NASCAR Cup

NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France couldn’t have been more emphatic when he met with the Associated Press Sports Editors on Thursday in New York City.

Sometimes it pays to go for broke—particularly when you have little to lose.

Look out NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers. A sleeping giant is awakening and seems poised to join the championship conversation that hasn’t yet included his name.

Call it the 10 hours of Bristol.

Fox NASCAR announcer Steve Byrnes has died. He was 56.

Before the start of Sunday’s IndyCar Series Grand Prix of Long Beach, team owner Roger Penske warned his drivers, front-row starters Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya, to avoid contact on the first lap.

Matt Kenseth weathered the storm to win Sunday’s night’s wild Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, snapping a 51-race winless drought for his first victory of the season.

Roughly eight minutes into Saturday morning’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, Tony Stewart smacked the outside wall exiting Bristol Motor Speedway’s fourth turn.

If you’re Richard Childress, and you’re looking for an interim crew chief, you’d be hard pressed to find a more experienced candidate than Todd Parrott.

If history repeats itself on Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, Matt Kenseth won’t have a problem with it.