Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch believes Kevin Harvick’s New Hampshire NASCAR Cup race-winning pass with repeated contact was “fair game” and a consequence of his own forceful move on Kyle Larson at Chicagoland. Busch, who felt he had a “horrible” race on Sunday, moved into

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick won the Nascar Cup series race at New Hampshire, making an aggressive late pass on title rival Kyle Busch to take his sixth win of the year. Harvick ran near the front for most of the race but led the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske driver Brad Keselowski says he can “see the end of the tunnel” having now gone 24 races since his last victory in the NASCAR Cup series. Keselowski led laps during the race at Kentucky last weekend, using a two-tyre pitstop strategy

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Charlotte infield ‘roval’ will be as close as NASCAR comes to street racing, reckons former Champ Car driver AJ Allmendinger. Earlier this week Allmendinger was among over a dozen Cup drivers testing on the new road course again. “It’s definitely an

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing co-owner and NASCAR legend Tony Stewart says pressure should be put on the series to eventually stage a Cup race at the Eldora Speedway dirt track. NASCAR has not raced on a dirt track since 1970 in North Carolina, but

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup series champion and Furniture Row Racing driver Martin Truex Jr dominated at Kentucky for his fourth win of the 2018 season. Truex is one of three drivers to have won at least four races this year, with 2018 largely

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch has blasted Ricky Stenhouse Jr for not apologising for last weekend’s Daytona crashes, with Stenhouse then accusing Busch of “running his mouth”. Stenhouse caused a 20-car pile-up at Daytona when he spun the blocked Penske car

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones believes his first NASCAR Cup series win lifts the pressure he felt from replacing one-time champion Matt Kenseth for 2018. Jones took his first Cup win at the 57th attempt in his second full-time season at Daytona

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway have been forced to alter the ‘roval’ road course’s backstretch chicane to prevent drivers from corner-cutting. Early in the development of the new layout, which includes most of the 1.5-mile oval track at Charlotte and its infield

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski says he should have wrecked Hendrick Motorsports rookie William Byron in the NASCAR Cup series race at Daytona. Keselowski was caught up in a 20-car pile-up triggered by Ricky Stenhouse Jr in a dramatic attrition-filled race won by Erik

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The International Speedway Corporation, owner of 12 NASCAR Cup series venues, has reported a 10% dip in attendance during 2018, which it blames on a lack of driver “star power”. The figure has been recorded from the six Cup races held at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says the number of wrecks in last weekend’s Daytona race was due to “desperation” and drivers ‘winging it’. Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr caused a 20-car pile-up after he spun Brad Keselowski into

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Erik Jones scored his maiden NASCAR Cup series victory in a chaotic Daytona race, in which more than half the field was eliminated in various accidents. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Jones narrowly edged out his former team-mate and reigning champion Martin Truex

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion manufacturer Toyota will stick with its Camry in the top-tier series, despite deciding to enter its Supra model into the feeder Xfinity championship for 2019. Following a Supra preview at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, there

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Spencer Gallagher will return to Xfinity series competition at Kentucky later this month having completed NASCAR’s rehabilitation programme for violating its substance abuse policy. Hendrick Motorsports Cup series driver Chase Elliott will continue to drive the #23 GMS Racing Chevrolet Camaro at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Overshadowed by the dramatic NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicago was the debut of a new policy, one that may finally solve a lingering issue with inspections. NASCAR modernised and revised its inspection policy for 2018, using high-tech laser scanners to detect

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series’ first road course playoff race on the Charlotte roval has been shortened by 100 kilometres, Autosport has learned. Charlotte’s October race had been billed as a 500km (310-mile) race, but NASCAR is expected to confirm a new race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch hit back at “whining” NASCAR Cup fans at Chicagoland as he received jeers for winning via last-lap contact with Kyle Larson. Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet driver Larson caught Busch’s leading Joe Gibbs Toyota in traffic in the closing stages and

NASCAR Cup series points leader Kyle Busch survived final lap contact with Kyle Larson at Chicagoland to take his fifth win of the season for Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch led Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr and Larson with 42 laps to go when racing resumed after the fifth caution. Chip Ganassi Racing man Larson quickly

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR’s decision to postpone its new aero rules to 2019 is “about money” and is the right call, says Kevin Harvick. Following extensive discussions among tracks, teams, manufacturers and engine builders, NASCAR announced last week that the revised aero package experimented with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The uneventful Cup race at Sonoma last weekend is a sign NASCAR drivers are getting better at road courses, reckons reigning champion Martin Truex Jr. NASCAR road course races have often been bruising and chaotic affairs, but the only caution period at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Allmendinger said he “let everybody down” with the mistake that took him out of the Sonoma NASCAR Cup race just after his first stage win of 2018. The road courses are traditionally former single-seater driver Allmendinger and his small JTG Daugherty

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr won the NASCAR Cup race at Sonoma, becoming the first repeat winner at the road course for a decade. The reigning champion started the race on the front row of the grid, and first took the lead at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series will not use the aero package that debuted in the All-Star race at Charlotte before the 2019 season. NASCAR had said it was pleased with how the aero package performed at Charlotte, producing 38 green flag passes for

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. All three Joe Gibbs Racing car chiefs have been suspended by NASCAR for the next Cup round at Sonoma as a punishment for Michigan infractions. JGR Toyota drivers Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Erik Jones were all put to the back of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota driver Kyle Busch brought a ‘knife to a gun fight’ against Ford and it did not matter “how sharp the knife” was in the Michigan NASCAR Cup Series race. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Busch was fourth last Sunday behind a Stewart-Haas Racing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer says the “gutsy” strategy to take two new tyres in the Michigan NASCAR Cup series race would have left him “in trouble” had rain not arrived. Bowyer started 12th but made his way into the top five on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Clint Bowyer claimed a second NASCAR Cup Series win of the 2018 season by leading a Stewart-Haas Racing 1-2-3 in a Michigan race shortened by rain. Bowyer had run within the top 10 throughout the race. He was third in the opening

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Some Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series teams are using the debut of the new Camaro as an excuse for poor performance this season, according to Kyle Larson. Larson’s #42 Chip Ganassi Racing squad has been the most consistent performing Chevrolet team so far

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson believes that Martin Truex Jr, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick have been “head over heels” better than the rest of the NASCAR Cup series field. Larson finished second behind race-winner Truex and in front of Busch and