For the last couple years, Truex has made year-to-year decisions on whether to return the following season – usually putting it off as long as possible.But the debate was never over performance on the track. Even though he remains without a win so far this year, Truex insisted results played no role.“We’veContinue Reading
As Friday’s 150-lap race wound to a close Zilisch, a 17-year-old development driver for Trackhouse Racing, found himself trying to hold off fellow 17-year-old William Sawalich, a development driver for Toyota and Joe Gibbs Racing.Three times in the final 23 laps, Zilisch and Sawalich raced side-by-side and banged fenders onContinue Reading
For one of the few times this season, Cup teams were given a 50-minute practice session on Friday, this time because it’s the series’ first race at the .875-mile oval. The track has also been recently partially repaved.With several cars doing mock qualifying runs late in the session, Gragson endedContinue Reading
Kyle Larson took an impressive victory at Sonoma Raceway, passing both Chris Buescher and Martin Truex Jr. late in the race.Truex ran out of fuel in the final corner, crawling across the line in 27th place. With the victory and Denny Hamlin’s early exit due to an engine failure, LarsonContinue Reading
RFK Racing already fields two full-time entries with team co-owner Brad Keselowski and Chris Buescher, but Hand will be the latest to drive its ‘Stage 60’ entry, the No. 60 Ford which competes on a part-time basis.David Ragan drove the car in the Daytona 500 and 12-time Supercars winner CamContinue Reading
Briscoe, who drives the No. 14 Ford for SHR, is the only one of the organization’s four drivers who has run consistent enough so far this season to have a shot at making the 2024 Cup playoffs without a victory.His team-mates – Josh Berry, Ryan Preece and Noah Gragson –Continue Reading
McDowell, who typically runs well on road courses and superspeedways – and has won on both in the NASCAR Cup Series – saw Sunday’s race has a prime opportunity to earn his first win of the 2024 season.For McDowell, a win is likely the only way he makes the 16-driverContinue Reading
Early contact involving pole sitter Thomas Krasonis and series leader Martin Doubek opened the door for Lux Motorsport’s Davidson to take the lead in EuroNASCAR 2 Round 6 on Sunday.The Scotsman never looked back and dominated the competition on two late restarts to earn the fairytale victory and be crownedContinue Reading
That hasn’t prevented the former dirt racing standout from excelling in NASCAR competition as what he does behind the wheel more than makes up for whatever detailed knowledge he may lack.The latest example came in Sunday’s Cup race at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway as Larson’s crew chief, Cliff Daniels, elected to haveContinue Reading
Many of the planned race strategies went awry with seven cautions in the first 41 laps and that prompted Larson’s crew chief Cliff Daniels to run him as long as possible in the final stage before making his last pitstop.Once Larson finally stopped, he cycled into eighth but with muchContinue Reading