The best man won on Friday night, but it was far from a foregone conclusion.Statistics might suggest otherwise. In winning the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway, Corey Heim swept the first and second stages, led a race-high 100 of 161 laps and took the checkered flag...

Christopher Bell goes into Sunday’s final elimination race in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs with a 37-point advantage on the cutline. It’s a solid position but not a safe one, as he and crew chief Adam Stevens know all too well.

Joey Logano is “cautiously optimistic” about the Sunday afternoon he’ll have at Talladega.Logano knows nearly every driver says that, but that’s what superspeedway racing produces. However, the Team Penske driver is a former winner on the Alabama high banks, and a victory would not only advance Logano and his No....

Ryan Blaney is not in the position he wants to be after the first race in the Round of 8, but the good news is that he doesn’t believe there is only one path forward.

The 2023 series champion was the first NASCAR Cup Series playoff driver to encounter trouble in the Round of 8 with an early exit from Sunday’s race after a hard crash from a blown tire.

Bubba Wallace is back in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. But in a way, there’s also a different version of Wallace in this edition of the postseason.“I don’t feel like 2023 playoff Bubba,” Wallace said Wednesday. “Where it was like, ‘Oh, man, it’s cool to be talking to you guys...

Not that a rescue mission was top of mind for Ryan Blaney, but his dramatic victory in Saturday night’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway saved Alex Bowman from playoff oblivion.

With one race remaining before the NASCAR Cup Series playoff grid is finalized, Hendrick Motorsports is down to its last chance to get another team's place clinched.And it can only be one team, because there is only one postseason spot available. Hendrick Motorsports will either have two of its teams...

Eight will have to wait.In a must-win situation in the final elimination race of the playoffs, Jimmie Johnson made an early exit at Phoenix International Raceway after blowing a right-front tire and hitting the Turn 3 wall. The accident occurred on the final lap of Stage 2 while Johnson was...

Martin Truex Jr. wasn't in a celebratory mood Saturday night even though he was presented with the trophy for winning the regular season championship and goes into the playoffs as the number one seed."Tonight sucks, plain and simple," Truex said. "Just the way it ended up."The way it ended was...