The 2023 NASCAR season comes to an end this weekend as champions will be crowned in all three major touring series at Phoenix Raceway, beginning with Friday night’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race.
It's the season finale for the NASCAR Cup Series, and for Todd Gilliland and for the No. 38 team, the focus is on collecting another good finish to complete their year.
Chase Purdy and the No. 4 team head to Phoenix Raceway for the 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The 23-year-old driver has shown improved results over the second half of his first season with KBM.
Heading to Sunday’s Season Finale 500k at Phoenix, Truex sits 12th in the driver standings that were reset after last weekend’s third and final Round of 8 playoff race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney won Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway, earning a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Round of 4. This past weekend’s win marked Blaney’s third win of the season and 10th of his career.
The prospects for Harrison Burton and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team looked bleak after Burton was spun by another driver while racing to avoid getting lapped in the closing circuits of Stage One of Sunday’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway.
Chris Buescher’s NASCAR Playoffs run came to a close Sunday afternoon at Martinsville Speedway, but he capped it with his best-career finish at The Paperclip, and strongest run in the Round of 8, an eighth-place finish in the NEXLETOL Ford.
Crew chief Patrick Donahue, car chief Dillon Bassett and engineer Morgan Olsen have been barred for the next four O'Reilly events due to fallen ballast from Patrick Staropoli's No. 48 entry during this past weekend's event at Sin City.
Hendrick Motorsports enters this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway as the facility's all-time leader in wins (16), top fives (58), top 10s (97) and laps led (4,269).
As good as a season-opening win in Gainesville felt for Matt Hartford, a repeat of that at his home track during this weekend’s FMP NHRA Arizona Nationals presented by NGK Spark Plugs