Larson saved enough fuel to make it to the end as Sunday’s Ally 400 ended with a 68-lap green-flag run – the longest of the race, and took the checkered flag 4.335 seconds ahead of Ross Chastain, who reached the runner-up spot in the final laps. The #5 Hendrick Motorsports driver finished third in the

Larson held off his Hendrick Motorsports team-mate Chase Elliott in a two-lap overtime fight to secure the win in at Sonoma Raceway, but his victory never seemed seriously challenged. Larson started on the pole, won both stages and led 57 of the 92 laps and was only under threat when a late-race three-car wreck set

Elliott and his Hendrick Motorsports team went for a splash and dash stop near the beginning of the final stage and were likely to end up two laps short on fuel to make it to the finish. Fortunately for the reigning Cup champion, heavy rain brought out the second red-flag of the race and NASCAR

Keselowski, has been offered a full-time Cup spot with Roush Fenway Racing beginning next season in a deal that would also include part-ownership in a renamed team called RFK (Roush-Fenway-Keselowski) Racing, multiple sources with knowledge of the deal have confirmed. Keselowski would become the driver of the #6 Ford, but it remains unclear how much

Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson won 11 times at Dover International Speedway in the #48 car, and having handed the car over to Bowman when he stepped away from NASCAR racing at the end of the 2020 season Bowman put on a fitting tribute. Bowman, who grabbed control of the race during a round

Tilley, the 2021 Rolex at Daytona race winner and Asian Le Mans Series LMP2 Am champion, will make his debut in the May 23 race at Circuit of the Americas driving the No. 78 Ford Mustang. He will race at Road America and Watkins Glen International in July and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course

The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver, the only driver so far this year to win more than once, was only briefly challenged following the final round of green-flag pit stops in the final 20 laps, but when Larson’s tyres started to wear out he gradually slipped back. The win is the 30th of Truex’s career

Busch, who celebrated his 36th birthday on Sunday, led the way on the final restart with two of 267 laps remaining. With the help from a push from team-mate Martin Truex Jr, Busch got clear of Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson who made contact on the restart. The race remained green and Busch took the

DiBenedetto took the Stage 1 win under caution when a multi-car wreck erupted on the backstretch that sent Joey Logano’s #22 Team Penske Ford barrel-rolling down the track. Following a series of bumping moves, Logano appeared to get turned by Denny Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Logano’s car veered left and made slight contact with

The series will follow Wallace in his first season with the newly formed 23XI Racing team, co-owned by NBA icon Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin. Wallace, 27, became an outspoken voice against racial injustice in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. He also successfully advocated for the banning of the

On Monday, NASCAR confirmed that Cobb has not been approved to compete on superspeedway tracks in the Cup Series thus would not be making her planned debut in Rick Ware Racing’s #15 Chevrolet. While Cobb, 47, has made a combined 247 starts in the Xfinity and Truck series, a NASCAR spokesman told Autosport that Cobb

The 20-year-old son of retired NASCAR ace Jeff Burton won four times in his first full season in the second-tier Xfinity Series last year with Joe Gibbs Racing, placing eighth in the standings, and currently lies third in the Xfinity points. He will become the fourth member of the Burton racing family to compete at

Cobb, 47, who has made a combined 247 starts across the Xfinity and Truck series, will compete in RWR’s #15 Chevrolet in the GEICO 500 on the 25 April. She will become just the second female driver in NASCAR history who has competed in all three of NASCAR’s national series, after Shawna Robinson was the

Only 42 of 500 laps were completed on Saturday night before the remainder of the postponed Cup race was run on Sunday afternoon. But a late-race red flag for a multiple-car wreck pushed the race into the night and it was then that Truex’s Toyota came to life. Truex caught his Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate

Due to persistent rain showers and thunderstorms, Saturday night’s Cup race was stopped after 42 laps and has been postponed until 4pm local time on Sunday. When the Cup race was halted, Denny Hamlin was the leader followed by Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr and Chase Elliott. The latest schedule changes have meant

