Ryan Preece won his first NASCAR Cup Series Busch Pole Award in 124 starts at Martinsville Speedway Saturday afternoon with an impressive lap of 19.979 seconds at 94.780 mph in his Stewart-Haas Racing No. 41 Ford. He was the only driver to post a speed under 20 seconds during the qualifying sessio
This weekend NASCAR heads to Martinsville Speedway for some short-track racing. Chase Elliott will also make his much-anticipated return to Cup Series competition after missing the previous six races due to a broken left leg sustained in a snowboarding accident on March 3.
Josh Berry claimed his best Cup Series career result with a second-place finish Sunday at Richmond Raceway. It was his fourth start in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet filling in for the injured Chase Elliott and his second top-10.
The 2021 Cup Series champion from Elk Grove, California, led 93 of 400-scheduled laps and prevailed during a late pit stop and two late-race restarts to notch his first Cup victory of the 2023 season.
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The two-time Xfinity Series champion from Corning, California, led a race-high 41 of 75 over-scheduled laps and outlasted the field through three overtime attempts for his first win of the 2023 Cup season in Austin.
William Byron had the car to beat Saturday at Circuit of The Americas. He topped the NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session in his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet with a lap of 130.76 seconds at 93.882 mph to earn the Busch Light Pole Award at the 20-turn, 3.41-mile track.
The reigning two-time Cup Series champion from Middletown, Connecticut, led a race-high 140 of 260-scheduled laps and executed a final lap pass on former teammate Brad Keselowski to claim his first Cup victory of the 2023 season and at Atlanta.
Tyler Ankrum, driver of the No. 18 LIUNA Chevrolet Silverado RST was forced to end his 2026 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series season a few short laps early after getting collected in an incident with 21 laps to go.
