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7 months ago

Larson relieved to be granted waiver that keeps him in NASCAR playoffs

Kyle Larson was finally granted the waiver this week he needed from NASCAR to remain eligible to race for a second Cup championship. “Thankfully nobody has to deal with the drama going forward.” Larson last month became the fifth driver in history to attempt to run both the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. But Hendrick …

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7 months ago

NASCAR returns to repaved Sonoma road course unsure what to expect from fast new asphalt

Associated Press

SONOMA, Calif. — Welcome back to fast and slick Sonoma Raceway, where the first repave in over two decades has created impressive speeds and concerns about the durability of the new asphalt. Hamlin and Smith engaged in a back-and-forth over social media regarding the repave that started when Hamlin posted on social media, “when paving on a budget goes wrong.” …

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8 months, 1 week ago

AUTO RACING: Formula One goes to Miami, NASCAR to Kansas

Associated Press

All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES AdventHealth 400 Site: Kansas City, Kansas. Fast facts: The victory was the third of this season for Hamlin, tying William Byron for the most this year, and fourth if you count the exhibition race in Los Angeles.. Hamlin led 136 of the 400 laps but remains just fourth in points, trailing Kyle Larson of …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Chase Elliott ends 42-race winless streak with overtime win in NASCAR Cup race at Texas

Hindustan Times

FORT WORTH, Texas — Chase Elliott pulled ahead and cleared Ross Chastain on the first lap after the second restart in overtime Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, ending a 42-race winless streak for NASCAR's most popular driver. Elliott and Denny Hamlin were at the front of the field after a restart with two laps left in regulation, and they were …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Chase Elliott ends 42-race winless streak with overtime victory in NASCAR Cup race at Texas

Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Texas — Chase Elliott had to get through a few extra laps after 18 months since last winning a race. Elliott pulled ahead and cleared Ross Chastain on the first lap after the second restart in overtime Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, ending a 42-race winless streak for NASCAR’s most popular driver. to try to climb this mountain …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Bubba Wallace hit by depression following best friend Ryan Blaney's NASCAR championship

The Independent

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1 year, 1 month ago

Bubba Wallace hit by depression following best friend Ryan Blaney’s NASCAR championship

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It was 3:42 a.m. in North Carolina as Bubba Wallace’s best friend celebrated winning his first NASCAR championship across the country in Arizona. Like congrats, but I don’t want to see that,” Wallace recalled Thursday morning, hours before Blaney was to be feted by NASCAR at its season-ending awards ceremony in Nashville. “It’s just kind of how …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Top 5, Texas: Loyal fans, a key late spin, Kyle Larson’s crash, Hendrick’s 300th W

New York Times

FORT WORTH, Texas — Five thoughts after Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway … 1. Taking Stock This season, Oakland A’s fans have held some “reverse boycotts” in which they show up in large numbers to remind everyone they support the team — even if they dislike the team owner. • If JJ Yeley doesn’t spin: …

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1 year, 4 months ago

NASCAR round-by-round playoff picks: Who makes the Championship 4, and who wins it all?

New York Times

Who would have ever thought Chase Elliott would miss this year’s NASCAR playoffs? For example: Did you think both Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch would get eliminated in the first round of last year’s playoffs? GO DEEPER 2023 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs: All 16 drivers and their chances to win the title Championship 4 Jeff’s final four and champion Denny …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Buescher wins at Daytona, eliminating Elliott and helping Wallace land final NASCAR playoff berth

Associated Press

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Chris Buescher has become a NASCAR title contender in less than a month. Buescher won the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night, eliminating fan favorite Chase Elliott from playoff contention and sending Bubba Wallace into the postseason. NASCAR provided no immediate update, but Preece tweeted about two hours afterward “If you …

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1 year, 4 months ago

William Byron dominates at Watkins Glen for his Cup Series-leading fifth victory of the season

Associated Press

William Byron had the field covered at Watkins Glen International, delivering such a dominant performance that no other NASCAR driver even got to his bumper in the final third of the race. The 25-year-old Byron won on a serpentine track for the first time in six Cup seasons, this one being his series-leading fifth victory of the season and making …

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1 year, 7 months ago

NASCAR suspends Chase Elliott for 1 race for wrecking Denny Hamlin

Associated Press

CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR suspended Chase Elliott for one race on Tuesday, less than one day after the five-time most popular driver and former Cup champion deliberately wrecked Denny Hamlin in the Coca-Cola 600. NASCAR suspended Elliott under a section of rulebook covered under “Member Code of Conduct.” Among the rules covered in that section is “removing another competitor from …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Hamlin calls for NASCAR to suspend Elliott after crash at Coca-Cola 600

Associated Press

CONCORD, N.C. — Denny Hamlin called for NASCAR to suspend Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott after a wreck involving both drivers on Monday at the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “It’s a tantrum and he shouldn’t be racing next week,” Hamlin said of Elliott. I don’t care.” Elliott, the most popular driver on the NASCAR circuit, denied he deliberately …

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2 years, 2 months ago

NASCAR Cup playoffs reset: Who will get the last three spots in the Championship 4?

