Double Xfinity champion Tyler Reddick believes he can make the playoffs in his first NASCAR Cup season in 2020, despite admitting that prediction ‘sounds crazy’. Reddick won NASCAR’s second tier Xfinity series in 2018 and 2019, but a move to Richard Childress Racing last year realigned his path to the Cup series. He will contest

Matt DiBenedetto says he is going to “turn heads all season long” following his switch to the Wood Brothers team after a breakthrough 2019 NASCAR Cup season. DiBenedetto led the most laps of the Daytona 500 last season before being caught in a large crash, bursting onto the scene with the small Leavine Family Racing

Jimmie Johnson has targeted a Le Mans 24 Hours entry when his full-time NASCAR career comes to an end after the 2020 Cup season. Seven-time Cup series champion Johnson will halt a full-time, top-line career that began in 2002 at the culmination of this season – which starts with the Daytona 500 this weekend. An

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is set to visit the NASCAR Daytona 500 on Sunday, the first president to do so since George W. Bush in 2004. Trump (pictured above with 2017 Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr) is expected to visit the NASCAR season-opener on the way back from a trip

Brad Keselowski has blasted Joey Logano following NASCAR’s Clash race at Daytona, accusing his Penske Ford team-mate of “dumb racing”. Logano attempted to block a run from 2019 NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch with less than 10 of the originally scheduled 75 laps remaining in the controversial race, which was finished by just six cars.

Erik Jones claimed victory in a chaotic NASCAR Clash race at Daytona, in which only six cars were able to finish. A series of accidents in the final laps of the race caused multiple stoppages and slowly whittled the 18-car field down. Jones was running fourth at the final restart but swept past a host

Daniel Suarez has secured a NASCAR Cup Series lifeline with Gaunt Brothers Racing, which will run as a full-time team for the first time in 2020, Autosport has learned. An official announcement confirming the move is expected this week. Suarez, the 2016 Xfinity series champion, was left without a Cup seat for the 2020 season

NASCAR has made changes to its aero rules for short tracks and road courses in an effort to create “more exciting” races by reducing downforce. The rear spoiler of the Cup Series car will be reduced from 8-2.75 inches for the nine rounds where the new package will be used. The splitter overhang is also

Hailie Deegan says Ford having a “clearer path” for its NASCAR junior drivers was key to her switch from Toyota. Earlier in December, Ford Performance announced that it had signed Deegan to a multi-year driver development deal and her 2020 racing plans will include running a full season in the NASCAR-owned ARCA Menards Series with

Daytona 500 winner and legendary NASCAR team owner Junior Johnson has passed away at the age of 88. Robert Glen Johnson Junior, born in 1931 in North Carolina, was one of the original moonshine smugglers whose modified cars laid the foundations of early stock car racing. He began his stock car career in the early

Rising junior NASCAR racer Hailie Deegan has left Toyota’s development programme to move to Ford, Autosport has learned. Ford has admitted it has a “major announcement” planned for Monday at its headquarters in North Carolina and will announce a new development driver. Multiple sources have confirmed to Autosport that 18-year-old Deegan will be announced as

This week’s on-track test of NASCAR’s new ‘Gen-7’ Cup Series machine has offered the best opportunity yet to see the car up close on track. While the two-day test is closed to fans and media, NASCAR published numerous pictures of the car on Monday via its social media channels. They offer a better look at

Jimmie Johnson will not retire from racing when he leaves the NASCAR Cup Series at the end of the 2020 season, although he has ruled out an IndyCar switch. The seven-time Cup Series champion, who has 83 wins to his name, announced on Wednesday he will leave the #48 Hendrick Motorsports squad at the end

Seven-time NASCAR champion and Hendrick Motorsports driver Jimmie Johnson will retire from the Cup Series at the conclusion of the 2020 season. Johnson was keen to delay his call on when to retire for as long as possible, although one of his major sponsors had committed to 2023. The 44-year-old’s seven cup championships is equal

Kyle Busch claimed his second NASCAR Cup Series title by winning the 2019 season finale at Homestead, ending a 21-race winless streak in the process. The Toyota driver was one of three Joe Gibbs Racing entrants competing for the championship alongside Martin Truex Jr and Denny Hamlin, as well as Stewart-Haas’ Kevin Harvick. He held

