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3:08 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Austin Cindric won his fourth Xfinity Series race of the season, holding off a hard-charging Ty Gibbs on a Sunday full of big hits at Pocono Raceway. Cindric, the reigning champion in NASCAR’s second-tier series, won the season opener at Daytona and added victories at Phoenix

2:32 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Jeff Gordon retired in 2015 and had the conversation with Rick Hendrick that the Hall of Fame driver could pursue other ventures — broadcasting, business, travel — but one day would get the call to come home. Years later, Gordon is set to head from the

6:47 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Alex Bowman made it six straight wins for Hendrick Motorsports, when teammate Kyle Larson’s Chevrolet blew a tire on the final lap, and he took the checkered flag Saturday at Pocono Raceway for his third Cup win of the season. Larson had won three straight Cup

2:24 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — John Hunter Nemechek stole a win from Kyle Busch then swiped his traditional victory move. Take a bow, John Hunter. Even if the boss wasn’t pleased. Nemechek beat Busch down the stretch and raced to his fifth Truck Series victory this season, earning bragging rights for

12:36 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jack Ingram, a hard-hosed, hot-tempered racer who won five NASCAR championships and more than 300 races, has died, the NASCAR Hall of Fame said Friday. He was 84. No details were released by the Hall of Fame. A 2014 inductee, Ingram lived in the Asheville area and

6:17 AM ET This week, a doubleheader at Pocono Raceway marks the 18th and 19th races of the 36-race NASCAR season: the end of the first half and start of the second. Despite being only halfway through the season, there has been no shortage of interesting, historic or just downright odd statistical storylines. Hendrick Motorsports

2:00 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jeff Gordon will leave the Fox Sports booth to take a daily role at Hendrick Motorsports as vice chairman and the second-ranking team official to majority owner Rick Hendrick. Wednesday’s announcement positions the four-time champion and Hall of Fame driver to one day succeed the 71-year-old Hendrick

8:19 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Kyle Larson won again – that’s all he does these days – this time in the Cup debut at Nashville Superspeedway, where Hendrick Motorsports’ new star drove to victory lane for the fourth consecutive week. Larson led 264 of 300 laps Sunday for his third consecutive win

4:09 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Traffic issues on the streets leading to Nashville Superspeedway have delayed the start of the city’s first NASCAR Cup series race in 37 years. The Ally 400 was due to start Sunday afternoon at the track in Lebanon, about 20 miles east of downtown Nashville, but the

Jun 18, 2021 Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Ryan Preece won the first NASCAR race at Nashville Superspeedway in a decade by scoring a victory in his first career Truck Series start. Preece got in a truck for the first time to get bonus track time ahead of Sunday’s Cup race, the first ever for

7:39 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Kyle Busch raced to his 100th career Xfinity Series victory Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway, where he won for the fourth time. Busch won in the Xfinity Series in 2009 and the Truck Series in 2010 and 2011, but the track closed the year he won his last

10:48 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Ryan Preece won the first NASCAR race at Nashville Superspeedway in a decade by scoring a victory in his first career Truck Series start. Preece got in a truck for the first time to get bonus track time ahead of Sunday’s Cup race, the first ever for

4:14 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kaulig Racing has purchased two charters from Spire Motorsports and will move to NASCAR’s Cup Series next year with a full-time ride for Justin Haley and select races for AJ Allmendinger. Team owner Matt Kaulig had been eyeing a move up to Cup for some time and

11:47 AM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Alex Bowman received a two-year contract extension from Hendrick Motorsports on Friday that celebrates NASCAR’s return to Nashville and sponsor Ally’s support of the first Cup Series race in the area in 37 years. Bowman was extended through the 2023 season to align with Ally’s commitment to

9:11 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Landon Cassill will be the first NASCAR driver paid entirely in cryptocurrency in a sponsorship deal with Voyager that begins at Nashville Superspeedway this weekend. Voyager, a cryptocurrency brokerage platform, reached a 19-race deal to sponsor Cassill in the Xfinity Series in his JD Motorsports entry. Voyager

6:00 AM ET ESPN staff Welcome to the 2021 ESPYS presented by Capital One, where you, the fans, get to help decide the stars of the show (aka the award winners). The list of nominees for Best Driver starts with Lewis Hamilton, the reigning and seven-time Formula One champion. But it doesn’t end there. Also

11:15 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Larson was back in the NASCAR All-Star race, and got another $1 million by winning it again. Larson held off a hard-charging Brad Keselowski during the final 10-lap shootout at Texas on Sunday night, after a slippery three-wide pass to get back in front and

4:11 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — John Hunter Nemechek won his second consecutive NASCAR Truck Series race, leading the final 22 laps and finishing more than 3.3 seconds ahead of reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott on a steamy Saturday in Texas. Nemechek, already the series points leader, got his fourth victory this