CHICAGO — The streets of Grant Park will not echo with the sounds of 200-mph race cars in 2027.

Running out of time to strike a deal with the city, NASCAR pulled the plug Tuesday on the return of the Chicago Street Race for next summer but is still hoping to bring it back down the road.

Meanwhile, NASCAR confirmed it is putting Chicagoland ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR isn’t returning to Rockingham Speedway in 2027.

And the venue’s primary race organizer is, understandably, “disappointed.”

Track Enterprises, the prominent motorsports promotion company that has put on the successful NASCAR events at The Rock in 2025 and 2026, announced on Friday that in 2027 it will not host...Read more

CHICAGO — While NASCAR is hoping to get the Chicago Street Race back to Grant Park next summer, it may have hit a speed bump in negotiations for a state grant to help defray costs for the event.

The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity said Wednesday that the state has appropriated $5 million in the fiscal year 2027 budget to ...Read more

CHICAGO — Denny Hamlin is atop the NASCAR Cup Series points standings for the first time all season.

If that wasn’t enough reason for Hamlin to head into Fourth of July weekend in a celebratory mood, the series’ return to Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. for the first time since 2019 is definitely a welcome one.

Hamlin won the Cup ...Read more

LONG POND, Pa. — Lavar Scott is accustomed to reaching top speeds around a racetrack. But for a few hours last Friday night, less than 24 hours before his race at Pocono Raceway, he took a beat.

Standing in front of a room of about 40 people at Holy Ghost Distillery, roughly 10 miles west of the track, Scott, a Carneys Point, Salem County, ...Read more

Kyle Busch's family has dealt with a lot since the NASCAR legend's sudden death at age 41 last month.

On Friday, however, his wife Samantha and their two children — son Brexton, 11, and daughter Lennix, 4 — "wanted to take a moment to say thank you" for all the support they have received.

"The prayers, messages, flowers, meals, hugs, and ...Read more

CHICAGO — After a one-year hiatus, NASCAR will return to the streets of Chicago next year, sources told the Chicago Tribune.

But this time, the race would piggyback off of the Sueños music festival around Memorial Day weekend, potentially using the festival’s setup time to get a jump start and keeping some of its grandstands and ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Last week, NASCAR lost one of its giants.

Kyle Busch, the winningest driver in the history of his sport, died after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis. He was only 41 years old.

Yet even as his body was betraying him and even as he was experiencing symptoms of bacterial pneumonia for “days to weeks” ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kyle Busch may have been a Las Vegas native, but the NASCAR star long seemed quite at home in Kentucky.

Busch’s shocking death last Thursday at age 41 from “severe pneumonia (that) progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complication” hit hard for those of us who first remember Busch with ...Read more

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch had been suffering from pneumonia for “days to weeks,” triggering a “chain of events,” including sepsis, that resulted in his untimely death, according to a report.

Busch’s sepsis progressed rapidly, within 24 hours turning into disseminated intravascular coagulation, which is the formation of small blood ...Read more

CONCORD, N.C. — Daniel Suarez made a move that would’ve made his mentor proud. And it won the race for him.

The driver of the No. 7 car won the rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, and he did so thanks to the kind of shrewd move that would’ve made the late Kyle Busch — and one of Suarez’s confidants ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a stunning moment of tribute, the family of the late Kyle Busch arrived in the infield grass prior to the running of the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday and stood in front of the crowd as NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell boomed a few powerful words into a microphone.

Most important among those words:

“You are NASCAR family forever...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Stories about Kyle Busch were everywhere Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, as the sport tried to come to terms with the NASCAR superstar’s unexpected passing.

First came the news around 11:20 a.m. Saturday from the Busch family that provided more information about Busch’s cause of death.

“The medical evaluation ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR driver Chase Elliott said on Saturday he would be open to taking a page out of his famous father’s playbook and paving the way for another racer to win the “Most Popular Driver” award posthumously.

In 2001, after Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in a last-lap crash at the Daytona 500, Chase’s father Bill Elliott ...Read more