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• Rockingham Xfinity Series results

  20-04-2025 02:14 via nascar.com
  JR Motorsports driver Sammy Smith won Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Rockingham Speedway after Jesse Love’s No. 2 Chevrolet was disqualified in post-race inspection.Full results are listed below — the No. 19 of Justin Bonsignore also was disqualified.FinishCarDriver18Sammy Smith24Parker Retzlaff325Harrison Burton444Brennan Poole554Taylor Gray #621Austin Hill711Josh Williams827Jeb Burton910Daniel Dye #1051Jeremy Clements1126Dean Thompson #1220Brandon Jones1388Connor Zi
  
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• Daytona won't host NASCAR's Championship Weekend but what other tracks might?

  06-05-2025 21:00 via nbcsports.com
  
  Daytona International Speedway will not be among the tracks considered for NASCAR’s Championship Weekend, a senior executive said Tuesday.So, no, the season won’t start and end at Daytona for those who suggest it.But what tracks could be considered for the season finale?NASCAR announced Tuesday that Homestead-Miami Speedway, a 1.5-mile track, will host the season finale for Cup, Xfinity and the Craftsman Truck Series on Nov. 6-8, 2026. Homestead hosted Championship Weekend from 2002-
  
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• NASCAR rules out superspeedways and road courses for season finale

  06-05-2025 20:02 via motorsport.com
  Motorsport photoIn a teleconference on Tuesday, NASCAR offered insight into what is in play and what is out of the question as part of their rotating season finale. The track has to check a few boxes which include a strong on-track product, a good climate for early November, and of course, being located in an attractive market. But another aspect of that is finding a venue that best reflects the overall schedule and avoiding 'wildcard' tracks.The sanctioning body announced a return to Homestead-
  
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• The weird, wild, and interesting stats that defined NASCAR at Texas

  06-05-2025 17:46 via motorsport.com
  Motorsport photoIt was one wild weekend of surprising outcomes and rather intriguing stats for NASCAR in Texas. Joey Logano broke a tie with Brad Keselowski on the all-time wins list, earning his 37th career victory. The two have been close in win total throughout their careers, but this is actually the first time Logano has edged ahead of Keselowski. And with Kyle Larson's Xfinity win, he maintains a 100% winning percentage with JR Motorsports. He has one previous start with the team
  
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• NASCAR championship races on the move. Homestead-Miami will host in 2026 to start rotation

  06-05-2025 17:46 via news-journalonline.com
  
  Sometimes the rumors are true. Months after the possibility became a talking point, NASCAR announced Tuesday that the season-ending championship race will be rotated among multiple tracks, beginning in 2026 when Homestead-Miami breaks Phoenix Raceway’s six-year grip on the three-day weekend of championship races.It’ll be a homecoming of sorts at Homestead, which served as host of the season finale from 2002-2019. Beginning in 2004, the final race became an actual “champion
  
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• NASCAR championship races will return to Homestead in 2026 after six years in Phoenix

  06-05-2025 17:15 via tennessean.com
  
  NASCAR is bringing its championship back to Homestead-Miami Speedway for the 2026 season, NASCAR announced on May 6.All three NASCAR national series, the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Craftsman Truck Series, will run the championship races in Homestead, where the championship races were run from 2002-19 before moving to Phoenix Raceway beginning with the 2020 season.The 2026 championship races will be run Nov. 6-8. After the 2026 championship races, the weekend event will be put into a rotation
  
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• Homestead holds a special place in NASCAR with its many memorable moments

  06-05-2025 17:00 via nbcsports.com
  
  NASCAR’s Championship Weekend returns to Homestead-Miami Speedway next year, marking the 19th time in the last 25 years the track has crowned the sport’s drivers in Cup, Xfinity and the Craftsman Truck Series.The track’s first NASCAR race was in 1995 and its first Cup race took place in 1999. Homestead hosted NASCAR’s Championship Weekend from 2002-19.NASCAR Championship Weekend moving to Homestead in 2026NASCAR will begin rotating sites for the championship race in 2026.
  
