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Associated Press Oct 1, 2023, 06:18 PM ET TALLADEGA, Ala. — Ryan Blaney beat Kevin Harvick to the Talladega Superspeedway finish line by 0.012 seconds Sunday to advance into the round of eight of NASCAR’s playoffs and keep Harvick winless in his final season before retirement. Blaney used a crossover move from the outside lane

Associated Press Oct 1, 2023, 02:25 AM ET TALLADEGA, Ala. — Aric Almirola gave Stewart-Haas Racing a much-needed boost as Ford drivers swept the top three spots and seven of the top 10 in qualifying for Sunday’s playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway. Almirola earned the sixth pole of his career with a lap of 181.656

Associated Press Sep 28, 2023, 01:58 PM ET RALEIGH. N.C. — The NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race will remain at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway in 2024 after this year’s event — the first race for NASCAR there in 27 years — attracted a capacity crowd thrilled to return to stock car roots. State legislators joined

Associated Press Sep 28, 2023, 02:18 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — NASCAR will return to the 2.5-mile oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway next season for the 30-year anniversary of stock cars racing at the historic venue. The inaugural Brickyard 400 was held on Aug. 6, 1994, and was won by Indiana icon Jeff Gordon in the

Sep 27, 2023, 01:40 PM ET Kyle Busch sold his two-time winning NASCAR Truck Series team to Spire Motorsports on Wednesday. Terms were not announced. In addition to Kyle Busch Motorsports, Busch also sold the assets of Rowdy Manufacturing and the team’s 77,000-square-foot facility in Mooresville, N.C. “When we started the Truck Series team back

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 26, 2023, 11:46 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on

Associated Press Sep 25, 2023, 09:20 AM ET IndyCar will return to the Milwaukee Mile next season, and Texas Motor Speedway is off the calendar for the first time since 1997 in the 2024 schedule released Monday. The 17-race schedule features two Saturday night races, a $1 million all-star race in Southern California, 12 races

Associated Press Sep 24, 2023, 08:12 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — William Byron took the lead for the first time after the final restart with six laps left to win at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, advancing to the round of eight in the NASCAR playoffs while giving Hendrick Motorsports its 300th victory. With

Associated Press Sep 23, 2023, 08:55 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — John Hunter Nemechek moved into the Round of 8 of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win at Texas, where he took the final lead after front-running Justin Allgaier got moved up the track on the 195th of 200 laps on Saturday. It

Associated Press Sep 23, 2023, 03:59 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — Bubba Wallace will start from the pole at Texas Motor Speedway, the first race after he just made the cut to get into the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs. Wallace turned a lap of 188.337 mph in the final round of qualifying Saturday,

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 21, 2023, 12:03 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on

Tisha Thompson Sep 19, 2023, 12:44 PM ET The NFL, MLB and NASCAR are lobbying lawmakers this week to alter a bill before the U.S. Senate that would loosen flight restrictions over the nation’s major stadiums and raceways for the first time since 9/11. “I’m very worried,” said Cathy Lanier, the NFL’s senior vice president

Associated Press Sep 16, 2023, 06:58 PM ET Truck Series champion Zane Smith has been signed to a multi-year contract with Trackhouse Racing in which he will be loaned to Spire Motorsports for a Cup Series ride in 2024. Smith, 24, will fold into the Trackhouse lineup when the team is able to expand to

ESPN News Services Sep 16, 2023, 10:52 PM ET The best driver to never win a NASCAR championship believes he can lose that tag this year. At least that’s what Denny Hamlin told the Bristol Motor Speedway crowd as they booed his third win of the year, 51st of his career, and third in the

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 10:36 PM ET BRISTOL, Tenn. — Justin Allgaier earned a spot in the second round of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win Friday night in the opening race at Bristol Motor Speedway. It was Allgaier’s second career victory at Bristol — the first was in 2010 — and salvaged

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 05:30 PM ET A shell-shocked Martin Truex Jr. has slumped into Bristol Motor Speedway fighting for his season. Truex won the regular-season title, but two bad races to open NASCAR’s playoffs has him on the brink of elimination headed into Saturday night’s race. The bottom four drivers in the 16-driver

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 02:38 PM ET BRISTOL, Tenn. — Daniel Hemric will return to the NASCAR Cup Series next year in a promotion with Kaulig Racing. Hemric is in his second full season racing in the Xfinity Series for Kaulig and third consecutive season overall. He won the Xfinity championship in 2021 driving

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 02:28 PM ET BRISTOL, Tenn. — Bristol Motor Speedway is ditching the dirt. The Tennessee short track that has used a dirt surface the past three years for its NASCAR races will run both NASCAR weekends in 2024 on its traditional concrete surface. Bristol in 2021 covered the high-banked, .0533-mile