DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR Cup Series Goes International for First Points Race in Modern Era with Visit to Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City;
The Clash Moves to Historic Bowman Gray Stadium;
Historic Venue Rockingham Speedway Added to NASCAR Xfinity Series and CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Schedules;
Lime Rock Park Joins CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Slate for First Time.
(AVONDALE, AZ – NOV 10, 2024 – RIS) Joey Logano became a three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, leading 107 of the 312-laps at Phoenix, winning the race ahead of the 2023 champion Ryan Blaney, who chased his teammate to the checkered flag. Logano became the tenth driver to win three or more championships and the sixth three-time champion, joining Cale Yarborough, Lee Petty, Tony Stewart and David Pearson. His win gave owner Roger Penske his fifth NASCAR Cup championship.
AVONDALE, AZ – RIS – Jutin Allgaier wins the 2024 Xfinity Championship after a wild overtime finish. Allgaier finished in second place in Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway. Riley Herbst won the race in overtime after leading 116 of the 213 laps.
AVONDALE, AZ – RIS – Martin Truex, Jr won the pole for Sunday’s Championship race at Phoenix. Truex earned pole with a 26.718s lap, besting Joey Logano by 0.010s in the final round of qualifying. The veteran driver is set to retire from full-time competition at the end of the year, but he hopes to leave Joe Gibbs Racing with one last checkered flag after going winless through the first 35 races of the year. It was his 25th career pole, stealing a bit of the spotlight from the title challengers.
AVONDALE, AZ – RIS - William Sawalich won the pole Saturday (Nov. 9) for the Xfinity Series Championship Race with a lap at 134.168 mph. It is his first career pole in only his third career NXS start. He is driving a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. Sawalich’s lap was .148 seconds faster than teammate Sheldon Creed. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Riley Herbst will start third, followed by Chandler Smith and the best of the Championship 4 contenders, Austin Hill.
AVONDALE, AZ – RIS - Ty Majeski held off Grant Enfinger, Corey Heim and Christian Eckes to win his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Friday night at Phoenix Raceway. The championship run comes in Majeski’s second appearance in the final four drivers.
(PHOENIX, AZ – NOV 8, 2024 – RIS) Ryan Blaney led the final NASCAR Cup Series practice of 2024, edging out Martin Truex by 0.032 second and Kyle Larson by another 0.027 second. Blaney, William Byron, Joey Logano and Tyler Reddick, the four drivers racing for the championship, placed first, fourth, ninth and 21st after the session.
MARTINSVILLE, VA – RIS - In a controversial finish, Ryan Blaney won at Martinsville Speedway for the second consecutive year, advancing to the Championship 4 round to defend his title next week.
The Nov. 10 championship race at Phoenix will feature Blaney vs. Tyler Reddick, Joey Logano and William Byron, who was awarded the final title berth in the title race after NASCAR officials ruled more than 20 minutes after the race that Christopher Bell committed a safety violation on the final lap by riding the wall to pass Bubba Wallace in the last corner for 18th.
“I’m not happy for anything, but the rule is what it is,” Byron said after the race . “We’ll go race. Just proud of my team.”
“I don’t know what to say,” Bell told NBC Sports’ Dave Burns. “I understand the rule is made to prevent people from riding the wall, but my move was completely different than Ross riding the wall. I don’t know what to say.”
Ryan Blaney earned a chance to defend his Cup Series championship with a victory Sunday , where a controversial finish forced NASCAR to decide if Christopher Bell or William Byron took the final spot in the winner-take-all season finale.
The ending was marred by NASCAR’s lengthy review of Bell potentially committing a safety violation with his last-lap pass of Byron. Bell hit the wall and rode a portion of it for momentum — the same thing Ross Chastain did two years ago in a move that has since been banned by NASCAR.
Blaney, meanwhile, passed Chase Elliott with 15 laps to go to win at the Virginia track for a second consecutive year and take a spot in the championship race next week at Phoenix Raceway. Blaney will race Penske teammate Joey Logano, Tyler Reddick of 23XI Racing and Byron. The title goes to the highest-finishing driver next Sunday.
