NASCAR Cup

The No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet sported a green paint scheme on Sunday at Kansas Speedway, but the car was running like a certain black No. 3 of old.

Block me once, and I’ll cut you some slack. Block me twice — and it’s “Gotcha.” That, in essence, was the conversation on Joey Logano’s team radio after Logano spun race leader Matt Kenseth in turn 1 with less than five laps left in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.

Back in 2000, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. claimed the first of his 25 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories at Texas Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile intermediate track.

Matt Kenseth has excelled in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series by maintaining an unrelenting focus on the next task at hand.

Brad Keselowski’s pole-winning run on Friday at Kansas Speedway was an early Christmas present to second-place qualifier Carl Edwards.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Matt Kenseth have to be thankful for the simple formula that embodies the new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup format – “win and you’re in.”

Joey Logano made a statement in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway - he and Team Penske will be major players in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

NASCAR announced Wednesday their new base rules package for the 2016 Sprint Cup season, rolling out a new low-downforce package that was tested earlier this season to favorable reviews from drivers who have been pressing NASCAR to take steps to improve the product on the racetrack.

It was a comedy of errors, but the mistakes were too costly to be funny. Kyle Larson was running second, and Kyle Busch third, approaching pit road after NASCAR called the eighth caution of Sunday’s Bank of America 500 because of fluid on the track.

Joey Logano ran away from the field to notch his fourth victory of the season and punch his ticket to the next round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup with a victory in Sunday’s Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.