Carson Hocevar is entering his first NASCAR Cup Series Chase with a mindset that is far different from the pressure often linked to a playoff debut. The Spire Motorsports driver says the No. 77…
Denny Hamlin enters the 2026 NASCAR playoffs as the No. 1 seed, but the Joe Gibbs Racing driver does not believe his long Chase history will give him a major edge. Hamlin starts the 10-race Chase…
Prior to officially unveiling the Chase for the Championship format in January, NASCAR and Racing Insights conducted over 25,000 simulations to predict how the format could potentially play out. The…
Denny Hamlin has been unbothered by a shoulder injury that has nagged him throughout the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season. The driver of the No. 11 plans to have surgery sometime during the offseason…
Matt DiBenedetto will be back behind the wheel of a NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series car, driving the No. 42 Young’s Motorsports Chevrolet Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 3. Magnesium…
Denny Hamlin may have bigger hardware on his mind over the next 10 weeks, but NASCAR’s top driver through the first 26 races of 2026 finally has a trophy to show for it. Hamlin finished the regular…
Of the 16 drivers who comprise the newest iteration of the Chase for the Championship, only two of them have competed in the version that predated The Playoffs from 2004-to-2013. Denny HamlinJoey…
The ‘win and you’re in’ may be gone, but the importance of winning remains critical in the battle to become a NASCAR Cup Series champion. Ryan Preece showed just how valuable a win can be last than a…
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wasn’t supposed to be at Daytona International Speedway when Tom Cruise arrived. NASCAR changed that. Earnhardt revealed on the “Dale Jr. Download” that he had initially planned to…
Honda’s hybrids achieved their best August sales month ever, with 36,776 sold. CR-V hybrid sales were up 8.0 percent, with 20,437 sold. Honda has sold over 1 million cars so far this year. Honda’s…
Ryan Blaney will begin his pursuit of a second NASCAR Cup Series championship with a significantly different team around him. Just days before the Chase opens at Darlington Raceway, Team Penske has…
The Chandler Smith and Carson Brown tandem in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series at Richard Childress Racing was three years in the making. Danny Lawrence, who oversees division operations for RCR, says the…
