HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (SEPT. 21, 2015) - Northeast standout Ryan Preece will make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut this week at New Hampshire Motor Speedway....
With the first race of The Chase for the Sprint Cup complete, Richard Petty Motorsports is the team playing spoiler. With Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Ford team collecting their second consecutive Top-10 finish Sunday at the Chicagoland Speedway, the team finished higher than six others competing for the championship. The No. 43 team has momentum going into New Hampshire and is focused on a win before the season ends.
In an effort to give fans even more flexibility when it comes purchasing tickets for the Goody’s® Headache Relief Shot® 500, the Martinsville Speedway ticket office is open on weekends.
When a right rear tire went down early in the 267-lap MYAFIBRISK.COM400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race, Kurt Busch battled back in his No. 41 Haas Automation Chevrolet SS to score a third place finish at Chicagoland Speedway. It marked his ninth top-10 in 15 races at the 1.5-mile speedway, and was the first of 10 rounds in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
Richard Childress Racing drivers Ryan Newman, Paul Menard and Austin Dillon finished fourth, 17th and 43rd, respectively, in the MyAFibRisk.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
Lowes Foods, a Carolinas-based grocer with locations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, will serve as the primary sponsor for Sam Hornish Jr. and the No. 9 Ford team at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway in October.
Staying out on old tires, Hamlin grabbed the lead moments after a restart with five laps left and streaked away to a .963-second victory over Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Carl Edwards, who surged from sixth to second during that restart on Lap 263 of 267.
Martin Truex Jr. finished an unlucky 13th in Sunday's Chase opener at Chicagoland Speedway. When the final caution came out with eight laps remaining in the Sprint Cup Series race, Truex was comfortably running in sixth place.
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO.48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS, FINISHED 11TH: DID KEVIN (HARVICK) TRY TO BLOCK YOU OUT THERE? DID HE INITIATE THAT? “He didn’t leave me any space. He was pinning me down, and I had to get back up on the track.
Camry driver Denny Hamlin claimed the first Chase race victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Chicagoland Speedway. The top four spots in the NSCS driver standings are held by the four Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota drivers. Toyota driver Kyle Busch won Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Chicagoland while Tundra driver Timothy Peters earned a third-place finish in Saturday’s rain-postponed NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race.
Chris Buescher, driver of the No. 17 RFK Racing Ford Mustang Dark Horse, will be making the 400th start of his NASCAR Cup Series career this weekend at Martinsville Speedway.
Anthony Alfredo and Parker Retzlaff will continue to pilot the Nos. 96 and 99 Chevrolet entries, respectively, for the 2027 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series season amid a breakout year in 2026.
This race marks a significant milestone for Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing as driver Chris Buescher makes his 400th Career Start after leading 53 laps this past weekend in Talladega.