Jeff Gordon's lone win at Las Vegas occurred in 2001 when he led the final 20 laps en route to Victory Lane. It was the first of six victories during a season in which he won his fourth NASCAR Cup Series championship.
“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.
RCA, the quintessential American consumer electronics brand, will return to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2026 by partnering with Michael McDowell and Spire Motorsports for three races beginning at Dover Motor Speedway
The first entries have been received for the upcoming ARCA Menards Series / ARCA Menards East Owens Corning 200 Presented by CGS Imaging at Toledo Speedway, set for Saturday, May 16.
Dystany Spurlock will take another historic step in her groundbreaking 2026 season when she becomes the first Black woman to compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series on May 8 at Watkins Glen International.
The 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X – a true American hypercar and America's quickest production car– will lead the field to the green flag for the 110th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge on Sunday, May 24 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
In November 2025, Ryan Ellis was announced as Young’s Motorsports’ full-time driver in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series as the organization enters its third season of competition.
