9:45 AM ET Dale Earnhardt Jr. won’t be a trendsetter when he arrives in the NBC broadcast booth this week at Chicagoland. He will follow in the footsteps of some of the best drivers (and the not-so-best drivers) who went from Cup racer to talking about Cup races. The list includes drivers who are Hall
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11:30 AM ET The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series was in the midst of a competitiveness problem. The average margin of victory (of races that didn’t end under caution) was over three seconds, the highest since NASCAR began using electronic scoring in 1993. We were averaging fewer than eight different leaders per race, the fewest
9:13 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Austin Dillon returns to Daytona International Speedway this weekend with great, albeit a little blurred, memories from the most recent time he had raced on the sport’s most famous racetrack. Of course, stuck
8:11 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports JOLIET, Ill. — Kyle Larson just won’t do it. Doesn’t have the stomach for it. He did it once in a late-model race five years ago at Daytona and got ripped for it.
7:11 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports JOLIET, Ill. — Clint Bowyer often fills his postrace interviews with comedy. Unfortunately for Bowyer, his comedy routine was on the track Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway. Bowyer led 21 of the first 38
6:21 PM ET Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. — Kyle Busch outdueled Kyle Larson on a wild final lap Sunday in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway, earning his fifth victory of the season. It was Busch’s second win at Chicagoland, joining his victory in 2008. It was win No. 48 for his career,
12:37 AM ET Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. — Paul Menard won the pole Saturday for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway. Paul Menard and Ryan Blaney will start from the front row. Take a driver-by-driver look through the field for Sunday’s Cup race. Even though he needed two bags of fluids after Saturday’s
7:59 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports JOLIET, Ill. — Chase Elliott isn’t questioning whether he should have competed Saturday in the 300-mile Xfinity Series race and isn’t questioning whether he’ll be ready for a 400-mile race Sunday afternoon in
8:23 PM ET Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. — Once Kyle Larson got to the top of the track, it was all over. Larson used the high line Saturday at Chicagoland Speedway to pass Kevin Harvick and drive away to a dominant victory in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Even though he needed two bags of fluids
Jun 30, 2018 Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports JOLIET, Ill. — One pit box won’t look like the rest on pit road during each NASCAR Cup Series race the rest of the year. NBC’s at-track studio doubles as a pit box