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ESPN staffMay 24, 2023, 11:22 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print James Gilbert/Getty Images NASCAR is racing the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday in Charlotte, North Carolina. Michael Jordan’s 23XI racing team will have two drivers — No. 23 Bubba Wallace and No. 45 Tyler Reddick — in the field for the longest

Associated Press May 24, 2023, 11:45 AM ET Alex Bowman has been cleared to return to racing this weekend for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway after missing four events with a fractured vertebra. Bowman was injured April 25 while competing in a sprint car race in Hendrick Motorsports’ teammate Kyle Larson‘s new racing

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterMay 22, 2023, 03:00 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year After 26 years of waiting, fans returned to North Wilkesboro Speedway on Sunday to witness the return of the NASCAR Cup Series. Sean Gardner/Getty Images NORTH

Associated Press May 22, 2023, 02:23 PM ET NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — Speedway Motorsports CEO Marcus Smith said North Wilkesboro Speedway “definitely has a place in the NASCAR world” moving forward, despite an All-Star race that lacked drama Sunday night. In what capacity remains to be seen. Smith was noncommittal about how North Wilkesboro might

Associated Press May 21, 2023, 10:24 PM ET NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — Kyle Larson didn’t mince words after his third All-Star race victory in the last five years. “That was an old school [butt]-whipping, for sure,” Larson said. Larson turned in a dominating effort to run away with his third All-Star race and earn $1

Associated Press May 20, 2023, 09:27 PM ET NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — Daniel Suarez and Chris Buescher will start on the front row for Sunday night’s All-Star race at North Wilkesboro Speedway after winning their respective 60-lap heats. Suarez beat out Joey Logano in the first heat at the .625-mile renovated track on a night

Associated Press May 18, 2023, 07:33 PM ET Three-time Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen will run the Cup Series race on the streets of Chicago in July, becoming the latest acclaimed international driver to venture to NASCAR’s top series for Trackhouse Racing. Van Gisbergen takes over in the No. 91 Chevrolet from former Formula One

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterMay 18, 2023, 11:48 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year North Wilkesboro Speedway was left in ruin after NASCAR stopped showing up in 1996. Aaron Burns/NWS Photo Nine-thousand, seven-hundred and thirty-one days. When the NASCAR All-Star

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterMay 16, 2023, 02:57 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year North Wilkesboro Speedway’s narrow pit lane became the stuff of legend in NASCAR. ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images “What the hell …?” The moving

ESPN News Services May 14, 2023, 07:20 PM ET DARLINGTON, S.C. — William Byron avoided a wreck between Ross Chastain and Kyle Larson on a restart six laps from the end and held on to win the Goodyear 400 in overtime at Darlington Raceway on Sunday. Byron, who got pushed out of the way by

Associated Press May 14, 2023, 03:48 PM ET DARLINGTON, S.C. — Alex Bowman is unsure when he can return to the track after fracturing his vertebrae in a short-track accident last month. The Hendrick Motorsports racer has missed the past three events, including Sunday’s Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway. Bowman came to the track to

Associated Press May 14, 2023, 12:32 PM ET DARLINGTON, S.C. — Kurt Busch hasn’t given up hope of competing in the NASCAR Cup Series again. Busch has been sidelined since suffering a concussion during a crash in qualifying at Pocono last summer. He announced in October that he’d be stepping out of his ride at

Associated Press May 13, 2023, 04:52 PM ET DARLINGTON, S.C. — Kyle Larson rallied from 30th starting the final stage, bumping John Hunter Nemechek coming out of the final turn as the two raced to the finish line to win the Xfinity Series race at Darlington Raceway on Saturday. Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series

Associated Press May 12, 2023, 11:57 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The fight between NASCAR and its teams over a new revenue model prompted the owners of 16 chartered organizations to send a letter to the series’ board of directors earlier this month requesting a “meaningful” dialogue regarding the franchise model system. The letter, a

Alanis King May 12, 2023, 08:41 AM ET Amid a boom for Y2K fashion, throwback NASCAR streetwear is in fashion now more than ever. Ryan Williams Brodie Butterfield, a tech worker in Australia, walked into his job one day and saw a colleague in a vintage Dale Earnhardt Sr. shirt. Earnhardt Sr., who won seven championships

Associated Press May 7, 2023, 07:47 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Denny Hamlin had walked out of Victory Lane after winning a thrilling NASCAR Cup Series duel over Kyle Larson with a last-lap pass at Kansas Speedway on Sunday just in time to hear his crew chief, Chris Gabehart, make a bold proclamation. “He’s

Associated Press May 6, 2023, 07:46 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. — William Byron scraped the wall in practice at Kansas Speedway, then proceed to set the fastest time in qualifying, and will be joined on the front row by Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race. Byron turned a lap

Associated Press May 5, 2023, 03:00 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Ryan Newman will return to the NASCAR Cup Series for the first time in nearly two years after Rick Ware Racing said Friday the veteran driver would make select starts this season beginning with the May 14 race at Darlington. The 45-year-old Newman