Before the green flag at Atlanta Motor Speedway last Sunday, NASCAR President Steve Phelps acknowledged that the sport and the country “must do better” with race relations.The 40 drivers in the field sat in their quiet race cars as each team stood in unity on the pit wall. And before...

NASCAR announced on Thursday it had entered into "an unprecedented collaboration" among the tracks that host its national series events in an effort to ask fans to "refrain from displaying the Confederate Flag at our facilities and NASCAR events."The sanctioning said in a statement that every one of its tracks...

The flying of the Confederate flag – emblem of the South's Confederate States of America during the Civil War – at public events, not least NASCAR races, has long been a lightning rod for controversy, assailed as an endorsement of racism by critics while defended as a symbol of Southern...