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• NASCAR championship weekend goes to Homestead in 2026, starting a rotating formula

  06-05-2025 16:55 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — NASCAR's championship weekend will return to Homestead-Miami Speedway next year, marking the first time since 2019 that the title-winners will be crowned at the South Florida track.NASCAR made the announcement Tuesday. Its three series — the truck series, the Xfinity Series and the Cup Series — will see their seasons come to a close at Homestead from Nov. 6-8, 2026.It isn't a permanent return, though: NASCAR said that championship weekends are going to be on a rota
  
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• NASCAR to rotate championship finale, will return to Homestead in 2026

  06-05-2025 16:17 via motorsport.com
  Motorsport photoHomestead-Miami Speedway hosted NASCAR's championship weekend every year from 2002 through 2019 before the finale shifted to Phoenix Raceway for 2020 onwards.But calls from both drivers and fans to return to the popular intermediate track in Southern Florida have only grown louder in recent years, and now it's finally happening. Homestead will again host the title-decider for the NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, and Truck Series in 2026.But perhaps equally important to this is the fact that
  
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• NASCAR Championship Weekend moving to Homestead in 2026

  06-05-2025 16:00 via nbcsports.com
  
  NASCAR’s Championship Weekend will return to Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2026, the sanctioning body announced Tuesday morning.NASCAR also announced that it will rotate its season finale for the Cup, Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series starting next year among “NASCAR’s marquee venues and key markets.”NBC Sports, which has broadcast the Cup playoffs and championship race since 2015, will do so through 2031.Phoenix, which has hosted NASCAR’s Championship Weekend since
  
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• Jesse Love adds two more NASCAR Cup races to his 2025 schedule

  06-05-2025 15:05 via motorsport.com
  Motorsport photoJesse Love is getting a lot more experience in a Cup car than anyone expected entering the 2025 season. The 20-year-old made his Cup debut with Richard Childress Racing at Bristol, finishing 31st. He made another appearance in the recent Cup race at Texas, this time driving for Beard Motorsports where a late-race crash left him with a DNF. Love spun at the exit of Turn 2 with less than 50 laps to go in the race, impacting the inside wall.RCR has now confirmed that the Xfinity Ser
  
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• How to buy tickets for NASCAR Nashville race, promotions for Cracker Barrel 400

  06-05-2025 13:03 via tennessean.com
  
  NASCAR is ready to come to Music City.The Cracker Barrel 400 NASCAR Cup Series race headlines a full weekend of on-track action with the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series running, too.Tickets, with some promotions, are on sale now for fans to find their spot to see the race.Here's how to get tickets for the NASCAR Nashville race.Shop Nashville NASCAR ticketsWhen is 2025 NASCAR Nashville race?The 2025 Cracker Barrel 400 is set for 6 p.m. CT on June 1 at Nashville Superspeedw
  
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• NASCAR Insights: Trackhouse duo overcomes lack of speed for Texas top 10s

  06-05-2025 12:57 via nascar.com
  Ross Chastain and Daniel Suárez both overcame a lack of speed in their Trackhouse Racing Chevrolets to leave Texas Motor Speedway with top-10 finishes.According to NASCAR Insights, Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet ranked just 23rd in overall speed in Sunday’s Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly, and Suárez’s No. 99 28th. But Chastain stormed to a second-place finish despite the relative lack of pace, while Suárez came home 10th.MORE: Texas results | NASCAR Ins
  
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• NASCAR Through the Gears: Joey Logano wins at Texas; Denny Hamlin tries to elect new pope

  06-05-2025 11:03 via news-journalonline.com
  
  Whew!We might need to take roll after that one to make sure everyone is accounted for.A week after the unthinkable — a calm and orderly Talladega — they ditch the three-wide stuff for some actual elbow room … and look what happened. Talladega actually had more cars finish on the lead lap (28) than Texas (23). We had 11 cautions due to accidents, usually single-car spins from drivers pushing it an ounce too far.One of those end-arounds came from Denny Hamlin, but it was precede
  
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• Denny Hamlin says NASCAR is gaslighting its fans

  06-05-2025 05:11 via sportsnaut.com
  
  Denny Hamlin just wants some intellectual honesty from NASCAR officials.The Cup Series veteran took to his weekly podcast on Monday and spoke about the disconnect between the sanctioning body and fans, speaking specifically about messaging from vice president of competition Elton Sawyer and how it effectively gaslights fans.Sawyer went on SiriusXM Radio last week and said he didn’t understand why fans were dissatisfied with the racing at Talladega because a near majority of it was run unde
  
