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Katherine Legge is one of 17 women who have competed in the top level of NASCAR, and the IndyCar and IMSA veteran is the most recent.  Legge, 45, will pilot the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet in this weekend's Cup race at Watkins Glen International. Legge made seven Cup starts during the 2025 season (all with Live Fast Motorsports), but this will be her first appearance in 2026. E.l.f ...Keep readingView the full article

The 16-turn, 3.4-mile circuit that is set to be built inside Naval Base Coronado in San Diego will be known as Qualcomm Circuit. The San Diego-based technology company will have the naming rights as the Official Circuit Partner of NASCAR's San Diego race weekend. The company develops and designs technologies for global communications and computing, including next-generation mobile networks ...Keep readingView the full article

This is the best that Chase Elliott, Alan Gustafson and the Hendrick Motorsports team have ever looked to start a NASAR Cup Series season and that makes them a very serious threat in the new Chase for the Championship. Sure, Elliott has led the standings early in a season through his trademark consistency and penchant for finishing races and having good points day but now he’s won twice over ...Keep readingView the full article

On the final restart at Texas Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch was hoping to end a promising day on a high note. He had run inside the top ten for most of the day, and restarted 11th with two fresh right-side tires. He didn't make any forward progress in the chaotic restart, and John Hunter Nemechek passed him as the field crossed the line with three laps to go. A lap later, Busch got back underneath ...Keep readingView the full article

Tyler Reddick finished a strong fourth at Texas, but saw his incredible 110-point lead shrink ever-so-slightly to 109 points after Denny Hamlin's runner-up finish. Chase Elliott's win vaulted him up to third in the standings, 117 points back of the lead. The biggest mover in the standings was Erik Jones, who jumped four positions from 26th to 22nd. He won Stage 1 at Texas, and that points ...Keep readingView the full article

Chase Elliott led 87 of 267 laps (more than any other driver) to win Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. He beat Denny Hamlin and Alex Bowman in a four-lap sprint to the checkered flag. 11 different drivers led laps during the race, which featured several incidents as well. In the end, 20 cars finished on the lead lap and four drivers (Heim, Gibbs, Logano, Bell) recorded ...Keep readingView the full article

Hendrick Motorsports now has two wins in the 2026 season, and both are courtesy of Chase Elliott. The driver of the No. 9 HMS Chevrolet now has 23 career wins, and his second Texas win in the last three years. He finished just ahead of Denny Hamlin in second and Alex Bowman in third. Tyler Reddick, who was charging with two fresh right-side tires, finished fourth, with Chris Buescher ...Keep readingView the full article

Joey Logano went from feeling immense relief after a lucky escape to seeing his race end on the slowest part of the race track: pit road.  The defending Texas winner was running up inside the top 15 when William Byron went spinning in front of him. Byron got on the throttle, keeping his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet off the wall, but also bringing it back down the track in front of ...Keep readingView the full article

Christopher Bell started Sunday's race in seventh place, and after the first pit stop cycle, he found himself in position to challenge for the race lead. Battling his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, he took the lad and led several laps. As he encountered heavier lapped traffic in the final 15 laps of the stage, Denny Hamlin got back alongside him and they battled back-and-forth. While those two ...Keep readingView the full article

Saturday morning at Texas Motor Speedway featured a regularly scheduled competition meeting between NASCAR and Cup Series drivers and much of the proceedings focused on superspeedways. The Sanctioning Body wanted drivers to know that they are aware that work still needs to be done to improve the racing product after the Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega last weekend.   This is welcomed news to ...Keep readingView the full article

Right now, RFK Racing has three teams and drivers but only two charters secured for next season, leaving the appearance of musical chairs for the organization co-owned by driver Brad Keselowski. In addition to Keselowski, the team also fields Ford Mustang Dark Horses for Chris Buescher and Ryan Preece but the latter has driven a No. 60 that utilized two different leased charters from Rick Ware ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Larson led a JR Motorsports 1-2 at Texas Motor Speedway, winning Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race over Justin Allgaier. JRM drivers have managed to win seven of the first 12 races to open the 2026 season.   This is Larson's 19th career NASCAR O'Reilly Series win and his third at Texas. Sam Mayer finished third, Brent Crews fourth, and Parker Retzlaff fifth. Sheldon ...Keep readingView the full article

Denny Hamlin said it was a 'knee jerk reaction' when he tweeted out a frustrated response on Thursday evening to Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson’s commentary about the ongoing lawsuit brought forth by Joe Gibbs Racing.   Even though it was an emotional response, Hamlin also concedes that he logically feels this way too, as it is a matter of business principle to him as a Joe ...Keep readingView the full article

