In response to NASCAR suspending two key member of their over-the-wall pit crew, Denny Hamlin and the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 team have elected to defer that suspension a week, meaning that it will be served over the races at Kansas Speedway and the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL.Hamlin willContinue Reading
The Bristol Night Race drew an average of 1.536 million viewers for a .79 rating on USA Network on Saturday night.This is down from 1.868 million and a .98 on the same weekend last year. However, this also makes NASCAR the second most watched sport of the weekend behind theContinue Reading
At Bristol Motor Speedway, Denny Hamlin had nothing to worry about as he was already locked into the Round of 12. Unfortunately, the race still had an impact on his future playoff races.385 laps into the event, Hamlin’s car shot up the track, collecting pole-sitter A.J. Allmendinger and causing significantContinue Reading
Layne Riggs says there was an ‘aha’ moment where he fully made the transition form champion Late Model driver to fully comfortable NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series contender and that occurred at Gateway last summer.“That was the click race,” Riggs told Motorsport.com over the phone on Tuesday. “I was running 15thContinue Reading
Imagine being Ryan Blaney, participating in one of the wildest and most unpredictable races of the year on Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, when all of a sudden someone not on the Team Penske No. 12 crew comes over the radio.“Hi Uncle Ryan … win the race.”There was immediateContinue Reading
The racing product at Bristol Motor Speedway during the NextGen era has been a bit of a philosophical tug-of-war and the races since 2022 reflect that back-and-forth.The turning point was the spring race in 2024 where cold temperatures prevented rubber from being laid into the track, resulting in tire shreddingContinue Reading
On SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s ‘The Morning Drive’, Rudy Fugle, crew chief for the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and driver William Byron, offered his thoughts on the return of Bristol’s ‘chaos tire’ this past weekend. Hitting the ‘magic track temperature,’ the Bristol Night Race produced 36 lead changes (compared to justContinue Reading
Denny Hamlin enters the second Round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs as the team seeded driver at 26 points above the cutline but may lose two of this over-the-wall crewmembers for the next two races at New Hampshire and Kansas.This is due to an incident on Lap 385 ofContinue Reading
While all eyes were on the playoff drivers in Saturday’s elimination race, Ty Gibbs stole the show as he had the most dominant performance of his entire NASCAR Cup Series career.Making his 116th career start and still searching for his first win, Gibbs led 201 of 500 laps, but anContinue Reading
Tony Stewart, 54, is still racing long beyond the end of his Hall of Fame NASCAR career. Recently, he claimed the 2025 NHRA Top Fuel regular season crown as he competes in place of his wife, Leah Pruett, as the couple welcomed their first son Dominic earlier this year.On Sunday, the three-timeContinue Reading