This is my home race track, the coolest place to win for me. I could never pick a better race track to win. I watched my first Cup race here when I was five and I won that other Cup race here, but I just felt like I had to win one the right way here, and this means so much.
“The guys didn’t quit on me today and I’m driving my heart out,” said Truex. “Though we made good adjustments today and came through at the end, we struggled for most of the weekend and need to work out some issues. But the guys worked hard and kept on making the car better.”
Kyle Busch (eighth), who is one of 16 drivers in the Chase playoff, was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday afternoon's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
KYLE LARSON, NO. 42 TARGET CHEVROLET SS – FINISHED 2ND - THIS CAR CAN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF FUEL LEFT IN IT, TALK ABOUT YOUR RUN: "It was a really good race for us. Our Target Chevy wasn't even a top-15 car the first 100 laps, and Shine (Chris Heroy) and everybody on this Target team did a great job to get me in the game.
How does it sound to be going to be going to the next round? “It feels good to go into the next one. We’ve got to keep doing what we’re doing though. We’ve got to keep our eye on the prize and think about the big trophy at the end.”
A late-race mechanical issue cost Landon Cassill a solid finish in Saturday night’s VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 Nationwide Series race at Kentucky Speedway.
Following an impressive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) debut last month at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Cameron Hayley made his return to the No. 32 Cabinets by Hayley Chevrolet Silverado to take on New Hampshire Motor Speedway, finishing just outside of the top five in his second-career NCWTS start.
Ben Kennedy was looking to follow up last weekend's top-10 finish with another solid run in the Heater.com Chevrolet, but his momentum was stalled by a broken stud in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' (NCWTS) return to New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The Elite Motorsports R+L Carriers Top Fuel dragster will make its competition debut at the season opener with motorsports legend Tony Stewart at the wheel.
Entering this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway, Hendrick Motorsports has won three of the last 11 events at the 1-mile oval with Kyle Larson, William Byron and Chase Elliott each winning once.
Mark Martin, one of the most accomplished and respected drivers in the history of NASCAR, will return to the Track Too Tough to Tame on Sunday, March 22
Alex Bowman, driver of the No. 48 Ally Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, will not compete in the March 8 NASCAR Cup Series event at Phoenix Raceway due to vertigo diagnosed this week.
NASCAR driver Josh Bilicki today announced that he is partnering with Sheisgracielou’s “Cowboy Pillows” brand for the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series spring race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
