Denny Hamlin demonstrated yet again on Sunday at Martinsville that he will be a title contender this season. Late in the race, Hamlin held the lead, but with pressure from eventual race winner Martin Truex Jr. and lapped traffic, he couldn’t keep it. “That’s just the cards we were dealt,” said Hamlin. “We had a […]
Denny Hamlin has qualified for the 2021 NASCAR Playoffs. The winner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course by AJ Allmendinger, a non-playoff eligible driver, secured a berth for the driver of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Hamlin finished 23rd in Sunday’s Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, the season’s 24th race, but he […]
Kevin Harvick is still without a win and has yet to secure a spot in the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, despite the fact that there are only two regular season races remaining. Two races remain on the 26-race 2021 NASCAR Cup Series regular season schedule, and the winningest driver from the previous season — […]
It all started with a question. Kevin Harvick asked crew chief Rodney Childers how he believed the day’s event would go for them on the morning of the race at Kansas Speedway in May, when they were in the midst of a season-long search for more competitive performance. Childers, a devoted student of simulation data […]
Kevin Harvick’s NASCAR Cup Series season in 2021 may not appear to be bad on paper, but it’s a long way from his career-best performance in 2020. Last year, Harvick and his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford team won nine races in the series, a personal high for the experienced driver. He didn’t make it […]
At Atlanta, Kurt Busch triumphed over Kyle Busch in a brotherly fight for the ages, obtaining his first win of the 2021 NASCAR Cup season. Following the last round of green-flag pitstops, Kyle Busch took the lead on lap 213 of 260, after spending much of the race swapping the lead. Kurt, on the other […]
On Tuesday, former Cup Series champion Kurt Busch will pilot NASCAR’s first Next Gen test of 2021 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. On Tuesday, NASCAR will conduct its first Next Gen test of 2021 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kurt Busch will be back in the driver’s seat for a test that will validate some of the […]
Two days before the Daytona 500, Kurt Busch released a cinematic short that blew the budget, had a Vanilla Ice appearance, and hinted at his NASCAR retirement. The 2004 NASCAR Cup winner hasn’t said whether he’ll retire at the end of the season. “If you’re asking me if this is a retirement video, I’m leaving it […]
Kurt Busch will drive for 23XI Racing next season, the NASCAR team owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan, in a lengthy expansion move for the rookie team. This year, Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 champion, teamed up with Jordan to form a team around Bubba Wallace. Wallace brings millions of dollars in sponsorship for […]
Kurt Busch, who may have been racing for his job or perhaps his career, won the Quaker State 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday, and it was exactly what he needed. The victory, his first since Race 30 of 2020 and only his third in the past three seasons, earns him a spot in […]