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CHARLOTTE — Martin Truex Jr. confirmed Wednesday that he will seek to make next year’s Daytona 500 and have former crew chief Cole Pearn atop the pit box. Truex said that his car number will be either No. 78 or No. 56. He won the 2017 Cup championship with the No. 78. He has used

Open Extended Reactions The Las Vegas Grand Prix was held for the firs time in 2023. Clive Mason – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images The Las Vegas Grand Prix will feature a Ferrari Challenge support race as part of Formula One’s plans to improve the spectator experience in year two and beyond. F1’s flagship event

Associated Press Sep 1, 2024, 10:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DARLINGTON, S.C. — Chase Briscoe went three-wide to pass Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain for the lead, then outran two-time series champion Kyle Busch to win the Southern 500 on Sunday night and make the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Briscoe pulled away on a

Welcome to the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, Chase Briscoe. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images) Chase Briscoe won his way into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs on Sunday night. Briscoe held off Kyle Busch to win the Southern 500 and score his second playoff berth with an incredible drive. Busch pressured Briscoe over the final

The NASCAR Cup Series regular season concludes on Sunday with the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Sunday’s race culminates a wild card race for an increasingly shrinking amount of open playoff spots. Martin Truex Jr., Ty Gibbs, Chris Buescher, Bubba Wallace and Ross Chastain all have different ways of getting to the same

Marshall Pruett, Racing columnistAug 29, 2024, 12:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions At the age of 43, Will Power is fighting to claim his third IndyCar crown. Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK IndyCar’s biggest kid loves to sing, play the drums, revels in old-school hip hop, and has no interest in

RICHMOND — Will there be two NASCAR weekends at Richmond Raceway next year? A shocking NASCAR announcement today got me racing to find the answer to that question. A media release at nascar.com by Zack Albert stated, “NASCAR officials announced Tuesday that the Cup Series will race in Mexico next season, adding the first international

The NASCAR Cup Series is heading to Mexico City in 2025. The race on June 15 will be the first points race outside of the United States for NASCAR’s top series in over 60 years. Though the 2025 schedule hasn’t officially been announced, The Athletic broke the news of the Mexico City race on Monday

Open Extended Reactions McLaren boss Zak Brown is convinced Lando Norris has a car capable of overturning Max Verstappen’s sizeable lead and can make a title fight out of the 2024 season. Norris beat Verstappen by a comfortable 22 seconds at the Dutch Grand Prix, a bigger winning margin than any of the Dutchman’s dominant

Associated Press Aug 26, 2024, 04:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NASCAR will take its elite Cup Series international for the first points-paying race outside the United States with a June 2025 stop in Mexico City. The Cup Series will race at storied Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, where NASCAR and track officials have a Tuesday morning

Austin Dillon’s Richmond win officially won’t get him into the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Richard Childress Racing’s final appeal of the penalty assessed to Dillon was denied on Monday by NASCAR’s final appeals officer. Dillon’s win on Aug. 11 qualified him for the playoffs after he wrecked both Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin before

ESPN News Services Aug 25, 2024, 10:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions For the second straight day, a second-generation rising NASCAR star earned his first career win. This time it was 22-year-old Layne Riggs claiming the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory in Sunday’s playoff-opening LiUNA! 175 at the historic Milwaukee Mile. Riggs, son of former

The NASCAR Cup Series arrives at its most iconic venue – Daytona International Speedway – for a Saturday night race filled with playoff implications. Only two races remain in the regular season before the 10-race playoffs begin Sept. 8 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Twelve of the 16 playoffs berths have been clinched, leaving four spots

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorAug 23, 2024, 03:31 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Alpine has confirmed its reserve driver Jack Doohan will be promoted to a full-time race seat alongside Pierre Gasly next season. Doohan will replace the Haas-bound Esteban Ocon, who announced in June

Kelly Crandall Aug 22, 2024, 09:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NASCAR Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney is gearing up for a title defense as stock car racing prepares for the home stretch ahead of the postseason. Meg Oliphant/Getty Images As the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs approached last season, Ryan Blaney and his team were, as

A look at the top 100 all-time NASCAR Cup Series winners list in order by number of wins updated through Oct. 13, 2024. 1. Richard Petty 200 Richard Petty, nicknamed “The King,” is tied with Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson for most NASCAR Cup championships with seven. Petty won in 1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974,

Tyler Reddick’s hot streak continues and so does his reign atop the NBC Sports NASCAR Power Rankings. Reddick remains No. 1 after his victory last weekend at Michigan — the fifth time in the last six races he has finished in the top three. While things stay the same at the top, two drivers climb

Associated Press Aug 17, 2024, 10:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MADISON, Ill. — Josef Newgarden won for the fifth time at World Wide Technology Raceway on Saturday night, taking the lead during a late pit stop and holding off teammate Scott McLaughlin on two restarts. Newgarden survived a partial spin-out on Lap 196 in