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Pole to checkered flag: Byron dominates NASCAR's 1st road course race of season, wins at COTA

Mar. 24, 2024 20:06 PM EDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — William Byron won the Daytona 500 with an agonizing final lap under a caution flag. He took the checkered flag on Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas at full throttle. Bryon started from pole position and delivered a dominant drive in NASCAR's first road...

NASCAR's concrete coliseum is back to normal for Sunday's race at Bristol. Drivers welcome the move

Mar. 16, 2024 19:33 PM EDT

Bristol Motor Speedway has ditched the dirt and is back to being a concrete coliseum for its annual spring race. The famed short track added red clay each of the last three years for its first of two events. Reviews were mixed, and as the novelty wore off, sub-par racing inside the...

Christopher Bell's win caps Toyota's stellar weekend at Phoenix Raceway

Mar. 11, 2024 13:22 PM EDT

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Chevrolet dominated the start of the NASCAR Cup Series by claiming three straight wins, starting with William Byron's Daytona 500 victory. As the series shifted to Phoenix Raceway, Toyota found the right gears and turn of the wrenches for a dominating weekend...

Denny Hamlin wins pole at Phoenix as Toyota gets four of top six spots in qualifying

Mar. 09, 2024 16:23 PM EST

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Denny Hamlin will start on the pole for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series event at Phoenix Raceway, capping a stellar qualifying session for Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota on Saturday. Toyota grabbed four of the top six spots after Hamlin ran his lap in 132.655 miles...

AUTO RACING: Chevy continues to dominate in NASCAR, and Verstappen wins F1 season-opener

Mar. 05, 2024 19:15 PM EST

All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Shriners Children's 500 Site: Avondale, Arizona. Schedule: Friday, practice, 5:05 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 2:10 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FOX). Track: Phoenix Raceway. ...

Rajah Caruth makes leap from computer racer to NASCAR national series winner

Mar. 04, 2024 12:35 PM EST

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rajah Caruth was like any other 4-year-old boy the first time he watched the movies “Cars” and vowed to become his own version of Lightning McQueen. He was, his family insists, obsessed with becoming a racecar driver. He just wasn't sure he would ever get...

Kyle Larson again wins at Las Vegas to keep Chevrolet undefeated on NASCAR season

Mar. 03, 2024 20:56 PM EST

LAS VEGAS (AP) — There's a tradition at Hendrick Motorsports to ring the winning bell throughout the North Carolina shop after every NASCAR victory. As motivation to have the best year of his career, Kyle Larson's team decided to bring a bell on the road so avoid having to wait to...

Chevrolet heads to Las Vegas undefeated in 2024 across all three NASCAR national series

Mar. 01, 2024 11:20 AM EST

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two weeks into the new NASCAR season, Chevrolet heads into Las Vegas Motor Speedway undefeated. And not just in the top Cup Series, where Daniel Suarez of Trackhouse Racing won a three-wide photo finish at the checkered flag last week at Atlanta and William Byron...

AUTO RACING: Suarez wins at Atlanta by an eyelash while Verstappen hopes to start four-peat in F1

Feb. 27, 2024 08:51 AM EST

All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube Site: Las Vegas. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 2:05 p.m., and qualifying, 2:50; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (FOX). Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway. ...

Byron, Busch and other NASCAR drivers are still adjusting to Atlanta's reconfigured track

Feb. 24, 2024 16:04 PM EST

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — William Byron has flourished at the reconfigured Atlanta Motor Speedway, winning two of four NASCAR Cup Series races since a fresh surface and higher banks provided a dramatic face-lift to the track. That doesn't mean Byron feels totally comfortable in Atlanta....