The fall race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway has always been regarded as somewhat of a home coming event. That's because the vast majority of NASCAR's Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series race teams are headquartered in the Charlotte-North Carolina area.
Coming into the 2012 season Clint Bowyer was one of those drivers that had yet to have a breakout season. In the six previous full seasons prior to 2012, Bowyer had only won five races in 216 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) starts.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced this past Thursday that he would not compete in the next two Sprint Cup Series races after suffering two concussions in the past six weeks.
Clint Bowyer saved enough fuel over the final 56 laps to win Saturday nights NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "Who thought in a million years I'd walk into the situation I've walked into?" Bowyer said in victory lane.
With the final four races of the Nationwide Series ahead, before the crowing of a champion commences in Homestead-Miami, Elliott Sadler continues to move ever closer to seeing that it’s him.
Joey Logano won the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) Dollar General 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway for his eighth win of the season and the 1 7th NNS victory of his career. Logano led a race-high 62 laps of 200 en route to his first NNS victory at the mile-and-a-half Charlotte oval.
Greg Biffle rolled his 3M Ford onto the track. Biffle was the 32nd car onto the track, but when the dust had settled, Biffle found that his 193.708 lap had put him on the pole for Saturday night’s race.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. will not be racing in this weeks NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and the following week's race at Kansas Speedway.
With Chase race four at Talladega delivering on its reputation as the ‘wild card’ and ‘game changer’ in the championship battle, here is what else was surprising and not surprising from the 44th running of the Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500.
Keselowski survived the last-lap pileup at Talladega intact and finished seventh. He remained on top of the Sprint Cup point standings and leads Jimmie Johnson by 14.
In 28 NASCAR Cup Series starts at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, Spire Motorsports has logged four top-20 finishes. Michael McDowell owns the team's best finish, a 12th-place effort earned in March 2025.
Entering Rounds Three and Four of the 2026 INDY NXT by Firestone season, HMD Motorsports heads to Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 27–29 focused on contending at the front.