Thursday’s test at Martinsville Speedway aims to determine whether rain tyres could be feasible at some short tracks in the future. Kyle Larson will pilot the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and Chris Buescher will pilot the #17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford on a dampened track. NASCAR first used rain tyres in an official national series

This is not your father’s Bristol anymore. Well, technically it is – in the autumn. But in the spring this year, and for the foreseeable future, the concrete-covered Bristol Motor Speedway is now a haven for dirt track racing thanks to the importation of 23,000 cubic yards of dirt to cover its surface. The high-banked

Late during the rain-delayed race, Bristol Motor Speedway issued a news release and the track’s executive vice president and general manager, Jerry Caldwell, announced over the public address system that the track’s spring Cup weekend in 2022 would once again feature dirt racing. “There has been so much buzz and excitement around the inaugural Food

The race had been delayed to Monday following persistent rain around the Tennessee venue, flooding the parking and camping areas, along with the dirt-paved circuit. Logano first picked up the lead of the race towards the end of the second stage, as leader Daniel Suarez – who had remained in first throughout a competition caution,

Television executives must have fielded pitches for every conceivable workplace comedy. Following the success of The Office (on both sides of the Atlantic), the likes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks and Recreation have both commanded legions of fans and airtime across the world. Adding to the extensive list of workplaces, a down-on-its-luck NASCAR outfit now

In just his fourth start since being suspended most of the 2020 Cup Series season, Larson took control of a wild race on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and cruised to victory in the Pennzoil 400.  Larson was fired from his Chip Ganassi Racing #42 team last April for using a racial slur during

The trio took part in a Goodyear tyre test on Tuesday to shakedown the tyre selection for NASCAR’s debut at the 20-turn, 3.41-mile road course. All three NASCAR national series – Cup, Xfinity and Trucks – will compete on the course in Austin, Texas, for the first time on 21-23 May. Each driver described the

William Byron dominated the NASCAR Cup race at Homestead for Hendrick Motorsports to record his first victory of the season and ensure a playoff place. Byron, who started the first 1.5-mile oval race of the 2021 season 31st in a field of 38 runners, quickly moved up through the pack to run consistently within the

Byron, who started the first 1.5-mile oval race of the 2021 season 31st in a field of 38 runners, quickly moved up through the pack to run consistently within the top 10 for the opening half of the 267-lapper. The driver of the #24, whose only other Cup career win came at Daytona last season,

Penske team-mates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano are split over the NASCAR Cup series’ increased road course intake, with the former believing the series must “reap what we sow.” In a radical shakeup for the 2021 campaign, there will be a record seven road course events on the 36-round Cup Series calendar, including visits to

In a radical shakeup for the 2021 campaign, there will be a record seven road course events on the 36-round Cup Series calendar, including visits to circuits such as Austin, Road America and the Indianapolis road course for the first time. Sonoma also returns after dropping off the 2020 roster, while Bristol will stage NASCAR’s

Christopher Bell says he is not “overly shocked” at winning his first career NASCAR Cup race on a road course, although he believes to win at Daytona “is quite surprising”. Bell, who was promoted to the Joe Gibbs Racing squad for 2021 in place of Erik Jones, posted a maiden career win at the 38th

Bell, who was promoted to the Joe Gibbs Racing squad for 2021 in place of Erik Jones, posted a maiden career win at the 38th attempt in Sunday’s 70-lap event on the 3.6-mile Daytona road course, passing Penske’s Joey Logano on the penultimate lap. The 26-year-old, who drove for the JGR-affiliated Leavine Family Racing in

A caution for a brief rain shower with 17 laps of the scheduled 70 around the 3.6-mile circuit closed the field up, with the leaders pitting for fresh slick tyres as opposed to switching to the grooved wet Goodyear rubber. Bell, in his second race for Joe Gibbs Racing, was running well inside the top

Christopher Bell hunted down leader Joey Logano in the closing laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race on the Daytona road course to record his maiden at the 38th attempt. A caution for a brief rain shower with 17 laps of the scheduled 70 around the 3.6-mile circuit closed the field up, with the leaders