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2:29 PM ET William E. Ricks Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James and his charity, the LeBron James Family Foundation, have entered the NASCAR world. 1 Related The foundation’s logo and colors will be the paint scheme for NASCAR driver Chris Buescher‘s No. 17 car at the FireKeepers Casino 400 in Michigan on Aug. 7,

1:59 PM ET It wasn’t the Brickyard 400, but AJ Allmendinger still kissed the bricks after winning at Indianapolis last season. Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Brickyard is the Brickyard no longer. Yes, the race still has the word in the title — the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard. Indy is still Indy and Indy will always

5:24 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kurt Busch will miss Sunday’s NASCAR race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with concussion-like symptoms and will be replaced again by Ty Gibbs in the Toyota for 23XI Racing. The team said Wednesday that Busch has not been cleared to race for a second consecutive week. He crashed

6:05 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR levied another round of massive penalties on Tuesday, this time against Michael McDowell and Front Row Motorsports, for illegal modifications discovered after McDowell’s sixth-place finish at Pocono Raceway. NASCAR fined crew chief Blake Harris $100,000 and suspended him for four races. McDowell was docked 100 driver

6:37 PM ET ESPN News Services Joe Gibbs Racing apologized for flunking a postrace inspection and declined to appeal the penalties that cost their drivers a win and second-place finish on Sunday. NASCAR carried out its stiffest punishment against a race winner in more than 60 years when it stripped JGR’s Denny Hamlin of his

11:59 AM ET ESPN News Services Chase Elliott left Pocono Raceway as a third-place finisher and learned when he landed home in Georgia that he had been declared the race winner. And now it will stand. Joe Gibbs Racing declined to appeal NASCAR’s decision to strip Denny Hamlin‘s victory and teammate Kyle Busch‘s runner-up finish

2:49 PM ET Denny Hamlin was stripped of his Pocono win on Sunday night after his Toyota Camry failed technical inspection. Logan Riely/Getty Images Next Gen car, Next Gen punishment. On Sunday evening, so soon after the finish of the 21st race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season that the confetti was still stuck to

7:00 PM ET ESPN News Services LONG POND, Pa. — The siren at the Dawsonville, Georgia, pool hall that sounds whenever Chase Elliott wins a race did indeed go off Sunday night without the hometown star ever leading a lap at Pocono Raceway. “Winner, winner Joe Gibbs Racing are cheaters!” the Dawsonville Pool Room tweeted.

12:41 PM ET ESPN News Services LONG POND, Pa. — Kurt Busch was not cleared by NASCAR’s medical staff to compete in Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway, and the 23XI Racing driver was replaced by 19-year-old Ty Gibbs. Busch, 43, who has hinted next season will be his last driving in NASCAR, tweeted he suffered

5:18 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Denny Hamlin turned the fastest lap at Pocono Raceway and will lead the NASCAR Cup Series field to green Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Hamlin is joined on the front row by Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch. Hamlin went 169.991 mph on the 2½-mile tri-oval track