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6:16 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — AJ Allmendinger continued his dominance of NASCAR road course racing and set himself up for a sweep at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a victory Saturday in the Xfinity Series. Allmendinger has won six of the past 11 road course races — nine in his NASCAR career — and

1:12 PM ET ESPN News Services Erik Jones and Petty GMS Motorsports on Saturday announced a multiyear extension for Jones to continue driving the No. 43 Chevrolet. Jones joined Richard Petty Motorsports in 2021 and stayed in the car this season when GMS Racing and RPM merged. He has seven top-10 finishes this season and

11:08 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Busch started his Saturday by joining past winners at the hallowed Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a class photo on the Yard of Bricks. He was seated next to Arie Luyendyk and in front of Marcus Ericsson, Alexander Rossi and Helio Castroneves — a combined eight Indianapolis 500

12:58 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Grant Enfinger grabbed the lead with four fresh tires after a wild overtime restart and pulled away to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series playoff opener Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Restarting second on the inside row, Enfinger squeezed the No. 23 GMS Racing Chevrolet past

11:24 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Roger Penske added another major event to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 2023 with the return of the IMSA sports car championship. The “IMSA Battle on the Bricks” will bring the NASCAR-owned series to Indy’s 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course for a 160-minute race. The event scheduled for Sept. 17

2:29 PM ET William E. Ricks Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James and his charity, the LeBron James Family Foundation, have entered the NASCAR world. 1 Related The foundation’s logo and colors will be the paint scheme for NASCAR driver Chris Buescher‘s No. 17 car at the FireKeepers Casino 400 in Michigan on Aug. 7,

1:59 PM ET It wasn’t the Brickyard 400, but AJ Allmendinger still kissed the bricks after winning at Indianapolis last season. Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Brickyard is the Brickyard no longer. Yes, the race still has the word in the title — the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard. Indy is still Indy and Indy will always

5:24 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kurt Busch will miss Sunday’s NASCAR race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with concussion-like symptoms and will be replaced again by Ty Gibbs in the Toyota for 23XI Racing. The team said Wednesday that Busch has not been cleared to race for a second consecutive week. He crashed

12:07 PM ET Darlington Raceway has signed Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall in the first lengthy name, image and likeness partnership between a NASCAR racetrack and a college football player. Atlanta Motor Speedway has done one-off social media promotions with a trio of Georgia football players to promote its most recent NASCAR Cup Series events,

6:05 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR levied another round of massive penalties on Tuesday, this time against Michael McDowell and Front Row Motorsports for illegal modifications discovered after McDowell’s sixth-place finish at Pocono Raceway. NASCAR fined crew chief Blake Harris $100,000 and suspended him for four races. McDowell was docked 100 driver

6:37 PM ET ESPN News Services Joe Gibbs Racing apologized for flunking a postrace inspection and declined to appeal the penalties that cost their drivers a win and second-place finish on Sunday. NASCAR carried out its stiffest punishment against a race winner in more than 60 years when it stripped JGR’s Denny Hamlin of his

11:59 AM ET ESPN News Services Chase Elliott left Pocono Raceway as a third-place finisher and learned when he landed home in Georgia that he had been declared the race winner. And now it will stand. Joe Gibbs Racing declined to appeal NASCAR’s decision to strip Denny Hamlin‘s victory and teammate Kyle Busch‘s runner-up finish

2:49 PM ET Denny Hamlin was stripped of his Pocono win on Sunday night after his Toyota Camry failed technical inspection. Logan Riely/Getty Images Next Gen car, Next Gen punishment. On Sunday evening, so soon after the finish of the 21st race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season that the confetti was still stuck to

7:00 PM ET ESPN News Services LONG POND, Pa. — The siren at the Dawsonville, Georgia, pool hall that sounds whenever Chase Elliott wins a race did indeed go off Sunday night without the hometown star ever leading a lap at Pocono Raceway. “Winner, winner Joe Gibbs Racing are cheaters!” the Dawsonville Pool Room tweeted.

12:41 PM ET ESPN News Services LONG POND, Pa. — Kurt Busch was not cleared by NASCAR’s medical staff to compete in Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway, and the 23XI Racing driver was replaced by 19-year-old Ty Gibbs. Busch, 43, who has hinted next season will be his last driving in NASCAR, tweeted he suffered

5:18 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Denny Hamlin turned the fastest lap at Pocono Raceway and will lead the NASCAR Cup Series field to green Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Hamlin is joined on the front row by Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch. Hamlin went 169.991 mph on the 2½-mile tri-oval track

8:22 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Noah Gragson kept a hard-charging Ty Gibbs at bay down the stretch and held on to win his third Xfinity Series race of the season Saturday night at Pocono Raceway. Gragson also won at Phoenix and Talladega and he took JR Motorsports to victory lane for

2:28 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Zane Smith clinched the regular-season NASCAR Truck Series championship and Chandler Smith took the checkered flag Saturday at Pocono Raceway. Chandler Smith won his second race of the season driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports and is one of only two drivers in the playoff field with