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My first ideas for the top 10 female race and rally drivers of all time included entries from all over the world, maybe with one or two unsung heroines and some historical pioneers. However, looking at the cold, hard statistics of the best and fastest women of their day gave a different picture. Motorsport has
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The Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet driver took the lead after the final set of green flag pitstops, and narrowly avoided a 23-car pileup in the closing laps. Daytona 500 glory was in sight, but the battle wasn’t over just yet. William Byron (Hendrick Chevrolet) took over at the front when racing resumed after a brief red flag
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The 2024 NASCAR Cup season has begun in earnest. Following the non-points exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum won by Denny Hamlin earlier this month, Joey Logano took pole for this weekend’s Daytona 500 season opener by leading a Ford front-row lockout in qualifying on Wednesday night. Thursday night’s twin 150-mile qualifying races
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Team Penske’s Logano was the last of the 10-car final round to qualify and bolted to the top of the speed chart with an average lap speed of 181.947mph to secure pole for Sunday’s race. Logano’s pole is the first for a Ford driver in the pole since Carl Edwards in 2012 and first in the
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NASCAR: Full Speed is stock car racing’s answer to Formula 1’s Drive to Survive, which will debut its sixth season on Netflix next month. Despite the meteoritic rise in F1’s popularity stateside, NASCAR remains the most-watched form of racing in the USA.   The five-part series will have 45-minute episodes, featuring the following Cup drivers: Ryan
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Yarborough was one of the best to ever get behind the wheel of a stock car. In 560 starts, he won 83 races and sits sixth on the all-time wins list. His many victories including four in the Daytona 500 and five in the Southern 500. Yarborough won his three Cup titles consecutively from 1976
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As is typical, Kyle Larson’s successful exploits in the NASCAR Cup were just part of his 2023 motorsport endeavours, which included winning appearances in the Xfinity and Truck Series. He also won numerous sprint car races, including in a series he owns – High Limit Sprint Car Racing – and announced his entry into the
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The 29-year-old third-generation driver for Team Penske didn’t look like a Cup championship contender early in the season. But when it counted the most – in the playoffs – Ryan Blaney and his #12 Ford team were at their best. Critical playoff wins at Talladega and Martinsville advanced him to the Championship 4 at Phoenix
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Hendrick Motorsports’ 26-year-old upstart enjoyed a breakout Cup season in which he dominated in virtually every category but one – winning the series title. In his sixth full-time season, Byron took career-bests in victories (six), top-five finishes (15), top-10s (21) and laps led (1016). His season-high win tally came from successes on short tracks, intermediates,
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The Playoff round of eight concluded at Martinsville with an unusual 168-lap green flag run following a spin by Michael McDowell. Playing it safe, Team Penske Ford driver Blaney and several other lead-lap cars waited to make their final pit stop well within their fuel window while Almirola (Stewart-Haas Ford) and Chase Elliott were among those who
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Blaney finished sixth and scored eight stage points in a race narrowly won by Kyle Larson from Christopher Bell, but the Team Penske driver was later disqualified when his #12 Ford Mustang failed post-race inspection. The reason behind the initial disqualification was for violating NASCAR Rule Book section 14.11.3.5, which lists the minimum extended damper
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The year will begin with the pre-season exhibition race at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum for the third consecutive year, which will be 4 February at 8pm EST. The NASCAR Mexico Series will join the event, competing just before the Cup Series race. There are some changes to the schedule beyond the Daytona 500. There will
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