NASCAR Cup Series

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to racing this week at Daytona International Speedway with the Sprint Unlimited Saturday evening and Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying on Sunday.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is ready to hit the track with the sport’s biggest race, the Daytona 500, and Clint Bowyer is ready. The Emporia, Kan., native has yet to win at Daytona International Speedway but has come close. He has two fourth-place finishes (2010 and 2009) in the 500 and also finished fourth in July 2013.

Denny and Dave: Hamlin begins the 2015 NASCAR season with his third-career Cup Series crew chief. Dave Rogers climbs atop the #11 FedEx pit box following five years with fellow JGR driver Kyle Busch and replaces Darian Grubb, who served as Hamlin’s signal-caller for the previous three seasons. Hamlin and Rogers enjoyed considerable success together in the Xfinity Series while each came through the ranks, winning seven races together in 62 total events from 2006-2009. Rogers was also the crew chief of the #11 FedEx team when the program started in 2005.

Vince Vaughn, the star of 20th Century Fox’s and New Regency’s upcoming comedy “Unfinished Business,” in theaters everywhere March 6, will serve as Grand Marshal for the 57th annual DAYTONA 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sunday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. ET on FOX from Daytona International Speedway. “The Great American Race” will also broadcast live on FOX Deportes, Motor Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio with additional coverage on NASCAR.com.

Eight Sprint Unlimited Wins for Richard Childress Racing ...RCR has earned eight checkered flags in the Sprint Unlimited winning in 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1995 with driver Dale Earnhardt, and again in 2009, 2010 and 2013 with Kevin Harvick.

The 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season kicks off on Saturday night with the annual Sprint Unlimited where five Ford drivers – Aric Almirola, Greg Biffle, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – will be looking to win the race for the first time.

A new season, new hopes, new drivers, old drivers with new teams, and a whole lot of things I want to see come out of 2015.

In 1992, few could have predicted that when Jeff Gordon strapped into the No. 24 car for Hendrick Motorsports at Atlanta Motor Speedway for his first Sprint Cup Series start on Nov. 15 of that year that he was embarking on a career more than two decades long to become one of the sport’s foremost icons. Twenty-three years and four Sprint Cup Series championships later, Gordon will return March 1 to Atlanta, still driving the No. 24 for Hendrick Motorsports, to compete for his sixth career victory there, as his final full-time season behind the wheel begins in earnest.

NASCAR Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brian France announced today that Mike Helton has been named Vice Chairman of NASCAR and Chief Operating Officer Brent Dewar has been added to the NASCAR Board of Directors, effective immediately.

CHARLOTTE, NC (February 9, 2015) - Jeb Burton has signed with BK Racing for the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season, as the driver of the...