NASCAR

Here's what's happening this week Inside The Garage: Sonoma Raceway (Sonoma, Calif.) — Shane van Gisbergen celebrated his second victory of the season and moved up to 14th in the NASCAR Cup Series standings with his triumph on Sunday. Trackhouse Racing hasn’t had much to celebrate this year. And the obvious question, amid the congratulations and the smiles of a job well done, was whether there would be anything more […]

Sonoma Raceway (Sonoma, Calif.) — Shane van Gisbergen needed a few days to get over being wrecked out of the street course race at Naval Base Coronado last week. He indicated that anger was fueling him this week to focus and not make any mistakes. The Trackhouse Racing No. 97 car driver led 74 of the 110 laps in taking what his team felt wasn’t a dominant car and winning […]

NASCAR has a new playoff system in 2026. It’s back to the Chase. Instead of win-and-in, it’s the top-16 drivers in the regular-season standings that will make the 10-race Chase, which will be a mini-season of its own with no eliminations. The 16 drivers will have their points reset for the start of the final 10-race stretch with the regular-season champion at 2,100 points, second place at 2,075, third place […]

The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Sonoma on Sunday, June 28 for the last road-course race of the season. Can Shane van Gisbergen bounce back after a disappointing race at San Diego? Here are the early odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of June 24. This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more […]

Drivers need to stand their ground, but it appears Noah Gragson overreacted at Naval Base Coronado — and that cost him. Was he wronged by an aggressive Kevin Magnussen, who either made a mistake in his first Cup race or just raced knowing he probably won’t race in the series again? You could certainly argue that. But Magnussen did not ruin Gragson’s day, and Gragson needed to know Gragson had […]

After the inaugural race on Naval Base Coronado on a temporary street and tarmac course, NASCAR heads to its final road-course weekend. Some Cup drivers will be thankful and others will miss the opportunities these races afford them. But it’s also a time for those who might not thrive on road courses to show how much they’ve improved, like Bubba Wallace did with a second-place finish at Coronado. That allowed […]

Naval Base Coronado (Coronado, Calif.) — NASCAR, in some ways, bit off a task that was almost too big to chew. Funnel 50,000 people on an island that has only one road from the less-populated south and one bridge from the major metropolitan area of San Diego. Get all those people, and food vendors and merchandise vendors onto a U.S. naval base. And, oh, by the way, build a racetrack […]

Naval Base Coronado (Coronado, Calif.) — An event that could set the standard for future events was won by a driver who could set the standard for future racers. NASCAR’s first-ever event on a military base was won by NASCAR Cup Series rookie-to-be Corey Heim, as he captured the win Sunday at Naval Base Coronado. With prohibitive favorite Shane van Gisbergen out early because of an accident, it opened up […]

NASCAR Cup Series drivers are used to navigating new tracks. Three years ago, it was a temporary street course in Chicago. Last year, it was the road course at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez (although some drivers had experience with a previous version of the Mexico City circuit). So this year on a temporary street (and tarmac) course on Naval Base Coronado, it should be something they are comfortable with, right? The […]