The NASCAR Cup Series is about to do something it hasn't attempted in 50 years — race on dirt. Bristol Motor Speedway has trucked 23,000 cubic yards of dirt into its famed bullring to host NASCAR's first Cup Series race on literal earth since 1970. But how the dirt — and the tires — will hold up during the race is still to […]

The weather forecast for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway is not promising. A weekend washout is possible. Rain is expected to return to the track after storms Saturday forced NASCAR to cancel Cup and Truck series qualifying races and postpone the Truck Series main race. The trucks managed a few laps of heat racing before the […]

Rain forced NASCAR to cancel the Cup and Truck Series qualifying heat races that were scheduled for Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway. NASCAR will now move straight to racing in both series on Sunday. With the heat races rained out, the starting lineup for the Cup race was deterimined by the mathematical formula that NASCAR uses for races without qualifying. […]

The winner of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway needed some help in getting to Victory Lane. Ryan Blaney took the lead from Kyle Larson with eight laps remaining in the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 and then rolled to a 2.083-second victory. It was Blaney’s first win of 2021 and the fifth of his Cup Series […]

March NASCAR Madness is in full swing in Hotlanta. After knocking on the door with top-10 finishes in the last two races, Martin Truex Jr. broke through and won the Instacart 400 last weekend, giving the grid their first semi-familiar winner of the 2021 Cup Series season. It’s Truex’s first win since June of last year, and his eighth overall while […]

The starting lineup for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway was set by applying the statistical formula NASCAR is using for the majority of its 2021 races. Drivers’ starting positions for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (3 p.m. ET; Fox, TSN, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) were based on four factors: Below is the starting lineup for […]

NASCAR drivers Noah Gragson and Daniel Hemric exchanged blows on pit road Saturday after the Xfinity Series race at Atlanta — the result of an earlier pit road altercation between their two cars. Hemric confronted Gragson after the race for backing into the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on pit road. Hemric had to pull into Gragson’s stall to avoid […]

For those who are asking “What channel is today’s NASCAR race on?” the answer is a familiar one. The TV channel for Sunday’s NASCAR race is Fox. The network will air the Instacart 500 from Phoenix Raceway. The Phoenix race is the fifth race of the NASCAR Cup Series 2021 season, and Fox has been the channel for all five races. […]

The NASCAR Cup Series’ 2021 spring western tour will begin Sunday with the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Cup Series held the first three races of its ’21 season at Daytona International Speedway and Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida. As with the Homestead race, the Las Vegas race will be run on a 1.5-mile […]

The starting lineup for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was set by applying the statistical formula NASCAR is using for the majority of its 2021 races. Drivers’ starting positions for the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube (3:30 p.m. ET; Fox, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) were based on four factors: Below is the starting lineup […]