NASCAR News

One of the most anticipated nights in the nine-year history of O’Reilly Auto Parts Friday Night Drags at Atlanta Motor Speedway did not disappoint.

Donny Schatz’s domination of the FVP Knoxville Nationals continued Saturday night as he led wire-to-wire in the 55th running of the event and won his ninth Nationals title in ten years.

Dillon Bassett’s got his first career NASCAR K&N Pro Series East win, and it wasn’t without drama.

The driver who used to be disgusted with a second-place finish was reasonably happy with his 11th-place run on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.

From Matt Kenseth’s point of view, the competition package NASCAR used at Michigan International Speedway could well have had a big, bright bow on it.

When the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup starts on Sept. 20 at Chicagoland Speedway, drivers and crew chiefs won’t have to worry about changing aerodynamic pages and different rules for different race tracks.

What a difference a week makes. After experiencing pure frustration last weekend at Watkins Glen International, Regan Smith answered his second road course race of the season with a bump-and-run on leader Alex Tagliani in the second-to-last corner on the last lap.

Not even a pit road speeding penalty could keep Kyle Busch from his appointed rounds on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway.

Greg Biffle is feeling the stress. Since NASCAR introduced the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup format in 2004, there has never been a playoff in NASCAR’s premier series without a Roush Fenway Racing driver in the field.

Matt Kenseth’s No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota crew woke a sleeping giant just in time for qualifying for Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway.