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Denny Hamlin secured victory in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas for Joe Gibbs Racing as Chase Elliott edged Brad Keselowski out for the final playoff spot in overtime. With 10 laps of the scheduled 267 to run, Hendrick Motorsports’ Elliott was three points below the cutoff line for the ’round of eight’ stage

NASCAR Xfinity Series title contenders Cole Custer and Tyler Reddick ended up in a scuffle after Saturday’s race at Kansas Speedway. Reigning champion Reddick – who has already secured a Richard Childress Racing Cup Series seat for 2020 – and Custer made slight contact after a late-race restart, sending Stewart-Haas racer Custer into the outside

Ricky Stenhouse Jr has secured a NASCAR Cup Series lifeline after signing a multi-year deal to drive for JTG Daugherty Racing, racing alongside team-mate Ryan Preece in 2020. Stenhouse, a two-time Cup race-winner, joins the team after ending a 10-year spell with Roush Fenway Racing. Roush had opted to replace Stenhouse with Chris Buescher (pictured

After a huge crash at Talladega, 44-year-old Brendan Gaughan joked that he will need the permission of his parents to race in the NASCAR Cup Series again. With less than 10 laps to go, leaders Ricky Stenhouse Jr and Kyle Busch made contact on the backstretch, sending Busch up the race track into then race

Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney booked his spot in the next stage of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs with victory at Talladega, in a race of high attrition. The race, suspended after just one stage on Sunday due to poor weather, boiled down to a two-lap shootout for the win after a red flag was thrown

The NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Talladega has been suspended until Monday afternoon, after rain left the field stranded in the pitlane after 55 of the scheduled 188 laps. Having begun racing at 2pm local time on Sunday afternoon, the 40-strong field for the second race in the ’round of 8′ was able to

Team owner Richard Childress will drive the pace car at Talladega on Sunday, as Kevin Harvick is set to surpass Dale Earnhardt’s number of starts in the NASCAR Cup Series. Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway will mark Harvick’s 677th career start in the series, one more than the total career starts of the driver he

Kyle Larson is the latest example of how one win in NASCAR’s playoff system can completely change the championship fortunes of a driver. It was just a little over two months ago that Larson was anguishing over having to “race backup cars” as he wrecked his primary car in practice sessions on two consecutive race

NASCAR’s next generation Cup Series car, dubbed Gen-7, will complete on-track testing on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Gen-7 NASCAR machines are expected to make their competitive debut in 2021, although parts of the new package could appear in ’20 following a successful trial during this year’s Charlotte All-Star race. NASCAR intends for Gen-7 to lower

Denny Hamlin blasted rival Joey Logano after he felt he was held up unnecessarily by the lapped Penske driver during the NASCAR Cup race at Dover. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Hamlin dominated the first stage from pole and appeared well on his way to a stage-two win until Logano – who was 24 laps

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson ended a 75-race streak dating back to 2017 without a NASCAR Cup race victory by winning at Dover. Larson was the early challenger to Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin, who was celebrating his 500th Cup start. Polesitter Hamlin convincingly won the first stage and was dominating the early stages

Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr has hit out at NASCAR Cup Series rival Alex Bowman after throwing water over the Hendrick Motorsports driver following clashes in the Charlotte Roval race. The pair clashed twice in the race that set the Round of 12, including a first-lap coming together in which Bowman braked too late and hit

Hendrick Motorsports NASCAR Cup driver Alex Bowman says he is trying to quietly move on from the Charlotte spat in which rival Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr threw liquid on him. Bowman, who had to start from the rear of the field last Sunday at the Charlotte Roval in a back-up car, rallied to finish second

Jimmie Johnson underlined he wants to delay any decision about his long-term NASCAR future as long as possible, as Hendrick Motorsports announced a sponsor deal covering his car through 2023. The 44-year-old seven-time Cup champion’s current contract with Hendrick expires at the end of next year. He has not won a Cup round since June

NASCAR officials will speak to Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr over his confrontation with Alex Bowman where Wallace threw water over his rival after the Charlotte Roval Cup race. Bowman was receiving medical assistance next to his car when Wallace came over and threw water from his drinks bottle at the Hendrick Motorsports driver. The pair

Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr has hit out at NASCAR Cup Series rival Alex Bowman after throwing water over the Hendrick Motorsports driver following clashes in the Charlotte Roval race. The pair clashed twice in the race that set the Round of 12, including a first-lap coming together in which Bowman braked too late and hit

Chase Elliott crashed and then won an action-packed NASCAR Cup race at the Charlotte Roval as playoff positions for the round of 12 were decided. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led home team-mate Alex Bowman, who secured his place in the next round of the post-season with the result. It was very nearly a different story

Ricky Stenhouse Jr will leave Roush Fenway Racing after seven full seasons with the team and be replaced by Chris Buescher for the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series campaign. Stenhouse, who had signed a two-year contract extension earlier this year, has driven the #17 for RFR full-time since the 2013 season following back-to-back Xfinity Series titles

NASCAR Cup Series points leader Martin Truex Jr said his spin on the way to a second victory in a row at Richmond “added some drama” to the race. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Truex was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse, but managed to avoid the wall and only fell from the lead to third, and a

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Erik Jones has become the first person to be disqualified from a NASCAR Cup race under the series’ new crackdown on rules infringements. Jones – who finished 36th last weekend in the playoff opener at Las Vegas – was originally credited with a fourth-place finish on Saturday night at Richmond, part

Martin Truex Jr survived a spin to win the 2019 NASCAR Cup season’s second race at Richmond, taking his second victory in a row and his sixth this year. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who also won the track’s April Cup round, was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse Jr in the final stage and sent spinning,

Martin Truex Jr says his Las Vegas NASCAR Cup win vindicates the direction his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota squad has been working in, despite an extended run without victories. The current Cup Series points’ leader and 2017 champion hadn’t won on an oval since Charlotte in May, despite feeling like he has had the car

Kyle Busch has blasted “pathetic” backmarkers after the Las Vegas NASCAR Cup Series race, following an incident with Garrett Smithley which led to a 19th place finish. Busch’s race started badly when he hit the wall at the exit of Turn 2 early on, forcing an out of sync pitstop and causing him to plummet

Martin Truex Jr secured his spot in the next stage of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs by winning the first race of the post-season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Joe Gibbs Toyota driver came to the fore in the second stage of the 267-lap race and was consistently the fastest car on track as

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson says he is “favouring more years” in the series if he is “forced to make a decision” by Hendrick Motorsports. Johnson has a contract until the end of 2020, but after testing a Formula 1 car alongside Fernando Alonso last year, Johnson reaffirmed his interest in contesting an

Stewart-Haas Racing driver Clint Bowyer says he still regrets not pushing Martin Truex Jr out of the way to win the Richmond NASCAR Cup Series round five months ago. Bowyer just made it into the 2019 playoffs with his fifth place finish at Indianapolis last weekend, and has not won a race so far this

Matt DiBenedetto has secured a place on the NASCAR Cup Series grid for 2020, signing for Wood Brothers Racing to replace the retiring Paul Menard. DiBenedetto has enjoyed a breakthrough season in the Cup series with the one-car Leavine Family Racing outfit in 2019, lifting the team out of the struggles it had when running

Darrell Wallace Jr believes he reminded his critics that he “can drive” with his third place in the Indianapolis NASCAR Cup Series round. Richard Petty Motorsports driver Wallace famously came close to Daytona 500 victory last year at the start of his first full season at NASCAR’s top level. But he has taken just two

Jimmie Johnson blamed his first-ever failure to qualify for NASCAR’s playoffs on ’25 bad races’ rather than the Indianapolis crash that ended his chance of being a Cup title contender. The seven-time champion has not won a championship race since Dover in June 2017, and his hopes of making it into the playoffs via his

Brad Keselowski hit out at the “atrocious angle” of the Indianapolis barrier that he hit in his massive NASCAR Cup crash. Penske Ford driver Keselowski tangled with Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones just before one-third distance in Sunday’s race. Both cars were sent into the outside wall at the exit of Turn 2 before Keselowski’s