Last weekend, Carson Hocevar earned his first NASCAR Cup Series win at Talladega. A few days later, he led a Spire 1-2 to win Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas. And now, he just earned pole position for the Texas Cup race in another Spire 1-2, beating teammate Daniel Suarez by just 0.003s. This is the first time Spire Motorsports locked out the front row for a Cup Series ...Keep readingView the full article

Both Bubba Wallace and Austin Dillon will start Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race from the rear of the field after some practice drama. In Group A, Dillon only ran three laps before taking his No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet back to the garage. He reported that the engine started making a strange noise, and he had no pace. His fastest lap was a 29.988s, a full 1.4s off the fastest time ...Keep readingView the full article

While the battle for the lead captivated viewers, few eyeballs (and almost no cameras) were fixated on the very back of the field near the end of Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. But suddenly, three trucks nowhere near the front of the pack suffered significant damage in a major crash on the frontstretch. The race was red-flagged, and TV cameras only caught part of the story, but ...Keep readingView the full article

Kyle Busch said he is grateful for what Jim Pohlman brought to his Richard Childress Racing No. 8 team through the first 10 races of the season and that senior leadership ultimately made the decision to pair him with Andy Street instead. After finishing second to Carson Hocevar in the Truck Series race on Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway, Busch addressed the change in leadership atop the ...Keep readingView the full article

After two red flags and an overtime restart, Carson Hocevar captured the checkered flag in Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. He passed Gio Ruggiero on the final restart, winning at Texas just days after his first Cup win at Talladega, continuing a dream week for the rising star. Kyle Busch finished second in a Spire 1-2 for the team.  "It’s ...Keep readingView the full article

When Jim Pohlman left JR Motorsports to take the job to serve as crew chief for Kyle Busch, Justin Allgaier said that the two-time champion would get back whatever he put into that relationship. In the end, the Pohlman-Busch pairing lasted just 10 races, with Andy Street returning to a role he occupied on an interim basis last year with the Richard Childress Racing team. Pohlman was replaced on ...Keep readingView the full article

AJ Allmendinger will be the next driver in Kaulig Racing's 'free agent' No. 25 Ram 1500, driving the truck at Watkins Glen International next weekend. That race will feature several other notable names, including Connor Zilisch, Shane van Gisbergen, Ross Chastain, and Carson Hocevar. Kaulig has used a variety of drivers in its No. 25 truck this year, and recently announced Jamie McMurray (San ...Keep readingView the full article

With the exception of a very reserved legalese declaration, Denny Hamlin has largely kept his feelings to himself regarding the Joe Gibbs Racing v Chris Gabehart and Spire Motorsports lawsuit. Those feelings were made way more explicit on Thursday evening. Earlier in the day, Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson appeared on the GluckCast weekly show and answered a very specific question ...Keep readingView the full article

Carson Hocevar enters Texas as NASCAR's newest winner, capturing his first career win at Talladega last weekend. Texas Motor Speedway will host all three national divisions this weekend, with the Cup, O'Reilly, and Craftsman Truck Series. Tyler Reddick continues to hold a commanding lead in the championship, 110 points clear of Denny Hamlin. Joey Logano is the defending winner at Texas -- ...Keep readingView the full article

In addition to the ARCA Menards Series race on the same day, Dystany Spurlock is set to make her NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut at Watkins Glen International on May 8. She will drive the  No. 69 Foxxtecca Toyota for MBM Motorsports/Garage 66. “I’m excited for Watkins Glen,” Spurlock said in a release from the team. “It’s been a while since I’ve raced on a road course, so ...Keep readingView the full article

Kevin Harvick says he heard enough from the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway earlier in the month to know that Jim Pohlman and Kyle Busch was not going to work out. And to wit, despite scoring the first top-10 of the season together at Talladega on Sunday, Richard Childress Racing made a crew chief swap for the two-time Cup Series champion this week with Andy Street returning ...Keep readingView the full article

The NASCAR Cup Series television ratings for the race at Talladega Superspeedway were slightly down year-over-year. The race, once again aired live on over-the-air FOX, earned an average of 3.967 million viewers on Sunday according to the Nielsen Big Data + Panel metric used since last year. This is down from the 4.041 average in 2025, which was also on FOX. The 2026 race was won by Carson ...Keep readingView the full article

Prior to the weekend, Joe Gibbs Racing notified both Spire Motorsports and Chris Gabehart that it intended to amend and refile its lawsuit against them both. As a result, their intended responses to the lawsuit due on Monday is no longer necessary. The below in italics is taken from the notice to the Western District of North Carolina.   “Defendants requested JGR provide a copy of the ...Keep readingView the full article

It was one of the most epic victory celebrations in the history of motorsports on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. Carson Hocevar, who stands 6'4", sat on his door against the B-post and was able to work the clutch and throttle to be able to drive both ways around the track while personally waving to the attending fans following his win in the Jack Link’s 500. In fact, someone even ...Keep readingView the full article