7:49 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Daniel Ricciardo’s show run in Dale Earnhardt’s 1984 car prompted a tweet of appreciation from the NASCAR legend’s son, Dale Earnhardt Jr., on Saturday. The tweet left Ricciardo slightly lost for words. On Saturday morning at the Circuit of the Americas, host of this weekend’s U.S. Grand Prix, Ricciardo

6:30 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Ty Gibbs upset the field again, racing to his fourth Xfinity Series victory of the season Saturday and stopping title contenders AJ Allmendinger and Austin Cindric from advancing to the championship round. Gibbs, 19, passed reigning champion Cindric with 10 laps remaining at Kansas Speedway and

6:51 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Larson claimed the first of four championship-contending spots in NASCAR’s season finale with a dominating victory at Texas on Sunday to start the round of eight in the playoffs. Larson led 256 of 334 laps at the 1½-mile track and got his eighth win this

6:38 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — All four spots in the championship round of the NASCAR Xfinity Series are still up for grabs after non-playoff qualifier John Hunter Nemechek overcame a late penalty Saturday to win at Texas Motor Speedway. Nemechek won the first of three races in the round of eight,

1:54 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It only took about a day after Chase Elliott wished Kevin Harvick “a merry offseason and Happy Christmas” for NASCAR’s reigning champion to get the zinger on merchandise on his official website. The holiday-themed gear even has a tab in the online store. It’s the kind of

11:15 AM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — First came the woman, then the fastest cars in racing. Tony Stewart, who fell in love with NHRA while tagging along with fiancée Leah Pruett at her races the past two seasons, will be an official part of the sport in 2022. The NASCAR Hall of Fame

5:46 AM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Kevin Harvick was going to get his revenge on Chase Elliott, believing somewhere and somehow, he’d even the score after Elliott cost him a win last month. When Harvick delivered his payback, it nearly knocked the reigning NASCAR champion out of the playoffs. But karma then flipped

6:42 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Rick Hendrick first began to worry when Kyle Larson and Alex Bowman had electrical issues at nearly same time. By the time reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott was deliberately crashed by Kevin Harvick and nearly knocked out of the playoffs, Hendrick had seen enough destruction on The

6:30 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — AJ Allmendinger charged into the second round of the Xfinity Series playoffs with an overtime victory Saturday in the elimination race on The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Allmendinger remained a perfect 3-0 on the hybrid road course/oval added to the NASCAR schedule in 2018. He wasn’t

4:53 PM ET p=””> Rain stopped Monday’s playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway, but by no means did it put a damper on Bubba Wallace’s historic victory. The 27-year-old’s first NASCAR Cup Series win made him only the second Black winner in the series’ history. Wendell Scott first did so in Dec. of 1963. According to