“To have another shot at the championship is really special,” Blaney said. “Try to go back-to-back next week. I’ve got nothing left. Oh my God, I’m tired.”
Blaney lost an automatic berth into the finale when Reddick passed him in the final turn at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The victory gives team owner Roger Penske two chances to win a third title this year: Penske teams won the sports car championships in both IMSA and on Saturday the World Endurance Championship.
(MARTINSVILLE, VA – NOV 3, 2024 – RIS) Ryan Blaney headed only 32 of the 500 laps at Martinsville Speedway’s Xfinity 500, but led the final fifteen before earning his second grandfather clock for winning the Fall race at the ‘paperclip.’ Christopher Bell gained one finishing position on the final lap, potentially bumping William Byron out of the Championship Four, but his move around a slowing Bubba Wallace sent the No. 20 Toyota into the wall and he bounced along it, similar to Ross Chastain’s move a couple of years ago. After long deliberation, including listening to radio transmissions and looking at multiple video angles, NASCAR ruled that he had committed a safety violation, leaving Byron as fourth driver eligible for the Cup championship.
(MARTINSVILLE, VA – NOV 2, 2024 – RIS) Aric Almirola will have a new timepiece at home after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series National Debt Relieve 250 on the narrow paperclip track. The winner’s trophy is the traditional locally-made grandfather clock. Almirola led 150 of the 250 laps in the race, including the final 70 laps, through the final four cautions. The race was punctuated by 13 cautions totaling 84 laps. “It was so hooked up today – this is by far my favorite race track,” said Almirola post-race.
(MARTINSVILLE, VA – NOV 2, 2024 – RIS) Martin Truex Jr topped both rounds of qualifying for NASCAR’s Xfinity 500 Cup Series race, setting a first-round time of 19.584 seconds at 96.691 mph and then a second-round lap of 19.686 seconds at 96.190 mph to beat Chase Elliott’s round two lap by 0.072 second. In practice, Truex had the strongest ten-lap average as well, at 94.068 mph, just ahead of Denny Hamlin’s 93.834 mph average.
(MARTINSVILLE, VA – NOV 1, 2024 – RIS) Christian Eckes, after taking the pole position in qualifying for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 200, went on to lead 188 of the 200 laps in the race before using a restart bump and run to move Taylor Gray up the track and out of the lead with fewer than five laps left in the race.
(MARTINSVILLE, VA – NOV 1, 2024 – RIS) Parker Retzlaff topped qualifying for the NASCAR Xfinity Series National Debt Relief 250, setting a pole time of 19.901 sec at 95.101 mph, beating out Anthony Alfredo by only 0.012 second for the pole. Chandler Smith, the top Playoffs driver in the field, starts third. In Craftsman TRuck Series qualifying for the Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 200, Christian Eckes headed a quartet of Playoffs-qualified racers with his best time of 19.556 seconds at 96.830 mph to beat out Ty Majeski by a thin five thousandths of a second.
LAS VEGAS, NV – RIS – Just on week ago, Joey Logano was eliminated from the NASCAR Cup championship race. Then, Alex Bowan , the driver that led to Logano not making the next round, was disqualified in after race tech, and Logano was in. Today, Logano persevered to the Championship Four with a win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Logano passed Daniel Suarez with five laps to go and held on to win the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series playoff race Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Logano held off a charge from Christopher Bell in the final laps. Bell finished second after leading a race-high 156 laps, and Logano led the final six laps.
HOMESTEAD, FL – RIS – Tyler Reddick passed Ryan Blaney on the last lap to win the NASCAR Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday. Reddick went high and overtook Ryan Blaney on the final turn to win and secure a spot in NASCAR’s winner-take-all finale in Arizona in two weeks. Reddick led 98 of the 267 laps, the last of them the one that mattered most.
LAS VEGIS, NV – RIS – Just on week ago, Joey Logano was eliminated from the NASCAR Cup championship race. Then, Alex Bowan , the driver that led to Logano not making the next round, was disqualified in after race tech, and Logano was in. Today, Logano persevered to the Championship Four with a win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Logano passed Daniel Suarez with five laps to go and held on to win the South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series playoff race Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Logano held off a charge from Christopher Bell in the final laps. Bell finished second after leading a race-high 156 laps, and Logano led the final six laps.
