Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has admitted 2018 was the “most difficult” season of his top-level career. This year is the first Johnson failed to win a race since joining the Cup field full-time in 2002, and he was eliminated from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last year’s NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr says the now-closing Furniture Row Racing team made him a “superstar”. Truex narrowly missed out on back-to-back titles in a 15-lap shootout following a late caution at this year’s Homestead decider, with Penske’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano says he proved at Homestead that he was right to consider himself title favourite. The Penske Ford driver had proclaimed himself the championship favourite after making the final four following a last-lap clash at Martinsville

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defeated 2018 NASCAR Cup Series title contender Kevin Harvick says his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was a “daytime” racecar that prevented him challenging for the championship late on at Homestead. Harvick and SHR started the weekend on a run of difficult form, qualifying

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joey Logano won the 2018 NASCAR Cup series title in a dramatic 15-lap shootout following a late caution at Homestead that pitched the final four contenders into a head-to-head battle. The Penske driver led more laps than any of his other final

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tyler Reddick has won the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity series championship after victory at Homestead, driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr’s JR Motorsports team. Reddick, 22, left it late to surge to a comfortable victory in a race that didn’t have a single caution,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says it is “eye for an eye” if he finds Joey Logano in front of him during the title decider at Homestead. Truex and Logano clashed earlier in the playoffs at Martinsville when the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin has forfeitted the coveted number one pitbox after winning pole for the NASCAR Cup Series finale at Homestead, handing it to his Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate Kyle Busch. Hamlin upstaged the final four championship contenders to earn pole for the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Denny Hamlin took pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series title decider at Homestead, with Kyle Busch the highest-placed of the four title contenders in second. Hamlin – who won this event in 2013 but is winless so

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch says non-contenders for the NASCAR Cup title should give the ‘Final Four’ who can win the crown “that extra quarter-inch” of racing room this weekend. Speaking on the media day ahead of the championship decider, Busch said he expects those

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This weekend, the 2018 NASCAR Cup series champion will be decided at Homestead from four contenders, but an earlier race may have hinted at who the title winner will be. Chicago is the only other Cup race to use the exact same

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Furniture Row Racing team owner Barney Visser says he has no second thoughts about closing his NASCAR Cup series championship-winning team at the end of 2018. The team that supported Martin Truex Jr’s 2017 championship victory will close its doors at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch says the NASCAR Cup series’ final four championship contenders at Homestead this weekend are the “best of the best”. Busch will be joined by fellow ‘Big Three’ drivers Martin Truex Jr and Kevin Harvick, with the trio dominating the regular

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. David Pearson’s most famous NASCAR moment will always be the 1976 Daytona 500, crawling across the line to victory after an infamous clash with Richard Petty. Coming in NASCAR’s heyday, when the charismatic Petty highlighted a generation of drivers that captured America’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr says he enters the 2018 title decider at Homestead this weekend under little pressure because Furniture Row has been less competitive this year. Truex is up against Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano in

David Pearson, a three-time top-level NASCAR champion whose rivalry with Richard Petty was pivotal in the category’s rise, has died at the age of 83. Pearson competed in 574 races in what is now the Cup Series between 1960 and 1986, and won 105 of them – race win statistics second only to Petty in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick said he tried to find a “safe spot” in the Phoenix NASCAR Cup race while attempting to salvage his championship bid in a damaged car. Harvick lost his guaranteed place in the four-way title shootout when his win at Texas

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch and Chase Elliott say they only have themselves to blame for being eliminated from NASCAR Cup Series title contention at Phoenix. Busch went into the cut-off race fifth in the standings, just three points behind Stewart-Haas team-mate Kevin Harvick, while

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch secured his spot in the NASCAR Cup Series championship decider at Homestead next weekend by winning at Phoenix. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver didn’t need to win the race after a crash in Stage 3 took out a number

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Joey Logano says he is the favourite for the 2018 NASCAR Cup series title. Logano has his place in the final four confirmed ahead of the Phoenix decider, with regular season pacesetters Martin Truex Jr, Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch yet

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR says it must “change the culture” of its teams attempting to run illegal cars in Cup Series races as it is getting into “borderline ridiculous territory” with post-race penalties. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick was hit with an L1 penalty on Wednesday

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr’s move to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2019 season has been confirmed. Truex’s title defence has been overshadowed by his Furniture Row Racing squad losing a key sponsor that put the team’s future in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick’s guaranteed place in the NASCAR Cup Series championship shootout at Homestead has been lost due to a L1 penalty incurred at Texas Motor Speedway. On Wednesday NASCAR announced that Harvick and his #4 SHR team have been hit

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup title contender Kevin Harvick says seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson’s struggles are a “reality check” reminding him to make the most of his 2018 season. Harvick was initially the leading driver of NASCAR’s ‘Big Three’ during the regular season alongside 2017

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola suggests he will go out of his way to hinder Joey Logano’s NASCAR Cup title hopes at Homestead if he fails to reach the ‘championship four’. Almirola started Sunday’s Texas race from the rear of the field after

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has admitted it was wrong to place Jimmie Johnson at the rear of the field for Sunday’s Cup race at Texas. Johnson qualified his Hendrick Motorsport Chevrolet 23rd, but shortly before the start of the race NASCAR announced the #48 had

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick secured his place in the NASCAR Cup title decider, prevailing in a late race duel with Ryan Blaney at Texas. After having swept the first two stages, Harvick had built a comfortable four-second lead over Blaney entering the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr will have to start from the back for a second straight race after an engine problem at Texas Motor Speedway. Truex’s Furniture Row Toyota squad was one of three teams that made engine changes after Saturday’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joey Logano says the collision with Martin Truex Jr that secured his Martinsville Cup race victory was a “classic” NASCAR move. Truex was furious over the final-corner clash, having taken the lead from Logano after a long battle only to end up

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr has vowed to prevent Joey Logano from winning the 2018 NASCAR Cup title after their last-corner collision while fighting for Martinsville race victory. Truex had taken the lead from Logano on the penultimate lap following a long side-by-side battle,