NASCAR Cup Series

AmericanMuscle’s Justin Dugan brings you AM’s latest Hot Lap episode featuring 2018 Mustang RTR Spec 3 chassis #003, which is the first retail ’18 RTR Mustang in existence! Chassis #003 is also the grand prize vehicle from AM’s RTR Giveaway announced earlier in 2018, where Jordan M. from Springhill, Kansas was selected as winner. In this Hot Lap, JD provides his feedback and overview of the Oxford White Spec 3 including a spin on the in-house dynameter.

AHNE BY THE NUMBERS: In 14 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career starts at Indianapolis, Kasey Kahne has an average start of 11.9 and an average finish of 13.6. He’s completed 2,140 of 2,262 (94.6 percent) career laps and has led for a total of 170 laps. Kahne has earned one win and is the defending Brickyard 400 winning having driven to the win in last year’s event. Kahne has also earned four top-five and seven top-ten finishes at the historic 2.5-mile Brickyard.

AJ ALLMENDINGER, NO. 47 KROGER CLICKLIST CAMARO ZL1 - RACING AT INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY: "The grandstands at Indianapolis Motor Speedway are so big that there's not a lot of wind going around the racetrack," Allmendinger said. "I definitely think it affects the way our cars handle."

Due to a lack of necessary funding to field a competitive team, Furniture Row Racing has been left with no reasonable option but to cease operations following the completion of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.

Children, ages 12 and under, will receive free gate admission for Sunday Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and Verizon IndyCar Series races at Pocono Raceway in 2019. This new initiative will start today as part of the 2019 Pocono Raceway Ticket Renewal Program. All remaining tickets for next season’s events at ‘The Tricky Triangle’ are scheduled to go on sale to the public in early October.

704Games, NASCAR’s exclusive esports partner for simulation-style video games on console platforms, announced today NASCAR Heat Champions: Road to Miami, a weekly esports competition in the upcoming video game NASCAR Heat 3. Spanning the 2018 NASCAR Playoffs, NASCAR Heat Champions: Road to Miami will culminate at Homestead-Miami Speedway during Ford Championship Weekend with over $500,000 in potential prize money up for grabs.

The final race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regular season will take place for the first time at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which also hosts the NASCAR XFINITY event this weekend. Ford is coming off a weekend sweep at Darlington Raceway after Brad Keselowski drove Team Penske to victory in both series. Here’s a look at how things stack up among Ford’s Playoff contenders and hopefuls going into this weekend's action.

Darlington was a day all about time. A time when in 1950 the first Southern 500 was run. A time when some of the great names from the past were brought back to be saluted by their sport in the present. A time when 0.6 seconds can mean everything.

5. Kyle Larson: Larson easily won the first two stages at Darlington and finished third, after Brad Keselowski beat him out of the pits on their final pit stop. "I led 284 of 367 laps," Larson said, "but we faltered in the pits when it counted. We should have taken first place; instead, it was the 'won' that got away." Note: The quotes in this article are fictional.

After one of his best qualifying efforts on the season on Saturday, Matt Kenseth drove his Oscar Mayer Ford Fusion to a 25th-place finish Sunday night at Darlington where the 2003 Cup Champion and Oscar Mayer teamed up to replicate one of his early 2000s schemes to celebrate NASCAR’s Throwback weekend.