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05.10.2021 / 00:55

Bubba Wallace 1st Black driver to win NASCAR Cup race since 1963

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) - Bubba Wallace became just the second Black driver to win at NASCAR's top Cup Series level when rain stopped Monday's playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway.Wallace had driven through a crash and to the front of the field five laps before the second rain stoppage of the race.

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This weekend’s NASCAR race on FOX: Kyle Busch goes for 2 wins in a row at Pennzoil 400 in Las Vegas

Kyle Busch, who won at Fontana last week to earn his first victory for Richard Childress Racing, returns home to Las Vegas as the favorite to win the Pennzoil 400. Busch's 61 career victories are the most among active drivers. But he’ll face tough competition from Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Ross Chastain, Martin Truex Jr., Joey Logano, and others competing on the 1.5-mile track.Hamlin has the longest active streak of top-10 finishes on 1.5-mile tracks at six. Larson has finished in the top 10 in eight of his last 10 starts at Las Vegas, and Chastain finished in the top three in both Las Vegas races in 2022, Nascar.com noted. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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NASCAR returns to roots with sleek new pony cars for 2022

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin drove their sporty new pony cars through the smoke and lights of the fog machines NASCAR used for its first fancy presentation in more than a year.

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Bowman pulls off swift late move to win Cup race at Richmond

RICHMOND, Va. – Alex Bowman passed Denny Hamlin on a restart with 10 laps to go and drove away at Richmond Raceway for his third career victory in the NASCAR Cup Series.

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Truex outlasts teammate Hamlin to win again at Martinsville

MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Martin Truex Jr. won a stirring, laps-long duel for the lead with teammate Denny Hamlin in the delayed NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday night.

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Rain wins again; Martinsville to have doubleheader Sunday

MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Rain forced the postponement of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway after just 42 laps Saturday night, setting up a doubleheader Sunday.

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Logano takes the checkered flag in a haze of Bristol dirt

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Somewhere under the thick red haze floating over Bristol Motor Speedway, Joey Logano took the checkered flag for NASCAR's first Cup Series race at a dirt track in 50 years.

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Martin Truex Jr. wins NASCAR Cup race at Phoenix Raceway

AVONDALE, Ariz. – Martin Truex Jr. pulled away in the final laps Sunday at Phoenix Raceway for his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season and 28th overall.

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Wallace becomes 1st Black driver to lead lap at Daytona 500

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Bubba Wallace ran into trouble early and late in his first Daytona 500 driving for Michael Jordan.

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Jordan set to make NASCAR debut with Wallace at Daytona 500

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Bubba Wallace was more of a fan of Michael Jordan from watching “Space Jam” than the NBA.

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Live Fast Motorsports becomes 3rd new NASCAR team for 2021

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – NASCAR will have another new team in 2021 — bringing the total to three new ownership groups in the Cup Series — with the formation of Live Fast Motorsports. The team formally announced Friday is owned by drivers Matt Tifft and B.J.

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Elliott too fast for Hamlin, Logano, Keselowski

AVONDALE, Ariz. – Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski got a big head start on Chase Elliott. It wasn't big enough Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.Dropped from the pole to the back of the field after his No.

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Elliott fails inspection before NASCAR's championship race

AVONDALE, Ariz. – Chase Elliott had an early setback in his pursuit of NASCAR's championship when his car failed pre-race inspection Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.Elliott was supposed to start on the pole but instead had to drop to the back of the field at the start of the race. The No.

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Denny Hamlin faces tough field for elusive 1st NASCAR title

AVONDALE, Ariz. – Denny Hamlin is 0-for-3 in championship chances, his shot at an elusive first NASCAR crown ending just short each time.It's his turn again, without rival Kevin Harvick in his way and his Toyota teammates all eliminated. Hamlin on Sunday will try to close his own career-defining season with the Cup title in NASCAR's season finale at Phoenix Raceway.

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Race into NASCAR's championship round begins at Kansas

Not much has changed through NASCAR's first two rounds of playoffs: Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin are still favored to race for the championship and the other two contenders are a crapshoot. The path to the championship finale begins Sunday at Kansas Speedway, the first of three races in the title-setting third round.

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Michael Jordan joins NASCAR as team owner; Bubba Wallace to drive for him

Michael Jordan bought a NASCAR Cup Series charter and Bubba Wallace will be his driver. (Photos by Getty Images) Michael Jordan will take on a new challenge in 2021 – stock-car racing.Jordan bought a NASCAR Cup Series charter and Bubba Wallace will be his driver.

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Hamlin, Michael Jordan partner on NASCAR team for Wallace

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Denny Hamlin is starting his own race car team in partnership with Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan and Bubba Wallace as the driver. Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 winner and top contender for this year's Cup title, made the announcement on social media.

