5:55 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Hendrick Motorsports teams of points leader Alex Bowman and two-time winner William Byron were penalized by NASCAR for violations found in the Richmond postrace inspections. NASCAR said Thursday that the teams of Bowman and Byron will lose 60 points and five playoff points apiece. Bowman’s

11:49 AM ET NASCAR Cup Series team owners boycotted a meeting with the series Wednesday. David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images NASCAR‘s kumbaya has been replaced by a record scratch. And a boycott. This feels like a bad idea. Remember 2020? That’s when the pandemic shuttered the world, but it was NASCAR, bunkered in with

1:22 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A top group of NASCAR team owners skipped a meeting with series officials Wednesday with the two sides at an impasse over permanent charters, a key plank in the business model of the stock car series. Fearing the meeting would be “hijacked” by conversation solely on the

7:59 PM ET Associated Press Kyle Larson spent the week watching videos of his 10-win, 2021 championship season, he said, “to remind myself that I used to be good.” He still is. Larson pulled away on a restart with 14 laps to go and easily won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway on

4:56 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Chandler Smith outran John Hunter Nemechek out of a restart with six laps to go Saturday at Richmond Raceway to win his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race. Nemechek chose the inside lane on a restart with 12 laps left, relegating Smith to the outside. When another caution

12:06 PM ET In his 17th full-time season in the Cup Series, Denny Hamlin is still searching for that elusive first championship. Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images You can hate Denny Hamlin all you want. If you are a NASCAR fan, you can boo him. If you are a fellow NASCAR competitor, you can feud

5:57 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR fined Daniel Suarez $50,000 on Wednesday for hitting another vehicle on pit road following the race at Circuit of the Americas. The fine was classified as a behavioral penalty and cited “contact with another vehicle on pit road after the race.” Suarez hit both his Trackhouse

5:17 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A NASCAR appeals panel rescinded the hefty points penalties levied against Hendrick Motorsports drivers Alex Bowman, William Byron and Kyle Larson for an illegally modified part on their Chevrolets discovered earlier this month. It was only a partial victory for Hendrick Motorsports, though: Although the three-person panel

8:06 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Tyler Reddick had the lead and the fastest car on the track when calamity nearly struck. Caution. Restart. Caution. Restart. Caution. Restart. Enough slowdowns to make a driver lose his mind. Or at least his cool. Reddick handled it nearly to perfection Sunday, earning his first victory

9:17 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — A.J. Allmendinger dominated early, then had to fight to retake the lead at the start of the final stage to earn his 11th career NASCAR Xfinity series road course victory Saturday at the Circuit of the Americas. Allmendinger bumped Sheldon Creed out of the lead with 14