Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin says he was brake-tested by a “classy” Stewart-Haas Ford of Kevin Harvick in the NASCAR Cup series race at Martinsville. Hamlin led 111 of the total 500 laps and won the first stage but, in the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer says ending his 190-race win drought in the NASCAR Cup series at Martinsville was a “weight off the shoulders” after questioning whether he would win again. Bowyer’s last win prior to his Martinsville triumph on Monday came

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Clint Bowyer dominated the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville for Stewart-Haas Racing, to end his 190-race victory drought. Short track specialist Bowyer took the lead just after half distance, having started ninth on the grid – set by driver owner

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Heavy overnight snow in the Martinsville area has forced the postponement of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup series race until Monday. Sunday’s race has been rescheduled for 2pm local time (7pm UK time) on Monday after several inches of snow and ice covered

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carl Edwards says he has no plans to return to the NASCAR Cup Series, more than a year after leaving Joe Gibbs Racing. The winner of 28 Cup races walked away from the series in a shock announcement ahead of the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski says Ford’s start to the 2018 NASCAR Cup series has been “so-so” overall and that Kevin Harvick’s dominant spell for Stewart-Haas Racing has been an anomaly. Harvick’s three-race winning streak came to an end at Fontana last weekend

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says his dominant Fontana win that ended Kevin Harvick’s streak of three consecutive victories proves he can put together a similar run. Truex’s success at Fontana was his first win of 2018 and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The StarCom Racing team has parted ways with Jeffery Earnhardt just five races into its debut season in the NASCAR Cup series. The new pairing has failed to score a single top 20 finish so far this season, with Earnhardt’s best

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick says he was at fault for the Fontana crash with Kyle Larson that prevented him competing for a fourth consecutive NASCAR Cup series win. Harvick was running in the outside lane on lap 37 of 200 before

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning champion Martin Truex Jr won the NASCAR Cup race at Fontana from pole position, taking home all three stage wins in the process. Furniture Row Racing’s Truex led 125 of the race’s 200 laps and, while one pit stop during

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has provided a new set of tyres to the 24 cars that participated in Friday’s Cup series qualifying at Fontana after a third of the field missed the session. Of the 37 cars entered for this weekend’s event, 13 –

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson insists he is “not done” in the NASCAR Cup series after the announcement his long-time primary sponsor Lowe’s will end its backing of his Hendrick Motorsports car. Lowe’s announced on Wednesday it would pull its sponsorship of Johnson’s #48

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr says the influence Kevin Harvick has at Stewart-Haas Racing has been key to dominating the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season so far. Speaking on NBCSN’s NASCAR America show, Earnhardt says that Harvick’s ability to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chase Elliott has been hit with a 25-point penalty after finishing third at Phoenix, while his Hendrick Motorsports team was one of six NASCAR Cup teams to be penalised. Elliott, whose Hendrick team has struggled to get to grips with the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup series champion Jimmie Johnson will lose his career-long primary sponsor at the end of 2018 ending a spell of 17 years with his backer Lowe’s. Johnson is currently in the midst of the most difficult spell of his

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick says that he wanted to “stomp” his NASCAR Cup rivals at Phoenix because he was mad at receiving a penalty last week. Harvick returned to the top of the Cup standings with his third consecutive victory having lost the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick took his third consecutive NASCAR Cup series victory at Phoenix. The win has moved Harvick back into the lead of the Cup series after his penalty last week for a flexing roof, and he is the first

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick believes the NASCAR Cup Series will head down a “slippery slope” if it issues penalties based on information or images shared on social media. Harvick dominated last weekend’s Las Vegas round, which was his second consecutive victory, and passed

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Ryan Blaney thinks Ford has more to gain from analysing Chevrolet and Toyota’s 2018 data in the upcoming NASCAR Cup races at Phoenix and Fontana than from so far. Ford claimed dominant victories at both Atlanta and Las Vegas with

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing driver Kevin Harvick has lost his NASCAR Cup series points lead after he was penalised following his win at Las Vegas. Harvick led 214 of 267 laps at Las Vegas to make it two dominant wins back-to-back, following his

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says he is unsure why he has lost his advantage relative to other teams in 2018. Truex’s best result of the year so far came at Las Vegas with fourth after finishing fifth at

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and three-time NASCAR Cup series champion Darrell Waltrip have each pledged $5000 to help get Matt DiBenedetto on the grid at Phoenix after a sponsor exit. DiBenedetto took to Twitter in a short video to reveal he

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick says his latest victory at Las Vegas “answered a lot of questions” about his NASCAR Cup title hopes for this year. Harvick’s victory at Las Vegas made it two wins in a row for the 2014 Cup

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas driver Kevin Harvick followed up his Atlanta NASCAR Cup Series win last week with a second consecutive victory at Las Vegas, sweeping all three stages in a dominant display. A trio of pitstop problems proved no obstacle for Harvick, who

NASCAR Cup points leader Joey Logano is “sceptical” about his manufacturer Ford’s strong start to 2018, despite its 1-2-3 at Atlanta last weekend. Penske driver Logano leads the series standings after the first two races thanks to fourth and sixth-place finishes, respectively, in the Daytona 500 and at Atlanta – where Stewart-Haas pair Kevin Harvick

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick says his NASCAR Cup dominance at Atlanta was down to greater experience of an older track that caused the series’ younger talent to struggle. Only nine drivers were in the leading pack on the final lap at Atlanta and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup Series says it will review a run of failures caused by the new-for-2018 pitguns that the series had implemented to save costs. NASCAR decided to prevent teams from continuing a development war by introducing pitguns manufactured by Paoli,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick dominated a rain-delayed NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway for Stewart-Haas Racing, despite dropping to 19th early on after a troubled pitstop. Harvick was a step ahead of his rivals on track throughout the race, taking a clear

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick says Darrell Wallace Jr has the potential to be a NASCAR Cup series “megastar” and that his Daytona 500 performance compared to Danica Patrick proves it. Wallace finished second at the Daytona 500 after making contact with Denny Hamlin

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr says this weekend’s Atlanta race will help determine how competitive he will be in 2018. The Furniture Row Racing driver finished 18th at the season-opening Daytona 500 having briefly battled Penske’s Ryan Blaney for