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NASCAR red-flagged Sunday's Cup race with 51 laps to go, following a vicious impact by both Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell. While battling for second, Elliott got loose underneath Bell into Turn 3, before snapping to the right and into the door of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Bell slammed the outside wall with Elliott, breaking the SAFER Barrier. Elliott's car then slid down the ...Keep readingView the full article

Championship leader Tyler Reddick restarted second in the outside lane for a Lap 83 restart at Michigan, enjoying the most successful season of his NASCAR Cup career. However, it was about all go wrong as Carson Hocevar got into the back of John Hunter Nemechek and turned him up the track in a stack-up. It triggered a chain-reaction crash, as Nemechek came up the track into Bubba Wallace, who ...Keep readingView the full article

Rising star Connor Zilisch has had to endure a terrible rookie season in the NASCAR Cup Series, and things only got worse for the 19-year-old at Michigan International Speedway. Zilisch only completed 52 laps of the Coca-Cola 600 two weeks ago before getting collected in an early wreck, and only completed 71 laps at Nashville last weekend before the brake rotor exploded. This weekend ...Keep readingView the full article

Austin Dillon, Brad Keselowski, TJ Majors and Chris Buescher have all discussed what happened between them last week at Nashville Superspeedway and have mostly ended up in a place of mutual understanding. The entire ordeal began on Lap 145 when Dillon was spun off a chain reaction of events. There was a bottleneck on pit entry and coming down the frontstretch, Keselowski shaded low and stalled ...Keep readingView the full article

Even after suffering a flat tire in practice, Denny Hamlin fought back in qualifying to secure pole position for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway. NOTE: While credited with pole, Hamlin will have to start from the rear of the field due to the repairs that need to be made to the diffuser after practice damage stemming from a flat tire. Hamlin was the final driver ...Keep readingView the full article

Kaden Honeycutt did not appreciate Corey Heim throwing two blocks on him to win the Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday afternoon. Honeycutt, driving the Tricon Garage No. 11 that Heim took to the championship last year and 23 victories across the past three seasons, made several runs at Heim but couldn’t find a path to the win. On the final lap, Heim blocked ...Keep readingView the full article

Two NASCAR Cup Series teams had a little trouble getting through inspection on Saturday, and so, the standard penalties have been applied. 26 of the 37 entries passed on their first attempt, while nine passed on their second attempt, but there were two that needed to go through the inspection process three times. The No. 17 RFK Racing Ford of Chris Buescher, which entered this race eighth in ...Keep readingView the full article

It was 'Heim Time' once again! Corey Heim, who is set to go full-time Cup racing next year with 23XI Racing, won Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway. The 2025 NCTS champion now has 26 career wins, and three in just five starts this year. There was just 0.065s between Heim and TRICON Toyota Kaden Honeycutt at the checkered flag.   Just ...Keep readingView the full article

Richard Childress made himself available to the media on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway for the first time since the death of Kyle Busch. As it turns out, this press conference had been scheduled for several weeks, and the time had been made available to formally announce that the two-time Cup Series champion was signing an extension with RCR for 2027. The agreement was that ...Keep readingView the full article

As NASCAR heads to Michigan, we want to highlight the most iconic, or even infamous Kyle Busch moments from his time racing at the 2.0-mile oval. He had some incredible battles, including a few that got a little heated, and on more than one occasion he helped to forge the future stars of the sport. Last week, we highlighted some of Busch's wildest Nashville moments, which you can check out ...Keep readingView the full article

As part of the ongoing Joe Gibbs Racing v Chris Gabehart and Spire Motorsports lawsuit, fact discovery is currently taking place and includes the pursuit of a text message conversation between Gabehart and Spire co-owner Jeff Dickerson that both individuals deleted from their phones. JGR is suing its former competition director and crew chief, and a rival organization, over allegations that ...Keep readingView the full article

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Ned Jarrett has passed away at the age of 93. He is also the father of 1999 NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Jarrett. The elder Jarrett was an icon both on the track and off. 'Gentleman' Ned started 352 Cup races between 1953 and 1966, winning 50 races, which places him 14th on the all-time wins list. He became a champion in 1961, and won the title again in ...Keep readingView the full article

Samantha Busch showed tremendous strength when she and the rest of Kyle's grieving family showed up to the Coca-Cola 600, where Kyle Busch was honored as part of the pre-race ceremonies, three days after he passed away. Samantha and Kyle were married for almost 16 years when he died suddenly on May 21, due to a severe case of pneumonia that progressed into sepsis. They had two children together ...Keep readingView the full article

In the early laps of last weekend's NASCAR Cup race at Nashville, both the No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet of Connor Zilisch and his teammate Ross Chastain in the No. 1 suffered brake rotor failures. Both right-front brake rotors exploded on approach into Turn 1, and there were reports from the track that some of that debris from Chastain's car got into the stands, with multiple fans ...Keep readingView the full article

