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Martin Truex Jr. closes out full-time NASCAR Cup Series career at Phoenix Raceway
AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. got a nice surprise when his fellow drivers gave him a standing ovation during the prerace meeting Sunday before the NASCAR Cup Series finale. Once on the track, the 44-year-old driver from New Jersey took time to thank his team for all the...
Bobby Allison, NASCAR Hall of Famer and 3-time Daytona 500 winner, dies at 86
Bobby Allison, founder of racing’s “Alabama Gang” and a NASCAR Hall of Famer, died Saturday. He was 86. NASCAR released a statement from Allison’s family that said he died at home in Mooresville, North Carolina. A cause of death wasn’t given, but Allison had been in...
Kyle Larson heads to Martinsville looking for 7th win of season to have shot at NASCAR title
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There’s a tradition at Hendrick Motorsports in which a driver celebrates a win with a victory bell that he takes all over the motorsports campus so that every employee who contributed to the win gets a chance to give it a ring. Kyle Larson did the ceremony...
NASCAR declares Bobby Allison the winner of a 1971 race, moving him into 4th on all-time wins list
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison finally got his victory from Bowman Gray Stadium, more than five decades after he took the checkered flag and the trophy. NASCAR on Wednesday formally recognized the 86-year-old Allison as the winner of the Meyers...
Kyle Larson will again run the Indy 500 but NASCAR and the Coca-Cola 600 will be his commitment
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — With NASCAR and the Coca-Cola 600 the promised priority, Kyle Larson will again attempt the Indianapolis 500 next season with the caveat he must leave if rain again ruins his bid to complete “The Double.” Larson in May became the fifth driver in history to...
NASCAR has finalized a new charter agreement. Team co-owner Michael Jordan won't sign it
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — NASCAR is in a stalemate with Michael Jordan and how it ends could potentially get very messy for both sides. After more than two years of contentious negotiations over a new revenue agreement, NASCAR last weekend finally got 13 organizations — all but two...
Darlington honors the late Cale Yarborough at his hometown track where he won five Southern 500s
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Cale Yarborough used to sneak under the fence as a child at Darlington Raceway, planning for the day when he would dominate at the hometown track known as “Too Tough To Tame.” Yarborough, the Hall of Fame driver who died at age 84 this past New Year's...
