Just four races into the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, Hendrick Motorsports has already won twice. Last week at Homestead-Miami Speedway, William Byron drove off to a convincing win, the second of his Cup Series career. This past Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, it was Kyle Larson’s turn to capture the checkered flag. Larson, …
During the first few weeks of the 2021 NASCAR season, start times of races have become a point of debate. This weekend’s slate of races at Homestead-Miami Speedway featured the same later-than-usual green flag times as the first two races weekends. Saturday’s Xfinity Series race took the green flag around 4:45 p.m. local time. The …
Raise your hand if you thought that, two races into the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, the two race winners would be Michael McDowell and Christopher Bell. If you made that prediction a few weeks ago, a fellow race fan might have assumed that you’d spent too much time around the gasoline fumes on pit …
Denny Hamlin set out to do something nobody else has done before: win three consecutive Daytona 500s. Despite leading six times for a race-high 98 laps, the three-peat was denied with a fifth-place finish. But the story of Hamlin’s 2021 season goes far beyond the Great American Race. He will get to experience the highs …
Lost in the conclusion of the 2020 NASCAR season was the rather abrupt departure of Clint Bowyer from the driver’s seat. Bowyer, who was wrapping up his 15th full-time season as a Cup Series racer, faced an uncertain future with Stewart-Haas Racing. Despite some speculation that SHR’s driver lineup would not change for 2021, Bowyer …
It wasn’t long ago that Hendrick Motorsports had one of the oldest driver lineups in NASCAR. Five years ago, at the time of Jeff Gordon’s final race in his famed No. 24 car, the organization’s youngest driver was Kasey Kahne at 35 years old. With Gordon’s career wrapping up amid a bourgeoning youth movement in …
As usual, Martinsville Speedway provided no shortage of entertainment. Sunday’s race, the penultimate event of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season, offered up plenty of close quarters short track racing. It also featured a tighter battle among the playoff drivers than most fans would have foreseen, given the points among the drivers. But the biggest …
As NASCAR’s 2021 Cup Series lineup slowly comes into focus, the new team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin is beginning to take shape. Several weeks ago, Jordan and Hamlin announced their organization would debut next season with driver Bubba Wallace. We also learned last week that the team, as previously speculated, will be …
Back in the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to heat up, Chip Ganassi Racing had a mess on its hands. While participating in an iRacing event on Easter Sunday, Kyle Larson uttered a racial slur over what he thought was a private communication line. Unfortunately for him, the line wasn’t private. Within …
For the first time in his NASCAR career, Alex Bowman has made it to the Round of 8 in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Entering Sunday’s race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL, Bowman was seventh in points, holding a 22-point advantage over the cutline. Like most of the playoff contenders, he fought through an …
Sunday’s (Oct. 4) NASCAR Cup Series playoff race was a typical Talladega Superspeedway thriller. But once the dust had settled on its photo finish, the YellaWood 500 looked more like the yellow line 500. Following a chaotic last-lap ending, Denny Hamlin walked away with the checkered flag. Behind him, drivers who appeared to score top-10 …
With the 2020 season entering its final stage, NASCAR is beginning to look toward next year. This last week in September brought considerable news regarding driver lineups for 2021. There have also been rumors that major changes could be in store for the Cup Series schedule. But even as more news trickles out about the …
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