In a NASCAR season full of big surprises, Chip Ganassi was the latest person to drop a bombshell. Ganassi revealed on Wednesday (June 30) that he would sell his NASCAR team to Justin Marks and Trackhouse Racing at the end of the year. Although he remains a fixture in the American motorsports scene with operations …
At the end of the 2019 season, Joe Gibbs Racing was fortunate to have three drivers in position to compete for the championship. Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr. had all battled through the playoff gauntlet and were one race away from winning the title. Hamlin was coming off a win the previous …
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was one of the biggest surprises of Sunday’s race (June 20). In the first visit by the NASCAR Cup Series to Nashville Superspeedway, Stenhouse had a fast car all day long. The JTG Daugherty Racing driver was able to drive up into the top 10 and top five on several occasions, running …
Kurt Busch’s services as a racecar driver are in high demand. In the third and final season of his current contract with Chip Ganassi Racing, Busch is poised to be one of the biggest free agents of the upcoming offseason. At the end of the day, he may return to CGR to run the NASCAR …
Teammates in NASCAR often have to walk a fine line. Drivers who compete for the same multi-car organization usually show a certain level of on-track courtesy to each other. However, racing in NASCAR does not have the same level of comprehensive cooperation among teammates that you sometimes see in other motorsports. Racers are expected, and …
NASCAR stage racing has been around since 2017. Now in the fifth year of its current format, will this rule be the next one to fall by the wayside as the sport goes through a wave of recent changes? As recently as a few years ago, it seemed almost unbelievable NASCAR would make major adjustments …
NASCAR’s inaugural weekend at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas featured plenty of surprises. But one positive outcome that most fans might not have anticipated was a great run for Ross Chastain. Chastain is in the midst of his first full-time NASCAR Cup Series season with Chip Ganassi Racing. Prior to 2021, he …
Rick Hendrick will not forget Sunday’s (May 16) race at Dover International Speedway anytime soon. His quartet of Cup Series drivers conquered Miles the Monster, earning the first 1-2-3-4 finish for the team in its 37-year history. The sight of the No. 48 Chevrolet rolling into victory lane was certainly a familiar one, but this …
In the spirit of NASCAR’s throwback weekend at Darlington Raceway, think back to the 2017 season. It’s the last time Richard Childress Racing put multiple cars in the Cup Series playoffs. Can they do it again in 2021? Back then, both drivers punched their tickets to the postseason with victories. Veteran Ryan Newman stole a …
If Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway was too orderly for the first 200 laps, the ending was full of surprises. A flurry of cautions in the closing laps kept the field bunched together. While the drivers up front were running into each other for the lead, those further back in the pack …
Most weekends when NASCAR comes to town, Talladega Superspeedway is an agent of chaos. The success, or failure, of many a driver hinges on what happens whenever the Big One breaks out. Talladega’s races often come down to who can avoid the seemingly inevitable carnage and survive to race for the win in the closing …
On the day (April 18) when Jimmie Johnson ran his first IndyCar race, it was only fitting that Alex Bowman brought the No. 48 car back to victory lane. Bowman emerged as a surprise winner at Richmond Raceway, a track where he had never had a top-five finish. His 2021 win was the first for …
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