Series Race — 3rd Annual South Point 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nevada Sunday, September 27, 2020 1. (9) Kurt Busch (P), Chevrolet, 268. 2. (19) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 268. 3. (10) Denny Hamlin (P), Toyota, 268. 4. (11) Martin Truex Jr. (P), Toyota, 268. 5. (8) Alex Bowman (P), Chevrolet,…… MORE

NASCAR’s Hendrick Motorsports was fined $100,000 on Thursday after self-reporting itself on excessive wind-tunnel testing time. Teams were allocated 150 hours of wind-tunnel testing time for Gen-6 vehicles to use in 2020 and 2021. It was split up into a maximum 70 hours for this year and a maximum 90 hours for next year. While…… MORE

The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday blamed pilots for the 2019 place crash that injured Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife and their then-1-year-old daughter. That was part of the finding contained in the NTSB’s final report on the crash, which occurred Aug. 15, 2019, at Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee. The NTSB released the…… MORE

Ross Chastain will drive the No. 42 Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series beginning next season. He will replace Matt Kenseth, who took over behind the wheel in May when Kyle Larson was fired for using a racial slur during an iRacing event. Chastain currently drives for Kaulig Racing on…… MORE

In many ways last week’s NASCAR Cup Series Playoff opener was reflective of the season-long championship stakes — Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. fielded strong Toyotas and led a lot of laps. Ultimately, regular season champion Kevin Harvick held off the field for a series-best eighth trophy and an automatic…… MORE

Kevin Harvick has won a lot of races by being just plain good. On Saturday night, he got a victory by being a little bit lucky. The Stewart-Haas driver was running third and well off the lead in the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway as the laps wound down to a finish. But…… MORE

NASCAR Cup Series Race — 62nd Annual Coke Zero Sugar 400 Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida Saturday, August 29, 2020 1. (6) William Byron, Chevrolet, 164. 2. (27) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 164. 3. (10) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 164. 4. (2) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 164. 5. (21) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 164. 6. (9) Ryan…… MORE

NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace wants you to know two things going into weekend. First, while many other sports have paused in protest of a Black man shot in Wisconsin on Sunday, Wallace says NASCAR will race on. Second, referring to himself and the other drivers, “We will continue to stand for the countless…… MORE

A day after he could only watch as Denny Hamlin tied him for most race victories in the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series, Kevin Harvick rebounded and collected win No. 7 Sunday — and did it in dominating fashion. The victory clinched the regular season points championship for Harvick with still one more race to go…… MORE

The Nashville Superspeedway named Erik Moses its president, the first Black person to lead a NASCAR track. Dover Motorsports, Inc., owner of the track, announced his hiring on Saturday. One of Moses’ first duties will be to oversee the reopening of the Superspeedway, which closed in 2011 and is scheduled to host a NASCAR Cup…… MORE