NASCAR (Page 171)

NASCAR.com’s Kim Coon goes 1-on-1 with Elton Sawyer, NASCAR’s senior vice president of competition to discuss NASCAR’s decision to levy penalties against Austin Dillon and the No. 3 team following the final lap at Richmond Raceway. SourceContinue Reading

Under-fire NASCAR Cup race winner Austin Dillon insists that his spotter’s “wreck him!” call before he collided with Denny Hamlin at Richmond on Sunday night “didn’t change” what then happened.Dillon qualified for the playoffs with his victory but is awaiting NASCAR’s penalty report from the weekend to see if itContinue Reading

Jones’ signing comes on the heels of a recent organizational shakeup at LMC. Longtime NASCAR engineer Jacob Canter took over as director of competition and Bobby Kennedy was hired in a newly created position of general manager.Jones, 28, is currently in his eighth full-time Cup season and fourth with theContinue Reading

Hamlin believes that if NASCAR stripped Austin Dillon of his win in Sunday’s Cup race at Richmond that all other drivers in the garage would agree that it was “warranted”.Dillon wrecked Joey Logano and Hamlin in the final two turns to claim victory and a place in NASCAR’s end-of-season playoffsContinue Reading

NASCAR and Goodyear gave each team two sets of “option” (or softer) tires it could use in the 400-lap event in addition to the four sets of its “prime” (or regular harder) tires.It was up to teams when to utilize them in the race. The only stipulation was that theyContinue Reading

Dillon lost the lead to Joey Logano on the restart to overtime but as the two raced into Turn 3 on the final lap, Dillon drove hard into the corner and into the back of Logano, sending him into the wall.Moments later, as Denny Hamlin raced up on the insideContinue Reading