RAB Racing and the No. 99 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Toyota Camry driven by Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate Alex Bowman were confident of a good finish coming in to Kansas Speedway. Alex Bowman has two wins in just two starts at Kansas Speedway in the ARCA Racing Series, and RAB Racing utilized chassis No. 42 which has numerous top 10 finishes and captured the pole award at Texas Motor Speedway in April.
TriStar Motorsports driver Mike Bliss made his 10th NASCAR Nationwide Series start at Kansas Speedway on Saturday afternoon. Starting from the 21st position Bliss had a car that was near flawless to the conditions of the 1.5-mile tri-oval. Crew Chief Paul Clapprood and the No. 19 crew made minimal adjustments throughout the 200 lap event.
Following the events of the last lap of the Grand Prix of Houston IZOD IndyCar Series race on Sunday, Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti was admitted awake and alert to Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston for a concussion, two spinal fractures and a fracture to his right ankle.
A surge in the popularity of NASCAR and betting on NASCAR has seen it usurp the NHL in the list of the most popular sports in the USA – moving up a spot to fourth. Much of this is owed to the combination of exciting winning drives by last season’s race winning drivers Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth, and the sport’s exciting yet simplistic betting.
Kevin Harvick won the Hollywood Casino 400 in his No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet SS from the pole position in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that featured a record number of cautions and challenges throughout the 400-mile event. There were 15 caution flags and 71 laps run under caution during the 267-lap race, both of which are track records at Kansas Speedway.
The third time is supposed to be the charm, but for Tommy Lemons Jr., it was the 10th time. Lemons drove to the biggest victory of his career Sunday, winning the Virginia is for Racing Lovers 300 at Martinsville Speedway in his 10th start in the race.
Kurt Busch and the single-car Furniture Row Racing team showed its strength Sunday, coming back from adversity to finish second in the Hollywood Casino 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway.
David Gravel had his sights set pretty high heading into this year’s running of the Morgan Hughes National Open at the famed Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa. After qualifying for the A-Feature in the finale of the historic event for the first time in his career last year, he repeated that achievement on Saturday, Oct. 5, and wound up finishing eighth, with a stout 62-car field in attendance for the event sanctioned by the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series.
The 2026 Coca-Cola 600 champion from Monterrey, Mexico, will continue to pilot the No. 7 Chevrolet entry as part of a contract extension with Spire Motorsports for the 2027 Cup Series season.
The NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) heads to Phoenix Raceway this weekend for the Freeway Insurance 500 on October 18 at 3 p.m. ET on USA, MRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio (Channel 90).
The development of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES’ next-generation IR-28 car moved this week to the bumps and bruises of Sebring International Raceway from earlier testing on the silky-smooth surface of Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
