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MJ in Victory Lane! Tyler Reddick gets first win of season as Michael Jordan watches
TALLADEGA, Ala. — It was one of the most special victories Tyler Reddick could imagine.
Reddick emerged victorious after a wreck during the final lap of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at the famed Talladega Superspeedway. It had been another frantic race on the series’ longest track.
Michael Jordan, co-owner of the 23XI Racing team that...Read more
What a finish! Tyler Reddick surges to win in wild NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Tyler Reddick has won at Talladega.
Michael McDowell started from the pole Sunday, and in the midst of 73 lead changes, ended up being the one taking the white flag. He was in a position to win throughout the Geico 500’s final lap — but spun around, allowing Tyler Reddick to get his first checkered flag of the season. ...Read more
Chase Elliott wins AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway
Chase Elliott won the AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, his first victory in his last 42 races.
William Byron finished second.
Elliott, driving a Chevrolet, was sixth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings coming into the race. After the race, Elliott spoke with FOX Sports about the win.
“It couldn’t ...Read more
Chase Elliott, a recent NASCAR champion, solidified himself as a top Cup Series contender
Chase Elliott and his team hadn’t stopped fighting.
The recent NASCAR Cup Series champion entered Sunday in the midst of a major drought. In addition to missing six weeks because of injury on top of a brief suspended absence, last season was far from the 2023 campaign for which the sport’s most popular driver could have hoped.
But even ...Read more
William Byron wins NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville
RIDGEWAY, Va. — William Byron delivered Hendrick Motorsports another win at Martinsville.
Each of the four drivers for NASCAR’s top team piloted special ruby red Chevrolet Camaros amid their 40th anniversary celebration, and they all ran toward the front throughout Sunday’s Cup Series race.
Byron, the 26-year-old Charlotte, N.C., native,...Read more
Denny Hamlin holds off dominant Martin Truex Jr. in history-making NASCAR race at Richmond
Denny Hamlin wasn’t going to lose his advantage.
Pit stops were, as always, critical late in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond on Easter Sunday. Hamlin felt his team had executed them perfectly, and as an overtime restart began following a caution with fewer than two laps remaining, he found himself with a shot at victory.
Martin Truex ...Read more
Moonshine cave? Under North Wilkesboro Speedway? Legendary NASCAR venue draws intrigue.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Was North Wilkesboro Speedway home base for some moonshine runners after all?
Speedway Motorsports Inc. officials have unearthed the possibility.
During last week’s grandstand cleaning and inspection process of North Wilkesboro Speedway — the long-abandoned racetrack in the foothills of North Carolina that was ...Read more
Josef Newgarden wins IndyCar's Grand Prix of St. Pete (again)
ST. PETERSBURG — At some point last year, Josef Newgarden’s dream job began to feel like work.
Maybe it was toward the end of the IndyCar Series season when he flamed out in three of the final four races. Or maybe it was the way he spread himself too thin across all his responsibilities.
Whatever the reason, it wasn’t fun — or anything...Read more
'Everybody roots for him': Why Mexico native Daniel Suarez's NASCAR win at Atlanta is special
HAMPTON, Ga. — Daniel Suarez is just happy he gets to do what he does every weekend.
He’s grown up loving racing. Be it driving go-karts in his hometown, competing in NASCAR’s Mexico Series or chasing the dream in the United States, Suarez had his eyes on being a professional race car driver since he was 13.
The Mexico native’s ...Read more
NASCAR at Atlanta: Michael McDowell wins first career pole for Sunday's Cup Series race
HAMPTON, Ga. — Michael McDowell had the fastest car in qualifying, and Sunday’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway will be his first starting on the pole.
The NASCAR Cup Series veteran, a recent Daytona 500 winner, ran the lap in 30.999 seconds after being the last competitor to get on the track during the final round of Saturday’s qualifying...Read more
What Florida sports betting looked like at the Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Chuck Floyd had never bet on a sporting event in his life until he walked under a white canopy tent Monday, pulled out his phone and put $10 on fellow Virginian Denny Hamlin to win the Daytona 500.
Floyd’s play would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago but represents another step in the ongoing evolution of Florida ...Read more
Clark County officials decide fate of 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix
LAS VEGAS — Formula One’s Las Vegas Grand Prix will take place as scheduled over the next three years, even as Clark County examines its role in putting on the massive event.
Clark County spokeswoman Jennifer Cooper told the Las Vegas Review-Journal Wednesday that the second Las Vegas Grand Prix will happen this November and in the two ...Read more
Scott Fowler: William Byron grew up in Charlotte. Now he has won NASCAR's biggest race, the Daytona 500.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A long time ago in Charlotte, well before William Byron became the 2024 Daytona 500 champion, he was just a kid who went trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Since he knew where NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson lived in Charlotte, Byron went with some friends to knock on Johnson’s door. Johnson turned out to be there. He invited ...Read more
William Byron wins Daytona 500 after late NASCAR wrecks
William Byron withstood a pair of late wrecks to win Monday’s Daytona 500.
Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman finished second, and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell was third.
The field for the NASCAR Cup Series’ season opener couldn’t even make it five full laps without a wreck as the angst started earlier than usual. A third...Read more
William Byron wins NASCAR's Daytona 500 after The Big One comes late in the race
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — William Byron has won the Daytona 500.
Last year’s NASCAR Cup Series wins leader won his first Great American Race. It’s the first Daytona 500 win for Hendrick Motorsports, the legendary NASCAR team celebrating its 40th anniversary, since 2014, and comes on the 40th anniversary of Hendrick running its first NASCAR ...Read more
Daytona 500 postponed until Monday due to rain
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 was postponed until 4 p.m. Monday due to inclement weather for just the third time in the illustrious 66-year history of NASCAR’s showcase event.
Sunday morning’s decision signaled that NASCAR officials wanted to avoid fans having to play the waiting game on Florida’s Surf Coast.
Previously, bad ...Read more
NASCAR moves Xfinity race at Daytona to Monday, Cup uncertain
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR has postponed the Xfinity Series race at Daytona to 11 a.m. Monday.
Rain fell throughout the day on Saturday. The Xfinity race start time was originally bumped 30 minutes from 5 to 4:30 p.m., but that effort to beat the rain turned out to be in vain.
Since roughly 3 p.m., rain fell steadily. The Xfinity drivers ...Read more
Kyle Larson hoping to get the jump on weather and rivals in the Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Trying to figure out who is going to win this year's Daytona 500 is the second-most asked question behind a bigger more prescient one. When will the Daytona 500 be run?
There seems to be little chance the biggest race in NASCAR will go at its scheduled flag drop of 12:11 p.m. PST Sunday because of a persistent and ...Read more
Is NASCAR's true 'home' in Charlotte or in Daytona? It depends on how you look at it.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — On Feb. 15, 1948, following a famous meeting at the Streamline Hotel rooftop bar with founder Bill France Sr., NASCAR staged its first official race — the inaugural stock car race on Daytona Beach.
But those were modified cars, and races among those cars evolved into what is now known as NASCAR’s Whelen Modified Tour...Read more
Nick Sanchez opens 2024 NASCAR season with wreck-filled win in Truck Series at Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Nick Sanchez is the first NASCAR race winner of 2024.
The Craftsman Truck Series picked up right where it left off. The race was stopped for cautions 12 times, the most in series history at Daytona International Speedway.
The final carnage came in overtime, while Sanchez was holding a healthy lead on the last lap. ...Read more
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