Denny Hamlin knows he's not the first driver to have had championship chances slip through his fingers.After winning the pole for Sunday's season finale (3 p.m. ET, NBC) at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver lamented being eliminated from the playoffs last weekend. Contact from Chase Elliott eventually cut...

It was just over a week ago that Jeff Gordon was vacationing in France when he received the "call me" text from Rick Hendrick, so mentally and physically preparing for a race as grueling as the Brickyard 400 was the furthest thing from his mind.But here we are, back home...

Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart's late-2014 crew swap has been made permanent, meaning that Harvick will retain the crew that helped to secure his first NASCAR Sprint Cup title.The Stewart-Haas teammates switched crews on the eve of the Chase last September, and owner/driver Stewart said that his former crew had...

Related StoriesJeff Gordon has thrown his support behind NASCAR's new Chase format, despite being controversially eliminated from championship contention at Phoenix last weekend.Gordon believed second at Phoenix would be enough to secure progression to the four-car battle for the crown at Homestead, but an aggressive pass by Ryan Newman on...

NASCAR is considering a radical overhaul of its points system that would place far more value on wins, and feature eliminations during the Chase. According to the Charlotte Observer, the proposed plans would expand the Chase from 12 to 16 drivers, and a win in one of the opening 26...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be one of Jimmie Johnson's biggest threats for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup title, reckons team boss Rick Hendrick, despite the former's lack of recent wins.Earnhardt has only won two races since his hugely-anticipated move to powerhouse team Hendrick in 2008, and did not triumph at...

Tony Stewart has undergone a third round of surgery on his injured right leg.The three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion suffered a severe break to the leg in a sprint car crash in August, ruling him out of the rest of the 2013 season. He had two bouts of surgery in...

Ryan Newman will replace Jeff Burton in Richard Childress Racing's NASCAR Sprint Cup lineup for 2014.Burton revealed last week that he was parting company with RCR, where he has raced since 2005. Newman, who was left without a drive as Stewart-Haas added Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch to its team...