In an effort to further the chemistry of the No. 9 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race team, Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) announced today Kevin Manion has been assigned as the crew chief of that team with driver Sam Hornish, Jr. Manion will begin his duties immediately and call the race this weekend at Kansas Speedway.
Aric Almirola and the No. 43 team escaped the crapshoot of superspeedway racing with a Top-15 finish and now look to a favored track for both the driver and team. Kansas Speedway is a track Almirola has circled on his calendar. Of the last five races at the Midwest track, Almirola and the No. 43 team competed up front and finished in the Top-10 for all but two events where an engine issue and blown tire relegated their finishes.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to Kansas Speedway for the first of two visits this season and Ford will be looking for its second straight win after Joey Logano won there in October. Here’s a closer look at Ford’s history in Kansas.
Heading into Saturday Nights SpongeBob SquarePants 400, Gase will be making his second career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start in "The Sunflower State". The 21 year old, Gase made his second career NSCS start at the Kansas Speedway in the 2014 fall event, finishing 37th driving for Go Green Racing. The Cedar Rapids, IA native is coming off a career best finish of fifth in last weekend's NASCAR Xfinity Series Win-Dixie 300 at Talladega SuperSpeedway.
In 56 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Kansas Speedway, Richard Childress Racing has one win, visiting victory lane in 2013 with Kevin Harvick, among five top-five and 18 top-10 finishes. The Welcome, N.C.-based organization holds an average starting position of 19.6, an average finishing position of 14.9, has completed 14,609 of the 14,801 contested laps (98.7 percent) and has collectively led for 281 laps around the 1.5-mile race track.
Ty Dillon will pilot chassis No. 441 for this weekend's SpongeBob SquarePants 400 at Kansas Speedway. This Chevrolet SS was last raced earlier this season at Auto Club Speedway by Brian Scott. Dillon is scheduled to make his fourth-career Sprint Cup Series race. He made a start in the No. 33 Cheerios/Kroger Chevrolet SS earlier this season in the Daytona 500.
The SpongeBob SquarePants team just welcomed another of its friends to the field for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on May 9, 2015, -- with NASCAR young star Ty Dillon set to drive the No. 33 Plankton Chevrolet SS.
Just in time for the start of one of the busiest and most intriguing months of the racing season this May, Team Penske is proud to unveil a new website design and functionality at www.TeamPenske.com.
Richard Childress Racing teammates Paul Menard, Ryan Newman and Austin Dillon finished third, seventh and 35th, respectively, in the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Menard ranks 11th in the Sprint Cup Series championship point standings, trailing current leader Kevin Harvick by 114 points, while Newman ranks 14th and Dillon ranks 25th.
The penultimate race of a historic 2026 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship traveled to the Mile High City for Round 16 of the Monster Energy SMX World Championship
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The reigning two-time Cup Series champion from Elk Grove, California, led a race-high 93 of 200 laps and fended off teammate Justin Allgaier through a 17-lap shootout to notch his second O'Reilly victory of 2026 at the Lone Star state.
Brent Crews was the top-finishing Toyota driver in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, winning the Dash 4 Cash $100,000 bonus with a fourth-place result on Saturday afternoon.
