While the final results of the US Cellular 250 will show that Michael McDowell and the No. 18 Pizza Ranch Toyota started ninth and finished ninth, the night was anything but routine for the Joe Gibbs Racing team.
Following a season-low 11th-place finish at Berlin Raceway on July 9, Ty Dillon's focus has centered on putting a bad day - by his standards - behind him and aiming for the 2011 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards championship.
Robert Richardson, Jr. and the No. 23 North Texas Pipe Dodge team of R3 Motorsports had a cyclical race at Iowa Speedway during Saturday night’s NASCAR Nationwide Series event coming back right to where they started 250 laps later.
Sam Hornish Jr., driver of the No. 22 Discount Tie Dodge Challenger in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS), finished 24th Saturday evening in the U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway.
Kyle Busch was the highest finishing Tundra driver in Sunday morning's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race at Pennsylvania's Pocono Raceway with a second-place result.
Roush Fenway Racing posted the wildest one-two finish in team history Saturday night at Iowa Speedway, with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. posting his second career NASCAR win.
Fresh from his Brickyard 400 last week at Indianapolis, Paul Menard leads the Team Chevy charge in his No. 27 Certain Teed/Menards Chevrolet with a seventh place starting position for Sunday’s Good Sam RV Insurance 500 at Pocono Raceway.
KURT BUSCH (No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge Charger R/T) Qualified Fifth “It was a decent qualifying effort. I told Steve (Addington, crew chief) we could really be scratching our heads if we were back 25th or so. "
DAVID RAGAN - No. 6 UPS Ford Fusion - "Hopefully that will end up in the top 15. We thought we had a legitimate shot of a pole run or top-five run, and I think the track is a little bit warmer now than it was maybe 20 minutes ago, but I missed my marks a little bit through the tunnel turn."
The reigning two-time Cup Series champion from Elk Grove, California, led a race-high 93 of 200 laps and fended off teammate Justin Allgaier through a 17-lap shootout to notch his second O'Reilly victory of 2026 at the Lone Star state.
Brent Crews was the top-finishing Toyota driver in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, winning the Dash 4 Cash $100,000 bonus with a fourth-place result on Saturday afternoon.
The 23-year-old Hocevar from Portage, Michigan, clocked in a single qualifying lap at 191.340 mph in 28.222 seconds to claim his second consecutive Cup pole at the Lone Star state by 0.003 seconds over teammate Daniel Suarez.
LEGACY MOTOR CLUB driver John Hunter Nemechek was made available to the media on Saturday prior to the NASCAR Cup Series race from Texas Motor Speedway.
