In what has already been an impressive first full season in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, Daniel Suárez added another accolade to his resume Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway – the Sunoco Rookie of the Year Award. In doing so, he became the first Mexican-born driver and the second NASCAR Drive for Diversity (D4D) graduate to receive the award in a NASCAR national series.
CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 60 Fastenal Ford Mustang – 2015 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES CHAMPION - VICTORY LANE TV INTERVIEW - WHEN YOU LEFT HOME AT 16-YEARS-OLD, DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD END UP HERE, CELEBRATING A CHAMPIONSHIP? “Well, I sure hoped so. I am glad she let me."
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 AXALTA CHEVROLET SS - TELL US HOW PRACTICE WENT, YOU WERE FASTEST OF THE FOUR: “The very first run that final practice was great. I felt really good about it. We’ve got a few things on the longer run that I felt like we can work on. The second run was so/so. The track definitely lost some grip. I think we have a good indication what the track conditions are going to be like in the race, so that is all really valuable information that we can put into our database and make adjustments and hopefully good decisions for tomorrow.”
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M’s Crispy Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - How would you describe your 2015? “I don’t think tomorrow is going to be near as hard as what it was back in March or April going through the therapy and everything trying to get all of that done and everything to get my strength back and to get back walking and all of that stuff."
Ford Performance and Ford Chip Ganassi Racing announced that Ryan Briscoe, Richard Westbrook, Dirk Müller, and Joey Hand will be the driver lineup for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2016. They will compete in the all-new Ford GT, which will debut at the Rolex 24 in Daytona Beach, FL.
As strong as he was in winning Friday night’s Ford EcoBoost 200, Matt Crafton was already looking ahead to 2016. Crafton, whose hopes for a third consecutive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship were dashed by a crash at Phoenix last week, won his sixth race of the season, holding off John Hunter Nemechek and Tyler Reddick in the season finale.
Ryan Newman might have been eliminated from Championship contention in the final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race of the year, but the 2014 championship runner-up led Team Chevy in qualifying with the fourth fastest time in his No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet SS at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This was Newman’s third top-five qualifying effort of the year.
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Ground Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 1st - Are you excited to get the pole? “Definitely wish we had a little bit more to race for but you’ve got a great trophy at the end of this thing so proud of this whole FedEx Ground team for giving me a fast car. It’s been fast all day so to run our fastest lap in the last session means it’s a good sign.”
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 AXALTA CHEVROLET SS – Qualified 5th - HOW DID YOU PULL THAT OFF AFTER HAVING TO MAKE AN EXTRA RUN? “Whew, it wasn’t easy. Man, that was a heck of an effort by this team. We’ve got a great race car. I just totally messed up. That first run, without making a qualifying run in practice, I just didn’t know how hard I could push it or how much the track had picked-up."
The final race of the 2026 ARCA Menards West Series season and championship-ending finale concluded Saturday night at Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway in Bakersfield, California.
The 2021 CARS Super Late Model Tour champion from Mooresville, North Carolina, led a race-high 121 of 250 laps and reduced his points deficit from 59 to 31 with his third O'Reilly victory of 2026 in Ridgeway, Virginia.
