11:34 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Kyle Busch won his hometown race Friday night for his second straight NASCAR Truck Series victory. A week after winning at Atlanta to break a tie with Ron Hornaday Jr. for the series victory lead, Busch dominated at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for his 53rd career win.
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9:14 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Kevin Harvick won the pole at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the first time in his 19-year NASCAR Cup Series career. Harvick turned a lap in 29.914 seconds Friday in his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, beating out Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin and his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate,
8:48 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Blunt Larson will try to be a bit more delicate with his words in the future. Kyle Larson personally apologized to team owner Rick Hendrick this week after jokingly saying during an interview that Hendrick Motorsports cheats. While the Chip Ganassi Racing star doesn’t plan to stop
9:18 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Busch has finalized a multiyear extension with Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch said two weeks ago the extension to drive the No. 18 Toyota was nearly completed and that he was not a free agent. JGR announced the extension Thursday morning on Twitter. Terms of driver contracts
1:00 AM ET This is usually the point in the NASCAR season when people talk about how we’re past the craziness of SpeedWeeks at Daytona and it’s time to move on to the “real season.” Except this season, that’s really not the case. We still have so much to learn about all the changes made
6:31 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Brad Keselowski was so sick at Atlanta Motor Speedway his team had a standby driver on call. Keselowski said the help was not needed. The winningest driver in Team Penske history raced to an unlikely victory Sunday by recovering from a stomach virus to win at Atlanta
8:10 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Kyle Busch broke a tie with Ron Hornaday Jr. for the NASCAR Truck Series victory record Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, winning No. 52 in a race delayed by rain with nine laps to go. Busch is set to make his 500th career NASCAR Cup start Sunday.
4:34 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Christopher Bell routed the field at Atlanta Motor Speedway and led all but 20 laps to win the Xfinity Series race Saturday. It was the first victory for the Supra that Toyota is using this season in NASCAR’s second-tier series. “First Supra win in the Xfinity Series,
2:42 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — NASCAR was long overdue for an added punch to its racing product and eagerly awaits the results from a new competition package designed to increase the entertainment factor for the troubled series. The new rules debut Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where the prevailing opinion is that
6:41 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Aric Almirola has led a Ford sweep in NASCAR Cup qualifying at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Almirola turned a lap at 181.472 mph Friday to take the top qualifying spot for Sunday’s race. He was followed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Clint Bowyer, Almirola’s teammate at Stewart-Haas Racing.