CONCORD — In a wild five-and-a-half-hour Coca-Cola 600 that had five wrecks within the final 50 laps, Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney came out on top in the rain-postponed conclusion to Memorial Day weekend at Charlotte […]
CHARLOTTE— NASCAR’s beleaguered new car somehow made it out of Talladega Superspeedway in the cleanest race yet of this year’s playoffs. It did little to quell the safety concerns surrounding the Next Gen car that […]
The Cup Series playoffs begin Sunday at Darlington, and the last two champions of NASCAR’s top series enter the 2022 postseason as the favorites. The 10-race playoffs will snake across the country, making stops in […]
CHARLOTTE — O. Bruton Smith, who emerged from North Carolina farm country and parlayed his love of motorsports into a Hall of Fame career as one of the biggest track owners and most successful promoters […]
CONCORD — Denny Hamlin held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch in overtime Sunday night to win the longest — and perhaps wildest — Coca-Cola 600 in history. Hamlin won for the 48th time […]
CONCORD — Kyle Larson is hoping a return to victory lane Sunday at the Coca-Cola 600 might propel him to a second straight NASCAR Cup Series championship. In other words, he’s hoping history will repeat […]
CHARLOTTE — Kyle Larson rallied from early electrical issues Sunday to win for the seventh time this season and qualify for the third round of the Cup Series playoffs. Larson’s victory on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s […]
The green flag drops on the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs at Darlington on Sunday. The 16 drivers who qualified for the postseason will be trimmed by four after three, six and nine races, with the […]
CONCORD — The first thing Rick Hendrick thought about as Kyle Larson crossed the finish line to win the Coca-Cola 600 was April 29, 1984. That’s when Hendrick won for the first time as a […]
From new tracks like last week’s Circuit of the Americas race highlighting a shift toward more road courses to a return to stock car racing’s roots with the dirt race at Bristol, it’s been a […]
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