As the Daytona 500 closed into the final 25 laps, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had put himself in position to win the sport's greatest race and take home the biggest victory of them all.
Who is Landon Cassill? That's a good question. He might be the most anonymous driver in the Cup series right now. I could probably count on one hand how often he was mentioned yesterday on FOX.
Emotions ran high at the end of the 56th Annual Daytona 500 as Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored his first victory in the Great American race since 2004. It had been a long ten years since he last won in 2004. The years were filled with plenty of close finishes including three runner-ups, but Earnhardt Jr. could never close the deal.
NASCAR team owners and fans both expressed the fact that they did not tandem drafting at Daytona so a solution was drawn up. NASCAR outlawed the act, saying that if a driver locked bumpers with another, they would be brought to pit road to serve a pass-through penalty.
Matt Crafton opened the defense of his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers' championship with a low-key 13th-place run Friday night in his No. 88 Fisher Nuts / Menards Toyota Tundra in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway.
When it came to IndyCar Media Day earlier this month, the question that Scott Dixon got asked was a simple - could he win his fourth IndyCar title this season? His answer was simple - "Beat everybody else."
Heading into the year, Chip Ganassi has faced a lot of criticism, merely surrounding moving up Kyle Larson to the Sprint Cup Series this year. While some may expect success immediately, Ganassi realizes that there is a learning curve and says it'll take one step at a time and was pleased with Larson's Budweiser Duel performance.
By a narrow margin, with a push from Trevor Bayne, Regan Smith edged Brad Keselowski by 0.013 seconds to win the season-opening Drive4COPD 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
After running a part-time schedule last year in IndyCar, Ryan Briscoe is back behind the wheel full-time as he will battle for the championship in a ride prepared from Chip Ganassi Racing.
Fresh off its first off-weekend of the season, the NASCAR Cup Series will return to action for 16-straight weeks of competition, with the stretch kicking off Sunday at “The Last Great Colosseum” of Bristol Motor Speedway.
Returning from an off weekend in the NASCAR Cup Series schedule, Noah Gragson and the No. 4 team head to Bristol, Tennessee for 500 laps at the Bristol Motor Speedway.
Ryan Ellis was announced as Young’s Motorsports’ full-time driver in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series as the organization enters its third season of competition.
After the Easter break, Josh Berry and the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane team return to action this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, aiming to carry forward the momentum built over the last two NASCAR Cup Series races.
Josh Berry, driver of the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Mustang Dark Horse for Wood Brothers Racing, heads to Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend looking to continue the positive momentum gained from a 10th-place finish in Martinsville
