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Chase for Championship 4 comes down to Martinsville
With one Round of 8 race left before the 11th Championship 4 weekend decides the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series champion, the six non-qualified drivers have hard work ahead of them in Sunday's race at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Va.,The tight, 0.526-mile speedway that opened in 1947 sits near the...
Stubbs: Kyle Larson can only blame himself for predicament
For the second year in a row at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Kyle Larson found himself chasing down Ryan Blaney for the victory.,And, for the second year in a row, Larson stepped ever so slightly over the line that differentiates aggression from foolishness, spinning out of second place with 13 laps to...
Tyler Reddick wins the pole for Homestead-Miami’s Playoff race
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- The regular season championship leaders will start alongside one another on the front row for Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 400 Playoff race at Homestead-Miami Speedway (2:30 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) with 23XI Racing's Tyler Reddick besting Hendrick Motorsp...
Tyler Reddick, Christopher Bell look to make magic in Miami
Last week's Round of 8 opener in Las Vegas strengthened Joey Logano's unlikely pursuit of a third NASCAR Cup Series championship after a mediocre regular season.,It also left a pair of Toyota drivers who were strong favorites going into the postseason with some work ahead of them.,For 23XI Racing's ...
Stubbs: Ryan Blaney hoping history repeats itself
Ryan Blaney is used to being the underdog.,It was, after all, only a year ago that nobody thought of the 30-year-old, third-generation racer as a serious contender for the NASCAR Cup Series championship.,As history will forever proclaim, Blaney and Team Penske caught fire in the playoffs, making a r...
Dale Earnhardt Jr. to drive iconic No. 8 paint scheme in limited series
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is getting back behind the wheel of the No. 8 Chevrolet with the iconic Budweiser paint scheme.,The NASCAR Hall of Famer plans to compete in a limited series of late model stock car races in 2024 and 2025, starting next month.,JR Motorsports announced Tuesday that Earnhardt's Nov....
Stakes are high as Round of 8 rolls into Vegas
With four races left, the NASCAR Cup Series continues its nationwide trek back and forth across four time zones, anxious to award a championship a month from now.,The miles are adding up and time is quickly running out.,This Sunday the series makes its second stop at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with th...
Stubbs: Resetting Cup Series' Round of 8 field
On Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Series will begin the penultimate round of its 2024 playoffs in the South Point 400 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In the Round of 8, consistency is no longer a viable option for advancing; only excellence will be enough for the championship hopefuls to move on.,That said...
Playoff cuts loom as drivers tackle reconfigured Roval
The time for making four more cuts in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff is upon the 12 remaining drivers seeking a title.,Coming off an incredibly damaging Sunday at Talladega where a massive late wreck shook up the standings, the dozen title-pursuing drivers can expect pretty much anything when the ser...
Stubbs: 4 drivers whose playoffs likely end at the Roval
When the checkered flag flies at the Charlotte Roval on Sunday, it will mark the end of four drivers' NASCAR Cup Series championship hopes.,The Roval is seen as a wild-card race, and while anything can happen, the cream will most likely rise to the top. Here are our predictions for the four drivers ...
Stubbs: Kyle Busch's 3 best tracks to keep record win streak alive
Kyle Busch has never had such a tumultuous season of NASCAR Cup Series competition.,Even when he misses the playoffs, suffers a championship hangover or doesn't have the speed he's used to having, he has always managed to win at least one race.,The closest Busch has ever been to going winless in a C...
Michael Jordan leads NASCAR antitrust lawsuit
Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports filed an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and its CEO Jim France on Wednesday.,Their lawsuit filed in the Western District of North Carolina in Charlotte accuses the stock car series and the France family of using anti-competitive practices to p...
Christopher Bell speeds to third consecutive Kansas Speedway pole
KANSAS CITY, Kan.--For once, Chistopher Bell thinks he has a car that's race-worthy as well as lightning fast in qualifying at Kansas Speedway.,Navigating the 1.5-mile track in 30.111 seconds (179.336 mph) in the final round of Saturday's time trials, Bell edged Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs (1...
Cup Series roars into Kansas to begin Round of 12
It seems hard to fathom the idea considering where Bristol Motor Speedway stood in the pantheon of racetracks 20 years ago, but NASCAR is probably thrilled to have its premier series move away from the short track during the most heightened part of 2024.,"Thrilled" and "Bristol" once went hand-in-ha...
Stubbs: Cup Series' Round of 12 offers plenty of storylines
After Kyle Larson's dominant performance in Saturday's Bristol Night Race, the NASCAR Cup Series playoff field was whittled down from 16 drivers to 12. Ty Gibbs, Brad Keselowski, Harrison Burton and Martin Truex Jr. all saw their postseason hopes come to an end at Bristol, and four more drivers will...
Alex Bowman edges teammate William Byron for Bristol Night Race pole
BRISTOL, Tenn. - Alex Bowman continued his solid effort in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs on Friday, securing the pole position for Saturday's Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway., ,In the final round of time trials at the 0.533-mile high-banked concrete track, Bowman sped around the...
Stubbs: Five bold predictions for Bristol
Saturday's Bristol Night Race is more than another edition of a premier event in racing. It also serves as the cutoff race for the NASCAR playoffs Round of 16 for the fifth consecutive season. ,By virtue of his win at Atlanta (Sept. 8), Joey Logano is the only playoff driver safe from elimination.,C...
More thrills on tap as NASCAR playoff party pulls into Bristol
When the NASCAR Cup Series postseason began two weeks after the regular season closed at Darlington, the sanctioning body hoped for one achievement in the 10-team playoff run to Phoenix.,Keep everyone interested.,Through two events in the Round of 16, the obvious question is this: Are you not entert...
Bubba Wallace signs extension with 23XI Racing
NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace signed a multi-year contract extension with 23XI Racing.,Wallace, 30, will remain behind the wheel of the No. 23 Toyota for the team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin.,The two-time Cup Series winner missed the playoffs this season and currently sits 19th...
Ross Chastain wins the pole for Cup Playoff race at Watkins Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- Trackhouse Racing's Ross Chastain won his first pole position of the 2024 season -- and second of his career -- Saturday afternoon at the historic Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International road course.,Chastain's No. 1 Chevrolet turned in a fast lap of 122.279 mph around the 2.45-mile,...