NASCAR tyre supplier Goodyear has warned Cup Series teams to obey its tyre pressure advice at Phoenix this weekend given the higher speeds likely under the 2019 rules. The full higher downfore and increased horsepower rules package – designed to increase overtaking – will be used for the first time at Phoenix. That combination will

NASCAR Cup Series 2015 champion Kyle Busch says he cannot see himself leaving his Joe Gibbs Racing squad for another team. Busch signed a new “multi-year” contract extension with JGR at the end of February and continues his career with the team that began in 2008 following his switch from Hendrick Motorsports (pictured below). The

PFC Brakes continue to set the standard in high performance brake systems with its CarbonMetallic brake pads remaining the first choice of NASCAR championship-winning teams. From the inception of its CarbonMetallic brake pads in 1984 and leading legendary team owner Rick Hendrick to his first win as a NASCAR Cup Series win with Geoff Bodine,

Chip Ganassi Racing convert Kurt Busch says he is “playing it smart” after two consecutive top fives so far in the NASCAR Cup Series season. Busch, who has switched from the Ford-using Stewart Haas Racing squad to Chevrolet runner CGR this year, earned a third at Atlanta and a fifth at Las Vegas last weekend.

Brad Keselowski felt he was too kind to his Penske NASCAR Cup team-mate Joey Logano as he came second in their team one-two at Las Vegas. A week after giving the new NASCAR Ford Mustang its first win at Atlanta, Keselowski came through from 19th on the grid at Vegas to fight for a second

Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano took his first victory of the season at Las Vegas by fending off a late race challenge from Penske Ford team-mate Brad Keselowski. Logano, who started 10th took the lead of the 267-lap race from Stewart-Haas’s Kevin Harvick midway through the final stage and resisted Atlanta winner Keselowski’s

Roger Penske believes his NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski’s record of 60 race wins for Team Penske is going to be tough for anyone to beat in the future. Keselowski was level with Penske’s original talisman driver Mark Donohue on 59 wins for the team until his victory in the Cup race at Atlanta last weekend.

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ricky Stenhouse Jr has hit back at Martin Truex Jr’s criticism of his behaviour while being lapped during last Sunday’s Atlanta NASCAR Cup Series race. Truex, who was trying to catch leader Brad Keselowski at the end of the race,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last weekend’s NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta provided the first proper look at the series’ new rules package for 2019. Headlining the changes is a major decrease in power, as well as larger splitters and spoilers. The latest in what

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ganassi NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Larson has issued a public apology for comments about Hendrick Motorsports “cheating” that he says were made in jest during a television appearance. Larson appeared on the NBC Sports ‘Splash and Go’ segment with

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr blamed backmarkers for his narrow defeat in the Atlanta NASCAR Cup Series race. In his second event with Joe Gibbs Racing, 2017 Cup champion Truex appeared to have the fastest car late in the race but fell

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Atlanta NASCAR Cup race winner Brad Keselowski admitted that the illness he suffered during the weekend had made him question whether he would be fit enough to compete. Penske called up its Xfinity Series driver Austin Cindric as a substitute

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Keselowski overcame illness to win the NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta, claiming a first regular season victory for Ford’s new Mustang. The Penske driver, who sat out much of practice, held off a charging Martin Truex Jr in the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup racer Aric Almirola said his Daytona 500 crash was unnervingly reminiscent of the 2017 Kansas accident that left him with back injuries. Almirola missed two months of the 2017 season having fractured his T5 vertebra when his Richard

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 21-car ‘Big One’ pile-up that caused the 2019 Daytona 500’s first red flag turned the “most amazing” day for star NASCAR underdog Matt DiBenedetto into the “most heartbreaking”. In his first race for the Leavine Family Racing Toyota team,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano had a post-race dispute with fellow Ford driver Michael McDowell over what he felt was a lack of cooperation in the Daytona 500. Penske driver Logano and Front Row Motorsports racer McDowell were the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin held his nerve through a messy final part of the Daytona 500 to win the NASCAR Cup Series’ premier event for the second time. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver had declared his determination to win the event

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s American motorsport chief has dropped a strong hint that two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso wants to contest a NASCAR Cup Series road course race. Alonso drove Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit last

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thirty-six of the 42 Daytona 500 entrants knew their starting spots were guaranteed via NASCAR’s charter system. The other six had to fight their way in. And when the 2019 Cup Series season opener starts on Sunday, sometime Penske protege

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Single-file racing in NASCAR’s Daytona week so far has led to concerns about the spectacle in Sunday’s Cup Series season-opening 500. Last weekend’s non-championship Clash race, Thursday night’s Duel qualifying races and Saturday’s Xfinity Series opener were all characterised by

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Front Row Motorsports Ford driver Michael McDowell set the pace in the final practice session for the NASCAR Cup season-opening Daytona 500 on Saturday. McDowell set his top average speed of 191.440mph early in the 50-minute session with a 47.012-second

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Earnhardt’s grandson Jeffrey has been on the NASCAR scene for a decade, but regards his 2019 Joe Gibbs Racing deal as “only the beginning” of his racing career. The 29-year-old has amassed more than 150 starts across NASCAR’s three

NASCAR Cup Series team owner Joe Gibbs said he is determined not to let his late son and team co-founder JD down as the squad begins the 2019 season without him. JD, Joe Gibbs’ eldest son, died in January aged 49, due to complications following a long battle with a degenerative neurological disease. A memorial

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Paul Menard was fastest in Friday’s practice sessions for the NASCAR Cup season-opening Daytona 500, with the second session ending up being a showcase for the new Ford Mustang. Wood Brothers driver Menard led the way with a time off

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson has apologised to Kyle Busch after being involved in his second controversial collision of NASCAR’s Daytona 500 build-up. Johnson tapped Busch into a spin during Thursday night’s first Duel qualifying race, causing damage that meant the Joe Gibbs

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano shared the wins in the NASCAR Duel races at Daytona as Ford’s new-for-2019 Mustang swept the top three spots in both qualifying races. Harvick dominated the first race, leading 44 of the total 60 laps.

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson and Paul Menard have discussed their race-deciding collision in last Sunday’s NASCAR Clash race at Daytona and agreed to put it behind them. Menard was leading the non-championship event when Johnson moved to the inside in an attempt

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hendrick Motorsports feels vindicated by its domination of Daytona 500 qualifying after its tough 2018 NASCAR Cup season, according to team owner Rick Hendrick. Last year Chase Elliott was the only one of Hendrick’s four drivers to win Cup races,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Clash winner Jimmie Johnson feels “remorseful” over the race-deciding collision with Paul Menard that wiped out much of the field, but is adamant it was a racing incident. Wood Brothers Ford driver Menard dominated the non-championship curtain-raiser until Johnson

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson won the rain-shortened NASCAR Clash race at Daytona after triggering a crash that took out most of the field. On lap 55 of the non-championship pre-season race Johnson attempted to make a move on Paul Menard, who had