Pete McCole

Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 may have been the opening race in the Round of 8 of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoff, but the real drama involved two Joe Gibbs Racing teammates outside the championship battle.

Robert Hight powered to the Funny Car No. 1 qualifier Saturday at the 32nd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex.

Once Ryan Blaney got the lead in Saturday’s Drive Sober 200 at Dover International Speedway, it was “game over” in the second NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoff race of the season.

On a throwback weekend at Darlington Raceway, Denny Hamlin reached into the playbook of the late Dale Earnhardt, Sr. and pulled out a throwback cross-over move on Joey Logano on the final lap...

Kevin Harvick scored his second Darlington pole in Saturday’s qualifying for Sunday’s Bojangles Southern 500...

Sam Hornish, Jr. dominated Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Mid-Ohio Challenge, but his victory was anything but certain until the waning laps of a caution-filled race.

Leah Pritchett (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car), Drew Skillman (Pro Stock) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) earned No. 1 qualifying positions and will lead their classes into Sunday’s 11 a.m. eliminations...

Ryan Preece’s short-lived, but ambitious 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule began three weeks ago at his de facto home track, New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. survived a wild, wreck-filled race to collect his second-career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory with a win in Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

Kyle Larson kept polesitter Joey Logano at bay after a restart with four laps left in Saturday’s Service King 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Fontana, California’s Auto Club Speedway and held on to win by .127 seconds.