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3 weeks ago | 
motors-addict.com | Dustin Long |Nate Ryan
Steve Phelps has been promoted to the newly created position of NASCAR Commissioner and Steve O'Donnell will take over Phelps' former role as NASCAR President, the sanctioning body announced Monday morning. "We are thrilled to name Steve Phelps as NASCAR's first Commissioner. His leadership, professionalism and well-earned respect from across the sports industry speak to his unique value for the sport," said NASCAR Chairman & CEO, Jim France in a statement.
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3 weeks ago | 
motors-addict.com | Dustin Long |Nate Ryan
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — A look at the winners and losers from Sunday's Cup race at Martinsville. WINNERSDenny Hamlin — He led 274 of the final 275 laps to score his first victory of the season, sixth at Martinsville and 55th of his career. Said Hamlin: "I want to dominate. I'll take any win I can get, but I want days like this where I'm in complete control."Joe Gibbs Racing — Organization has won four of the first seven Cup races of the season.
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3 weeks ago | 
motors-addict.com | Nate Ryan |Dustin Long
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — The jack was about to drop Chase Elliott's car last weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the signal for him to fire out of his pit stall. But Elliott saw the crew in the box ahead still working on the right side of that car.
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1 month ago | 
motors-addict.com | Nate Ryan |Dustin Long
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — A look at the winners and losers from Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. WINNERSKyle Larson — He won the Truck race Friday, nearly won the Xfinity race Saturday and then won the Cup race Sunday. Larson, who had a race-high 56 points, nearly became the second driver to sweep three races in a weekend in NASCAR history. Said Larson of Sunday's win: "It wasn't a typical Homestead for me.
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1 month ago | 
motors-addict.com | Nate Ryan |Dustin Long
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — It would have been easy to have been frustrated, but Bubba Wallace looked at his third-place finish Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a different manner. Although he lost the lead with 33 laps to go, Wallace was philosophical on pit road afterward. "Kansas (in 2022) I went up and took that win, my last one," Wallace said of his Cup victory 85 races ago. "I look at Talladega (in April 2023) … when I was leading taking the white and blocked (Ryan) Blaney and wrecked.
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1 month ago | 
motors-addict.com | Dustin Long |Nate Ryan
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — The sixth Cup points race of the season has a good bit of intrigue even though Kyle Larson's bid to sweep the weekend ended on an overtime restart in Saturday's Xfinity race. The green flag for today's Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway is scheduled to wave at 3:12 p.m. ET. The race will air on FS1.
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1 month ago | 
motors-addict.com | Dustin Long |Nate Ryan
A month into the season and stage points are making an impact on the season standings. Joey Logano has become the first reigning Cup champion not to score a top 10 in the first four races of the following season, yet he is ninth in the points — because of stage points. But he's not the only driver impacted by the stage points. It's made a difference at the top of the season standings and further down in the points.
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1 month ago | 
motors-addict.com | Nate Ryan |Dustin Long
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Crew chief Matt Swiderski nearly turned a unique strategy into a top-five finish for Daniel Suarez last August at Richmond in the most recent NASCAR Cup race with a primary tire and an option tire. Austin Dillon won that Richmond race — after contact with two leaders on the final lap — by focusing more on the primary tire than the option tire. It shows the different tactics drivers and teams can take when they have different sets of tires.
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1 month ago | 
motors-addict.com | Nate Ryan |Dustin Long
A sleepless night and dogged determination laid the groundwork for what has become the top new driver/crew chief combination three races into the NASCAR Cup season. It started when Dave Rogers, competition director at 23XI Racing, woke up around 2 a.m. one night last year thinking about work. "I was trying to find who is the next (Cup) crew chief coming from the Truck Series," he said.
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1 month ago | 
motors-addict.com | Nate Ryan |Dustin Long
NASCAR's first road course race of the Cup season comes at the right time for Shane van Gisbergen. After a ninth-place finish in the Clash exhibition race at Bowman Gray Stadium to begin February, the rest of the month was miserable for the Trackhouse Racing driver. At Daytona, van Gisbergen went to a backup car for the 500 after his car was damaged in his qualifying race. He finished 33rd in the 500 after damage from an early incident.
