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Five hundred feet. Ryan Blaney was roughly 500 feet from taking the checkered flag, Sunday, at Texas Motor Speedway, when the caution flew for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. hitting the wall in Turn 2. Unlike a normal race weekend, the All-Star Race must finish under green. Even by NASCAR standards, this edition of the All-Star Race was […] READ MORE
After Sunday’s race, I’m driving to Kansas Speedway to cover its NASCAR Cup Series playoff race in September. The Advent Health 400 gave us 23XI Racing’s best overall performance, outside of a restrictor plate race. Moreover, a bunch of drivers cut their left-rear tires. Finally, I think it’s safe to say the NextGen car has […] READ MORE
Kurt Busch stopped his car down pit road at Kansas Speedway, where 23XI Racing team owner Denny Hamlin reached into his car to embrace and congratulate him. “It’s huge,” Hamlin said. “I’m so proud of Kurt and Bubba (Wallace) as well. It was the culmination of a strong drive for the elder statesman of the NASCAR […] READ MORE
I felt like a kid, again, as I watched William Byron run his throwback scheme in the lead at Darlington Raceway. Driving an homage to Jeff Gordon’s DuPont flames car, Sunday, Byron edged out Joey Logano on the final restart, and put him in the wall in Turn 2. “We were really close off of (Turn) […] READ MORE
Historically, the bottom line on restarts is the kiss of death at Dover Motor Speedway. For the last 24 hours, however, Chase Elliott used it to conquer the Monster Mile. On the final restart of the postponed by rain DuraMAX Drydene 400 with 53 laps to go, Elliott powered ahead of Ross Chastain into Turn 1, […] READ MORE
If you’ve got a personal day, Monday, use it. NASCAR postponed the remainder of the DuraMAX Drydene 400 to Monday, after rain halted the Cup Series race at Dover Motor Speedway on Lap 79. It didn’t let up and more cells followed it on the radar. It’ll restart Monday at noon. FOX Sports 1 will […] READ MORE
Exiting Turn 4, Ross Chastain ran third. When he crossed the finish line, he won. Though he wasn’t sure of it. “I knew I was coming to the checkered,” he said. “I crossed the line. They were all slowing down. I was like, Did we win? Like, we won? Everybody is slowing down. I was […] READ MORE
As Josef Newgarden left the media center, Saturday, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times stopped him at the stairs to ask him a bizarre question. “‘Hey, Josef,'” he said, “‘Josef’ — *points to him in post-race press conference* it’s this dude — he goes, ‘Josef, one question: At what point does Colton Herta check out […] READ MORE
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Track workers crept along the lines in the dirt left by the water truck to inspect the surface. Meanwhile, the truck drove clockwise around the track and shot a stream of water out toward the wall. On the backstretch, it dropped down a lane and repeated the process. Some laps, it shot […] READ MORE
NASCAR’s return to Circuit of the Americas left us with some morsels about which to talk. Ross Chastain‘s journey to victory lane in the NASCAR Cup Series gives those who yearn for a blue collar driver a horse onto which to hook their cart. Furthermore, Circuit of the Americas got a fair shake to prove […] READ MORE