While Martin Truex Jr.'s season didn't end the way he envisioned, his dominance didn't go unrecognized.Truex has been named the 2016 Eastern Motorsport Press Association National Driver of the Year. Furniture Row Racing, who Truex drives for in the NASCAR premier series, announced the news Wednesday. The award was voted...

NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup has been criticized for creating "artificial and manufactured" competition, because it resets the point standings four times during the season's final 10 races and bunches the title contenders to force crowded racing for the big prize. That harsh judgment can be supported.It should be...

It was a clash of big events for racing TV last weekend on a slightly uneven playing field, as Formula 1's United States Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas went head to head on Sunday afternoon with NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup elimination race at Talladega Superspeedway. Despite...

NASCAR's multicar Sprint Cup superteams have been a point of contention among fans for years, but the competition-limiting potential of team tactics was a major talking point on social media after Sunday's round of Talladega. The race marked the cut-off race for the "Round of 8" in the Chase for...

Joey Logano secured himself a spot in the NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup "Round of 8" with victory at Talladega where he held off competition from Brian Scott and Denny Hamlin.The unusually uneventful race picked up in the closing laps when two cautions came out for minor incidents, causing...

Jimmie Johnson ended a career-long 24-race winless streak with victory at Charlotte in NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup, postponed to Sunday after Hurricane Matthew struck.Having started from 11th, Johnson managed to cement himself in the Round of Eight for the first time in the current Chase era, with a...

Where's the drama?That was the question posed to several drivers over the weekend at Dover International Speedway prior to the final race in NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup's Round of 16. It was an uneventful three-race stretch, dominated by the usual contenders but that's how this was destined to...

There were two NASCAR shows on Sunday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.The first was the 300-lap Sprint Cup race, ultimately won by Kevin Harvick, while the other was the post-race technical inspection process headlined by all 16 Chase for the Sprint Cup teams thanks to a series of legislative...

A special circumstance warranted a special response from NASCAR as the sanctioning body announced on Wednesday yet another change to its post-race technical inspection procedure.NASCAR has increased the tolerance for post-race measurements and lug nuts, eliminating all lower-tier penalties and will only issue a penalty if it warrants a suspension...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was already feeling the pressure of competing near the bubble to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship, and that was before concussion-like symptoms forced him to miss the New Hampshire 301 on Sunday.By failing to start the race, Earnhardt fell two spots to 15th and...