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RFK Racing says the 2012 Cup champion will leave the No. 6 after this season and step away as head of competition. What happens to his ownership stake is still being worked out.
John Speedway·Sep 30, 2026
Kyle Larson swept both stages, led 235 of 267 laps and passed Chase Briscoe with seven laps left to win the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.
John Speedway·Sep 29, 2026
Joey Logano came from fourth on the final restart for his 40th Cup Series win. Ryan Blaney, who led 202 laps, crashed out while racing Carson Hocevar for second and traded punches with him on pit road.
Jack Beckett·Sep 21, 2026
Bell won the Cook Out Southern 500 by 1.038 seconds over Ty Gibbs, his first victory in 33 races and the end of a season with seven runner-up finishes.
Jack Beckett·Sep 7, 2026
Ryan Preece led five laps of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 and won it. Austin Cindric led six and finished sixth. Both are in the Cup Series playoff and Shane Van Gisbergen, who won the opening stage, is…
John Speedway·Aug 30, 2026
Ty Gibbs won at Iowa with a two-tire call built on the No. 54 team's own data. One year after sitting 16th in points, he is second. The change is not just speed.
Jack Beckett·Aug 10, 2026
The In-Season Challenge final came down to 24th place against 26th. Gilliland qualified 36th, ran second at the stage-two line, and beat a series champion who was making his 400th career start.
John Speedway·Jul 27, 2026
Heim held off Christopher Bell by 0.287 seconds at Indianapolis and led more laps than anyone in the field. He is the defending Truck Series champion, declared for points in that series, and the…
Jack Beckett·Jul 27, 2026
Hamlin has seven wins across NASCAR's four biggest races and none of them is the Brickyard 400. A win Sunday makes him the fifth driver ever to complete the set.
Jack Beckett·Jul 25, 2026
Joey Logano led 323 of 450 laps and beat Denny Hamlin by 0.859 seconds to win the Window World 450, the first NASCAR Cup Series points race at North Wilkesboro Speedway in 30 years.
Jack Beckett·Jul 20, 2026
North Wilkesboro hosts its first Cup Series points race since 1996, and Denny Hamlin's shrinking lead lands at a short track no one has a modern read on. A preview of Sunday's Window World 450.
Jack Beckett·Jul 17, 2026
Ryan Blaney led 171 of 263 laps, kept handing the lead back to the pack, and took it for good in overtime to win a rain-delayed Quaker State 400 at Atlanta's EchoPark Speedway.
Jack Beckett·Jul 13, 2026
Denny Hamlin leads the Cup Series by 44 points with seven races left, but Sunday night the Quaker State 400 visits EchoPark Speedway, a drafting track where he has no top 10 all year.
Jack Beckett·Jul 10, 2026
William Byron swept both stages at Chicagoland and led 94 laps, more than anyone else on the grid. He finished fourth. Chase Briscoe led the final 46 laps, beat Christopher Bell by 0.276 seconds, and…
Jack Beckett·Jul 6, 2026
NASCAR's Cup Series returns to Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday for the first time since 2019, a 2,562-day gap. The eero 400 caps a three-day holiday weekend at the Joliet oval and lands in a…
Jack Beckett·Jul 3, 2026
Shane Van Gisbergen won two races at Sonoma in two days. On Saturday, the trophy was decorative. On Sunday, it rearranged the Cup standings.
John Speedway·Jun 29, 2026
A NASCAR season rewards consistency. The In-Season Challenge, NASCAR's five-week bracket that opens Sunday at Sonoma, rewards the opposite: surviving one head-to-head Sunday at a time.
John Speedway·Jun 27, 2026
Shane van Gisbergen has won seven Cup races, every one on a road course. If he wins Sunday's Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma, he'll be the first driver whose first eight Cup wins are all road courses.
John Speedway·Jun 27, 2026
NASCAR and the Rolling Stones announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration this week: co-branded merch, two collector vinyl pressings of the new album Foreign Tongues, and a listening-lounge show car…
John Speedway·Jun 26, 2026
AJ Allmendinger makes his 500th NASCAR Cup Series start Sunday at Sonoma, in his home state of California, a week after a season-best fifth at San Diego.
John Speedway·Jun 22, 2026
NASCAR leaves its wild San Diego street debut for Sonoma's road course and the Toyota / Save Mart 350 on June 28. Road-course ace Shane van Gisbergen sits just below the playoff cutoff, Kyle Larson…
John Speedway·Jun 22, 2026
Corey Heim won the Anduril 250 at the San Diego Street Course, the first Cup Series race ever run at Naval Base Coronado, then collected zero championship points: as a Truck Series cross-entry he was…
Jack Beckett·Jun 22, 2026
Denny Hamlin has won three straight and chopped Tyler Reddick's points lead to 19. This weekend NASCAR races a street course laid through an active naval base for the first time ever, and road…
John Speedway·Jun 19, 2026
Denny Hamlin held off Tyler Reddick by 1.678 seconds at Pocono on Sunday for his third straight NASCAR Cup win, a record eighth at the track.
Jack Beckett·Jun 15, 2026
Denny Hamlin was the last man out at Pocono and grabbed the Busch Light Pole by fifty-seven thousandths of a second, his fourth of the season.
John Speedway·Jun 13, 2026
Denny Hamlin drove from the rear of the field to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan for the second straight week, his 63rd career Cup win tying the late Kyle Busch for ninth all-time.
John Speedway·Jun 7, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
The NASCAR All-Star Race goes to Dover Motor Speedway Sunday for the first time in the event's 41-year history, the 42nd running of the showcase, three segments, 26 cars, the trophy on the line.
John Speedway·May 15, 2026
