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Denny Hamlin, adamant he still plans to retire at the end of next season, won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway for his third consecutive victory and passed the late Kyle Busch for sole possession of ninth place on the all-time wins list.
Denny Hamlin will start his third consecutive NASCAR Cup Series race from the pole after qualifying in the top spot at Pocono Raceway on Saturday.
Christopher Bell will race at Pocono and possibly the next month or so with a cast on his left wrist.
Carson Hocevar, whose aggression has earned him the nickname of “The Hurricane” in rubbing the NASCAR establishment the wrong way, left a trail of wreckage in his wake Sunday at Michigan.
Despite many NASCAR family outings at the 2-mile oval, Hocevar somehow missed the Michigan wins in 2008 and 2012 for favorite driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Richard Childress held a news conference Saturday at the track to publicly address the unexpected death of Kyle Busch for the first time since the two-time Cup Series champion died on May 21 after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis.
Vertigo forced Alex Bowman out of his No. 48 Chevrolet during the Cup race at Circuit of the Americas in Texas three months ago. He missed races at Phoenix and Las Vegas, and the decision not to drive for JR Motorsports at Darlington or Nashville in NASCAR’s second-tier series was made in advance when Bowman was busy trying to figure out what caused his vertigo.
Denny Hamlin looked in his mirror wondering why nobody else went with him when the green flag dropped at the start of the Cracker Barrel 400 on Sunday night.
The question Denny Hamlin hears the most is whether he gets nervous before a race.
Denny Hamlin will start on the pole Sunday night at the Cracker Barrel 400 after spotty showers canceled qualifying Saturday at the Nashville Superspeedway.
Kyle Busch died last week from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis, according to the former NASCAR star’s death certificate.
NASCAR has indefinitely suspended a member of Michael Jordan’s race team after she allegedly used a golf cart to assault a 77-year-old man at Charlotte Motor Speedway last weekend.
Daniel Suarez benefitted from a crucial pit call, then caught a break from Mother Nature to win the rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, capping an emotional day in which the auto racing world remembered the late Kyle Busch.
Katherine Legge started Sunday by taking in the colorful prerace scene on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s front straightaway as her team monitored the weather forecasts in two cities.
On Sunday night, 39 Cup Series drivers return to the track for the Coca-Cola 600 just three days after the death of Kyle Busch, who had more wins (234) than anyone across NASCAR’s three national series.
Richard Childress Racing is temporarily retiring Kyle Busch’s No. 8 Cup Series car — at least until the late driver’s 11-year-old son Brexton is ready to take over behind the wheel.
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch experienced shortness of breath, felt he was overheating and was coughing up blood the day before his death, according to a 911 call obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
Kyle Busch was a devoted husband, a side that became public when he and wife Samantha chronicled their struggle to become parents and later founded the Bundle of Joy Fund, which is dedicated to advancing access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) care and providing support so others don’t have to navigate infertility alone. The fund has raised more than $2 million and has celebrated the birth of 111 babies.
Kyle Busch has died at the age of 41, NASCAR announced on Thursday. His family had announced earlier in the day that he had been hospitalized with illness and would not be racing this weekend in Charlotte.
Daytona International Speedway is installing LED lighting in and around the famed 2 1/2-mile track that is expected to create “dynamic, visually engaging moments throughout race events.”
Alexander Rossi was sore Tuesday morning after enduring one of the hardest crashes of his career. He’s still determined not to let an injured right ankle or bad left hand keep him out of IndyCar’s biggest race.
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