NASCAR Cup

With Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race already in the books as another Kyle Busch victory, series director Wayne Auton already is turning his full attention toward next Saturday’s race at Bristol and its inaugural heat race format.

Opportunistic Kyle Busch sped away from the rest of the field after a restart with 33 laps left in Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and collected his second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory.

It was a chipper Tony Stewart who lingered after Thursday night’s Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame dinner, answering questions from reporters and posing for selfies with a succession of admirers.

Carl Edwards didn’t run a perfect lap in Friday’s final round of knockout qualifying, but he had plenty of car to compensate.

At first glance, it’s easy to perceive Matt Kenseth’s start to the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season as “slow.” The No. 20 Toyota driver only has one top-10 finish in the first six races, one year after amassing five victories and 19 top-10 showings.

Going into this weekend, Kyle Busch had never scored a grandfather clock trophy given to the winner at Martinsville Speedway. By the time the sun set on Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, he had changed that.

A.J. Allmendinger has a reputation as a great road racer. All three of his NASCAR national touring series wins came on road courses.

Kyle Busch made the winning move in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway on the final restart.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. called his spur-of-the-moment announcement to pledge his brain to scientific research a “no-brainer.”

Joey Logano scored a hat trick in qualifying at Martinsville Speedway on Friday.