NASCAR Cup

NASCAR took an unprecedented step on Tuesday with the announcement of a two-race suspension for Sprint Cup driver Matt Kenseth for deliberately crashing into fellow driver Joey Logano during Sunday’s Goody’s 500 at Martinsville Speedway.

Brad Keselowski’s race—and perhaps his quest for a second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship—came undone on lap 435 of Sunday’s Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 at Martinsville Speedway.

Jeff Gordon will get the chance to race for his fifth NASCAR Sprint Cup title as one of the final four Chase for the Sprint Cup contenders following his dramatic win in Sunday’s Goody’s 500 at Martinsville Speedway.

By now, through a colossal number of “shares” on a variety of social media, most race fans have seen the photo of Tony Stewart dressed in a Halloween costume as a hairy version of Carmen Miranda.

Joey Logano is approaching rarefied air. With last Sunday’s victory at Talladega Superspeedway, he’s already the first driver ever to sweep all three races in a single round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

At NASCAR Sprint Cup racing’s shortest track, Joey Logano’s torrid run just got longer. The winner of three straight races—constituting a sweep of the Contender Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup—Logano toured .526-mile Martinsville Speedway in 19.215 seconds (98.548 mph) in the final round of Friday’s knockout qualifying session.

Jeff Gordon has the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup field exactly where he wants it. Gritting his way into NASCAR’s playoffs without a win, Gordon has picked up momentum by notching three consecutive top 10s in the Contender Round to advance to the eight-driver Eliminator Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

If something unexpected is going to happen at a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, rest assured it will happen at Talladega. After an initial green-white-checkered restart was waved off due to an accident, Joey Logano was inches ahead of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on the final green-white-checkered restart.

Kyle Busch rallied at Talladega and took advantage of others’ misfortunes to advance to the Chase’s Eliminator Round. But Busch suggested Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth, who was ousted from the Chase at Talladega, might still have a score to settle with Joey Logano.

NASCAR announced Monday agreements with 23 tracks to field NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races for the next five years. Additionally, 24 tracks will host NASCAR Xfinity Series races through 2020.