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NASCAR: Keselowski dominates in playoff win at Richmond

RICHMOND, Va. – Brad Keselowski entered NASCAR's playoffs certain he has as good a chance at the Cup championship as favorites Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin. He even predicted he’d win at Richmond Raceway.

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Hamlin seeks to regain mojo at Richmond in home track race

Kevin Harvick grabbed the first win of NASCAR's playoffs while rival Denny Hamlin finished a distant 13th. Disgusted with his finish, Hamlin threw his water bottle in anger.

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Playoffs begin with 14 drivers chasing Harvick and Hamlin

Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin are expected to race head-to-head for the NASCAR Cup title when the 10-week playoff series begin Sunday at Darlington Raceway.The duo heads to the South Carolina track with a combined 13 regular-season wins between them — they each won a race at Darlington in May when racing resumed during the coronavirus pandemic — and they've accumulated enough playoff points to practically coast into the championship-deciding finale. That theoretically leaves the 14 other drivers racing for just two spots in the winner-take-all race.“I met with my team and I told them at the end of this 10 weeks someone will be holding the championship trophy.

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Byron wins to reach Cup Series playoffs, knocks Johnson out

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Jimmie Johnson's final season as a full-time driver will end without another title.The seven-time NASCAR champion missed the playoffs in the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway after behind involved in a multi-car crash with five laps to go.Johnson's teammate at Hendrick Motorsports, William Byron, won the race in overtime and locked up one of the three postseason berths available going into the finale. Matt DiBenedetto finished 12th and secured the final spot.

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Harvick dominates at Dover for 7th Cup victory of the season

DOVER, Del. – Kevin Harvick regained the NASCAR Cup Series victory lead with his seventh, dominating Sunday at Dover International Speedway.A day after Denny Hamlin opened with doubleheader weekend with his sixth win to match Harvick, the Stewart-Haas racing driver one-upped his closest rival to claim NASCAR’s regular-season title. Harvick has 56 career Cup victories to tied Kyle Busch for ninth on the career list.Harvick swept the stages in the No.

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Hamlin holds off JGR teammate Truex for 1st Dover victory

DOVER TOWNSHIP – Denny Hamlin zipped past teammate Martin Truex Jr. with less than 10 laps to go and won the NASCAR Cup Series race Saturday at Dover International Speedway.Hamlin matched Kevin Harvick for the season victory lead with six, matching his total from last season and closing within two of his career high set in 2010.Hamlin chased down Truex, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, and held on in the first of two Cup races this weekend at Dover.

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Road king: Elliott wins at Daytona for 3rd straight roadie

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Make it three in a row on the road for Chase Elliott.NASCAR’s most popular driver won the Cup Series road course race at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, holding off hard-charging Denny Hamlin following a late restart and notching his third consecutive victory away from ovals.“I had a phenomenal car. I don't think I did anything special today,” Elliott said.The 24-year-old Elliott also won on road courses at Charlotte and at Watkins Glen last year.

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Keselowski wins in New Hampshire for 3d win since shutdown

LOUDON, N.H. – Brad Keselowski won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday for his third victory of the NASCAR season and 33rd of his career.Keselowski and Denny Hamlin swapped stage wins and had the lead a combined 18 times before Keselowski, who is in a contract year for Team Penske, took the checkered flag 1.647 seconds ahead. After the victory, Keselowski grabbed a U.S.

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Denny Hamlin downright dominant as NASCAR season pushes on

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – There was no talk of championships when Denny Hamlin's team met during NASCAR's offseason to discuss goals for the upcoming year, even though that is just about the only thing he has yet to win at the sport's highest level.In fact, team owner Joe Gibbs and crew chief Chris Gabehart didn't even mention the season-ending race at Homestead.“His goal has been very simple,” Hamlin said. “He gave me a list of probably six guys in history that won X number of races.

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Hamlin holds off Keselowski for fifth Cup victory of season

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Three straight finishes outside the top 10 for Denny Hamlin these days counts as a rough patch.He was once again smooth as they get Thursday night.Hamlin hung around the front of the pack all night, avoiding trouble that cost several playoff contenders in the final stage, then breezed past Kevin Harvick for the lead in the closing laps. Hamlin then held off charging Brad Keselowski for his NASCAR Cup Series-leading fifth victory of the season and 42nd overall.

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Harvick, Hamlin still predictable Cup favorites at hot Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas – Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin can easily be considered favorites for the first summertime race at Texas, even in this unpredictable and unprecedented NASCAR Cup season.While there have been no practice sessions or qualifying laps since racing resumed two months ago, Harvick and Hamlin are both three-time winners at Texas, and combined to win four of the last five races there. They are tied with a Cup-best four wins apiece this season, and all but one of those have come since mid-May.The 1 1/2-mile track could get slick on a scorching Sunday afternoon, with temperatures forecast in the upper 90s and the heat index into the 100s.

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Harvick takes advantage of Hamlin's crash to win Brickyard

INDIANAPOLIS – Kevin Harvick turned up the heat on Denny Hamlin late in the Brickyard 400.And on a cooling track, Hamlin's worn tires simply gave out.With the sun setting Sunday over Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Hamlin seven laps from victory, he went careening into the first turn wall, and Harvick beat Matt Kenseth off the final restart to pull away.“We knew he was really close on tires so (crew chief) Rodney (Childers) said on the radio to keep the pressure on him," Harvick said.

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NASCAR races on at Indy after Johnson contracts coronavirus

INDIANAPOLIS – NASCAR's extravagant weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — where the back-and-forth battle between Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin should continue — has been rocked by its first driver testing positive for the coronavirus. Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson will miss what was supposed to be his final Brickyard 400 as he quarantines following the Friday test result.

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Hamlin caps marathon day of racing at Pocono with 4th win

LONG POND, Pa. – Denny Hamlin held off Kevin Harvick on Sunday night to win the second Cup race of the weekend at Pocono Raceway and flip the result of the opener.Hamlin raced to his fourth victory of the season — and sixth at Pocono — to cap a wild, marathon day of racing at the track, with three NASCAR races and a near-darkness Cup finish. Pocono doesn't have lights -- but the pit road numbers were lit up and glowed as Hamlin took the checkered flag for Joe Gibbs Racing.

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Late scratch: Harvick knocks off Pocono from winless list

LONG POND, Pa. – Kevin Harvick snapped an 0-for-38 drought at Pocono Raceway, taking the checkered flag Saturday at one of two tracks where victory had eluded him.Harvick won the first of two NASCAR Cup races in front of no fans this weekend at Pocono and will start 20th on Sunday with the field set by inverting the lead-lap finishers.The 44-year-old California driver has won at every active track except Kentucky Speedway (nine tries) and the 2014 series champion has three wins overall for Stewart-Haas Racing this season.Harvick held off a hard-charging Denny Hamlin for his 52nd career Cup victory.

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NASCAR has new rules, new feuds and more fans at Talladega

NASCAR's return to racing shifts to Talladega Superspeedway, with new rules in place after Ryan Newman's frightful crash in the season-opening Daytona 500. The Alabama track will admit up to 5,000 fans Sunday — with at least one NASCAR team facing a coronavirus scare — while NASCAR will be on the lookout for the newly banned Confederate flag.

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Denny Hamlin wins on a long day at Homestead

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Denny Hamlin found the magic at Homestead-Miami Speedway, once again.Hamlin went to the lead for the final time with 30 laps left and held off Chase Elliott for his record-tying NASCAR Cup Series victory at Homestead.Former drivers Tony Stewart and Greg Biffle are the other three-time winners. Hamlin is in the club now, after battling Elliott most of the night.“This one was real special,” Hamlin said.Hamlin raced to his third victory of the season and 40th overall.

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Hamlin crew members suspended 4 races over tungsten drop

NASCAR on Monday suspended three critical crew members for Denny Hamlin's team because a piece of tungsten fell off his car on the pace lap before the Coca-Cola 600.

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NASCAR News: Jarrett: Coronavirus situation stopped ugly scene with Busch and Elliott

1999 NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Jarrett believes the late-race clash at Darlington Raceway, in which Kyle Busch wrecked Chase Elliott's race, would have sparked "ugly" scenes but for the sport's reaction to the COVID-19 situation.

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Hamlin closes NASCAR's iRacing Series with another victory

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Denny Hamlin closed NASCAR's iRacing Series with a victory at a simulation of throwback North Wilkesboro Speedway.

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Fox Sports Zooms Into Post-Pandemic Future With Virtual NASCAR

On March 13, two days after the NBA announced it would suspend its season amid the coronavirus pandemic, NASCAR followed suit, canceling all future races. That same morning, Fox Sports' Eric Shanks contacted Steve Myers at game company iRacing about replacing real-world races with virtual ones.

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Esports Arena: Pro NASCAR Drivers Turn to Virtual Races After Coronavirus Cancellations

Esports Arena is a curated weekly roundup of the biggest stories in the world of online competitive gaming. Professional NASCAR drivers have turned to virtual races amid the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the racing league to postpone its scheduled live events.

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Earnhardt, Busch sign on for NASCAR esports series

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and other NASCAR drivers have signed on to race in an exhibition esports series while their cars are kept off the tracks amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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