Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR could place further limits on Cup drivers competing in the feeder Xfinity and Trucks series in order to find the “right balance” between promoting young talent and encouraging veterans. Cup drivers have won seven of the 12 Xfinity races so far

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch says he was baffled by his pace after a “frustrating” strategy call that cost him a potential NASCAR Cup series win at Pocono. Busch was leading with 31 laps remaining, ahead of championship rivals Martin Truex Jr

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr held on through a spate of late cautions to take his second victory of the season at Pocono. The Furniture Row Racing driver ran consistently in the top five throughout, although he rarely led

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski says that the NASCAR Cup series should incorporate hybrid power by adopting a Formula 1-style KERS system to improve racing and attract new manufacturers. NASCAR’s Gen-6 Cup cars use V8 engines, which Keselowski believes should be retained to avoid

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR must heed the stark differences between the Cup series’s Coca-Cola 600 and the prior All-Star event as it plots its post-2019 regulations overhaul. The non-championship All-Star race was the first opportunity in the Cup series to trial a new aero package

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch dominated the NASCAR Cup race at Charlotte to pick up his fourth series win of the season. Starting from pole position, Busch led 377 of the race’s 400 laps to take his first victory at Charlotte, the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time NASCAR Cup series champion Jeff Gordon and legendary team owner Roger Penske have been inducted into NASCAR’s Hall of Fame, leading a five-strong ‘Class of 2019’ intake. The two are joined by Jack Roush, Roush Fenway Racing’s founder and the late

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott will drive selected Xfinity Series races alongside his Cup commitments in place of Spencer Gallagher, who was banned from NASCAR competition for a drugs violation. Elliott will take part in five Xfinity races for GMS Racing, beginning

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series says it was pleased with the performance of the Charlotte All-Star race aero package, and that it will likely inform its 2019 rules package. NASCAR ran a revised aero package in the All-Star race based on a concept

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick scored his sixth win of 2018 in NASCAR’s non-championship All-Star race at Charlotte, edging out Daniel Suarez on a late restart to claim the event’s $1million prize. Stewart Haas Racing driver Harvick dominated the race’s first stage and surged to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch says that the increasing use of restrictor plates in the series means he must adapt or considering quitting. The Charlotte All-Star race will use a new aero package that includes revised front air ducts, a larger

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr believes veteran NASCAR Cup drivers are outperforming the younger generation because the cars are much more “sensitive” to drive. This year’s pre-season media days were dominated by talk about NASCAR’s new talent breaking through, with Hendrick

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR issued rule changes on Wednesday affecting Cup Series qualifying and the equipment teams can use to repair cars on pit road. Beginning with next week’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Cup teams will no longer have to start the race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson has been penalised by NASCAR for a rear window issue in last weekend’s Cup series race at Kansas. Larson’s #42 Chevrolet was penalised because its rear window support braces did not keep the rear window glass rigid

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR officials are becoming increasingly frustrated by teams’ continued technical inspection failures in the 2018 Cup Series season. The series introduced more stringent inspection processes ahead of 2018 in order to “level the playing field”, replacing the dated template system. Six Cup

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup Series’ midweek penalties are “frustrating” and make fans believe “everyone is cheating”, says reigning champion Martin Truex Jr. Drivers including Chase Elliott, Kevin Harvick, Daniel Saurez and Clint Bowyer have recently been hit with post-race penalties for technical infractions

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Blaney says his clash with Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson that caused him to crash out in the NASCAR Cup series race at Kansas was “definitely my fault”. Blaney and Larson had been contenders for victory late on at Kansas, with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Matt Kenseth believes he should have been more competitive on his return to the NASCAR Cup series with Roush Fenway Racing at Kansas. Kenseth took over driving duties from Trevor Bayne for the first time as part of his planned 2018 schedule

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick passed reigning champion Martin Truex Jr on the penultimate lap at Kansas to snatch a fifth NASCAR Cup series win of the season. Polesitter Harvick had battled with Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson at the front of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sometime IndyCar driver Conor Daly will join Roush Fenway Racing to make his NASCAR debut, racing at Road America in the Xfinity Series. Daly lost his AJ Foyt Racing IndyCar seat when the team opted to refresh its line-up for the second

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ford reckons it could now match the two-year new car cycle that rival manufacturer Toyota has employed successfully in the NASCAR Cup series. The Blue Oval will bring the Mustang to the championship in 2019, while Toyota has traditionally committed to aggressive

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Roush Fenway Racing has outlined one-time champion Matt Kenseth’s schedule for the remainder of the 2018 NASCAR Cup season. Kenseth will make his return to Roush at Kansas this weekend, but his shared-drive programme for the rest of the campaign had not

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has issued substantial penalties to multiple teams following last weekend’s Cup race at Dover. The crews of both runner-up Clint Bowyer (Stewart-Haas Racing) and Joe Gibbs Racing’s third-place finisher Daniel Suarez have been handed penalties for issues with the rear window

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The group that owns the NASCAR Cup series has declined to comment on the potential sale of the sanctioning body. A report from Reuters on Monday indicated that NASCAR’s ownership group is exploring options that include a sale, with sources suggesting the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer says he knew he was in trouble defending the lead of the NASCAR Cup series race at Dover from Kevin Harvick following a late restart. Bowyer had climbed into the lead after a woeful start, which included a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick dominated a rain-interrupted NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover to take his fourth win of the season for Ford. Harvick led almost exactly half of the race’s 400 laps and took both stage wins, with only Penske’s Brad

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kurt Busch says he is not excited about the 2019 NASCAR Cup series schedule because he feels it needs to be “shaken up”. NASCAR announced its 2019 Cup calendar last month and it proved to be identical to ’18, except

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Xfinity driver Spencer Gallagher has been indefinitely banned from NASCAR competition for violating its substance abuse policy days after earning his first series win at Talladega last weekend. Gallagher had been competing in NASCAR’s Dash4Cash, a four-race competition for eligible Xfinity season

StarCom Racing will run two cars at this weekend’s Dover NASCAR Cup Series race, with 59-year-old team manager and 1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope returning to driving duties. Cope competed in selected races in 2017 as StarCom prepared for its first full year but stepped back from the driving role when Jeffrey Earnhardt was

Increased speeds making cars worse to drive on restrictor-plate tracks led to Sunday’s Talladega NASCAR Cup Series race being “unusual”, say leading drivers. This year NASCAR dropped its minimum ride height rule for Daytona and Talladega to bring the superspeedways in line with other tracks, meaning early weekend speeds reached over 200mph for last weekend’s