NASCAR should follow the IndyCar Series template and slash costs for its new-for-2021 Gen-7 platform, says team owner Roger Penske. Penske has teams within NASCAR, IndyCar and the IMSA SportsCar Championship, with the stock car series comfortably the most expensive of the three. IndyCar has kept its operating costs low by limiting the areas of

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kurt Busch says he was willing to wreck his brother Kyle during the late restart in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol. The two brothers lined up on the front row for the restart with just 14 of the 500 laps remaining after Kyle recovered from a second lap crash to

Kyle Busch survived an opening lap crash to take his eighth NASCAR Cup series win at Bristol. The Joe Gibbs Toyota driver led home brother Kurt Busch, having made the call to stay out while his nearest challengers pitted for new tyres during a caution period in the final 20 laps. Busch, who has more

Kyle Busch survived a second lap crash to take his eighth NASCAR Cup series win at Bristol. The Joe Gibbs Toyota driver led home brother Kurt Busch, having made the call to stay out while his nearest challengers pitted for new tyres during a caution period in the final 20 laps. Busch, who has more

Penske’s Brad Keselowski says he must add a road course victory to be considered a NASCAR Cup Series’ “great”, having won at all other types of track on the calendar. Keselowski has 29 Cup victories and has won two of the seven races so far this season, mostly recently at Martinsville. NASCAR currently has Sonoma

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick says he is not ready to retire and become a NASCAR Cup Series pundit, after rumours linking the 2014 champion to the role. There has been speculation that Darrell Waltrip may bring his spell in Fox Sports’s broadcast booth to a close, after joining in 2001 following the end of his

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson says it was “great” to be back in contention at Texas because it is where Hendrick Motorsports and Chevrolet “deserve to be”. Johnson and Hendrick endured a torrid 2018 season in which the driver went winless and exited the playoffs at Charlotte’s Roval race after last-lap contact with

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch has explained his crash in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas that took him out of victory contention. Busch – who leads the Cup standings after two wins and five podiums in seven races – had won the Truck series and Xfinity series races on Friday and Saturday at

Denny Hamlin overcame a pair of penalties to take his second win of the season in the NASCAR Cup series’ first visit to Texas in 2019. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver, who won the season-opening Daytona 500, won the second stage of the race and capitalised on a problem for team-mate and points’ leader

Denny Hamlin overcame a pair of penalties to take his second win of the season in the NASCAR Cup series’ first visit to Texas in 2019. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver, who won the season-opening Daytona 500, won the second stage of the race and capitalised on a problem for team-mate and points leader

The NASCAR Cup Series calendar has undergone a vast shuffle for the 2020 season, with changes including the season finale moving to Phoenix. The Cup champion has been decided at Homestead every year since 2001, but the last round will take place at Phoenix next year and be held around two weeks earlier than usual

NASCAR has revealed changes to its Cup qualifying procedure that it hopes will be “fair” and “entertaining” after farcical scenes at Fontana earlier this year. The new-for-2019 aero package has put an emphasis on drafting to set a competitive qualifying lap and it led to many drivers missing out on setting a time at Fontana,

Hendrick Motorsport’s Chase Elliott says he needs to “capitalise” more strongly when he is in position to win NASCAR Cup Series races, after narrowly missing out on victory at Martinsville. Three-time race winner Elliott, who waited 98 racies for a maiden Cup victory, was the only driver to pass the dominant Brad Keselowski on track

Penske’s Brad Keselowski dominated to win the first 2019 NASCAR Cup series race at Martinsville. Keselowski led 446 laps out of 500 and won all three stages on his way to his second victory of the year. The Penske Ford driver took the lead from team-mate Joey Logano on the sixth lap of the race

Martin Truex Jr says he has a “big hole” in his NASCAR Cup Series resume as he is still yet to win on a short course track. The 2017 Cup champion is in his first season with Joe Gibbs Racing following the closure of one-time champion outfit Furniture Row Racing at the end of last

Kyle Busch’s milestone 200th NASCAR win has been a major talking point, but it’s overlooking the remarkable possibility that he is just getting started. Busch earned his 53rd win in the Cup series at Fontana and, combined with his 53 Truck Series and 94 Xfinity Series victories, his total is 200 wins across the three