New York Times

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — There wasn’t much for Ryan Blaney to do other than take full responsibility for the kind of mistake that a driver simply cannot make with so much on the line. Joey Logano Status: Clinched spot in Championship 4 Round 3 finishes: 1st, 18th Summary: The Las Vegas win afforded Logano a de facto bye regardless of how …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Elliott: NASCAR’s new Next Gen car a step backward in safety

Associated Press

NASCAR’s most popular driver said Saturday the sport has taken an unacceptable step backward in safety with its new Next Gen car, a rare public offering of opinion by Chase Elliott. All three drivers were injured in crashes in NASCAR’s new Next Gen car. He alleged that senior leadership tells the drivers “exactly what you want to hear to make …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Elliott won’t celebrate gifted Pocono win after Hamlin DQ

Associated Press

Chase Elliott left Pocono Raceway as a third-place finisher and learned when he landed home in Georgia that he had been declared the race winner. Whether NASCAR’s most popular driver wants to celebrate the victory or not, it’s his — Joe Gibbs Racing declined to appeal the penalties levied by NASCAR that stripped Denny Hamlin of his Pocono win and …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Elliott given Pocono win after Hamlin, Busch disqualified

Associated Press

LONG POND, Pa. — The siren at the Dawsonville, Georgia, pool hall that sounds whenever Chase Elliott wins a race did indeed go off Sunday night without the hometown star ever leading a lap at Pocono Raceway. In an extraordinary decision for a NASCAR Cup Series race, Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin had his Pocono win thrown out and …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Hamlin vows to get even with Chastain after Gateway wreck

Associated Press

MADISON, Ill. — Denny Hamlin posted a clip on Twitter late Sunday that essentially mashed up his beef with Ross Chastain from earlier in the day with a scene from “Days of Thunder,” when Tom Cruise’s character tells his team to change his tires after a race had ended so that he could head back out and wreck his foil. …

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2 years, 9 months ago

The Top 5, Phoenix: Chase Briscoe’s win continues NASCAR’s young gun dominance

New York Times

Five thoughts after Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway… 1. Meanwhile, Fox Sports’ Bob Pockrass noted there have been 10 consecutive Cup Series races won by drivers under 30 — a series record. It’s still early, and the drivers who have more laps under their belts — Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. among them …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Elliott’s bid for second championship comes up short

Associated Press

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Chase Elliott stood on pit row next to his No. Four-time champion Jeff Gordon, now vice chairman at Hendrick Motorsports, was next with a short conversation that spread a slight smile across Elliott’s face. Unable to track down Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson, Elliott finished fourth in the NASCAR Cup Series championship by taking fifth in the …

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3 years, 2 months ago

NASCAR championship pits best at Hendrick vs. best at Gibbs

Associated Press

AVONDALE, Ariz. — The fans held their $4 beers, sharpies and phones as they stacked four rows deep seeking just a glimpse of NASCAR champion Chase Elliott inside his garage stall. They join three-time Daytona 500 winner and four-time championship loser Hamlin in chasing Larson, a nine-race winner this year and the FanDuel 2/1 favorite to win his first NASCAR …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Champ Elliott: NASCAR star goes for 2nd Cup championship

Associated Press

PHOENIX — Chase Elliott was supposed to be the star during his season as both NASCAR’s reigning champion and its most popular driver. Beat all season by Hendrick Motorsports newcomer Kyle Larson, Elliott gets a final shot Sunday to defend his run as NASCAR’s champ. Elliott has won two races, and it was team boss Rick Hendrick who just this …

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3 years, 2 months ago

NASCAR championship: Hendrick vs Gibbs, Chevrolet vs Toyota

Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR’s championship has come down to a pair of Hall of Fame team owners, two Chevrolets against two Toyotas, racing in the Arizona desert for the sport’s top prize. It is a winner-take-all conclusion at sold-out Phoenix, where Elliott’s victory a year ago clinched the first Cup championship for NASCAR’s most popular driver. “My fans don’t care …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Column: NASCAR plays a glum, frustrated second fiddle to F1

Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — NASCAR, the longtime king of U.S. motorsports, has never had to worry about Formula One, the popular globetrotting series that has never quite grabbed hold of Americans. Perhaps the show is embellished — current championship leader Max Verstappen told The Associated Press producers “faked a lot of rivalries that don’t really exist” and he’s not participating …

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Larson relieved to be granted waiver that keeps him in NASCAR playoffs

NASCAR returns to repaved Sonoma road course unsure what to expect from fast new asphalt

AUTO RACING: Formula One goes to Miami, NASCAR to Kansas

Chase Elliott ends 42-race winless streak with overtime win in NASCAR Cup race at Texas

Chase Elliott ends 42-race winless streak with overtime victory in NASCAR Cup race at Texas

Bubba Wallace hit by depression following best friend Ryan Blaney's NASCAR championship

Bubba Wallace hit by depression following best friend Ryan Blaney’s NASCAR championship

Top 5, Texas: Loyal fans, a key late spin, Kyle Larson’s crash, Hendrick’s 300th W

NASCAR round-by-round playoff picks: Who makes the Championship 4, and who wins it all?

Buescher wins at Daytona, eliminating Elliott and helping Wallace land final NASCAR playoff berth

William Byron dominates at Watkins Glen for his Cup Series-leading fifth victory of the season

NASCAR suspends Chase Elliott for 1 race for wrecking Denny Hamlin

Hamlin calls for NASCAR to suspend Elliott after crash at Coca-Cola 600

NASCAR Cup playoffs reset: Who will get the last three spots in the Championship 4?

Elliott: NASCAR’s new Next Gen car a step backward in safety

Elliott won’t celebrate gifted Pocono win after Hamlin DQ

Elliott given Pocono win after Hamlin, Busch disqualified

Hamlin vows to get even with Chastain after Gateway wreck

The Top 5, Phoenix: Chase Briscoe’s win continues NASCAR’s young gun dominance

Elliott’s bid for second championship comes up short

NASCAR championship pits best at Hendrick vs. best at Gibbs

Champ Elliott: NASCAR star goes for 2nd Cup championship

NASCAR championship: Hendrick vs Gibbs, Chevrolet vs Toyota

Column: NASCAR plays a glum, frustrated second fiddle to F1