Clint Bowyer is probably looking forward to this weekend‘s race at Kansas Speedway more than most. The Emporia, Kan. native will spend the days leading up to Saturday’s SpongeBob SquarePants 400 visiting some favorite places in his home state.
Chevrolet has a rich history at Kansas Speedway. Chevy drivers have won nine of the 18 races held at Kansas Speedway and have captured the pole eight times. Team Chevy competitors have claimed 42 top-five and 87 top-10 finishes at Kansas.
At the end of a pair of practices for the Augie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis, it'd be three-time Verizon IndyCar Series Champion Scott Dixon topped the charts with a lap of one minute and 10.6971 seconds.
A couple of weeks ago Dale Earnhardt would have turned 65 years old and there were many tributes in the media to the Intimidator. There were many more, in various forms, all over social media. But one thing I noted via Twitter was that Kevin Harvick had given Dale Earnhardt Jr. a diecast car of one of his father’s first race cars. What was even neater was the fact that you could see in the photo that the car was autographed.
With Mother’s Day weekend right around the corner, Chris Buescher’s mother Donna reflected on the exciting year that her son has had so far, running so well that he is in contention for the NASCAR XFINITY Series championship, as well as getting an opportunity to race with the best in the Sprint Cup Series.
As the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to Kansas Speedway, eight drivers are locked into the Chase for the Sprint Cup, provided they attempt to qualify for the remaining regular season races. Several prominent drivers are still searching for that elusive victory or the consistency needed to grab one of the eight remaining spots as the Chase approaches.
Although he's primarily an Xfinity driver for Roush-Fenway Racing, Chris Buescher has shown some promise in the five Sprint Cup starts he's made in 2015. He finished 20th in his debut at Fontana, but in his next four races in the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford he had three top-25 finishes with a low point of 30th at Texas.
There are a dozen races run on eight tracks that are truly iconic NASCAR events. Last Sunday was one of those races. The SpongeBob SquarePants 400 in Kansas is not. That is not to say we will not see one of the all-time great races this Saturday night...though the odds might be stacked against us.
For the second straight year, the Verizon IndyCar Series will kick off the month of May in Indianapolis with the Augie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis. The event takes place on the Indianapolis 2.439 mile road course, the same facility that will host the Indianapolis 500 on the oval later this month.
William Sawalich rallied from the middle of the pack to lead Team Toyota with a fourth-place finish in Saturday night’s NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race at EchoPark Speedway near Atlanta.
The 2024 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Riverton, Illinois, led 15 of 172 over-scheduled laps and outlasted four red flag periods, a multitude of late-race carnages and double overtime attempts for his sixth victory of 2026 at EchoPark Speedway.
The 2019 Truck Series regular-season champion from Fairhope, Alabama, led five of 100 laps and fended off Landen Lewis during a three-lap shootout to notch his first Truck victory in 40 races in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell were made available to the media on Saturday prior to the NASCAR Cup Series race from EchoPark Speedway near Atlanta.
