The Richard Childress Racing driver made a 70-lap green flag run during the final race stage and held on for a victory over Christopher Bell at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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The NASCAR veteran put down a fast lap of 178.926 mph to earn the pole position for the South Point 400 and lead a Stewart-Haas Racing sweep of the first four qualifying positions.
After setting a course record at Las Vegas Motor Speedway while on vacation, the 21-year-old won back-to-back F1 races at the Belgian Grand Prix and Italian Grand Prix.
Aric Almirola capped an absolute Stewart-Haas Racing rout at Talladega Superspeedway with an overtime victory that earned him an automatic berth into the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs.
Grant Enfinger survived three attempts at a green-white-checkered overtime finish and a red flag for a multitruck crash to win the caution-plagued World of Westgate 200 on Friday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
It was hot and slick during Friday’s pole day qualifying for the inaugural South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with That Jones Boy, as it now reads on Erik Jones’ race car, being the hottest and slickest of all.
The NASCAR Burnout made some noise on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday.
No matter which driver led Martin Truex Jr., the advantage always seemed temporary as he positioned himself to make a pivotal move.
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.
If Miami of Ohio is the “Cradle of Coaches,” then Kyle Busch Motorsports is well on the way to becoming the “Crib of Drivers” on the fast track to NASCAR stardom.
With a million reasons to deliver his biggest victory as a Supercross rider, Marvin Musquin entered a higher tax bracket at Sam Boyd Stadium Saturday night.
Like baseball’s Cleveland Indians, Las Vegas Cup Series driver Kurt Busch and his Stewart-Haas race team might be getting hot at the right time.
Chad Reed kept looking down at the see-through case purporting to contain $1 million during a news conference Friday to promote the AMA Monster Energy Cup. The veteran Supercross rider from Australia was too focused on the money to answer any other questions.
Micah Roberts, a former Las Vegas sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1994, analyzes the field for Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Autism at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware.
Jimmie Johnson has won 10 of 28 starts on the high-banked, one-mile concrete layout at Dover International Speedway, including a sweep during his 2002 rookie year. He is the 7-2 favorite to win Sunday’s race.