“I can’t wait for Vegas. Racing at Vegas is a lot of fun. It’s a bumpy, rough 1.5-mile track and we typically run decent there. It’s our first race this season with Cheez-It on the car and I’m looking forward to a top five run.”
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend for its first stop on a three-race west coast swing – Sunday’s Kobalt 400 (3:30 p.m. ET on FOX). Following Las Vegas, the series moves on to Phoenix and concludes its Pacific trip at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California before heading back east to Martinsville.
Elliott Sadler will make his ninth NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) this Saturday afternoon. In Sadler’s previous eight starts, he recorded two top-five and three top-10 finishes at LVMS.
Chris Buescher makes his second NASCAR XFINITY Series start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday. In his first start last season, Buescher started 12th and finished ninth.
Dakoda Armstrong and the No. 43 WinField team will tackle another 1.5-mile track this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The team showed speed last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the first intermediate race of the season.
“Well I’m proud of the guys. We’ve had good race cars in each of these first two races. Heck, we were second at one point on the last lap of the Daytona 500. And last weekend, Brian (Pattie) brought me another great car.
Teams aligned with either Chevrolet or Honda have taken delivery of the initial corresponding road/street course and short oval aerodynamic bodywork kits that will debut in competition in the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 29.
Trevor Bayne will make his fifth career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend. In four previous starts at the 1.5-mile oval, Bayne has recorded one top-10 finish, a ninth-place result in 2012.
Celebrating 25 years of incredible action in 2026, the NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series opens its season this weekend at Gainesville Raceway as part of the prestigious Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals.
LEGACY MOTOR CLUB team chef Duyen Ha will step into the national spotlight this month as a contestant on Top Chef: Carolinas (Season 23), premiering March 9 on Bravo.
The GOVX 200 (200 laps | 200 miles) is the fourth of thirty-three (33) NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series races on the 2026 schedule. The field will take the green flag on Saturday night, March 7, shortly after 5:30 p.m.
The desert backdrop and distinctive dogleg of Phoenix Raceway sets the stage for another pivotal weekend of NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series competition as Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport prepares for Saturday’s GovX 200.
Ocala’s Josh Hart made the fastest run in Gainesville Dragway history on Friday to open the 2026 NHRA season, taking the Top Fuel provisional No. 1 position at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals.