10:30 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports ROSSBURG, Ohio — Imagine seven years ago how NASCAR fans would react to NASCAR Cup Series teams preparing for a road course that combines the Charlotte Motor Speedway oval and runs through the
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10:30 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports ROSSBURG, Ohio — Imagine how fans seven years ago would react to NASCAR Cup series teams preparing for a road course that combines the Charlotte Motor Speedway oval and runs through the infield.
1:06 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports ROSSBURG, Ohio — Tony Stewart watched NASCAR’s Truck Series drivers go four wide in a battle for the lead in the waning laps and two trucks speed side by side for an incredible
11:42 PM ET Associated Press ROSSBURG, Ohio — Chase Briscoe held off Grant Enfinger on the dirt at Eldora Speedway in a door-banging overtime shootout Wednesday night in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Briscoe won NASCAR’s only national series race on dirt in his first Truck start since taking the season finale last
5:28 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. has lost 5-hour Energy as a sponsor at Furniture Row Racing as the company has opted to end its NASCAR sponsorship program after the season.
11:25 AM ET The Big Four are dominating the season through 19 NASCAR Cup series races, and ESPN’s Ryan McGee has undertaken the bigger responsibility of ranking where Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr. and Clint Bowyer fall in line. Here are the top 16 drivers in the Cup series prior to Sunday’s race
4:09 PM ET After taking a week off of my own (NASCAR’s schedule doesn’t allow for many, and I needed to do my bachelor party at some point), I was ready to come back strong for Kentucky. Even though, deep down, it hurt to not unleash my notes about a first-time Daytona winner, who only
10:30 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports CONCORD, N.C. – During test sessions, NASCAR Cup Series drivers tend to try to figure out how to go fast. For their tests at the new Charlotte Motor Speedway road course, drivers also
11:44 PM ET Associated Press SPARTA, Ky. — Martin Truex Jr. won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway, passing Brad Keselowski and then Kurt Busch late on the way to repeating as champion on Saturday night. Truex’s No. 78 Toyota Camry appeared even more dominant than last July as he led five times
2:32 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus have celebrated plenty of good times at NASCAR race tracks throughout their 17 years of racing, and the driver and crew chief will continue to work together at