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In this moment, Denny Hamlin feels pretty even-tempered on what appears to be another missed opportunity at winning a championship, this time in his planned penultimate campaign at the highest level. With his win at Talladega on Sunday, Kyle Larson now has a 92.7 percent chance…
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NASCAR takes on the historic Martinsville short track for the penultimate round of the 2026 season across all three national divisions. In the Cup Series, Kyle Larson is on the edge of clinching the 2026 title, now 73 points ahead of Denny Hamlin after an impressive victory at…
NASCAR Cup Series managing director Brad Moran says the number one priority upon reaching the offseason will be solving the superspeedway fuel saving dynamic before the green flag waves on the Daytona 500 in February. Despite numerous attempted fixes, teams continue to find a…
There's been a lot of talk about yellow line penalties this week, and it's a debate that reappears often at superspeedways. The rule was established about 25 years ago for safety reasons but it still brings controversy to this day. Despite many penalties over the years, only…
At Talladega, Chevrolet got exactly what they wanted as Kyle Larson's five-point advantage in the championship ballooned up to +73pts after his first-ever superspeedway win. Chevrolet drivers also managed to sweep the top six positions, and most impressively, did so with five…
NASCAR threatened a good portion of the field during the first stage of Sunday’s Cup Series race with a black flag if they did not pick up the pace and meet minimum speed. In the name of fuel saving, everyone except the three RFK Racing drivers began puttering around the…
Carson Hocevar went behind the wall during the red flag with five laps to go in last weekend's NASCAR Cup event at Talladega, and somehow returned to the race without losing a single lap. Now, teams cannot work on cars under the red flag, but the Spire Motorsports team still…
At the end of September, the NASCAR world was shocked to learn that Brad Keselowski would depart the team he co-owns at the end of the 2026 season, as RFK Racing splits from the champion that helped bring them back to a competitive level. Keselowski has since been fairly vague…
Denny Hamlin gave Kyle Larson a lot of credit for how he won the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway while also suggesting that he had a lot of help in doing so. To wit, there was a widespread belief and reporting on Sunday that Chevrolet teams were…
The Comcast Community Champion of the Year Award, which was established in 2015, is offered to an individual in NASCAR to recognize their 'community service-focused efforts to make the world a better place.' And in 2016, the award will have co-winners for the very first time --…
In 2004, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was celebrating yet another Talladega win. In Victory Lane after the EA Sports 500, Earnhardt used a profanity when he hilariously said about his fifth Talladega win: "It don't mean sh*t right now, daddy's done won here ten times so I gotta do a…
This October's NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway was certainly a memorable one, and pretty much all title contenders encountered issues except for the one already sitting atop the standings. This race featured a bizarre opening stage where three cars drove off to…
Chase Elliott said the decision to withdraw his name from the NASCAR Cup Series most popular driver award to encourage a posthumous victory by Kyle Busch was inspired by his father before him. In 2001, Bill Elliott withdrew his eligibility after winning the award 15 of the…