Though Watkins Glen International may not rank as the No. 1 favorite track for Martin Truex Jr., the central New York road course remains near the top of his preferred venue list.
Elliott Sadler and the No. 11 OneMain Financial team travel to New York this weekend to compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series event on the 11-turn road course at Watkins Glen International. In five Nationwide Series starts at the track, Sadler has one top-five and two top-10 finishes. In addition, the veteran driver has 12 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Watkins Glen, with one top-10 finish.
Playing the role of favorite at a road course in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is nothing new to Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) ace Marcos Ambrose. For the past several years, Ambrose is regarded as the driver to beat, especially at Watkins Glen International, where he has two Sprint Cup wins and his lowest finish was third before a wreck last year had him 31st at the end.
Admittedly not a road course driver, Aric Almirola utilized a two-day test at Watkins Glen International and road course expert teammate, Marcos Ambrose, to make significant gains at the 2.45-mile road course. The improvement at the test has the No. 43 Smithfield team confident they can compete for a solid finish and help solidify their spot in The Chase for the Sprint Cup by officially locking into the Top-30 in points.
The NASCAR Nationwide Series will head to a road course this weekend for the second time this season. Even though Dakoda Armstrong scored a 25th-place finish in the first road course event of the season at Road America, he's optimistic for a solid finish this weekend at Watkins Glen International.
RCR at Watkins Glen International ... In 59 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Watkins Glen International, RCR boasts two wins (Robby Gordon 2003 and Kevin Harvick 2006), eight top-five and 21 top-10 finishes. Dale Earnhardt won three poles (1990, '92, '96) at the high-speed, seven-turn, upstate New York facility.
Dover International Speedway has announced its all-new Reward Our Troops program, a ticket donation initiative that provides individual ticket purchasers or businesses the opportunity to make a contribution toward sending an active member of the military, a Veteran or family members of our fallen heroes to a Sunday NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Monster Mile.
#10 Jesse Kennedy and #51 Dave Taylor would lead the field to green. Kennedy pulled out to an early lead until lap lap twenty when #17 Kevin Cornelius would power by. The #17 looked set to pick up another feature win until mechanical issues slowed Cornelius coming out of turn 2 on lap thirty six. For the second time this season a power steering line issue would end the chance of victory. Andrew Gressel had worked his way up to second place and assumed the lead on lap thirty seven.
The 20-year-old Day from Clovis, California, led a race-high 136 of 201 laps and fended off Carson Kvapil over a late side-by-side battle for his third O'Reilly Auto Parts Series career victory in Sin City.
BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 6 Consumer Cellular Ford Mustang Dark Horse – “I’ll fire us off. I know there are probably three things you probably want to ask me about. I’m gonna take the easiest one first. I just ran at Las Vegas."
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to the media on Saturday after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The three-time Daytona 500 champion from Chesterfield, Virginia, clocked in a lap of 186.787 mph in 28.910 seconds for his 53rd Cup career pole, fifth of 2026 and second at Sin City.
The 20-year-old Day from Clovis, California, posted a single qualifying lap of 180.856 mph in 29.858 seconds for the second O'Reilly Auto Parts Series pole of his career and of the 2026 season in Sin City.
