NASCAR

When Ryan Blaney got into Victory Lane last week at Phoenix, he broke Tyler Reddick's three-win hot streak, while getting manufacturer Ford across the finish line for the first time this NASCAR season. Now, the Cup Series heads to Vegas for the Pennzoil 400, where neither is favored. Instead, Kyle Larson opened as the early favorite at +500. He's trailed closely by Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell, who are tied […]

Alex Bowman will remain sidelined for a second consecutive week as the Hendrick Motorsports driver continues to battle vertigo. Bowman will be replaced by JR Motorsports driver Justin Allgaier for this weekend’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Allgaier, a JR Motorsports driver in the O’Reilly Series (formerly Xfinity) who has 84 career Cup starts and does frequent at-track data-gathering testing for Chevrolet, won the O’Reilly race last March at […]

Ty Gibbs has entered the Top-10 power ranking chat while one of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates has left it. While Chase Briscoe has shown speed, he already has three races where he has either not finished or finished several laps down. He’ll be back on this list with a solid finish or two. But right now, he isn’t showing a lot of power — at least not in the […]

A new duo of drivers impressed at the INDYCAR and NASCAR doubleheader in Arizona this past weekend, which saw a sweep for Team Penske (Ryan Blaney in NASCAR and Josef Newgarden in INDYCAR). FOX Sports' Kevin Harvick and Will Buxton made sure both competitions were represented when selecting their Drivers of the Week on the latest episode of "SPEED With Harvick And Buxton." Fittingly, Harvick chose a NASCAR star and […]

Here's what's happening this week Inside The Garage: Phoenix Raceway (Avondale, Ariz.) — The Team Penske drivers talked about how they felt pressure to perform when INDYCAR and NASCAR got together for a weekend of racing in the valley of the Arizona mountains. It made for a nice storyline. Ryan Blaney won the Cup race Sunday, the day after Penske teammate Josef Newgarden won the INDYCAR event. And he understood […]

Phoenix Raceway (Avondale, Ariz.) — The first one was career-changing, two in a row was incredible, three-straight was historic, but winning four consecutive races to start the NASCAR Cup Series season was a long shot for Tyler Reddick. And the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota driver ultimately finished eighth in Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 500. Team Penske's Ryan Blaney took the checkered flag and snapped Reddick's three-race win streak, which […]

Tyler Reddick dominated the first three races of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, winning the Daytona 500, at Atlanta and at Circuit of the Americas in Austin. But he wasn't able to make it four in a row when the series went to the desert on March 8. The Winner Is … Ryan Blaney wowed at Phoenix Raceway, getting into Victory Lane for his first win of the 2026 […]

One down and one to go for the Desert Double, the INDYCAR-NASCAR doubleheader weekend at Phoenix Raceway this weekend. INDYCAR got things going first on Saturday, when Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden took the checkered flag — and then put some pressure on his Penske NASCAR teammates to follow suit. Going into NASCAR's spring Phoenix race, here's what you need to know to tune in. How to watch NASCAR at […]

Garrett Mitchell, a.k.a. Cleetus McFarland, dropped some news that shocked FOX Sports' Kevin Harvick during the latest episode of "SPEED With Harvick And Buxton." "I just signed a two-year deal with RCR," Mitchell said, referring to Richard Childress Racing, the team for which Harvick made his NASCAR Cup Series debut in 2001. "What?" Harvick replied, stunned. "Richard Childress Racing," Mitchell elaborated. "A two-year, part-time [deal]. I'm racing the superspeedways in […]