Tickets for the 60th annual DAYTONA 500 will officially go on sale Monday, June 12 at 9 a.m. ET. For the past two years, the season-opening race for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season has sold out.
VELVEETA® Shells & Cheese is partnering with Richard Childress Racing (RCR) and the No. 31 Chevrolet SS team to give NASCAR fans a taste of the one and only LIQUID GOLD. VELVEETA Shells & Cheese will serve as the primary sponsor for select races, beginning June 18 at Michigan International Speedway, and an associate sponsor for the remainder of the 2017 season. The paint scheme was unveiled live on FS1's "NASCAR Race Hub" this evening.
The Tricky Triangle: The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will be traveling to a very unique racetrack this weekend as it pulls into Pocono Raceway for the fourteenth race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.
Pocono Raceway’s “Tricky Triangle” doesn’t appear to be so tricky for Ryan Blaney and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing team. In their two 2016 starts at the Pennsylvania track, Blaney and company finished 10th and 11th.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., alongside other active Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) drivers, will join the FOX broadcast team serving as a pit road reporter during Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Pocono Raceway.
Strategy essential: “Pocono is one of those tracks that you can – depending on where you are running with the leader or close to the leader – you can pit and stay on the lead lap,” Allmendinger said. “Strategy there with the stage racing is really going to be critical to how it plays out when you pit. If you’re maybe not in position to get points in that stage, you can still pit and stay on the lead lap and restart up front. There is going to be a lot of strategy we are going to have to play through as the race evolves, keeps changing."
Over the course of the 78 races held at the uniquely shaped Pocono Raceway, Chevrolet has earned 32 victories at the ‘Tricky Triangle’, more than any other manufacturer.
SETTING THE STAGE: In this year’s first 13 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) events, Toyota drivers have combined to win 14 stages and earn valuable bonus points for the playoffs, which begin at Chicagoland Speedway in September. MENCS points leader and Camry driver Martin Truex Jr. leads the series with eight stage wins and, when combined with his two victories (Las Vegas and Kansas) this season, also leads the competition with 18 bonus points. Other Cup Camry drivers with stage wins and bonus points in 2017 include Kyle Busch (three), Denny Hamlin (two) and Matt Kenseth (one).
Set to compete in his third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race of the season, Tyler Young (@tyleryoung02) heads to Texas Motor Speedway for Friday night’s winstaronlinegaming.com 400 with new crew chief Chad Kendrick.
“Pocono is a good track for us. I like both Pocono and Michigan, so we have some solid tracks coming up for the No. 88 gang. We were in the simulator this week working on Pocono. We’ve been working really, really hard the last three weeks. It’s been going great – the cars have gotten better in practice and we’re seeing some good improvements, so we’re going to keep grinding. We’re going in the right direction.”
The reigning O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Menlo Park, California, clocked in a single-qualifying lap at 182.313 mph in 52.525 seconds for his first pole position of the 2026 season at 'Dega.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Taylor Gray was made available to the media on Friday prior to the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race from Talladega Superspeedway.
Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing joins the 50th anniversary celebration of Roush, the engineering and technology company founded by Jack Roush in 1976.
