12:49 AM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Robin Trivette is a popular person this week with the Coca-Cola 600 approaching, and it has nothing to do with her bubbly personality. It’s all about her connections. Trivette lives in a condominium built on Charlotte Motor Speedway property, which makes her one of the first spectators
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6:41 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders NASCAR races for the 3rd time in eight days, back in action Sunday (6 p.m. ET) at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin took the first two races last week at Darlington. Who will take the checkered flag this week? ESPN.com NASCAR Senior Writer Ryan McGee, fantasy
7:06 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Chase Briscoe capped a heartbreaking week by winning the Xfinity Series’ return to action at Darlington Raceway on Thursday. Briscoe was in the Darlington infield Tuesday awaiting the race’s original start when he digitally joined his wife, Marissa, for a 12-week exam for their expected baby. The
7:45 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Darlington Raceway president Kerry Tharp says he and NASCAR felt a responsibility to get the return to live racing right with the rest of the sports world watching during the coronavirus pandemic. “When we found out about a month ago we were going to be doing these events I
11:24 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Denny Hamlin won NASCAR’s first Wednesday race since 1984 when rain stopped the event with 20 laps remaining at Darlington Raceway. The Daytona 500 winner was out front but out of fresh tires and trying to hang on when he got unintended help from Joe Gibbs Racing
6:44 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Rain has delayed the start of NASCAR’s first Cup race on a Wednesday since 1984. The event scheduled at Darlington Raceway would be the second race since the coronavirus pandemic caused a suspension of the season March 13. NASCAR successfully made its return Sunday by using a
6:45 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Xfinity Series racers will have to wait a little longer for their first event since March as rain has hit Darlington Raceway, delaying the start of the Toyota 200 on Tuesday. Officials had already moved up the scheduled 8 p.m. start two hours because of the threat
8:51 AM ET Kevin Matz The NASCAR Cup Series heads back to Darlington Raceway on Wednesday (7:30 p.m. ET), just three days after Kevin Harvick found victory at that very track. The rare weekday race will see an altered format that includes no practice or qualifying and a starting grid determined by inverting the top
5:23 PM ET Associated Press Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Monday that NASCAR can hold its races at Pocono Raceway in late June if the coronavirus situation improves in the area, though the races might have to go off without fans. Pocono Raceway is in Monroe County, which currently is under Wolf’s strictest pandemic orders,
10:47 PM ET The hours leading up to Sunday’s 400-mile race at Darlington Raceway — actually, the months leading up to it — were so strange. The moments immediately following the event, as Kevin Harvick reached a rarely achieved career milestone and did his celebratory donuts in front of an empty grandstand, they too were