NASCAR

3:49 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Brad Keselowski finally got a contract extension from Team Penske, announced the day after NASCAR’s 2012 champion won his third race of the season. Keselowski has been open in his desire to remain with the organization where he gave Roger Penske his first NASCAR championship. The 10-week

7:03 PM ET Associated Press LOUDON, N.H. — Brad Keselowski won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday for his third victory of the NASCAR season and 33rd of his career. Keselowski and Denny Hamlin swapped stage wins and had the lead a combined 18 times before Keselowski, who is in a contract year for

2:40 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Loudon, New Hampshire, for Sunday’s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301. Denny Hamlin won the Super Start Batteries 400 last week in Kansas for his Cup Series-leading fifth victory of the season. Who will take the checkered flag Sunday afternoon (3 p.m. ET) at New

4:05 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar driver Conor Daly will have a new lead engineer for next month’s rescheduled Indianapolis 500: NASCAR Cup-winning crew chief Cole Pearn. Ed Carpenter‘s team made the announcement Wednesday. Pearn was considered one of the top crew chiefs in NASCAR before announcing a surprise resignation in December so

7:59 PM ET Associated Press Jimmie Johnson finally fulfilled his childhood dream of driving an Indy car with a test session Tuesday. When the seven-time NASCAR champion finished turning laps, he was sold on figuring out how to race next year in the IndyCar Series. “It only lit the fire more. I want to do

10:48 AM ET Associated Press The NASCAR weekend in late August at Dover International Speedway will take place without fans. Delaware state officials denied the track’s request to host a limited number of fans Aug. 21-23 in the interest of public health and safety. The track is to host a NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR

5:01 PM ET ESPN News Services KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Maurice Petty, part of a racing dynasty and the first engine builder to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, died Saturday. He was 81. His family confirmed the death. No cause was given. He was the son of Lee Petty and brother of

7:59 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Brandon Jones must have learned something during two stifling Truck Series races at Kansas Speedway. He knew exactly what to do when he stepped in his Xfinity ride. The 23-year-old Jones came roaring around the outside of Austin Cindric on the second attempt at a green-white-checkered

4:20 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Matt Crafton won his first race in three years Saturday when the three-time and reigning Trucks Series champion held off Christian Eckes over the final 20 laps to win the second race of a doubleheader at Kansas Speedway. It had been 67 races since Crafton won

12:14 AM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Austin Hill made all the right moves getting to the front in the NASCAR Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway on Friday night. That included strategically hitting the brakes. Hill was coming out of the pits in third after the final stop but wanted to have

11:42 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three straight finishes outside the top 10 for Denny Hamlin these days counts as a rough patch. He was once again smooth as they get Thursday night. Hamlin hung around the front of the pack all night, avoiding trouble that cost several playoff contenders in the

10:33 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Kansas City, Kansas, on Thursday for the Super Start Batteries 400 Presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts. Austin Dillon held on for his first Cup series victory of the season on Sunday in Fort Worth, Texas. Who will take the checkered flag under the

7:53 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Austin Dillon stayed in front after a restart with two laps to go and beat rookie Tyler Reddick to the checkered flag at Texas, giving Richard Childress Racing a 1-2 NASCAR Cup finish and quite a show for spectators spread out in the stands on a

10:39 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Truck Series race at Texas on Saturday night, getting the victory in his second race of the day after a postrace disqualification took away an apparent Xfinity Series win. Busch made a final green-flag stop with 36 laps to go, when

6:03 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch celebrated a 10th NASCAR Xfinity Series victory at Texas Motor Speedway, and then had it taken away. Busch failed postrace tech inspection Saturday after finishing ahead of Austin Cindric, who was declared the winner for the third victory in a row after winning both

5:42 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Bubba Wallace still doesn’t agree with Michael McDowell about what happened on the track, but he’s happy his damaged bumper is going to a good cause. Wallace wrecked out of the qualifying race for NASCAR’s All-Star race Wednesday night at Bristol after he was turned from

2:22 PM ET Associated Press Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane’s wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke before the retired race car driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 accident released

8:44 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500. Long shot Cole Custer (200-1) got his first Cup Series victory last Sunday. The rookie emerged after a late restart and finished just ahead of Martin Truex Jr. to win the Quaker