The three-time Daytona 500 champion from Chesterfield, Virginia, led 34 of 267-scheduled laps and executed a thrilling last-lap victory over Kyle Larson to notch his first Cup victory of the 2023 season.
Grant Enfinger led 65 laps in the Heart of America 200 at Kansas Speedway Saturday night to capture his first CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win of the season. It was his first victory at the 1.5-mile track and the eighth of his Truck Series career.
William Byron topped qualifying at Kansas Speedway with a 179.206 mph lap in the No. 24 Chevrolet to claim his second pole of the season and his 10th career NASCAR Cup Series pole. The Hendrick Motorsports driver will be joined on the front row by teammate, Kyle Larson, who came up a little short with a 179.17 mph lap.
The NASCAR Cup Series and the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series head to Kansas Speedway this week. Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano lead all active Cup Series drivers at Kansas with three wins each. So far this season we have crowned eight different Cup Series winners in the first 11 races of the year.
Martin Truex Jr. overcame a pit issue midway through Monday's race and recovered, with the aid of a quick two-tire pit stop late, to win the Wurth 400 at Dover. The win snapped a 54-race winless streak for Truex.
The 2017 Cup Series champion from Mayetta, New Jersey, led 68 of 400-scheduled laps and prevailed in a seven-lap shootout to win his first Cup points-paying event since September 2021.
This weekend the NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series travel to Dover Motor Speedway. Friday evening will showcase the ARCA Menards Series East and the Xfinity Series will take center stage Saturday afternoon. The Cup Series will close out the weekend with the Würth 400 race on the one-mile concrete paved oval track known as the ‘Monster Mile.
The 31-year-old Truex from Mayetta, New Jersey, led a race-high 124 of 200-scheduled laps and swept both stages en route to his first career victory across NASCAR's top three national touring series.
Christopher Bell finished eighth at Talladega, recording his seventh top 10 of the season.
"Noah Gragson accidentally turned Harrison Burton on lap 142," Bell said. "Those two have a history.
They got into a fight in 2020 at Kentucky. Gragson's car had Wendy's sponsorship, which conveniently answers the question, 'Where's the beef?'"
Everything is bigger in Texas, even modest days. Roush Fenway Keseleowski (RFK) Racing didn’t score the Circuit of the America’s (COTA) win, but there was victory in the way its three teams raced.
