8:02 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Larson doesn’t feel he has to win in the next three races to carry momentum into the NASCAR Cup series playoffs. He sits 10th in the standings and has
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10:54 PM ET Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Larson won his third pole of the season as he eyes his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the year. Kyle Larson wins the pole after finishing second at Bristol in April, while Chase Elliott qualifies second. Here’s the field for Saturday’s Cup race. The first
4:25 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports BRISTOL, Tenn. – Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. wouldn’t rule out moving to a new team for 2019 as Furniture Row Racing continues to look for sponsorship. The first night
11:04 PM ET Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Johnny Sauter took the lead when John Hunter Nemechek slowed because of late fuel pump issues, then held off Stewart Friesen on Thursday night at Bristol Motor Speedway for his fifth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of the season. Kasey Kahne, who has 18 career wins
1:15 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Plenty of changes in the NASCAR Cup Series have occurred over the past year. Look no further than Thursday’s news that after 15 years in the Cup series, Kasey Kahne is retiring from
8:56 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Kasey Kahne will no longer race in the NASCAR Cup Series full time after the 2018 season, he announced Thursday morning. The 38-year-old Kahne, 28th in the series standings in his first year
9:31 AM ET Aug. 26, 1978. It was a dark and stormy night … OK, it wasn’t necessarily stormy. But it was a little damp. You’ll have that in Bristol, Tennessee, in late August. And it was most definitely dark, as it always was as night fell among the barns and farms tacked up along
10:36 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Elliott Sadler, who has competed full time at the NASCAR national series level since 1997, will not return to full-time racing in 2019. The 43-year-old JR Motorsports driver announced his decision Wednesday on
8:49 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports NASCAR went outside its offices in 2013 when it named former General Motors executive Brent Dewar as its chief operating officer and then promoted him to president in 2017. Now it must decide
1:00 PM ET NASCAR is off road courses and back to ovals, and that meant one thing — another victory for Kevin Harvick. The driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Ford picked up his seventh victory of the season, a crazy number considering how dominant Martin Truex Jr.’s eight-win season felt last year. And Harvick