6:21 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Austin Dillon will start on the pole at Talladega Superspeedway. What happens from there is anybody’s guess. Dillon celebrated his 29th birthday by posting the highest speed in qualifying Saturday at 192.544 mph for his second pole of the year. Aric Almirola, who won at Talladega in
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5:42 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Tyler Reddick held off Gray Gaulding in a two-lap shootout to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway for his first victory of the year. Reddick withstood a last-lap move by Gaulding to survive the caution-packed race and overcame a speeding penalty on pit
1:46 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Austin Dillon faces possible penalties after NASCAR confiscated the rear deck lid of his car. NASCAR said Saturday penalties for the noncompliant part on Dillon’s No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet could be announced as early as post-race Sunday night at Talladega Superspeedway. Dillon, the 2018 Daytona
8:21 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Drivers are even less certain than usual about what to expect at Talladega Superspeedway given a new package that NASCAR is still adjusting on the fly. To Clint Bowyer, that unpredictability at least makes it anything but boring. “If you woke up every day of your life
1:00 AM ET There is a woman in a wedding dress, walking. OK, actually it’s half of a wedding dress. The bottom is a white gown, the trim stained with red clay mud dust. The top is black, a jacket that appears to be sewn to the lower half, with a giant slanted white No.
11:48 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The parent company of Speedway Motorsports Inc. has made an offer to acquire all of its outstanding common stock, the second move of its kind involving one of the key racetrack operators in NASCAR in the past five months. Sonic Financial Corp. has offered to buy back
3:40 PM ET Associated Press KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Brenda Jackson, mother of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a longtime employee at JR Motorsports alongside her daughter Kelley Earnhardt Miller, has died following a battle with cancer. She was 65. The team announced her death Monday. Jackson was the daughter of NASCAR fabricator Robert Gee, who built
7:13 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race will feature two technical elements that could be incorporated into the Gen-7 car set for 2021. NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway announced the technical specifications and format Wednesday for the May 18 exhibition race at the North Carolina track. The
3:46 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — A track outside St. Louis that hosts IndyCar, NASCAR and NHRA events is getting not only a new name, but a promise to become a proving ground for tech innovations aimed at enhancing the fan experience. Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois, will be renamed World Wide
10:11 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson didn’t have many problems on the Boston Marathon course Monday, finishing in 3 hours, 9 minutes, 7 seconds. It was only after receiving his medal from 2014 winner Meb Keflezighi that Johnson ran into a road block: On his way to a postrace