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4:28 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano, who won the October race in Las Vegas, qualified Saturday for the pole position in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400. Logano, driving the Team Penske No. 22 Ford, had a speed of 186.053 mph. He has won three of his past eight

7:56 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Austin Hill overtook Chandler Smith just before the final lap to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Smith, who was the pole sitter, led 118 laps of the 200-lap race and appeared to be in good shape before Hill made his

1:01 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Chase Elliott is out indefinitely after undergoing a successful three-hour surgery to repair a fractured tibia, Hendrick Motorsports general manager Jeff Andrews said Saturday. Andrews said there was no timeline on when the star NASCAR driver would return. Editor’s Picks Elliott injured his left leg Friday while

7:51 PM ET Associated Press Chase Elliott injured his left leg in a snowboarding accident in Colorado on Friday and will miss this weekend’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas. Hendrick Motorsports said NASCAR’s most popular driver was scheduled to have surgery Friday evening. No additional details about Elliott’s condition or the accident were provided. Josh

3:37 PM ET Associated Press Kurt Busch still has not yet been cleared by doctors as his career remains prematurely curtailed because of lingering effects from a concussion suffered in a wreck during qualifying last summer at Pocono Raceway. Busch, 44, instead is now a de facto consultant for his old 23XI Racing team and

11:44 PM ET Associated Press FONTANA, Calif. — John Hunter Nemechek held off Sam Mayer and earned his third career Xfinity Series victory in a rare Sunday night race on the final NASCAR weekend at Auto Club Speedway’s famed two-mile track. Nemechek reclaimed the lead shortly after a restart with 12 laps to go and

7:41 PM ET Associated Press FONTANA, Calif. — Kyle Busch sent Fontana off in style Sunday, storming up from the back after an early penalty and earning his first victory for Richard Childress Racing while winning on this Southern California track for the fifth time. Busch held off Chase Elliott and Ross Chastain in NASCAR’s

7:58 PM ET Associated Press FONTANA, Calif. — NASCAR postponed the Xfinity Series race at Fontana to Sunday night because of steady rain at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday. Practice and qualifying sessions for both weekend races at Fontana had already been canceled because of consistent, heavy rain from an extraordinary Southern California storm. The

12:48 PM ET Associated Press FONTANA, Calif. — NASCAR has canceled practice and qualifying sessions for the weekend races at Fontana because of ongoing heavy rains. Both the Cup Series and Xfinity Series drivers will race without practice on the track east of Los Angeles, with the starting orders determined by the metric used to

9:41 PM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Fifty-two lead changes among 21 drivers. Only three in-race cautions over the race’s first 198 laps and then three more over the final 13 laps, 10 run in overtime. A Daytona 500 winner who didn’t take the lead until that OT and then pulled into Victory Lane for

7:06 PM ET ESPN News Services DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has had a roller-coaster career in which he had to fight to keep a job, lost his seat at a NASCAR powerhouse team and opened his 14th season mired in a five-year losing streak. To say this Daytona 500 was a milestone

11:11 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It wasn’t the Daytona 500, but Austin Hill gladly took the win. Hill won the Xfinity Series season-opening race Saturday night for the second consecutive year to diminish some of the sting the Richard Childress Racing driver felt two days earlier when he failed to qualify

1:04 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Richard Petty might still reign as NASCAR’s King, but with Jimmie Johnson wresting control of Petty’s old race team, he is definitively not the boss. Petty essentially has been stripped of power inside his former eponymous race team that rapidly rebranded and has been rebuilt since

1:39 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin and his six fellow Toyota drivers skipped the final practice for The Great American Race. Even action sports star Travis Pastrana, who has little experience at Daytona International Speedway, sat out the 50-minute session Saturday. He is driving a third

8:08 AM ET Alyssa RoenigkESPN Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). Action sports icon Travis Pastrana is talking with a reporter at the Daytona International Speedway media center on Wednesday afternoon

7:57 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Seven-time is officially back. Jimmie Johnson, making his return to stock car racing after a two-year dalliance in IndyCar, topped the first practice session for the Daytona 500 on Friday. The two-time Daytona 500 winner and seven-time Cup Series champion reached a top speed of 194.25

10:16 AM ET With qualifying and the Duels in the books, the NASCAR world is counting down to Sunday’s Daytona 500. Sean Gardner/Getty Images DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It is time for the 65th running of the Daytona 500, NASCAR‘s biggest event on its biggest stage, kicking off what many believe could be one of the

9:13 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — IndyCar driver Conor Daly raced Floyd Mayweather Jr. into the Daytona 500 for a second consecutive year by bobbing and weaving his way through myriad issues for the ill-prepared team. Daly’s attempt to make his first Daytona 500 was announced only last week as part of