Martin Truex Jr. has won the Busch Pole Award for Sunday‘s Toyota Owners 400 (3 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Richmond Raceway. Truex, the series‘ only two-time winner this year, will start his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota from the pole position. He has finished among the top three in the […]
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Darlington Raceway and Goodyear announce a partnership on the entitlement of the spring NASCAR Cup Series race as part of the Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR on May 9. The official name of the race will be the Goodyear 400. “Goodyear is one of the most iconic brands in the history of […]
NASCAR officials formalized a host of penalties Tuesday from last weekend‘s Cup Series and Xfinity Series races at Martinsville Speedway. Among those penalties were fines for lug-nut violations issued to three Cup Series teams that each had a single lug unsecured after Sunday‘s completion of the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain 500. Those teams, which each absorbed […]
The list of winners and losers from the weekend of racing at Martinsville Speedway. CHECKERED FLAGS Martin Truex Jr. He started his Cup Series short track racing career going 0 for 80. But now Truex Jr. is arguably the best in the business winning five of the last 11 short-track races, his latest coming Sunday […]
The NASCAR Cup Series‘ first stop of the season at Martinsville Speedway spanned two days — one start-and-stop night Saturday and a sun-splashed Sunday. Two near-constants atop the scoring pylon were Denny Hamlin and Ryan Blaney. RELATED: Official results | At-track photos: Martinsville The two traded the lead often, their car numbers of 11 and […]
Martin Truex Jr. passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin on Lap 485 of Sunday‘s rain-delayed Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway and pulled away to win for the third time in his last four starts at the .526-mile short track. The victory was Truex‘s second this season, ending a streak of seven […]