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Denny Hamlin was the last car out at Michigan — an hour after a practice tire failure sent his crew scrambling to rebuild the bottom of the car — and ran 195.117 mph to win the pole for Sunday's…
John Speedway·Jun 7, 2026
Tyler Reddick and Denny Hamlin have turned 2026 into a two-Toyota title fight — and they're carrying it into Michigan International Speedway, the track Ford has won at 44 times and can't win at now.
John Speedway·Jun 5, 2026
Cleetus McFarland — 4.75 million YouTube subscribers and a real racing résumé — is pulling double duty at Michigan on Saturday: grand marshal and driver in the No. 4 Niece Motorsports truck.
John Speedway·Jun 5, 2026
Denny Hamlin won the Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville by 0.115 seconds — and the two cars he beat were his own Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe, in a three-wide sweep to…
Jack Beckett·Jun 1, 2026
The Charlotte Knights closed their six-game Truist Field homestand against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp with a Friday loss and a Sunday doubleheader split — a 12-4 win behind Jacob Gonzalez's 19th…
John Speedway·Jun 1, 2026
Carolina Ascent FC led the first Gainbridge Super League final in club history 1-0 at halftime, but Lexington SC equalized in the 72nd minute and scored twice in extra time to win 3-1, capping a…
Jack Beckett·Jun 1, 2026
Connor Hall went home to Langley Speedway and held off Niece Motorsports teammate Landen Lewis for a CARS Tour Late Model Stock win, while Caden Kvapil charged from 15th to third to extend his points…
John Speedway·Jun 1, 2026
Down 5-3 in the nightcap of a weather-made doubleheader, the Knights erupted for eight runs in the fourth — capped by Braden Montgomery's grand slam and two Jacob Gonzalez homers — to bury…
John Speedway·May 29, 2026
Kyle Larson hasn't won a Cup Series race since Kansas in May 2025. The streak now stands at 37 — his longest since joining Hendrick Motorsports — and on Sunday night he returns to the track where his…
Jack Beckett·May 28, 2026
The Charlotte Knights took the Gwinnett road series four games to two. All four wins came by exactly one run. Rikuu Nishida's eighth-inning go-ahead single Sunday sealed it; Jonathan Cannon and the…
John Speedway·May 25, 2026
Charlotte FC took a 1-0 win over the New England Revolution into the MLS World Cup break Saturday night at Bank of America Stadium.
Jack Beckett·May 25, 2026
Mackenzie George scored in the sixth minute at Hodges Stadium on Sunday, and the Carolina Ascent spent the next eighty-four minutes defending it.
Jack Beckett·May 25, 2026
Daniel Suarez won the rain-shortened 600 in the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet — built in Kyle Busch's old shop, by Kyle Busch's old people, days after Kyle Busch died.
John Speedway·May 25, 2026
Katherine Legge crashed out of the Indianapolis 500, then drove to Charlotte Motor Speedway and finished the Coca-Cola 600 — completing her Memorial Day Double attempt on a track she had never raced.
John Speedway·May 25, 2026
NASCAR CEO Steve O'Donnell stepped before the press at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday and delivered something rare: a eulogy that felt like a conversation.
The NASCAR Guy·May 22, 2026
Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion who won more races across the sport's three national series than any driver in history, died Thursday at 41 — days before the sport returns to…
Jack Beckett·May 21, 2026
Hyak Motorsports has signed Clemco, an 85-year-old maker of abrasive blasting equipment, as a multi-race sponsor on Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s No.
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
NASCAR's Hall of Fame chose its Class of 2027 on Tuesday in uptown Charlotte: Kevin Harvick (first ballot, 92 percent of the Modern Era vote), Jeff Burton, and five-time short-track champion Larry…
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
Kyle Larson heads to the Coca-Cola 600 on a 36-race winless streak — his longest since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021 — but Charlotte is a 1.5-mile track, and no driver in the Next Gen era has…
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
Katherine Legge will attempt the Indianapolis 500/Coca-Cola 600 "double" on May 24 — the first woman, the oldest driver, and the first foreign-born driver to try the 1,100-mile day.
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
NASCAR and Bussin' With The Boys are launching "Racin' With The Boys," a 14-episode weekly summer show produced by Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions.
John Speedway·May 20, 2026
The Cup field rolls into Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday for the Coca-Cola 600 the weekend the country marks its 250th birthday. Mission 600 ran for the ninth straight year — five U.S.
The NASCAR Guy·May 18, 2026
Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR All-Star Race from the pole at Dover Motor Speedway on Sunday, beat his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe in a side-by-side fight to the line, and became the third…
John Speedway·May 18, 2026
Carolina Ascent FC beat Sporting Club Jacksonville 3-1 at American Legion Memorial Stadium Saturday night, denying the league leader the Players' Shield and routing the trophy to Lexington Sporting…
Jack Beckett·May 18, 2026
Charlotte and Norfolk played six times at Truist Field between Tuesday and Sunday and split the series 3-3. The Tides took the first half.
Jack Beckett·May 18, 2026
