NASCAR’s Chase field set
The 12 contenders in this year’s chase for NASCAR’s Sprint Cup were finalised in Saturday night’s 400-mile race on the one-mile Richmond oval. The ‘Chase for the Cup’ takes place…
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon achieved a major milestone in the rain-delayed 500-mile race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway on Tuesday. Gordon scored his 85th win in NASCAR’s top league…
Marcos Ambrose joined an elite group when he won Monday’s rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen, becoming only the fourth foreign-born driver to succeed in the US series’…
You have to tip your hat to Brad Keselowski. The 27-year-old from Michigan scored an impressive win in Sunday’s NASCAR race at the 2.5-mile Pocono tri-oval in Pennsylvania. Five days…
Paul Menard scored a memorable first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in last Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Menard won the race by staying on track when most…
Last weekend NASCAR ran the first of two Sprint Cup weekends at my local track, New Hampshire Motor Speedway. NASCAR comes to New England in July and September each year,…
After a rare week off, NASCAR was back to business last weekend with round four of the 36-race Sprint Cup championship on the half-mile Bristol bullring in the mountains of…
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon was the man to beat at Phoenix on Sunday. Gordon’s Chevrolet led more laps than anyone else and, with eight to go, passed Kyle Busch’s…
This year’s 53rd Daytona 500 was a messy, crashed-filled race with a record number of 16 yellow flags. As a result it was the second slowest 500 we’ve seen, but…
(Following a crash in Wednesday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice Dale Earnhardt Jr will now start from the back of the grid as he will have to use a different…
NASCAR has announced a new points system for its top three series, replacing the method used for the past 35 years. The new system awards 43 points to the winner…
You have to take your hat off to Roger Penske. At a time when many American race teams are struggling to sell sponsorship, Penske has announced a string of new…
On Tuesday it was announced that Richard Petty has bought his NASCAR team from majority owner George Gillett Jr to become chairman of Richard Petty Motorsports. NASCAR’s most successful driver…
NASCAR couldn’t have asked for a better championship battle, the closest in its history, with all three contenders in the running until the final laps. No matter what you may…
Most of the way through Sunday’s 500-mile NASCAR race at Phoenix it looked like Denny Hamlin was going to put himself in an almost unbeatable position to win this year’s…
NASCAR’s championship battle got tighter after Sunday’s 500-mile race at the Talladega superspeedway. Talladega is NASCAR’s biggest and fastest track but restrictor plates make any race at the Alabama circuit…
Denny Hamlin pulled to within six points of defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson on Sunday. Hamlin qualified his Joe Gibbs Toyota on pole at the half-mile Martinsville bullring in Virginia…