(LAS VEGAS, NV – OCT 19, 2024 – RIS) AJ Allmendinger locked himself into the Championship Four for the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series by winning the Ambetter Health 302 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The win also served as a birthday present for team owner Matt Kaulig. Ryan Sieg, Justin Allgaier, Chandler Smith and last weekend’s disappointed Parker Kligerman were the rest of the top five finishers.
(LAS VEGAS, NV – OCT. 19, 2024 – RIS) Christopher Bell won the pole for the South Point 400, his lap of 29.135 seconds and 185.344 mph beating out Tyler Reddick by a scant 0.007 second.
(LAS VEGAS, NV – OCT 18, 2024 – RIS) Brandon Jones outran all the Playoffs-qualified drivers to win the pole for Saturday’s Ambetter Health 302 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Jones’ qualifying time of 29.439 sec beat out Cole Custer for the pole by 0.039 second.
CONCORD, NC - RIS - Sunday’s surprising news that Alex Bowman’s No. 48 Chevrolet had been DQ’d after the Cup Race on Sunday. The cost was dear for driver Alex Bowman and Hendrick Motorsports. The team thought that all four Hendrick cars had qualified for the next round of the playoffs, but the disqualification now pushes Joey Logano into the final round of the playoffs.
CONCORD, NC – RIS – Kyle Larson dominated the race at the road course within Charlotte Motor Speedway and won as the dominate car. Now, only eight drivers remain in the championship hunt following Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s ROVAL.
CONCORD, NC – In a very competitive NASCAR XFINITY Series race, a desperate Sam Mayer finished first and stayed alive for the playoffs. The controversial finish controversial overtime finish Saturday that allowed Mayer to advance in the Xfinity Series playoffs. Parker Kligerman was leading and headed toward the white flag that would have signified the final lap of the race when Leland Honeyman ran into the tire barrier. NASCAR could have thrown the caution immediately -- that's how deep into the tire barrier Honeyman was -- but the yellow inexplicably didn't flash until the split-second Kligerman was about to cross under the white flag that would have made the race official. The race then into overtime.
CONCORD, NC – RIS – Shane van Gisbergen, in a dramatic last run, will srart first on the grid for the Bank of America NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL on Sunday. The pole, coming in his 12th Cup start, came with a speed of 99.246 mph.
The New Zealander won the Xfinity pole hours before the Cup qualifying session, sweeping the poles for both series this weekend.
CONCORD, NC - RIS - Shane van Gisbergen lived up to the hype and won the pole for Saturday's Xfinity Series race at CCharlotte Moltor Speedway's ROVAL road course. The Chevrolet driver put up a speed of 97.11 mph in his Kaulig Racing No. 97 racer to claim his third pole of his rookie Xfinity season, all coming at road courses.
(CONCORD, NC – OCT 9, 2024 – RIS) The big screen at Charlotte Motor Speedway has just been upgraded since its construction in 2011. The new screen’s resolution has been upped from the original 720p resolution and the individual panels are more weather-resistant than the ones installed thirteen years ago.
TALLADEGA, AL – RIS – Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. held off Brad Keselowski to win the NASCAR Cup playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. Prior to the win, a large accident erased many of the leaders and led to the win for Stenhouse. Stenhouse, Jr. isn't in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, but that didn't stop him from taking the fight to the championship contenders at the finish of Sunday's Playoff overtime finish at Talladega Superspeedway.
(TALLADEGA, AL - OCT 6, 2024 - RIS) William Byron retained his lead in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs after giving fellow Chevy driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr a shove that let the No. 47 edge ahead of Brad Keselowski by 0.006 second with Byron a close thire place at the checkered flag.
The race was marked by a huge crash three laps from the end that started with the lead bunch and wound up involving at least 23 cars to send the race into overtime.
