Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Allmendinger will lose his JTG Daugherty Racing NASCAR Cup seat at the end of the 2018 season. The 36-year-old has driven for the team since the middle of 2013, taking his sole series win so far at Watkins Glen the following

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup series champion Jimmie Johnson says he must “survive” the Round of 16 cut-off race at Charlotte’s Roval if he is to win an eighth crown. Hendrick Motorsports has had a challenging season after overhauling its organisation, alongside the introduction

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup leader Martin Truex Jr called his continued failure to win at Richmond “awful frustrating” after his latest defeat at the track on Saturday night. It was the fourth time in the last five Cup rounds at Richmond that Truex has

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Newman will join the Roush Fenway Racing NASCAR Cup Series outfit next season as Trevor Bayne’s replacement in its #6 Ford. Newman finished runner-up to Kevin Harvick in 2014 with Richard Childress Racing, but announced last weekend he would leave the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch climbed from last on the grid to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond, booking his place in the second round of the playoffs. After he was sent to the back of the grid as a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR president Brent Dewar will step down from his role and be replaced by Steve Phelps. Dewar (pictured above, right), who played a key role in NASCAR’s increasing push of its young talent after several big-name retirements, will now transition into a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A wrongful death lawsuit against three-time NASCAR Cup series champion Tony Stewart was officially dismissed on Wednesday, according to ESPN. Stewart was involved in a fatal incident during a sprint car race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park back in 2014, after the Stewart-Haas

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup Series title contender Kevin Harvick has renewed his call for a major shake-up of the championship’s calendar, prompted by Charlotte’s ‘roval’ switch. The replacement of Charlotte’s second oval date with a round on its infield road course – the first

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Keselowski has admitted it feels like his Penske team is ‘stealing’ NASCAR Cup race wins from faster rivals, after completing a hat-trick at Las Vegas. Penske’s Keselowski, Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney were outpaced by dominant trio Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup Series title contender Kevin Harvick slammed Goodyear for providing “piece of crap” tyres after crashing out of the playoffs opener at Las Vegas. Harvick had finished a close second to Martin Truex Jr in the race’s first segment but hit

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Keselowski won his third NASCAR Cup Series race in a row to give Team Penske its 500th victory in motorsport in a hectic playoff opener at Las Vegas. Keselowski got himself to the front repeatedly during a hard-fought final segment in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Newman will leave Richard Childress Racing at the end of the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season, the team with which he almost won the championship for four years ago. Newman finished second to eventual champion Kevin Harvick at the series finale

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Earnhardt Jr says he has an “itch to scratch” in his return to NASCAR competition for the first time since retiring at the end of the 2017 Cup season. Earnhardt had previously said retirement felt “weird” and was not a “comfortable

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Roush Fenway Racing will drop 2011 Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne from its NASCAR Cup Series line-up next season. Bayne has not won a race for RFR since joining in 2015, and earlier this year the team called up 2003 Cup champion

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kasey Kahne will sit out at least the next three NASCAR Cup Series races as he continues to deal with issues around heat exhaustion. The 38-year-old withdrew from last weekend’s Indianapolis race because the long-standing health problem had become extreme during the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Keselowski took a second NASCAR Cup win in two races with victory at Indianapolis after passing Denny Hamlin on the penultimate lap. The Penske driver, who also won last time out at Darlington, made his final stop on lap 143 of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race has been postponed due to persistent rain at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that has haltered all on-track activity throughout the weekend. Running of the Brickyard 400 race has been rescheduled for 1400 ET Monday, while the Xfinity

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch will start on pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Indianapolis after rain forced qualifying to be cancelled. The persistent rain on Saturday means Joe Gibbs Racing driver Busch will be in the top starting position for the Brickyard 400

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kasey Kahne has hinted that his absence from the NASCAR Cup Series could be longer than just this weekend’s Indianapolis race because his heat-exhaustion problem is long term. Kahne has been replaced at Leavine Family Racing by Regan Smith this weekend. He

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski says his 2018 NASCAR Cup series campaign has been “frustrating” due to a lack of pace or making errors when quick enough to win a race. Keselowski won his first Cup race of 2018 at Darlington last weekend ahead

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leavine Family Racing’s Kasey Kahne has been forced out of this weekend’s Indianapolis NASCAR Cup series race due to “extreme heat exhaustion”. Kahne’s last victory came in the Indianapolis 400 last year with Hendrick Motorsports, before he switched to minnows Leavine. In

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr will move to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2019 season following the closure of his Furniture Row Racing team, Autosport has learned. Furniture Row announced on Tuesday that it would close its doors at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Frontrunning NASCAR Cup series outfit Furniture Row Racing will cease operations at the conclusion of the 2018 season due to a “lack of necessary funding”. The team ran Martin Truex Jr to last year’s Cup title, but put in what Truex called

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Larson admitted that his last-gasp defeat in the NASCAR Cup Series’ Southern 500 at Darlington “stings” particularly badly in a year of near-misses. The Ganassi driver again came agonisingly close to his first Cup race win of 2018 in Sunday night’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski snatched his first victory of the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season, vaulting ahead of long-time race leader Kyle Larson late on at Darlington. Winning the opening two stages and controlling the majority of the final stage, Chip Ganassi Racing’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Matt Kenseth says he never had “grand illusions” about winning races in the 2018 NASCAR Cup series and is unsure if he can secure any top 10 finishes this year. Kenseth returned from a NASCAR hiatus to rejoin Roush Fenway Racing in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sportscar racer Katherine Legge is open to trying NASCAR oval racing, having made her stock car debut in recent Xfinity Series road course rounds. Former Champ Car/IndyCar, DTM and Formula E driver Legge is competing for JD Motorsports again in this weekend’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ford’s success in the 2018 NASCAR Cup series is the culmination of a four-year plan, says global director of Ford Performance Motorsports Mark Rushbrook. Kurt Busch’s victory at Bristol last weekend made it 11 wins from 24 races for Ford in 2018,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Retiring NASCAR Cup driver Kasey Kahne says he turned down offers to continue in 2019 – including one from top team Stewart-Haas – because of his declining form and commitment. The 18-time Cup race-winner ended up at the small Leavine Family Racing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr believes he was “too nice” in Saturday night’s Bristol race, where he was taken out by Kyle Busch in the closing stages. Though Truex was involved in a multi-car pile-up – started by Busch spinning