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• NASCAR icon Richard Petty attracts auto racing fans to Harborcreek Township

  06-05-2025 04:59 via goerie.com
  
  "The King" still reigns more than 30 years after his last NASCAR start.That sentiment was valid throughout Richard Petty's May 5 appearance in Harborcreek Township.The 87-year old NASCAR Hall of Famer, who transcended the sport with his friendly personality and a record 200 Cup Series victories, took pictures with fans and autographed memorabilia for nearly 45 minutes outside the TA Travel Center.The session highlighted a stop during Kyle Petty's latest Charity Ride Across America. It was the fi
  
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• Analysis: Redemption rings true for Logano at Texas; why we're not surprised

  05-05-2025 18:58 via nascar.com
  Leave it to Joey Logano, NASCAR‘s always merciless opportunist, to flip the narrative of both his 2025 season and a treacherous Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.As contenders’ cars careened over bumps and into barriers all around him, the Team Penske star patiently waited out the mayhem until his moment arrived.RELATED: Race results | Cup standingsAnd he then schooled two drivers to lead seven of the final eight laps — the only time Logano was at the front during 271 laps —
  
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• The winners and losers from a wreck-filled NASCAR Cup race at Texas

  05-05-2025 18:49 via motorsport.com
  Motorsport photoJoey Logano is playoff-bound once again, leading a trio of drivers who started 24th or worse but ended the day with podium finishes at Texas. The pole-sitter wrecked, the outside pole-sitter had an incident on pit road, and the race really flew off the rails in the final stage. It was caution after caution with Michael McDowell nearly securing a big win for the underdogs in a dramatic showdown for the win before finding the wall.So, who came out on top as winners and the losers f
  
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• 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series entry list for Kansas

  05-05-2025 18:26 via nascar.com
  The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is back in action for a Saturday showdown in the heartland with the Heart of Health Care 200 at Kansas Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1, NASCAR Racing Network Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).KANSAS ENTRY LISTS:  Cup Series | Truck SeriesNot only is Xfinity Series regular Brandon Jones making a start this weekend with Tricon Garage, but Cup drivers William Byron and Carson Hocevar will be in the field Saturday night under the Spire Motorsports banner.See the full e
  
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• This win by Joey Logano flips the script and reduces the pressure for Team Penske

  05-05-2025 17:47 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Joey Logano quickly flipped the script for Team Penske.The focus after this win can be on, well, the first win this season for NASCAR's reigning Cup Series champion. Not like last week following Austin Cindric's victory at Talladega, when Logano had an expletive-laden rant on the radio directed at his teammate during that race and then afterward had what would have been a fifth-place finish disqualified because of a missing nut and loose bolt on the spoiler during
  
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• North Wilkesboro Speedway gearing up for NASCAR All-Star Race this month. What's new?

  05-05-2025 17:41 via fayobserver.com
  
  With the return of the 2025 NASCAR All-Star race set for the weekend of May 15-18, there’s a lot going on that will surround the prestigious event on the famed .625-mile North Wilkesboro Speedway. A condensed four-day schedule features the zMAX CARS Tour racing, the Window World 250 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race, live concerts, NASCAR Pit Crew Challenge and the fan-favorite NASCAR All-Star Race — the finale that caps off some of the greatest racing on the NASCAR schedule.On Tues
  
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• Analysis: Texas turmoil rears up, rewarding Logano but snaring others

  05-05-2025 12:28 via nascar.com
  A week earlier as the NASCAR Cup Series’ world turns, the forecast was for Talladega Superspeedway’s calamitous tendencies to shake up the state of affairs.Turns out, the NASCAR-sphere just needed to wait a week.After a relatively tame event — by Talladega standards — a week ago, Texas Motor Speedway did its best impression of a chaos creator in Sunday’s Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly. Joey Logano was one of a handful of drivers to come away relatively unsca
  
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• Bubba Wallace takes responsibility for big NASCAR Texas pile up

