Almost lost in postrace histrionics after Kyle Busch won a slam-bang duel with Kyle Larson on the final lap of Sunday’s NASCAR race near Chicago was that the slam-bang finish happened on a 1.5-mile track.
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Kyle Busch outdueled Kyle Larson on a wild final lap Sunday in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway, earning his fifth victory of the season.
Fans attending the inaugural Sept. 14 to 16 South Point 400 NASCAR weekend will be greeted by a new loge box seating area in Turn 4 mirroring the one that debuted in Turn 1 at the spring Cup Series weekend.
Martin Truex Jr. was running second as the laps dwindled in Sonoma, and crew chief Cole Pearn didn’t think they were as fast as Kevin Harvick.
Sprint car driver Jason Johnson has died following a crash at Beaver Dam Raceway in Wisconsin, race officials said Sunday. He was 41.
If you squint and look toward the back of the starting grid, you’ll see there still is a place for the little guys in NASCAR such as Stan Mullis.
But the race’s future in Southern Nevada is being threatened by federal legislation that would open nearly 39,000 acres of federal land for development south of the Las Vegas Valley.
Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, who died Monday at age 81, was a champion drag racer whose career spanned four decades. He was an even better self-promoter.
After 120 laps and two stages, the race could now be official. Any driver in the lead might conceivably win if rain intervened.
When he announced he would be reducing his NASCAR schedule last year, Brendan Gaughan didn’t think it would result in him having less free time on his hands.
Martin Truex Jr. had his car parked on the White House lawn and was feted with a day in his honor in his home state of New Jersey. Nearly seven months after winning his first NASCAR Cup championship, Truex’s whirlwind victory tour remains on a barnstorming schedule.
It was the one and only Vegas Grand Prix, and if the 2007 Championship Auto Racing Teams race contested on downtown Las Vegas streets was easily forgotten, one no longer can say the same about the guy who won it.
Kyle Busch led 377 of 400 laps in a dominating Coca-Cola 600 run at Charlotte Motor Speedway to finally break through with a points-race victory at the only NASCAR Cup track that had eluded him.
Will Power hated racing on ovals. He wasn’t a fan of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and figured he would never win the Indianapolis 500.
Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo steadied his nerve when victory threatened to escape him again as he overcame a significant midrace power loss to win the Monaco Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday.