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Martin Truex Jr admits he ‘probably took away Kevin Harvick’s chance to win’ at the Kentucky Speedway after a thrilling last-lap NASCAR Cup duel, in which Cole Custer won out. Truex fought from the rear of the field to lead 57 laps on Sunday at Kentucky but, after losing the lead after two late restarts

Austin Dillon scored his first NASCAR Cup Series win since the 2018 Daytona 500 at Texas for Richard Childress Racing after seeing out a flurry of late restarts. After a caution period for a Quinn Houff spin on lap 306 of 334, Dillon was one of those to make a pitstop for fresh Goodyear tyres

Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott fended off a late charge from reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch to win the rescheduled All-Star race at Bristol and bank $1 million. The exhibition race is where those who scored a win in the previous year of Cup racing, are a past All-Star winner or a series champion

NASCAR has decided to keep its “show up and race” schedule for the remainder of the 2020 season in its three national series. Ever since NASCAR resumed running races in May following a two-month hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has run its race weekends without any practices and without qualifying except for the Coca-Cola

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin held on for his second consecutive NASCAR Cup victory at Kansas Speedway, having grabbed the lead with 13 of 267 laps remaining. Hamlin ended a streak of three sub-par finishes by passing Kevin Harvick for the lead with 13 laps to go and held off a furious challenge from Team

Maurice Petty, an engine builder who propelled the Petty family dynasty to NASCAR success and younger brother of NASCAR legend Richard, has died aged 81. Maurice primarily served the Petty Enterprises organisation, founded by his father Lee, as an engine builder and crew chief, but he also had his own racing career from 1960 to

Two-time Le Mans 24 race winner Earl Bamber will make his NASCAR debut in the Xfinity Series on the Daytona road course on 15 August. The Porsche factory driver, who took outright victory at Le Mans in 2015 and 2017, has signed to race for Richard Childress Racing in the team’s #21 Toyota Camry, which

With Brad Keselowski in a contract year at Team Penske he says negotiations over his future have altered as the “bar” to reach the NASCAR Cup Series has “lowered significantly”. After earning his third victory of the 2020 season at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Keselowski appears to be in great position to re-sign with his

Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski dominated the latter stages of the NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire for his third win of 2020, his first at the venue since 2014. Keselowski’s Ford Mustang was engaged in a duel for the lead with the Joe Gibbs Toyota Camry of Denny Hamlin throughout the opening two stages

One-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski has renewed his contract with Team Penske into 2021, ending speculation that he would leave upon the expiry of his current deal. The 2012 champion, whose third victory of the 2020 season last weekend at New Hampshire followed wins in the big ticket Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte

Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott overtook an ailing Kevin Harvick late on to claim his first victory of the season in the rescheduled NASCAR Cup Series second race at Charlotte. After Tropical Storm Bertha had battered Charlotte on Wednesday which led to the initial postponement, Team Penske’s Joey Logano emerged as the early front-runner when the

Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday’s Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway after NASCAR’s first qualifying session since its return. The Coca Cola 600 is the third Cup Series race to be run this week, after two races were run at Darlington last Sunday and

Three Joe Gibbs Racing crew members have been suspended for four NASCAR events after two large pieces of ballast came off Denny Hamlin’s car at the start of Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600. Prior to last weekend’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, two pieces of ballast fell out of the back of Hamlin’s No.11 Toyota as he

Brad Keselowski recovered from the back of the grid in the Charlotte 600-mile NASCAR Cup race to win, while second-placed Jimmie Johnson was disqualified post-race for a technical infringement. A spin on lap 399 of a scheduled 400 for Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron brought out a caution, with Byron’s team-mate, long-time leader Chase Elliott, opting

Chase Elliott says he has accepted Kyle Busch’s apology and concedes that the reigning NASCAR Cup series champion didn’t wreck him “on purpose” in Wednesday’s Cup race at Darlington. On NASCAR’s second race back in action following the coronavirus postponements, Elliott had just passed Busch for second place in the closing stages, but as Busch

