Chase Elliott has now lost 72 points in the last seven NASCAR Cup Series races due to penalties, including 35 in the last two. Chase Elliott of Hendrick Motorsports was punished with yet another pre-race penalty prior to his second-place finish in this past Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International. This was […]
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Denny Hamlin’s racing career, as well as his tenure with Joe Gibbs Racing, will continue for the foreseeable future, as both the driver and long-time sponsor FedEx renewed their contracts. Both are multi-year deals, and Hamlin’s agreement keeps him off the free-agent market before the end of his contract with the team. “The relationship between […]
GLADEVLLE, FRANCE — Denny Hamlin enters Sunday’s Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway with no wins in 16 races this season, but he believes he’s on the verge of a breakthrough. “I know my team and I are capable of winning races,” Hamlin said Monday in discussing the return of Cup racing to Middle Tennessee for […]
Denny Hamlin was far harsher on Indianapolis Motor Speedway and NASCAR than he was on Chase Briscoe after the latter denied him a win on Sunday. Hamlin blamed them for substantial — and costly — damage to cars in the Verizon 200 at The Brickyard. “Imagine the tracks who NET hundreds of millions of dollars […]
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 […]