Kevin Harvick, Myatt Snider, and Ben Rhodes will hold the poles for the NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, and Truck Series races at Las Vegas this upcoming weekend.
Ahead of NASCAR’s inaugural Texas Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in May, Cup Series champions Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski, and Martin Truex Jr. conducted a tyre test for Goodyear.
William Byron led the final 58 laps in Sunday’s Homestead race en route to his second career NASCAR Cup win and first of the season.
NASCAR Cup COTA race dubbed Texas Grand Prix, tyre test set for early March with former champs
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The NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas will be named the EchoPark Texas Grand Prix (a term not common in NASCAR). In advance, Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr., and Brad Keselowski will do a tyre test next Tuesday.
When the NASCAR Cup and Truck Series run the Bristol dirt race for the first time, heat races and a Friday practice session will precede the main events.
NASCAR Cup points leader Denny Hamlin will start on the pole for Sunday’s race at Homestead, while Xfinity championship leader Austin Cindric will do the same for his series’ race the previous day.
NBC analyst Steve Letarte will return to being a NASCAR Cup Series crew chief at Sunday’s Homestead race for Corey LaJoie. Regular CC Ryan Sparks is out due to COVID protocol.
Dirt track star Chris Windom has joined Rick Ware Racing for his NASCAR Cup Series début in the Bristol dirt race in March.
Chip Ganassi has been fined $30,000 and suspended for one race by NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body’s COVID-19 protocols during the Daytona road course weekend.
With an overtake on Joey Logano coming to the white flag, Christopher Bell is a NASCAR Cup Series race winner. The 2021 season has now started with two first-time winners.
Roush Fenway Racing is the first NASCAR team to become carbon neutral. To celebrate the achievement, Ryan Newman’s #6 Castrol car will be all white.
Scott Heckert, a Pirelli World Challenge/Blancpain GT veteran and NASCAR Xfinity Series road course specialist, will make his Cup Series début on Sunday at the Daytona road course for Live Fast Motorsports.
In the first race of the season with starting lineups set by formula, Chase Elliott (Cup), Brett Moffitt (Xfinity), and Ben Rhodes (Trucks) will lead their respective fields to the green flag at the Daytona road course.
Michael McDowell gets by last-lap wreck, wins rain-delayed Daytona 500 and first Cup race
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In his 14th year and 358th start in the NASCAR Cup Series, Michael McDowell is a winner for the very first time, in the Daytona 500 no less. Contact between leaders Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano resulted in a major wreck that McDowell got by to win.
Rain disrupts Daytona 500 and Xfinity final sessions, Austin Cindric placed on pole for Beef 300
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Rain cut short the Cup Series’ second Daytona 500 practice on Saturday morning and cancelled both Xfinity qualifying and the final Cup practice later in the day. With no qualifying, Austin Cindric will start the Xfinity race from the pole.
Aric Almirola won the first Bluegreen Vacations Duel, an event marred by debate surrounding Ty Dillon and Austin Cindric. A rain delay later, Austin Dillon made a dramatic final pass on Bubba Wallace to win the second Duel.
Daytona 500 qualifying was delayed when the lights at the track shut off. When they turned back on, Alex Bowman shone the brightest as he set the fastest time to sit on the pole for Sunday’s race, leading a Hendrick Motorsports front row lockout.