Kyle Busch concedes his error triggered the collision with Chase Elliott to wreck his rival’s race as they battled for second place in the closing laps of Wednesday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway. NASCAR’s second race since its return to action from the coronavirus postponements – the first Wednesday NASCAR race since Richard

OPINION: Although NASCAR defied common convention and returned to racing in the middle of a global pandemic, the initial signs are that the race went – largely – without any issues, and the series must retain its scrupulous approach to safety A lot could have gone wrong as NASCAR held the first top-tier motorsports event

As just one of four journalists allowed inside Darlington Raceway for NASCAR’s return after the coronavirus postponements, JIM UTTER provides insight into the new normal and, while the comeback has been a success, he predicts greater celebrations will be delivered at a later date I’ve spent more than 20 years covering NASCAR races and witnessed

NASCAR has a “huge responsibility” on its shoulders as it becomes the first high-profile sporting category to return to competition amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Cup Series will resume the 2020 season at the Darlington Raceway on Sunday, having been paused since the 8 March round at Phoenix. United States president Donald Trump declared a

Brad Keselowski will head the NASCAR field on its return to action this weekend at Darlington Raceway following the random draw used in the new event format. With NASCAR suspended since the fourth round at Phoenix in early March, a partial easing of lockdown restrictions in the United States has allowed officials to plot out

The real-life 2020 motorsport season will resume this weekend courtesy of the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series’ visit to Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. A fifth race of the top-flight stock car season brings an end to the two-month pause brought on by the coronavirus global health crisis. NASCAR has attempted to fill the suspension

NASCAR has detailed how it plans to organise the starting grid ahead of this weekend’s return to action at Darlington Raceway. The series has been suspended since the fourth round at Phoenix in early March. Plans to run races at Homestead and Atlanta behind closed doors were also cancelled due to lockdown restrictions in the

NASCAR has announced what three tracks will lose races in 2020 as it revamps the schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current NASCAR season has been on forced hiatus since March, though is due to get going again on 17 May with a return to action at Darlington as part of a string of

The latest officially licensed NASCAR video game, NASCAR Heat 5, will be released in July with bonus content centred around three-time champion Tony Stewart. Motorsport Games will publish the ‘gold’ edition of 704Games-developed NASCAR Heat 5 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam (PC) on July 7, and the standard edition three days later. As

NASCAR has cleared Ryan Newman to return to competition following his horror Daytona 500 accident in February which left him with a head injury. Newman has been sidelined since a vicious airborne accident on the final lap of the Daytona 500, where he sustained a closed head injury and had to be airlifted to a

NASCAR has announced its plans to return to racing for the first time amid the current coronavirus pandemic on 17 May with the 400-mile Darlington Cup Series event. The series has been on indefinite hiatus since the fourth round at Phoenix in early March. Plans to run the races at Homestead and Atlanta later that

Former NASCAR Cup driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he is unsure how long his real-world racing career will last beyond this year. Earnhardt, who retired from full-time NASCAR competition following the 2017 season, took part in his first virtual IndyCar Series race two weeks ago, finishing third in an event at the virtual Michigan International

Ryan Newman, who suffered a head injury in a horror crash in the season-opening Daytona 500, expects to return to action when the NASCAR season resumes. Newman suffered an unspecified closed head injury in a violent last-lap wreck in the Daytona 500 in February. He was transported by ambulance to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona

Chip Ganassi Racing has brought in veteran driver Matt Kenseth to complete the remainder of the 2020 NASCAR Cup season in place of Kyle Larson. Larson was suspended from NASCAR competition indefinitely and fired from Chip Ganassi Racing earlier this month after using a racial slur during an iRacing stream. Kenseth will now occupy the

Bubba Wallace has decided not to participate in this weekend’s eNASCAR Pro Invitational event as long stints of sim racing leave him feeling “burnt out”. Wallace, who lost a real-world sponsor after abruptly quitting the Bristol eNASCAR race earlier this month, a posted a series of messages on his Twitter account in which he said