  05-05-2025 07:26 via sportsnaut.com
  
  The most numerous (in terms of cars) crash of the Wurth 400 on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway involved Bubba Wallace, Joey Logano, Alex Bowman, AJ Allmendinger, Noah Gragson and Chad Finchum.Multiple car incident. #NASCARpic.twitter.com/6xtetLXVP4— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) May 4, 2025First, this is how it looked from inside the Wallace and Logano cars.A closer look at what led to the Lap 172 incident. pic.twitter.com/Td9dNKkgPR— NASCAR (@NASCAR) May 4, 2025“For sure,” W
  
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• NASCAR results: Joey Logano snaps slump with Texas win of attrition

  05-05-2025 05:56 via sportsnaut.com
  
  Jerome Miron-Imagn ImagesJerome Miron-Imagn ImagesJoey Logano responded to both his Talladega disqualification last week, and generally a slow start to his season, with a victory on Sunday in the Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. The win was his first of the year in 11 starts but also just his second top-10 and first top-5 of the campaign.“The sport changes so quickly,” Logano said on the frontstretch on FS1. “It is crazy how you can just ride these roller coasters. I am
  
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• Long road back from a concussion takes this Wisconsin racer to Madison's victory lane

  05-05-2025 05:40 via jsonline.com
  
  TOWN OF RUTLAND – Kenzie got her smile back. So did her dad.In the days leading up to the Joe Shear Classic, after a trip to the orthodontist to have her braces removed, Casey Johnson’s oldest daughter proclaimed to her parents she was good to go for victory lane photos at Madison International Speedway.Casey was just as ready after a similarly arduous process. For him, it’s the recovery from a serious concussion suffered in 2022 on top of the numerous bumps and knocks over the
  
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• Ryan Preece Upset with Carson Hocevar After Texas Crash

  05-05-2025 04:08 via athlonsports.com
  FORT WORTH, Texas–Ryan Preece battled as high as second, in pursuit of his first career NASCAR Cup Series win.Approaching 50 laps remaining in the Würth 400, Preece and his RFK Racing No. 60 team decided to be aggressive and pit early for the tire advantage. However, an untimely caution from Jesse Love’s crash trapped Preece a lap down during his pit stop. The team argued about their track position as he crossed the start-finish line, as NASCAR Cup Series officials reviewed the
  
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• Ryan Blaney blames his "dumb decisions" for Texas loss

  05-05-2025 03:17 via motorsport.com
  Motorsport photoA lot changed in the final 50 laps at Texas Motor Speedway, to the point where each restart became extra critical. Kyle Larson was in control of the race, but lost the lead on a late-race restart when Michael McDowell powered around him from the outside. Larson was never able to get the lead back, fading to fourth in the final running order."You don't want to give up the lead on a mile and a half. It's hard to get it back," said Larson. "Yeah, Michael [McDowell] just did a good j
  
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• NASCAR Texas Race Results, Joey Logano Wins in Overtime

  05-05-2025 03:03 via athlonsports.com
  FORT WORTH, Texas–A late race charge and an overtime finish saw Joey Logano triumphant at Texas Motor Speedway.With multiple cautions in the closing laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race, Joey Logano focused on passing cars one by one during the green flag sprints and found himself in prime position during the last handful of restarts. On the exit of Turn 2, Logano squared up Michael McDowell for a crossover move down the backstretch to take the lead going into Turn 3. During the overtime fin
  
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• How Michael McDowell's underdog run for the win ended in the wall

  05-05-2025 02:36 via motorsport.com
  Motorsport photoSpire Motorsports has one NASCAR Cup Series victory as an organization, but that was almost six years ago. On Sunday at Texas, they started from pole position with Carson Hocevar, but it was veteran Michael McDowell who nearly brought home the hardware for the team in a stunning upset. Instead, his race ended on the back of a tow truck.“I just really hate it for everyone on this No. 71 Chevrolet," said McDowell. "We were giving it everything we had there to try to keep trac
  
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• What drivers said after Texas NASCAR Cup race won by Joey Logano in overtime

  05-05-2025 02:14 via nbcsports.com
  
  Here is what drivers had to say after Sunday’s Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway:Joey Logano — Winner: “The sport changes so quickly. It is crazy how you can just ride these roller coasters. I am so proud of the team. Proud to finally get AAA Insurance into victory lane. They have been a partner of mine since I have been at Penske, so 13 or 14 years and we have yet to win with them so it was awesome to get that done here. The JL Kids Crew is here so we will have fun with them in
  
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