Brad Keselowski has hit out at what he believes is “complete ineptitude” from NASCAR to keep the manufacturer playing field level in its flagship Cup series. The Penske driver, who races Ford machinery, caused a stir when he tweeted “Haven’t seen NASCAR let a manufacturer get this far ahead since the ’70s” after four Toyotas

Danica Patrick has lost her Stewart-Haas Racing seat for 2018 and her future in the NASCAR Cup series is unclear. Patrick announced on her Facebook page on Tuesday that she would not be staying with SHR “due to a new sponsorship arrangement in 2018”. She had begun 2017 with Nature’s Bakery as the primary sponsor

Richard Petty Motorsports is expected to replace Aric Almirola with his injury stand-in Darrell Wallace for the 2018 NASCAR Cup season. Wallace contested four Cup rounds in RPM’s #43 Ford earlier this season while Almirola was sidelined with back injuries from a crash at Kansas Speedway. Smithfield, Almirola’s backer throughout his time at the Petty

Dale Earnhardt Jr apologised to his fans after missing out on the NASCAR Cup playoffs at Richmond, in his final season before retirement. Earnhardt came into the regular season finale needing a win to guarantee a playoff spot, and he ran a longer tyre stint in the hope a late caution would help him to

Kyle Larson took a dramatic overtime win in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond for Chip Ganassi Racing, after a late caution denied longtime leader Martin Truex Jr. Team Penske’s Joey Logano finished second while Ryan Newman got third for Richard Childress Racing. Dale Earnhardt Jr missed out on a place in the Chase

Penske NASCAR Cup driver Joey Logano says he is in a “do or die” situation going into Saturday night’s playoff cut-off race at Richmond. Logano is 15th in the Cup standings, but four drivers beneath him have qualified for a spot in the 16-person title shootout by virtue of race victories. Though Logano won at

NASCAR Cup ‘regular season’ champion Martin Truex Jr says he was caught by surprise when his front-right tyre failed late on while leading Sunday’s round at Darlington. Truex won the first two stages of Sunday’s Southern 500 and had led the closing stages of the race from eventual winner Denny Hamlin. But on worn tyres,

Denny Hamlin recovered from a costly mistake in the final stage of the Southern 500 to sweep NASCAR’s throwback weekend at Darlington. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver’s chances of victory looked to be over when he locked up coming into the pit entry with 53 laps to go, missed the pits and was forced to

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch says the 2017 NASCAR Cup season had made him want to pull his hair out before his recent victories at Pocono and Bristol. Busch has led all but five races so far this season, but two second-place finishes – at Martinsville and Charlotte – were the best results he

Kyle Busch took his sixth NASCAR Cup victory at Bristol in a hard-fought race with rookie Erik Jones. Starting 18th on the grid, Busch picked his way up into the top 10 and took the lead for the first time just half-a-dozen laps before the end of the first stage. From that point on, the

NASCAR Cup points leader Martin Truex Jr says he did not consider moving over for team-mate Erik Jones to help the rookie qualify for the playoffs in Sunday’s Michigan race. Furniture Row Racing pair Truex and Jones held first and second in the latter stages of the race, but the Toyota drivers were trumped on

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson passed NASCAR Cup points leader Martin Truex Jr on a final restart after a red flag stoppage to claim his third successive win at Michigan. Larson led just two laps of Sunday’s race but hit the front at the right time to deny Truex a second win in as many

Chevrolet has unveiled the Camaro ZL1 its teams will use in the NASCAR Cup series from 2018. The manufacturer has used its SS model in the series since the introduction of NASCAR‘s Generation 6 stock cars as part of a push to make cars look more like their road-going versions in 2013. Since replacing the

Hendrick Motorsports team owner Rick Hendrick says he was “blown away” by new NASCAR Cup signing William Byron’s junior racing success. Byron, who has not raced in NASCAR’s top tier, will replace the outgoing Kasey Kahne, after a deal was formally announced by Hendrick on Wednesday. He will complete the team’s four-car line-up alongside Jimmie

Hendrick Motorsports has chosen teenage protege William Byron to replace Kasey Kahne in its 2018 NASCAR Cup line-up. Autosport has learned that the 19-year-old will be promoted from the Xfinity Series to join Jimmie Johnson, Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman at Hendrick next season, with an official announcement of the move expected by next week.

