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Joey Logano dominates All-Star Race, takes home $1 million prize at North Wilkesboro Speedway

May. 19, 2024 23:01 PM EDT

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) — A little prep work paid off for Joey Logano. Logano dominated the short track at North Wilkesboro Speedway leading all but one of 200 laps to win his second All-Star Race on Sunday night and earn $1 million. Logano started on the pole...

Jimmie Johnson to attempt his own version of Indy 500 & NASCAR doubleheader

May. 14, 2024 10:46 AM EDT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jimmie Johnson will attempt his own version of “The Double” when he becomes the first driver to be part of the Indianapolis 500 broadcast team hours before he competes in NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600. Johnson, who ran the Indy 500 in 2022, was part of NBC Sports'...

Kyle Larson's Indianapolis 500 qualifying attempt could derail NASCAR All-Star plans

Apr. 27, 2024 14:19 PM EDT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Kyle Larson ran into his first speed bump in his busy May. Larson next month will become the fifth driver in history to attempt to complete “ The Double ” and run 1,100 miles in one day, starting with the Indianapolis 500 in an Indy car and then flying to...

Kyle Busch win the pole for NASCAR Cup race at Dover Motor Speedway

Apr. 27, 2024 13:31 PM EDT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Kyle Busch turned a fast lap of 162.191 mph on Saturday and won the pole for the NASCAR Cup series race at Dover Motor Speedway. Busch earned his first pole win of the season and No. 34 overall in 689 NASCAR Cup Series races. Busch is winless in the No. 8...

NASCAR driver Erik Jones defends medical treatment following wreck at Talladega

Apr. 27, 2024 12:36 PM EDT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Erik Jones was in agony the instant his Toyota slammed into the outside wall on a late wreck last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. The 27-year-old Jones — as sturdy as NASCAR drivers come, having never missed a Cup race over seven-plus seasons — radioed to his team he...

NASCAR driver Erik Jones to miss Dover race because of broken lower vertebra

Apr. 23, 2024 15:14 PM EDT

STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Erik Jones suffered a compression fracture in a lower vertebra in a wreck at Talladega and will not drive this weekend in the NASCAR Cup series race at Dover Motor Speedway. Corey Heim will substitute for Jones in the No. 43 Toyota for Legacy Motor Club. ...

William Byron is back in Texas with more big wins since getting Hendrick's 300th there last fall

Apr. 13, 2024 13:43 PM EDT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — When William Byron first met Rick Hendrick a decade ago, the teenager who had learned racing on a computer wasn't all that confident how things would work out as he revealed his goal to drive one day for the NASCAR team owner. There is certainly no lack of...