What was old is new again in Arizona.ISM Connect and Phoenix Raceway “have mutually agreed to restructure their relationship,” a statement from the track said Friday. The agreement involves the naming rights of the track, which will revert to its former name of Phoenix Raceway.Phoenix announced in the fall of...

Leave it to an eight-year-old to provide some inspiration.For the last six days, my youngest sister has been in town visiting, which has given us a chance to celebrate Christmas early. Among the outfits she packed was a glitzy sweater where, if the beads are pushed one way it reveals...

NASCAR's field-setting weekend for its championship finale proved a downer in TV audience, with all three races at Phoenix posting year-on-year declines.The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series round from ISM Raceway averaged a 1.63 household rating and 2.6 million viewers on NBC. That was down from a 2.03/3.3m for this...

Ryan Blaney had nothing to lose by taking two tires on his last pit stop while Kyle Larson only got half of what he wanted for the final restart.Blaney (photo above) finished third at ISM Raceway and failed to advance into the Championship 4. Larson finished fourth and was also...

Joey Logano couldn’t wrap his head around what went wrong with his Ford Mustang in the second half of Sunday’s race at ISM Raceway.Logano told the NBC Sports broadcast he had “no clue” what changed and followed that up in additional interviews by saying, “I don’t know” and “I have...

Denny Hamlin rose to the occasion.On the outside of a transfer spot going into ISM Raceway’s elimination race, Hamlin led the most laps (143) in the Bluegreen Vacations 500 and won for the sixth time this season to earn a spot in the championship race. That included leading the final...

Chase Elliott was officially eliminated from championship contention before the end of the penultimate Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at ISM Raceway.https://twitter.com/NASCAR/status/1193640472075333632A crash on lap 167 capped off what had been a miserable Round of 8 for the Hendrick Motorsports driver. Elliott believes a cut tire is what caused...

Justin Allgaier’s timing was impeccable.After a pit road speeding penalty and a subsequent spin KO’d the winning chances of polesitter Christopher Bell, Allgaier took full advantage, leading the final 66 laps of Saturday’s Desert Diamond West Valley 200 to win for the first time this season and advance to next...

The ISM Raceway hot streak that Kyle Busch is on continued Saturday afternoon in qualifying.Busch (P) scored the pole for the Bluegreen Vacations 500 with a lap of 140.116 mph (25.693 seconds). It is his first pole of the season and fourth at ISM. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver...

Stewart Friesen thought he had led the first lap of Friday night’s Lucas Oil 150 at ISM Raceway in Phoenix.He was wrong.After suffering a penalty for jumping the start of the race, however, Friesen rallied to lead the lap that counted most -- the last one -- and secured a...