Zach’s Turn: To Say Goodbye
As I sit in my Airbnb on the final night of my Daytona 500 coverage, two words come to mind: I’m blessed.
As I sit in my Airbnb on the final night of my Daytona 500 coverage, two words come to mind: I’m blessed.
Aric Almirola knew this Daytona 500 was going to be different.
The 64th annual Great American Race may be his last, the three-time Cup Series race winner having announced his retirement from full-time NASCAR racing after what will be 11 complete seasons. Pre-race, he was soaking in every moment with family members, close sponsor representatives and others.
Post-race, he was wishing he had one more shot.
Austin Hill took a gamble on the last lap that paid off, shooting out ahead of AJ Allmendinger to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
Parker Kligerman escaped the Big One by inches. And on the race’s final restart, he was one move away from having a legitimate shot at winning the NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona International Speedway.
Kligerman shoved Zane Smith to the lead in the outside lane on the first lap of a green-white-checkered restart with a perfect tandem draft…
JJ Yeley was in prime position to qualify for the Daytona 500 until a last-lap pass by Kaz Grala — and a slowing Daniel Hemric — sent Yeley’s No. 55 team home.
Former F1 and Indy 500 champion Jacques Villeneuve qualified on speed Wednesday for the 64th running of the Daytona 500.
Kyle Busch eyes his first Daytona 500 victory in his 17th try, while Denny Hamlin sets his sights on the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs for Bubba Wallace and Kurt Busch.
For years, Rick Ware Racing was seen as the tail end of the NASCAR Cup Series field — a program without the funds to afford top-level equipment but dedicated to getting four cars on the racetrack every week.
LOS ANGELES — From the very start, NASCAR knew trying to race inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was a gamble. The risk was worth it and NASCAR hit the jackpot. The 2022 Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum was an undeniable success. Inside the confines of a football stadium sat over 50,000 spectators, 70% …
Inside the storied walls of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum sits a quarter-mile racetrack, built solely for a one-off exhibition short-track race for the NASCAR Cup Series in downtown L.A.
The idea would have felt absurd any time before 2020, before any mention of COVID-19 threatened to halt the world, let alone the sport. But NASCAR today is not the NASCAR of the last five decades – or even the last five years.
The majority of the credit lies with people like NASCAR’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation Ben Kennedy and Patrick Rogers, the sport’s vice president of marketing, for being willing to think outside the box and turn a previously unthinkable decision into a reality that comes to fruition Sunday night (Feb. 6).
Finally, after two years of testing and a yearlong postponement of its official launch, the newest iteration of the NASCAR Cup Series has arrived. NASCAR’s Next Gen car is here, fresh with a newly announced rules package that features a baseline 670-horsepower, 4-inch rear spoiler, more symmetrical vehicles and more spec parts than a Cup …
PHOENIX — When the caution flag came out with 64 laps to go at Phoenix Raceway, Kyle Larson found himself in a predicament. Fellow Championship 4 driver Martin Truex Jr., who had proven his strength on the long run, caught a lucky break by being on pit road when Anthony Alfredo slammed the turn 2 …
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