The 2019 NASCAR Cup championship will be fought out between Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr and Kyle Busch at Homestead later on Sunday. Under the series’ playoff system, the points have been reset and the quartet start equal – whichever of them is first over the line after 267 laps (or more if

Qualifying for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series title decider at Homestead has been cancelled and the four championship contenders handed the first two rows of the grid. After persistent rain showers washed out both Friday’s planned practice sessions, NASCAR made the decision to forgo Saturday’s scheduled qualifying session and replace it with 50 minutes of

Stewart-Haas Racing will promote its Xfinity Series driver Cole Custer to replace Daniel Suarez in its NASCAR Cup Series line-up for 2020, Autosport has learned. Sources have suggested the 21-year-old’s deal will be officially announced within the coming week. A request for comment from a SHR spokesperson was not immediately returned. Custer is one of

Until a late-race caution set up a three-lap dash to the finish, last Sunday’s NASCAR Cup playoffs semi-final race at Phoenix was short on drama. And that’s a problem for NASCAR, because in 2020 Phoenix will be hosting the championship decider. The need for clean air appeared to dominate and left overtaking at a premium,

NASCAR Cup title contender Martin Truex Jr said he effectively raced with “half a team and an old car” at Phoenix last weekend as he prepared for the championship decider. Truex, the 2017 champion, became the first driver to cement a place in the ‘championship four’ field for Homestead when he won the opening race

Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano was left completely perplexed by the Phoenix race slump that ended his title defence. During much of the first two stages of Sunday’s penultimate round of the season, Penske Ford driver Logano looked almost unbeatable. He led 93 of the first 176 laps and took the stage two victory

Denny Hamlin survived a late restart in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix to claim his sixth win of the season and secure a spot in the championship shootout. He will go up against Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr and Kevin Harvick for the title at Homestead next weekend, with reigning champion Joey Logano

The identity of the four drivers who will fight for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series title will be settled at Phoenix on Sunday, with an early favourite in jeopardy. Martin Truex Jr and Kevin Harvick have guaranteed the first two slots in the ‘championship four’ with their wins at Martinsville and Texas. Behind them, Kyle

Richard Petty Motorsports NASCAR driver Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr has been penalised after admitting that he intentionally caused a caution period in last weekend’s race at Texas. Wallace was fined $50,000 and docked 50 championship points for his actions. His Chevrolet had suffered a deflating rear tyre but he appeared only to have successfully caught

NASCAR’s plan to revise its technical ethos and think about its long-term future has opened up the prospect of a fourth manufacturer. Could it be Honda that steps forward? In recent years, the topic of who the next manufacturer is in NASCAR could be answered by the question: When is Dodge coming back? But NASCAR

Kyle Larson says only penalties from NASCAR will stop drivers spinning intentionally, after he accused Bubba Wallace of deliberately causing a caution at Texas that hurt his Cup title hopes. Larson was running fourth when he pitted during a green-flag period in the second half of the race, five laps before Wallace spun his Richard

Kevin Harvick overcame a mid-race penalty to lead home a Stewart-Haas 1-2-3 in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas, booking himself a spot in the championship decider. Harvick was slapped with the penalty for loose equipment on pitroad following a stop just after half-distance in the 334-lap race. That dropped him into the midfield

Tension between NASCAR Cup title rivals Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin over their Martinsville pitlane scuffle lingers going into this weekend’s Texas Motor Speedway race. Logano confronted Hamlin in the pitlane after being knocked into a spin during last weekend’s race, and shoved the Joe Gibbs Racing driver as he walked away – which triggered

Three-time NASCAR Cup champion Tony Stewart has slammed the decision to hold Formula 1 and NASCAR events in Texas on the same day as “asinine”. This weekend’s United States Grand Prix at Austin is clashing with NASCAR’s event at Texas Motor Speedway 200 miles away – forcing motor racing fans to choose which event they

Kurt Busch has secured a new multi-year deal with the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup Series team. The 2004 champion’s move to Ganassi for this season was initially just a one-year contract following his split with Stewart-Haas Racing. The 41-year-old then took Ganassi’s first win of 2019 at Kentucky Speedway in July and made it