9:15 AM ET Ricky Craven Close Ricky Craven is a driver with wins in all of NASCAR’s top three series, including rookie of the year titles in both the 1992 Nationwide Series and 1995 Sprint Cup series. He currently serves as a NASCAR analyst on ESPN studio programs. There was a time when most NASCAR
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9:00 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Talk about domination. Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. have won 86 percent of the past 22 non-restrictor plate races, combining to lead 51 percent of the laps. It’s an astonishing
8:41 PM ET Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa — Justin Allgaier won all three stages and the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Sunday at Iowa Speedway for his second victory of the season. Racing for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in JR Motorsports’ No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro, Allgaier led 182 of 250 laps and survived an unlucky late caution
9:55 PM ET Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa — Brett Moffitt bolstered his breakout season with a stirring win on his home track. The Iowa driver hopes that winning yet again — after fighting off a thrilling late move by Noah Gragson — will help him find the sponsorships he needs to keep it going. Moffitt
4:50 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports NASCAR will race at the same racetracks in 2019 as it plans to do in 2018 in both its Xfinty Series and newly named Gander Outdoors Truck Series. But the order of races
3:19 PM ET Jayski.com staff NASCAR announced the 2019 schedules for the XFINITY and Gander Outdoors Truck Series. There are no new tracks for either series for 2019, and only one major date change for the Trucks, as the second Texas date moves from the fall to earlier in the season. 2019 NASCAR XFINITY Series
9:04 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Denny Hamlin has lowered his golf handicap to 3, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how one looks at it. Hamlin can enjoy his status as the
6:06 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports NASCAR has fined three Joe Gibbs Racing crew chiefs and suspended three JGR car chiefs for one race for non-conforming front splitters confiscated during prerace technical inspection Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. JGR
2:28 PM ET The NASCAR Cup series race weekend at Michigan International Speedway was dominated by talk of whether the race would be better with restrictor plates, and then whether the race would be better without, well, weather. We got enough of two races in to call it a weekend as long as you didn’t
8:41 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports BROOKLYN, Mich. — Coming to Michigan International Speedway and seeing fewer grandstands feels so different than at other tracks. At the home of the manufacturers, it’s a swift kick to the groin to