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

NASCAR CUP SERIES: DRYDENE 311s (311 laps, 311 miles around a 1-mile D-shaped oval), Dover International Speedway; Dover, Del. TV: Saturday and Sunday, 4 p.m. ET (Green flags approx. 4:16 p.m. ET) — NBCSN (Radio: Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90). THIS WEEK: The series has run 23 events, with Chase Elliott winning…… MORE

Austin Dillon tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday morning and will miss Sunday’s road race at Daytona due to self-quarantine. The Richard Childress Racing driver will be replaced by Kaz Grala in the No. 3 Chevrolet. Grala, 21, will be making his Cup Series debut. Dillon, 30, took the test after experiencing mild symptoms, the…… MORE

The names read like a list of motorsports legends: Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, Hurley Haywood, Scott Pruett, Scott Dixon. All these storied racing champions have won trophies for their work driving the Daytona International Speedway Road Course. And this weekend, for the first time in its 61-year history, Daytona International Speedway’s road course…… MORE

Second verse, same as the first for Kevin Harvick. After driving to a dominating victory in Saturday’s first race of the weekend doubleheader at Michigan International Speedway, Harvick staged a repeat performance on Sunday. The Stewart-Haas driver led a race best 90 of 156 laps in Sunday’s Consumer Energy 400 NASCAR Cup Series race to…… MORE

The NASCAR Cup Series is running a Saturday-Sunday doubleheader at Michigan International Speedway this weekend. Considering his results there, you’ve got to believe that Kevin Harvick wishes it were a triple-header. Harvick captured the FireKeepers Casino 400 Race at MIS on Saturday and did it in fairly dominating fashion as he led a race-best 92…… MORE

With six races in the next four weeks to set the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff field and several of the sport’s top drivers still looking to solidify themselves as legitimate championship contenders, intensity and motivation are at a season high. The August schedule presents an unprecedented pair of doubleheader race weekends, beginning with this…… MORE

NASCAR Cup Series Race — 28th Annual Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, New Hampshire Sunday, August 2, 2020 1. (4) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 301. 2. (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 301. 3. (11) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 301. 4. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, 301. 5. (7) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 301. 6. (19)…… MORE

One year ago, Kevin Harvick held off a hard-charging Denny Hamlin at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in a battle that saw the two beat and bang through the final lap to end a 21-race winless streak for the driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. There’s every reason to believe that fans could be…… MORE

July had not been a very good month for Denny Hamlin. But it got much better on Thursday night when took the lead for the final time with 12 laps to and then went on to win the Super Start Batteries 400 at Kansas Speedway. The victory gave the Joe Gibbs Racing driver a Cup…… MORE

The salad days of challenging for NASCAR Cup Series championships and logging multiple victories per season are long gone at Richard Childress Racing. But on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, the good times made a return as RCR drivers Austin Dillon and Tyler Reddick finished first and second respectively in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500.…… MORE

Bubba Wallace called Michael McDowell a “joke” after McDowell wrecked him in Wednesday night’s All-Star Open qualifying race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. Wallace also deposited the bumper from his wrecked car at McDowell’s hauler. “People say he’s one of the nicest guys in the garage, can’t wait for the God-fearing text that he’s going…… MORE

Three NASCAR Cup Series drivers kept hopes of a huge pay day alive early Wednesday evening as they collected stage wins in the All-Star Open qualifying race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. The stage wins at the 0.533-mile oval by Aric Almirola of Stewart-Haas Racing, William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports and Matt DiBenedetto of Wood…… MORE

A new auto racing circuit, launched by former driver Tony Stewart and former crew chief Ray Evernham, is expected to make its debut in 2021 and incorporate different styles of racing, multiple outlets reported Monday. Called the Superstar Racing Experience (SRX), according to Sports Business Daily, the circuit is expected to feature six short track…… MORE

With some of the top drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series battling it out for the lead on a restart with two laps to go in Sunday’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway, it was a rookie — Cole Custer — who emerged with the lead and ultimately the victory. Custer, driving in just his…… MORE

NASCAR released a revised schedule on Wednesday that extends until the end of the regular season and features the first-ever Cup Series race on the road course at Daytona. There will be six Cup Series races during the month of August: a doubleheader at Michigan on Aug. 8-9, the Daytona road course on Aug. 16,…… MORE

NASCAR recently banned the Confederate flag from its racetracks but the organization has no control over the skies. Prior to Sunday’s scheduled GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, a small plane flew above the track with a banner of the Confederate flag and carrying a second banner that said “DEFUND NASCAR.” There were vehicles…… MORE