From lap one to lap 400, Sunday Night at Charlotte belonged solely to Jimmie Johnson. Johnson and his No. 48 team dominated as they perfectly executed a game plan en route to their first victory of the year.
While everybody is focused on when Jimmie Johnson will score his first victory of the season to attempt to lock himself in the 2014 Chase for the Championship, Johnson is showing speed on the track as he won the Coors Light Pole Award for the Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Jamie McMurray restarted second and used the outside line during the final 10-lap segment to pass race leader Carl Edwards to win Saturday nights NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.
Ryan Blaney claimed the 21 Means 21 Pole Award, his first career Nationwide Series pole, for Sunday’s Get To Know Newton 250 presented by Sherwin Williams at Iowa Speedway. Each race of the 2014 Nationwide Series season has seen a new polesitter and Blaney continues the progression by becoming the 10th different pole winner in 10 races.
He had to finish in the top two to make it into the Sprint All-Star Race and Clint Bowyer did just that as he dominated the second half of the 40 lap Sprint Showdown to grab the victory.
On Friday afternoon, it'd be Austin Dillon laying down a lap of 27.747 seconds at Charlotte Motor Speedway to win the pole for the 29th Annual Sprint Showdown.
Kevin Harvick took the Coors Light Pole Award for the 5-hour ENERGY 400 Benefiting Special Operations Warrior Foundation with a new track record of 27.799 seconds or 194.658 mph. This is Harvick's eighth pole in 477 Sprint Cup Series races and his second in 17 races at Kansas Speedway.
Catching the run at the right time through the apron in the third round of qualifying, 26-year-old Brian Scott would come across the line with a lap of 48.293 seconds to score his first career Coors Light Pole Award in his fifth Sprint Cup Series start. Scott’s previous best qualifying attempt was a 12th in the season opening Daytona 500.
Rain throughout the day would result in a soaked track and therefore resulting in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Qualifying being rained out. As a result, the starting line-up for the Toyota Owners 400 was set based on first practice speeds.
When Kevin Harvick is not running well, he really suffers and has a terrible finish. However, when he is running well and able to dominate, it produces magical results. Tonight was a product of magical results as Kevin Harvick dominated the Bojangles Southern 500 in route to picking up his second victory of the season.
The three-time Daytona 500 champion from Chesterfield, Virginia, posted a pole-winning lap at 195.117 mph in 36.901 seconds to become the 10th competitor to reach 50 poles in NASCAR's premier series.
The reigning Truck Series champion led the final 15 of 125 laps and fended off teammate Kaden Honeycutt to notch his third Truck victory of 2026 and first at Michigan.
Corey Heim drove to the lead with a great third to first move with 15 laps to go and held off teammate Kaden Honeycutt to win his first race at Michigan International Speedway.
LAYNE RIGGS, No. 34 BKB Bare Knuckles Boxing Ford F-150 – “I felt like I was more in trouble than I was winning the race. I don’t think I led a lap, but we started up near the front with a fourth-place qualifying effort."