Team owner Roger Penske says he has told NASCAR CEO Jim France “let’s make the decision and go” with revolutionary plans for the Cup series’ next generation of machinery. NASCAR has earmarked the 2021 season to introduce its seventh-generation car, with the target of cutting costs and attracting new manufacturers, while potentially adjusting its schedule

Kyle Busch sealed his 200th NASCAR win at Fontana. It’s a record that puts him level with Richard Petty, technically, but a debate rages about whether both records are equal. All 200 of Petty’s wins are considered ‘Cup’ wins, while Busch only has 53 in the premier division – with 94 in the second-tier Xfinity

Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano believes his Penske team has “work to do” after Joe Gibbs Racing and Kyle Busch “blew our doors off” at Fontana. Logano has one win and two podiums in five starts this season, and sits second to Busch in the Cup standings. Busch dominated the majority of Sunday’s Fontana

Kyle Busch took his 200th NASCAR win by producing a dominant display in the Cup Series race at Fontana. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver won all three stages and led 134 laps out of 200 to claim his 53rd premier series victory. It wasn’t a completely drama-free race for the 2015 Cup series champion

NASCAR plans to adjust Cup Series qualifying following the farcical scenes at Fontana on Friday when none of the cars in the pole shootout set a flying lap in time. The 2019 aerodynamic rule changes have encouraged drivers to try to draft with each other in qualifying to get the best lap times on longer

NASCAR will now enforce pitroad speed limits during knockout qualifying in the Cup Series, beginning this weekend at Fontana. In a memo distributed to teams on Wednesday, NASCAR said that any driver who exceeds pitroad speed limits joining the track must returned to pitroad before setting a qualifying time. If a driver exceeds pitroad speed

Juan Pablo Montoya believes a lack of dirt racing backgrounds among foreign drivers is one of the key reasons why more are not competing in the NASCAR Cup Series. Montoya moved into NASCAR full-time in 2007 following the end of his Formula 1 career at McLaren, and took two wins in 255 starts, mostly with

Jimmie Johnson believes his struggling Hendrick Motorsports team showed encouraging signs of recovery in last weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series at Phoenix. Aside from his contentious win in the non-championship Clash event at Daytona, Johnson’s eighth place at Phoenix was his best result since Talladega last October and his most competitive performance since fighting for the

Kyle Busch says his domination of the Phoenix NASCAR weekend has left him kicking himself even more for a penalty at Las Vegas a week earlier. Busch is now on 199 wins across NASCAR’s top three divisions, having won in all three series – Trucks, Xfinity and Cup – at Phoenix. At Vegas, he swept

Kyle Busch moved to within one victory of Richard Petty’s record of 200 NASCAR wins by claiming his 52nd Cup Series win and 199th overall at Phoenix. The win, which keeps him unbeaten at Cup level at the track since it was reconfigured, came after a dominant display in which he led 176 of the

Phoenix NASCAR Cup Series polesitter Ryan Blaney admits he needs to “clean some stuff up” to match his Penske team-mates’ early season success. Penske has won the last two Cup rounds with Brad Keselowski at Atlanta and then Joey Logano at Las Vegas. But Blaney was involved in a crash at the Daytona 500, then

With two wins in a row and now a commanding start to the Phoenix weekend, Penske is making a good case for being labelled the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series favourite. Amid the upheaval of the new Ford Mustang making its debut and the plethora of new aero rules – with elements that vary from race-to-race

NASCAR Cup Series drivers Daniel Suarez and Michael McDowell became embroiled in a fight in the paddock during qualifying at Phoenix on Friday. Stewart-Haas driver Suarez approached McDowell, who drives for Front Row Motorsports, following the first round of qualifying – in which both had been eliminated. A violent altercation then immediately broke out between

Kevin Harvick recently described fellow NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson as “one of the most disrespected great drivers”. Seven-time title winner Johnson is currently on a winless streak in championship rounds stretching back to June 2017. But Harvick launched a vehement defence of Johnson’s reputation after they appeared on a radio show together late last