Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick has secured a seat for her final NASCAR Cup race at the 2018 Daytona 500, leaving her with just an Indianapolis 500 ride to find. Patrick will drive for Premier Motorsports in its #7 Chevrolet and will be reunited

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick says she became so “sad and negative” about her racing career last year that she’s looking forward to her life beyond racing once she retires after the Indianapolis 500. Speaking in a two-hour interview on this week’s Joe Rogan

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kasey Kahne says he is relieved his difficult spell with NASCAR juggernaut Hendrick Motorsports has ended, despite having to fall back on a drive with minnow Leavine Family Racing. Kahne spent the past six years of his NASCAR career with the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 made its testing debut ahead of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway on Tuesday. Chase Elliott, who has moved to the #9 car once driven by his father Bill at Hendrick Motorsports, drove

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Earnhardt Jr says he is finding retirement from the NASCAR Cup Series “weird”, and that it is not a “comfortable feeling.” Earnhardt completed his final NASCAR season at the season finale at Homestead after struggling throughout 2017, failing to make

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time NASCAR Cup champion Jeff Gordon says Chase Elliott’s winless streak reminds him of Jimmie Johnson’s breakthrough first championship success. Elliott joined the series full-time in 2016 after five races in ’15 and has since finished second seven times in his

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup champion and 2017 Daytona 500 winner Kurt Busch has confirmed his renewal with Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2018 season, as predicted by Autosport. Busch has driven SHR’s #41 car since 2014 and has qualified for the end of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch and Stewart-Haas Racing have agreed a one-year deal to keep the 2017 Daytona 500 winner on board for the ’18 NASCAR Cup season, Autosport has learned. In August SHR informed Busch it would not pick up the option on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Petty Motorsports will switch to Chevrolet from Ford for the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series and has announced a partnership with Richard Childress Racing. Chevrolet is introducing a new version of the Camaro next season after Toyota introduced its Camry this

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso Formula 1 outcast Daniil Kvyat sampled Euro Series NASCAR machinery after attending a ‘recruitment day’ test at the Franciacorta circuit in Italy this week. The Russian driver completed around 20 laps on Monday, getting his first taste of a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch says he is working on a deal to remain at Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series, despite being told it would not renew his contract. The 2004 champion was informed that his deal would finish at the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr says it is “awesome” that his Furniture Row Racing team beat nearest rival Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing with their own equipment. Furniture Row Racing has competed in Cup since 2009 and made

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick says outgoing team-mate Danica Patrick’s impact on the NASCAR Cup Series has been immeasurable and her exit leaves a “huge hole”. Patrick has announced her retirement from full-time racing having lost her SHR seat to Aric Almirola.

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr has admitted he was not a good enough driver to win the title before joining Furniture Row Racing in 2014. Though he was a double champion in what is now the Xfinity Series,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch says Joey Logano’s repeated blocking ruined his chances of a second NASCAR Cup Series title at the Homestead season finale. Busch was eventual winner Martin Truex Jr’s biggest championship threat in the closing laps, despite an

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski says Toyota’s dominance in the 2017 season was “like Formula 1”. Toyota made a surprise introduction of a new Camry for this season with an eye to improving aerodynamic performance, while Ford made small

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr became the 2017 NASCAR Cup champion by fending off Kyle Busch to win a tense finale at Homestead. Furniture Row Toyota driver Truex took control of the first part of the race’s final stint and initially built a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. William Byron claimed the NASCAR Xfinity championship in his rookie season by holding off JR Motorsports team-mate Elliott Sadler for a third place finish at Homestead. Teenager Byron, who will replace Kasey Kahne at Hendrick Motorsports in the Cup series next

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin took pole position on Friday evening for the NASCAR Cup finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver will start alongside title contender Martin Truex Jr, who was on pole until the very end of the session

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick will race the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 in 2018 as her final races, after confirming ’17 will be her last full-time year in the NASCAR Cup Series. Patrick was told she would not be retained at Stewart-Haas Racing

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Earnhardt Jr says he considers himself lucky to have recovered from concussion sufficiently to complete a final NASCAR Cup season in 2017. Earnhardt suffered a concussion in a crash at Michigan in June 2016 and after being fully diagnosed the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Keselowski says being in 2017 NASCAR Cup championship contention is a “strange feeling”, as he felt he had better pace when he missed out between 2013-16. Keselowski won his only Cup crown so far in 2012 but did not make

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr says it is “perfect” to be considered the NASCAR Cup title favourite, brushing off Kevin Harvick’s claim that Truex and Kyle Busch are under all the pressure. Furniture Row Racing driver Truex has dominated the 2017 season, taking

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick says he goes into the 2017 NASCAR Cup title decider as the underdog but expects to be champion. The Texas win that secured Harvick’s place in the four-way championship showdown at Homestead this weekend was only his second of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading NASCAR drivers say they cannot understand why Phoenix winner Matt Kenseth does not have a drive for the 2018 Cup season. Joe Gibbs Racing announced in July that it was dropping 45-year-old 2003 champion Kenseth for next year. It has

Penske’s Brad Keselowski says scraping through to the 2017 NASCAR Cup championship shootout with a 16th-place finish at Phoenix feels “like Christmas”. Keselowski went into Phoenix with a 19-point cushion over Denny Hamlin in their fight for the fourth spot in the Homestead showdown against Martin Truex Jr, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick. But Keselowski

Denny Hamlin has no doubt that the contact with Chase Elliott that ended his shot at the 2017 NASCAR Cup championship at Phoenix was retaliation for their Martinsville collision. Hamlin controversially tapped leader Elliott into a spin late in the Martinsville race a fortnight ago. At Phoenix on Sunday they were fighting for second behind

Matt Kenseth took his first NASCAR Cup victory of the year at Phoenix, as Brad Keselowski claimed the last spot in the 2017 playoff final four. It was in the pits that Kenseth threw himself into contention for the win, having emerged from the pitlane first following a caution for Trevor Bayne’s accident in the

NASCAR Cup playoff leader Martin Truex Jr’s recent defeats show his title favourite status is slipping, reckons Kyle Busch. Furniture Row Toyota driver Truex has won seven races in 2017, two more than second-best Busch, and quickly assumed a commanding position in this season’s new playoff points system. Truex was able to secure his place

Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has been left bemused by his “weird” form in the final part of 2017, which leaves him on the brink of playoff elimination. Seven-time Cup champion Johnson took three victories this year on the way to the final eight of the playoffs. But the Hendrick Chevrolet driver has struggled