12:00 PM ET Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Daniel Suarez has been fired for the second time in a year, this time by Stewart-Haas Racing as it makes room to promote Cole Custer to the Cup Series in 2020. Suarez spent just one season driving the No. 41 Ford for SHR, the team that hired
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9:00 AM ET Matt Damon was surrounded. As one of the world’s most recognizable movie stars, he is surrounded a lot. But on this day, May 26, 2019, the Academy Award winner was enveloped among more than 300,000 people, and he was likely the most famous person among them. “How’s everyone doing?” he said to
Nov 12, 2019 Kenny Bruce Joe Gibbs Racing will be the favorite to take home another title Sunday when the season-ending, championship-determining Ford EcoBoost 400 gets underway at Homestead-Miami Speedway. That’s because three-quarters of the four-team championship field compete for the Huntersville, North Carolina-based organization. Martin Truex Jr., the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
5:19 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Tifft has parted ways with Front Row Motorsports to focus on his health after suffering a seizure at the track late last month. Tifft felt ill before practice at Martinsville Speedway and has not been in the car since his health scare. He said then that
10:00 PM ET Denny Hamlin did what he had to do, win at Phoenix to clinch his spot in the championship four. Say what you will about these points and championship systems, but it has put the focus on winning races, rather than on consistency, making each individual race more important, and the late-season races
4:38 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Denny Hamlin saved his season by winning Sunday at ISM Raceway to advance into NASCAR’s title-deciding race — a victory that eliminated champion Joey Logano from the playoffs and gave Hamlin his first chance at winning the Cup since 2014. Hamlin, the Daytona 500 winner and a
6:23 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Justin Allgaier raced to his first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory of the season Saturday at ISM Raceway to advance to the championship finale. Allgaier will race Christopher Bell, Cole Custer and reigning champion Tyler Reddick for the title next Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Only Reddick has a
3:17 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Busch won the pole and all eight title contenders qualified in the top 10 for the final race to decide the championship field. Busch earned the top starting spot for Sunday’s race at ISM Raceway outside of Phoenix. He turned a lap in Saturday qualifying at
12:06 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Bubba Wallace was fined $50,000 by NASCAR for causing a caution last week at Texas that affected the race for at least one playoff driver. Wallace also was docked 50 points in the driver standings after a Saturday morning meeting between Wallace, Richard Petty Motorsports officials and
11:07 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Stewart Friesen held off Brandon Jones in the final two laps at ISM Raceway on Friday night to earn a spot in the four-man fight for the season title next week in the NASCAR Gander Outdoor Truck Series playoffs finale. Friesen, Brett Moffitt, Ross Chastain and Matt