Positive news on the TV audience front continued for NASCAR this week, as the Monster Energy Cup Series race from Texas Motor Speedway secured the series' second consecutive uptick over last year.Sunday's telecast of the AAA Texas 500 on NBCSN scored a 1.6 rating, averaging 2.7 million viewers. That's up...

Denny Hamlin is all too familiar with how hard it is to make it into the championship round at Homestead-Miami Speedway.Since his appearance in 2014 during the inaugural year of the elimination format, Hamlin has not since contended for the championship. The Talladega wild card in 2015 brought his season...

Martin Truex Jr. came up one spot short of winning once again this season and keeping his mile-and-a-half streak alive, but there was still a silver lining to his day at Texas Motor Speedway.A second-place finish in the AAA Texas 500 was enough to give Truex a 57-point gap on...

Kevin Harvick punched his ticket to the championship race by doing something he had never done before at Texas Motor Speedway: Find victory lane.And Harvick did it the hard way. Hunting down Martin Truex Jr., who has been untouchable on 1.5-mile tracks this season, Harvick passed Truex on the outside...

Brad Keselowski and his Team Penske group put together a championship-caliber effort at Texas Motor Speedway to keep their playoff hopes alive.Entering the weekend third on the playoff leaderboard, Keselowski stayed above the cutline with a fifth-place finish in the AAA Texas 500. But it was the recovery from falling...

Denny Hamlin was fastest in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Texas with a lap of 191.469 mph. Hamlin led the way of five playoff drivers in the top 10 on the speed charts.Second fastest was rookie Erik Jones at 190.860 mph. Playoff driver Ryan Blaney was third...

Not only was the Texas Motor Speedway track record broken twice in the final round of qualifying Friday night - but so was the record for the fastest stock car on a 1.5-mile track. Moments after Denny Hamlin set the fastest time it was Kurt Busch who jumped to the...

Chase Elliott isn't going to answer any questions about retaliating against Denny Hamlin.Related Stories"So, don't even ask because you're not going to hear it from me," Elliott said Friday morning. "Just don't go there."But the Hendrick Motorsports driver didn't hide his lingering frustration at what happened at Martinsville Speedway.Spun from...

Just because Austin Dillon is no longer in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, that doesn't mean the driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet has forgotten how to go fast.Dillon sped around 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway in 28.081 seconds (192.301 mph) in the final round of...

NASCAR handed down penalties Tuesday after Sunday's post-race brawl at Texas Motor Speedway.NASCAR officials did not fine drivers Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski for their involvement in a fight on pit road after the AAA Texas 500. Gordon's crew chief Alan Gustafson was fined $50,000 and placed on...