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Playoff drivers are on edge as NASCAR moves to the second round at Watkins Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. tried to stay optimistic about his slim chance at winning a NASCAR championship in his final season before he conceded, “no matter what we do, it is wrong.” Chase Briscoe is last among the 16 playoff drivers, but he says, count him out at your own...
Truex starts 2nd and tops all playoff drivers in qualifying while Chastain wins pole at Watkins Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. was the highest-qualifying playoff driver among the 16 in the field for Sunday’s Cup race at Watkins Glen International, a needed boost for the 2017 NASCAR champion who needs a win to guarantee himself a spot in the next round. Truex was...
Truex starts 2nd and tops all playoff drivers in qualifying while Chastain wins pole at Watkins Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. was the highest-qualifying playoff driver among the 16 in the field for Sunday's Cup race at Watkins Glen International, a needed boost for the 2017 NASCAR champion who needs a win to guarantee himself a spot in the next round. Truex was...
Juan Pablo Montoya unsure what to expect in 1st NASCAR start since 2014 at Watkins Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — He was trailed by a documentary crew, answered several questions in Spanish in his media blitz, and was called a racing hero by drivers still in their teens the last time Juan Pablo Montoya ran a NASCAR race. Ten years after his last Cup start, it was...
Joey Logano wins NASCAR playoff opener at Atlanta to advance to 2nd round
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — One of the first things Joey Logano said after winning NASCAR's playoff opener was that the postseason is his time of the year. And, in 10 initial playoff appearances, he typically slid his way through the rounds, winning two Cup titles and never finishing...
Fernandez is disappointed by O'Ward comparison amid IndyCar anger over Mexico City snub
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Mexican motorsports great Adrian Fernandez was disappointed to be compared to current IndyCar star Pato O'Ward in the discourse between IndyCar and its drivers over the series being beaten to a race in Mexico City by NASCAR. “It's never good to compare,...
Suarez returns to the site of the closest finish in NASCAR history looking for a playoff payoff
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — The best year of Daniel Suarez’s life began in February when he won the NASCAR Mexico race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, an event essentially staged with Suarez as the star. Later that month came the closest finish in NASCAR history, a photo-finish...
Analysis: IndyCar left scrambling after NASCAR beats them into Mexico City
WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — “Pato, who?” With a smirk on his face and a sombrero on his head, that's what IndyCar's most popular driver asked after trouncing the field in the series' long awaited return to the Milwaukee Mile. Pato O'Ward was not happy at all when...
Pato O'Ward blasts IndyCar leadership for not landing race in Mexico ahead of NASCAR
WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — The line for Pato O'Ward at every IndyCar autograph session snakes around corners, blocks the entrances for other drivers and pretty much shames his rivals. When his Arrow McLaren Racing team tries to debrief at the track, fans of the 25-year-old Mexican...
NASCAR makes another bold schedule move by adding Mexico City to 2025 Cup Series calendar
The smoke from the fireworks following NASCAR's first ever race in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum had barely even cleared before Ben Kennedy was being asked what other big ideas he had for a stale and predictable Cup Series schedule. Kennedy, the great-grandson of NASCAR's founder...
