5:24 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has awarded one of the nation’s highest civilian honors to Roger Penske, a businessman and founder of one of the world’s most successful motorsports teams. Penske received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday during a White House ceremony. The president says Penske is a

6:51 PM ET Call it a statement win for Denny Hamlin on Sunday. He led more than half of the race at Kansas and picked up his fifth win of the season (and third in the past 12 races). Coming off a winless 2018, Hamlin’s 2019 started with a win in the Daytona 500. Since

6:54 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Denny Hamlin was surrounded by Joe Gibbs Racing teammates at the front on the final restart, and that put Chase Elliott in the most difficult and precarious of situations. Somehow, he figured, he needed to find a way to beat them all to advance in NASCAR’s

6:16 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Brandon Jones raced to his first career Xfinity Series victory Saturday at Kansas Speedway after a lapped car wrecked what was shaping up to be an entertaining duel between playoff contenders Chase Briscoe and Christopher Bell. It wasn’t the end of the drama, either. Fellow playoff

2:40 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Daniel Hemric gave his hopes of landing a Cup Series ride for next season some help by taking his No. 8 Chevrolet to the pole for Richard Childress Racing at Kansas Speedway on Saturday. Hemric, who was told last month that Childress would not pick up

10:36 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Christian Eckes won the ARCA Series finale along with its season championship Friday night. The 18-year-old from Greenville, New York, had a 15-point lead on Venturini Motorsports teammate Michael Self heading into the race at Kansas Speedway. Self went to the front early in the race

6:18 PM ET ESPN News Services KANSAS CITY, Kan. — One hauler caught fire while traveling to Kansas Speedway, another went off the road when its driver had a medical emergency and wound up totaled at the bottom of a 60-foot embankment. So much for wrecks happening only on the track. The No. 47 team

12:49 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR closed its $2 billion purchase of International Speedway Corp. on Friday, bringing under the sanctioning body’s control 12 tracks that include Daytona, Talladega and Miami-Homestead Speedway. The merger was announced in May, and shareholders voted to approve it on Wednesday. The sale merges the two

4:13 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Clint Bowyer has reached an agreement with Stewart-Haas Racing to return to the No. 14 Ford next season. Bowyer has been with SHR for three of his 15 seasons in the Cup Series. His extension, announced Thursday, came as the Kansas native headed to his home track

1:41 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two NASCAR teams on their way to Kansas Speedway were involved in separate traffic incidents that damaged race cars. JTG Daugherty Racing owner Tad Geschickter said Thursday that the team transporter for Ryan Preece‘s No. 47 Cup Series entry caught fire while traveling to Kansas. He said