NASCAR News

Marshall Skinner received a king’s welcome back to victory lane for the USCS Sprint Car Series on Thursday night at Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn.

Until an uncharacteristic miscue on pit road cost him precious track position late in Sunday’s 5-Hour ENERGY 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Kevin Harvick appeared a likely candidate for victory lane.

The odds in Kyle Busch’s favor made another dramatic surge on Sunday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

To say the least, four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon was disappointed with his 23rd-place qualifying effort on Friday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

American drivers swept the top four positions – and six of the top seven – as Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay captured his first victory of the Verizon IndyCar Series season Saturday night in the Iowa Corn 300.

To Denny Hamlin, it was just hard short-track racing for the win. To runner-up Austin Dillon, it was unnecessarily aggressive driving that led to Hamlin’s victory in the Lakes Region 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Greg Biffle had a novel idea—one that is unlikely to be implemented, but interesting nevertheless. Given NASCAR’s willingness to refine its competition package in effort to enhance the quality of racing, though, nothing is totally out of the question.

Mason Mitchell brought out Superman again. And, that meant he was headed to victory lane. Mitchell, who grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa, won the #ThisIsMySpeedway150 for the ARCA Racing Series at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa Friday night, winning at the .875-mile facility that he considers his home track.

William Byron turned in a dominant performance Friday in victory at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

As Carl Edwards put it, “things just feel right.” That was Edwards’ take on the state of affairs at Joe Gibbs Racing, after he put his No. 19 Toyota on the pole for Sunday’s 5-Hour ENERGY 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.