Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. William Byron claimed his first career pole in the NASCAR Cup Series, and Chevrolet’s 700th in the discipline, as Hendrick Motorsports dominated qualifying for the Daytona 500. Byron’s time of 46.319s was 0.036 seconds quicker than team-mate Alex Bowman, who

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr led the way during Saturday’s pair of NASCAR Cup practice sessions for the 2019 Daytona 500. Truex set his session-best lap speed of 195.920mph late in first practice while running together with Joe Gibbs Racing team-mates Kyle

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola says he would “return the favour” if he was to again fight Austin Dillon for victory in the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500. Dillon took one of two regular season wins for Chevrolet in

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR is planning to launch a new Generation 7 Cup series car in 2021. Current manufacturers Toyota, Chevrolet and Ford have been in discussions with NASCAR to help inform the direction of the regulations, and the series has consulted manufacturers

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has announced it will disqualify race winners who fail post-race technical inspections for the first time in nearly 60 years from the start of the 2019 season. In a move heralded as “unprecedented” but “necessary”, race winners from any

NASCAR has hit back at comments made by Kyle Busch criticising the 2019 aerodynamic package during Cup Series testing at Las Vegas on Thursday. The Cup series will run a variation of two new aero packages at 22 of 36 races this year, with increased downforce and engine horsepower implemented to encourage drafting and closer

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon says he is interested in one day taking over the running of Hendrick Motorsports from owner Rick Hendrick when he retires. Gordon called time on a NASCAR driving career that included 93 Cup

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series will head to Las Vegas on Thursday for a crucial test described as the “best true indicator” of how the 2019 aerodynamic package will impact racing. NASCAR announced last year that two different aerodynamic packages –

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chevrolet has launched a NASCAR driver development programme, aimed at getting young talents into competitive seats on the ladder to the Cup series. Known as ‘Driver’s Edge Development’, the programme will be run in conjunction with Chevrolet teams JR Motorsports

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup series champion Jimmie Johnson believes motorsport needs to have more driver crossover between series, as it did in the past. Ex-Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso reignited the debate after beginning his quest for the ‘triple crown’ by

Glen Wood, co-founder of historic NASCAR team Wood Brothers Racing, has died at the age of 93. Wood was a four-time race winner in NASCAR’s top division, but is best known for creating Wood Brothers Racing – the category’s longest-running team – with siblings Leonard and Delano. A social media announcement from the team read:

A fully paid drive in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is the prize for the winner of a new championship for 2019. The V6 Euro Pickup Series will use four-litre, 350bhp machines that were previously raced, with Ford Mondeo bodies, in the Benelux Racing League Series. The pickups will be centrally run by Total Motorsport.

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Suarez has signed for Stewart-Haas Racing and will replace Kurt Busch at the NASCAR Cup series team for 2019. The 27-year-old has spent the last two seasons in the Cup series with Joe Gibbs Racing after winning the Xfinity

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing is closing down its NASCAR Xfinity Series team on the eve of the 2019 season. The team had already signed race-winner Ross Chastain for a full-season programme that will now not go ahead. Ganassi had won six

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup Series calendar was one of last year’s biggest talking points as leading drivers criticised it, but demands for action must wait – major changes cannot come before 2020. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kurt Busch was the most critical in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson says the hardest aspect of his “worst” NASCAR Cup series season was working through the 2018 campaign knowing he was parting with crew chief Chad Knaus. Since his Cup series career began in 2002, Johnson had his first winless season

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi says Kurt Busch’s arrival at his NASCAR Cup team could lead to the driver appearing in races such as the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 24 Hours. The new Ganassi recruit has previously competed in the Indy 500, finishing an

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The historic Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway could return to NASCAR competition for the first time since 2000 after it signed a deal with Bristol’s track operator and its owner Speedway Motorsports. The Fairgrounds Speedway last hosted a NASCAR-sanctioned race in 2000 when the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. By 2020, North America’s two largest stock car racing organisations will combine after NASCAR purchased ARCA earlier this year – a deal with the potential to make lasting changes to NASCAR. For casual observers, this move will do little in the short-term

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve will return to racing full-time next year in the NASCAR Euro Series. Villeneuve, the 1997 champion with Williams, made four NASCAR Cup starts – the first two of which came a year after his final outings

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano has given Ford’s new 2019 Mustang its first on-track appearance at Charlotte. Ford claimed its first title since 2004 when Logano triumphed in his Penske-run Ford Fusion – the oldest car on the grid by some margin.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chevrolet says it is now on the right track in the NASCAR Cup series after a troubled introduction for the 2018 Chevrolet Camaro and the exit of veteran drivers. The General Motors brand made the perfect start with its new-for-2018 Camaro by

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano has admitted he “felt really weak” and like his career was over when his initial big break with Joe Gibbs Racing went awry. Logano joined the Cup series with praise from veterans such as Mark

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch says his move to the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup series team for 2019 was appealing because it is a “streamlining” two-car outfit Busch has left the four-car Stewart Haas Racing squad, spearheaded by 2018 title contender Kevin Harvick, to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The now-defunct Furniture Row Racing team that ran Martin Truex Jr to the 2017 NASCAR Cup series title has had its charter bought ahead of the ’19 season. The charter, which guarantees entry and the right to prize money, has been bought

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch has completed his deal to join the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup team for the 2019 season. The 2004 Cup champion confirmed on Sunday he would leave Stewart-Haas Racing, for which he has driven since 2014, and had previously been

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch has confirmed that he will not return to Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2019 NASCAR Cup series season, ahead of an expected move to Chip Ganassi Racing. The 2004 Cup champion’s departure from SHR was first reported in August by Autosport.

Daniel Suarez says he did not feel at home during his time competing with Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. The 26-year-old Mexican lost his drive to 2017 champion Martin Truex Jr for next year, although he is understood to be in the running to land a seat with Stewart-Haas Racing. The 2016

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR is “confident” that it can add a fourth manufacturer to the Cup field sometime after 2020, and has not ruled out finding a fifth. The top-level series currently has three manufacturers in Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota. It last had four manufacturers

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says he was “very far away” from finding a good lap in his NASCAR test run in Bahrain. While seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson impressed in a Formula 1 car during a swap on Monday organised by McLaren, Alonso