The number of past champions and veterans losing NASCAR Cup drives is a symptom of declining sponsor interest and drivers having been overpaid, reckons Dale Earnhardt Jr. Monday’s news that Hendrick Motorsports was dropping Kasey Kahne for 2018 with a year left on his contract followed Stewart-Haas Racing’s decision not to take up 2004 champion

Hendrick Motorsports has dropped Kasey Kahne from its NASCAR Cup Series line-up for 2018 with a year remaining on his contract. Kahne has raced for Hendrick since 2012, in a deal signed two years before that, but went two seasons without a Cup race win prior to his victory at Indianapolis a fortnight ago. Team

Martin Truex Jr took his fourth NASCAR Cup win of the year at Watkins Glen after successfully conserving his fuel to the end of the race. Points leader Truex led much of the road course event after poleman and early leader Kyle Busch experienced delays. The timing of the final caution, after 53 of the

Kurt Busch says Stewart-Haas Racing’s decision not to take up its option on his contract for the 2018 NASCAR Cup season came as a surprise to Ford. The 2004 champion and this year’s Daytona 500 winner is free to explore opportunities after his current team let its option on his services lapse, although he could

NASCAR confiscated a rear suspension component from Joey Logano’s Penske Ford during Sunday’s Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Early in the final stage, Logano began falling back through the field and smoke billowed out of his left-rear wheel well. He headed to the garage for repairs to what was explained as a suspension

Aric Almirola is scheduled to test at Charlotte Motor Speedway next Tuesday with a view to returning from injury in next weekend’s New Hampshire NASCAR Cup race. Richard Petty Motorsports driver Almirola fracturered his T5 vertebra in a multi-car crash at Kansas Speedway on May 13. “Aric is progressing well,” crew chief Drew Blickensderfer told

Matt Kenseth has lost his Joe Gibbs Racing NASCAR seat for 2018, amid suggestions he could be a stopgap solution for Hendrick Motorsports. The 2003 Cup champion admitted at Kentucky Speedway on Friday that his JGR stint was ending after five seasons. None of JGR’s four drivers have won a Cup race so far in

Ricky Stenhouse Jr took his second NASCAR Cup race victory in a heavily disrupted event at Daytona. This victory means that both of Stenhouse’s Cup victories have come in restrictor plate races, following the Roush Fenway Racing driver’s Talladega win in May. There was a late sprint for the chequered flag following a red flag

Israeli driver Alon Day hopes his historic first appearance in the NASCAR Cup series at Sonoma will help motorsport develop in his home country. The 25-year-old had a one-race call-up for Sonoma with the BK Racing Toyota team last weekend. Day has been a frontrunner in NASCAR’s European series since 2015 – finishing runner-up to

Gene Haas has ruled out reducing his four-car Stewart-Haas Racing NASCAR Cup line-up in 2018 even if he has to bankroll it through his own companies. The team Haas co-owns with three-time Cup champion Tony Stewart currently fields four Fords for Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch and Danica Patrick. While 2015 champion Harvick signed

Hendrick Motorsports has extended Chase Elliott’s contract to the end of the 2022 NASCAR Cup season. The 21-year-old son of 1988 Cup champion Bill Elliott has been a Hendrick protege since his teens and was chosen to replace Jeff Gordon in the team’s #24 Chevrolet when the NASCAR legend retired from full-time racing ahead of

Kevin Harvick took his first win of the 2017 NASCAR Cup season and his first for Ford, beating Stewart-Haas team-mate Clint Bowyer at Sonoma. Harvick managed to make his fuel last until the end of the final 60-lap stage to claim his first win at the Californian track and his first on a road course

Ford World Endurance Championship GTE racer Billy Johnson will contest this weekend’s Somona NASCAR Cup round with Richard Petty Motorsports. Johnson’s appearance is a one-off in place of Darrell Wallace, who is the team’s main stand-in while Aric Almirola recovers from the back injury he sustained in a crash at Kansas Speedway last month, for

Kyle Larson sealed his second consecutive victory at the Michigan International speedway after surviving a late restart to go top of the NASCAR Cup standings. The first of three restarts in the final 21 of 200 laps allowed Larson to overtake Kyle Busch after running in the top three at the end of the first

Sam Hornish Jr will reunite with Penske, with which he won the 2006 IndyCar title and Indianapolis 500, for a part-time NASCAR return in the Xfinity Series. Hornish drove for Penske from 2004 to ’13, initially in the IndyCar Series before switching to its NASCAR operation from ’08. Though he achieved little success at Cup