TALLADEGA, AL – RIS – Sammy Smith came into Saturday’s Xfinity race at the end of the line of drivers qualifying for the 2024 championship. Not anymore. Smith jumped from last in the Xfinity Series playoff standings to the first driver to move on to the second round by winning Saturday’s race in overtime at Talladega Superspeedway.
TALLADEGA, AL – RIS _ Michael McDowell found himself in a familiar position in Cup qualifying for the pole at Talladega Superspeedway. Fast. In the final round of qualifying, the 39-year-old racer posted a stunning time of 52.609 seconds (182.022mph) to earn himself the best starting spot for Sunday’s 188-lap event. McDowell posted a lap eight-hundredths of a second quicker than any driver in the final round on his way to the pole.
(TALLADEGA, AL – OCT 5, 2024 – RIS) Jesse Love was the last car on the track in Xfinity Series qualifying and scored his fifth pole of the season, outrunning fellow RCR driver Austin Hill by 0.104 second over the 2.66-mile superspeedway with a lap of 52.578 seconds at 182.129 mph.
TALLADEGA, AL – RIS – Richard Childress Racing captured the front row at Talladega Super Speedway for the Xfinity race Saturday afternoon. Jesse Love nipped Austin Hill to win the pole position. Austin Hill was close behind. It was the fifth pole for Love this season. Chandler Smith, Sheldon Creed and AJ Allmendinger are the top five.
(TALLADEGA, AL – OCT 4, 2024 – RIS) Grant Enfinger led 34 of the 85 laps in the Love’s RV Stops 225 at Talladega on the way to his second win at his home track. The race ended under caution as a crash broke out just behind the leader as he neared the checkered flag.
(TALLADEGA, AL – OCT 4, 2024 – RIS) William Sawalich may have turned 18 on Thursday, October 3rd, but he stretched the celebration an extra day, winning the pole for the Craftsman Truck Series Love’s RV Stop 225.
KANSAS CITY, KS – RIS – A late pass by Ross Chastain as the laps rolled down enable the driver of the No. 1 Chevrolet to get his first win of the season. Chastain led 52 of the 267 laps in the Hollywood Casino 400, holding a 0.388-second winning margin at the end of the first race in the postseason’s Round of 12. Chastain’s first win at the 1.5-mile Kansas City track marked the fifth of his Cup Series career — his first since the 2023 season finale at Phoenix Raceway, 30 races ago.
KANSAS CITY, KS – RIS – Christophe Bell was fastest in Cup Qualifying at Kansas Speedway on Saturday for the third straight time. Bell (P) was the final driver to take time in qualifying and went to the top at 179.336mph (30.111s). While it is Bell’s third straight at the track, it’s his fourth career pole at Kansas Speedway. All four pole wins have come in the Next Gen era (six races at the track).
KANSAS CITY, KS – RIS – Brandon Jones earned his third pole of 2024 in Xfinity qualifyimg at Kansas Speedway on Saturday. He ran a fastest lap of 175.553 mph. Jones, a five-time winner in the series, collected his 11th pole. Chandler Smith, fastest of the Xfinity playoff drivers, joined Jones on the front row with a speed of 175.291 mph, representing Joe Gibbs Racing in the No. 81 Toyota.
KANSAS CITY, KS – RIS – Corey Heim won the NASCAR Truck Series playoff race why leader Ty Majeski ran out of fuel near the end of the race. Majeski, who won the pole and secured his advancement to the Round of 8 of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs with a Stage 1 win earlier in the night, had a near-four second lead over Heim with two laps remaining in the 134-lap event. However, Majeski's truck would sputter coming to the white flag and would run out of fuel, which handed the lead, and win to the 22-year-old Heim.
(KANSAS CITY, KS – SEP 27, 2024 – RIS) Ty Majeski scored his fifth pole of the 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series calendar, taking the top qualifying position ahead of Connor Mosack with a lap of 30.853 sec at 175.023 mph, beating Mosack’s 30.934 sec, 174.565 mph lap by 0.081 sec.
BRISTOL, Tenn. - The first elimination race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs took place on Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway with the annual Bass Pro Shops Night Race and when it was all over there were four Ford drivers who advanced to the Round of 12.