Sep 21, 2019 Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Martin Truex Jr. seemed to have a “pinch me” moment as he climbed from his car in Victory Lane. Nudged off the lead with 87 laps to go, Truex rallied Saturday night, ultimately passing teammate Kyle Busch with 25 laps to go and winning his second consecutive
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10:14 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Christopher Bell passed pole sitter Austin Cindric for the lead after 85 laps and won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Richmond Raceway on Friday night. Bell, the championship leader coming into the first race of the playoffs, won both stages and led 238 of the 250
8:07 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Brad Keselowski won the pole for Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway. Keselowski earned his second career pole at Richmond and the 17th of his career with a lap at 127.185 mph Friday night. It will be his 16th top-10 start in 28 races
7:27 PM ET NASCAR Xfinity Series crew chief Nick Harrison’s July death has been ruled to be accidental after autopsy and toxicology reports by the North Carolina medical examiner show he had cocaine, oxycodone and alcohol in his system when he died, according to multiple reports. Fox Sports first reported the findings. Harrison, 37, had
10:52 PM ET Matthew Willis The start of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs brought us more of what we’ve been getting in the regular season: Joe Gibbs Racing victories. And although a lot of the discussion has been around Kyle Busch’s misfortune, rise, and then run-in with a lapped driver, we’ll focus on the Gibbs
1:59 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Richard Childress Racing has declined to pick up the option on rookie Daniel Hemric for next season. Hemric is ranked 25th in the standings, did not make NASCAR’s playoffs and has just two top-10 finishes in 27 starts this season. The team said Tuesday that Hemric will
11:18 PM ET ESPN News Services STERLING, Conn. — Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash. He was 61. State police said the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling, Connecticut, near the Rhode Island state line. They said the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn
10:23 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Martin Truex Jr. raced his way into the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs with a victory Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the opening round of the postseason. The win is Truex’s series-best fifth of the season and again cemented Joe Gibbs Racing as the team
11:10 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Tyler Reddick stretched his final tank of fuel Saturday to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and wrap up the regular-season championship. Christopher Bell had the most dominant car, but Reddick’s Richard Childress Racing team gambled on fuel strategy to beat Bell
5:16 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Stewart-Haas Racing surged into the opening race of NASCAR’s playoffs with a Clint Bowyer-led sweep of the front two rows at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Joe Gibbs Racing, meanwhile, struggled across the board in its preparation for Sunday’s opening playoff race. While SHR put its four Fords