Donovan Williams, who works as a tire carrier for Spire Motorsports' No. 7 Chevrolet and is part of the Hendrick Motorsports athletics department, was involved in a freak accident during the Dover race weekend. A heavy pit cart rolled down a hill during All-Star Race Weekend, and NASCAR on FOX reporter Amanda Busick was directly in its path. Williams put himself between her and the cart, and ...Keep readingView the full article

NASCAR is heading to Michigan for the 15th round of the 2026 Cup season. Along with the top division, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series will also be racing there this weekend. Denny Hamlin earned his 62nd career win last weekend at Nashville after a thrilling battle with Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Christopher Bell and Chase Brisce. Hamlin is also the defending winner ...Keep readingView the full article

By all accounts, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been very supportive of Cleetus McFarland, as the YouTuber born Garrett Mitchell methodically works his way towards what he intends to be an eventual start in the Daytona 500. This all began when McFarland struck up a friendship with the late Greg Biffle while doing charity work towards the hurricane battered North Carolina high country region. McFarland ...Keep readingView the full article

To analyze NASCAR television ratings right now requires a little bit of arithmetic and critical thinking in equal parts. Television ratings have become a bit of a divisive subject in NASCAR circles right now due to the advent of a new way that Nielsen Media Research captures audience shares. The new metric is called Big Data + Panel. What does this even mean? For a vast majority of this ...Keep readingView the full article

Popular YouTuber Cleetus McFarland (real name Garrett Mitchell) is continuing his journey into NASCAR, and this weekend at Michigan International Speedway will be an especially busy one for the 31-year-old. Cleetus will be competing in Friday's ARCA race, driving the No. 30 Rette Jones Racing entry. Friend and fellow content creator George 'Squirrel' Siciliano will also be competing in that ...Keep readingView the full article

Trackhouse Racing is bringing back its Project 91 entry for the inaugural San Diego street course race at Naval Base Coronado. Kevin Magnussen will pilot the No. 91 Chevrolet as a teammate to Ross Chastain, Shane van Gisbergen, and Connor Zilisch. He becomes the fourth different driver to join Trackhouse's Project 91 program, a part-time entry offered to world-class racing drivers as a ...Keep readingView the full article

On the official NASCAR Hauler Talk Podcast, Senior Director of Racing Communications Amanda Ellis detailed the decision from the Sanctioning Body to not penalize Austin Dillon for what Brad Keselowski and spotter TJ Majors felt was intentional retaliation on Sunday at Nashville Superspeedway. The entire ordeal began on Lap 145 when Dillon was spun off a chain reaction of events. There was a ...Keep readingView the full article

Garrett Mitchell (dba Cleetus McFarland) began this journey into high level Stock Car racing in the pursuit of an appearance in the Daytona 500, briefly wavered, and is now once again chasing that goal. He detailed that process during a Monday appearance on the Door Bumper Clear podcast. “When I set out with this with Greg Biffle, I called him up, and I said, ‘Biff, I want to run the ...Keep readingView the full article

“Another thing if I’m the CEO of NASCAR, when you look at the length of the races, the math doesn’t math to me. … While you’re running the same laps, the mileage is the same, the Whatever 400, but if you’re running a slower pace, it takes you longer to get to that 400 miles.” For that reason, Denny Hamlin said on his Actions Detrimental podcast that he would have preferred the ...Keep readingView the full article

Anduril, a defense tech company, recently partnered with Hendrick Motorsports ahead the upcoming NASCAR Cup race at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. The deal will see Anduril appear as a primary sponsor for two-time Daytona 500 William Byron and the No. 24 HMS Chevrolet in two races in each over the next three years. Unsurprisingly, their first race will be the one taking place on an active ...Keep readingView the full article

After another dramatic race in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series with Richard Childress Racing at Nashville, popular YouTuber Cleetus McFarland (real name Garrett Mitchell) is getting back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Truck for the first time since his Daytoan debut in February. Cleetus returns to the third of the three national levels of NASCAR this weekend at the two-mile Michigan ...Keep readingView the full article

After losing his ride twice since the end of 2025 season, Nick Sanchez is coming back in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. He will drive the No. 87 Peterson Racing entry in several upcoming NASCAR O'Reilly races, starting with Pocono race on June 13. He will also compete at at Chicagoland on July 4, Atlanta on July 11, and at Indianapolis on July 25. "I am excited and ready for this ...Keep readingView the full article

After 300 laps of racing that featured 11 cautions, 31 lead changes, and a margin of victory of just over a tenth, Denny Hamlin collected his 62nd career NASCAR Cup Series victory. Hamlin had to face-off against his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, with the team scoring a 1-2-3, but it could have just as easily ended with all three in the outside wall. The chaotic night of exploded brake rotors ...Keep readingView the full article