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Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 26, 2023, 11:46 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on

Associated Press Sep 25, 2023, 09:20 AM ET IndyCar will return to the Milwaukee Mile next season, and Texas Motor Speedway is off the calendar for the first time since 1997 in the 2024 schedule released Monday. The 17-race schedule features two Saturday night races, a $1 million all-star race in Southern California, 12 races

Associated Press Sep 24, 2023, 08:12 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — William Byron took the lead for the first time after the final restart with six laps left to win at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, advancing to the round of eight in the NASCAR playoffs while giving Hendrick Motorsports its 300th victory. With

Associated Press Sep 23, 2023, 08:55 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — John Hunter Nemechek moved into the Round of 8 of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win at Texas, where he took the final lead after front-running Justin Allgaier got moved up the track on the 195th of 200 laps on Saturday. It

Associated Press Sep 23, 2023, 03:59 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — Bubba Wallace will start from the pole at Texas Motor Speedway, the first race after he just made the cut to get into the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs. Wallace turned a lap of 188.337 mph in the final round of qualifying Saturday,

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 21, 2023, 12:03 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on

Tisha Thompson Sep 19, 2023, 12:44 PM ET The NFL, MLB and NASCAR are lobbying lawmakers this week to alter a bill before the U.S. Senate that would loosen flight restrictions over the nation’s major stadiums and raceways for the first time since 9/11. “I’m very worried,” said Cathy Lanier, the NFL’s senior vice president

Associated Press Sep 16, 2023, 06:58 PM ET Truck Series champion Zane Smith has been signed to a multi-year contract with Trackhouse Racing in which he will be loaned to Spire Motorsports for a Cup Series ride in 2024. Smith, 24, will fold into the Trackhouse lineup when the team is able to expand to

ESPN News Services Sep 16, 2023, 10:52 PM ET The best driver to never win a NASCAR championship believes he can lose that tag this year. At least that’s what Denny Hamlin told the Bristol Motor Speedway crowd as they booed his third win of the year, 51st of his career, and third in the

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 10:36 PM ET BRISTOL, Tenn. — Justin Allgaier earned a spot in the second round of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win Friday night in the opening race at Bristol Motor Speedway. It was Allgaier’s second career victory at Bristol — the first was in 2010 — and salvaged

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 05:30 PM ET A shell-shocked Martin Truex Jr. has slumped into Bristol Motor Speedway fighting for his season. Truex won the regular-season title, but two bad races to open NASCAR’s playoffs has him on the brink of elimination headed into Saturday night’s race. The bottom four drivers in the 16-driver

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 02:38 PM ET BRISTOL, Tenn. — Daniel Hemric will return to the NASCAR Cup Series next year in a promotion with Kaulig Racing. Hemric is in his second full season racing in the Xfinity Series for Kaulig and third consecutive season overall. He won the Xfinity championship in 2021 driving

Associated Press Sep 15, 2023, 02:28 PM ET BRISTOL, Tenn. — Bristol Motor Speedway is ditching the dirt. The Tennessee short track that has used a dirt surface the past three years for its NASCAR races will run both NASCAR weekends in 2024 on its traditional concrete surface. Bristol in 2021 covered the high-banked, .0533-mile

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterSep 15, 2023, 09:43 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, we’re detailing our 75 favorite things about the pinnacle of stock car racing. Illustration by ESPN We are closing in on

Associated Press Sep 14, 2023, 10:40 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Shane van Gisbergen’s expected move to NASCAR will be in a development program driving in all three national series for Trackhouse Racing. The New Zealand native won his NASCAR debut race on the downtown streets of Chicago driving for Trackhouse in early July. He

Associated Press Sep 10, 2023, 07:04 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Tyler Reddick took advantage of a late caution and fresh tires to rocket past six others in a two-lap sprint to the finish Sunday, and he punched his ticket to the next round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs with his win at

Associated Press Sep 9, 2023, 08:43 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. — John Hunter Nemechek dominated the Xfinity Series race at Kansas Speedway on Saturday, denying second-place finisher Brandon Jones the win that would have gotten him into the playoffs and allowing Parker Kligerman to slide into the final spot. Sheldon Creed finished third, Kligerman

Associated Press Sep 9, 2023, 02:48 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Christopher Bell won the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, putting himself in good position to wiggle off the playoff bubble and make next week’s cut-off a little less stressful. Bell was the only driver among